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My WiFi router is turned off automatically at 9PM. No fancy electronics is needed for this, just something like: https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/24-hours-auto-switch-off-...
Nice, but why do you turn it off?
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I wouldn’t be that pleased with a childcare facility taking photos of my kid then putting them on the internet. I suspect I’m in a small minority though.
It's behind a login and they've asked for parents' consent for each child separately. Everyone with access has agreed not to share any of the photos. I actually haven't shared my scraper script just because I think someone would then share the pictures (perhaps accidentally). EDIT: I'll just add that there are no public photos of my kids and I ask anyone who takes photos not to share them outside family. So I do agre…
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So this. I’ve consciously refused to install irrigation so I’ll have to go out to the garden and hang around there.
I've often commented that I'm glad I have to water the garden because it's an excuse to just stand around looking at plants. I don't like watering grass because grass is boring and requires a ton of water, so rather than install irrigation, I ripped out all the grass and planted more interesting plants. (Drought-tolerant xeriscaping is common in my area, so this isn't unusual.)
Nice. A lot of local plants too?
Deleting the empty "Email attachments" directory that OneDrive keeps making inside my drive. Systemd timer unit does the trick.
Funny enough, possibly because I work on embedded software for automating random processes, and also from home, I don't feel the need to automate anything not work related. When you spend most of your day stuck in front of a monitor, it feels good to get up and turn lights on/off.
I can relate to this. I would like some remote control features though but then I always consider what a hacker could do and what's the worst that could happen if the system malfunctions. Quite often the worst-case scenario is a fire, so the little benefit is IMHO not worth the risk. I'm talking about self-made hacks and cheap Chinese hardware here.
I got my parents a Nest smoke alarm (I can see the alarms too) but a year later it was being triggered by steam.
The folks at Nest actually sent a free new model that's better at not triggering for steam. But I have to wonder if my elderly parents trust it anymore.
Bill pay?
We use a slow cooker which pretty much automates a lot of the process of making dinner. Just chop ingredients and throw them in. Now I just need to build a robot to chop veg
I bought an e-reader called reMarkable [0] that I use every day to read technical stuff on it. At some point, I got tired of the process to sync files: download the document from the browser, open the reMarkable app and drag the file into it. I automated this workflow, and now I can just "print" directly to the device [1] the article/document I'm reading. [0] https://remarkable.com/ [1] https://github.com/juruen/rmap…
Is the remarkable better in that regard ?
I used Tasker to make my phone vibrate in Morse code. Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.
My son used to ask me every morning whether to wear warm-weather clothes or cool-weather clothes, so I wrote a app that scraped some weather data and served it up in a web page as a temperature graph, along with a recommendation for what kind of clothes to wear.