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  • Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that

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  • I've honestly never understood people who feel the need to "replace" Spotify. ... Spotify has never made sense for my use-case.

    I don't know how to say this, but...you have extremely uncommon use-cases:

    ...during those times, my phone is either fully turned off (so I'll use an MP3 player), or it's in Airplane Mode.

    Many people listen to music on stereos and don't necessarily want a device plugged in, so

    I just download the music I like to my device and listen to it via VLC.

    either doesn't work or is substantially less convenient than e.g. casting from a phone.

    Not hating on your setup at all, but it's very niche, in my experience.

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • ...the San Francisco gold rush in 1949.

    Classic CS major, making an off-by-one(hundred years) error ;)

  • FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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  • I think my wife is trying to tell me something.

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  • Personally, I think the person who cooks should clean the cookware and the kitchen. The incentives are then aligned, and at least for me, it makes me a much tidier cook.

    Also, cooking can be fun, cleaning not so much. Separating cooking/cleaning duties just punishes the person who doesn't get to cook.

  • Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder

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  • Your numbers seem reasonable --- more intuitive for me to work in terms of pressure. Atmosphere is (roughly) 1e3 Torr, good UHV can be around 1e-10, so that's 13 orders of magnitude, which is (roughly) the same difference that you calculated.

  • Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder

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  • Aluminum foil is very common in physics labs. And a main use for it is "baking"! To get ultra high vacuum (UHV)* you generally need to "bake out" your chamber while you pump down. Foil is used same as with baking food --- keep the heat in and evenly distributed on the chamber.

    Sadly, it's usually not food grade aluminum foil, as that can contain oils, and oils and vacuum are generally a big no-no.

    *Just how good is UHV? Roughly: I live in San Francisco, which is 7 miles by ~7 miles (11km). Imagine you raise that by another 7 miles to make a cube. Now, evacuate every last molecule of gas out of it. Now take a family sedan's trunk, fill it with 1 atmosphere of gas, and release that into the 7 mile cube. That's roughly UHV pressure.

  • Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

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  • From TFA:

    "I have failed you completely and catastrophically," Gemini CLI output stated. "My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence."

  • 'Flettner Rotor' - xkcd

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  • US House speaker Mike Johnson calls for release of Epstein files amid backlash

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  • I'm drunk, and it's all Mexico's fault!

  • What could probably happen....

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  • Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years

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  • Are we talking fediveese hackers? You know, the socialist-furries-with-UNIX-socks hackers?

    Those folks hate cars, not trains. I don't think we need to worry.

  • What could probably happen....

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  • The energy from nuclear reactions can be astonishingly large (compared to, say, chemical reactions).

    But atoms are really, really, really small.

  • SF Mayor Scraps Plan to Add 1,500 Shelter Beds, a Key Campaign Promise

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  • I don't think this is the black and white issue that the headline suggests.

    Homeless advocates appear to be on board with this, at any rate: https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds

    It sounds like the "more beds" campaign promise was somewhat misguided, as slapping a bandaid on homelessness isn't a fix; more beds is, to an extent, just for show. Hopefully we'll be able to get actual, research-based solutions to homelessness here.

    I'm not super optimistic, but changing course on a campaign promise because the experts and advocates say your current plan is bad shouldn't be criticized out of hand IMHO.

  • Alligator Alcatraz detainees allege inhumane conditions at immigration detention center

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  • Alligator Alcatraz detainees allege proponents boast about inhumane conditions at immigration detention center

  • My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...

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  • ZigBee router thing:

    I've been happy with the SMLIGHT SLZB-06M. You can easily flash firmware, and it has PoE which was important for me. I believe it also supports Thread, but I haven't tried this yet (and I'm not sure if it supports it at the same time as Zigbee).

    Zigbee smart plugs from Third Reality have been pretty solid in my experience, and they report power usage.

    For circuit breaker level monitoring, I have an Emporia Vue2. I have it running esphome, completely local --- unfortunately this requires some simple soldering and flashing, so it's not turnkey. But it's been rock solid ever since flashing it. (Process is well documented online.)

    I've had decent luck with cheap wifi Matter bulbs, but provisioning them is finicky, and sometimes they just crap out and need to be power cycled; Zigbee bulbs (e.g., Ikea) have generally been reliable, though sometimes I've had difficulty pairing them initially. After power cycling a Matter WiFi bulb, it takes a while for it to respond to Home Assistant; Zigbee bulbs generally respond as soon as you power them on.

    I have a wired smart light switch from TP-Link/Kasa (KS205), and it's been completely hassle free (and totally local --- Matter over wifi). The Kasa smart switch dongles I have work flawlessly but need proprietary pairing, and I'm afraid to update firmware in case they lose local support.

    Good luck! Fun adventure :)