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  • General advice is smart switches, dumb bulbs. Switches mean that you can control the light without getting out your phone, or whatever it is you use to control the bulb. Sure HA can talk to many bulbs, but only if the switch is on. Guests will not have the ability to control your bulbs - either there is too much work to install an app for a short stay, or the system is a security nightmare (often both). Use a smart switch because they have a control on the wall that guests can use to get what they want done without having to worry about apps.

    Most often you can choose bulbs with the right color temperature, but if not some dimable bulbs change color temperature. If this is not good enough two lights: a general room like, and a separate special effects light, don’t combine them (HA can control both, but they are separate systems generally not used at the same time)



  • where do the maitainers of the linux distro of your choice live? I mean every single person because if even one lives in CA (Brasil…) you have to either ‘fire’ that person or follow the law for their sake. I agree systemd shouldn’t be the place for this, but systemd wants to take over everything and I’m sure some of their maintainers live in CA thus they feel they must.


  • It won’t protect children, but you can’t igore the law. You can get lawyers and fight that way. However too many eevelopers live in CA to ignore and every one of them is at risk of the law going against them. Small distros can say they don’t have anyone who maintains it in CA so the don’t allow their distro to be used in CA. Large ones cannot ignore the law just because it is stupid and won’t work.



  • I know people who have built bigger buildings by themselves. They work construction for a day job so they have a lot of experience and tools. Still it absolutely is possible.

    That said, there will be times that help makes things easier. So if you can get some - even for a few hours - plan a head so help is there for the hard parts. (in my experience “Free” help works for beer: buy the good stuff, but not enough to get them drunk).

    Lacking help, doing this yourself is about the tools. Cranes can be rigged up - ropes and pulleys. Your local rental center will often have tools you really need. Don’t work on windy days, those panels can catch enough wind to turn into a hang glider (when they come down the panel is destroyed and you have broken bones)



  • It is the ecconomy, stupid. I realize junior engineers have never before had a recession affect them so this seems new and eifferent to them. However as a senior I’ve seen several and every single time there are articles about how this time is difierent and the jobs are never coming back. I also know it sucks to be someone who is affected, but in a few years this will be a memory.

    not that ai changes nothing, but thingsialways change. The world recovers and moves on.






  • A good boss won’t have problems with that - they are always looking for their next position anyway and having a replacement ready to go is good - if you can’t be replaced you can’t be promoted. A good boss will help your get involved with the politics needed to be good at this. A good boss will put your name up for leads in a different department where there is an opening that you wouldn’t even know about.

    Note that I said good boss above. Not all bosses are good.




  • What makes you think it is just one song? In the 1980s it was a mix tape that took the good tracks from several albums. With computers it is a playlist. Or more often it is a play random tracks from my large collection until I hit stop.

    I do listen to just one song once in a while when that is all I have time for, or when some song comes to mind that I want to hear. However mostly it is a playlist that I created.

    There are a few albums that are related collection and work best listened together, but most are just a bunch of songs and you can listen in any order.