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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • A good search tool is https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    Unfortunately I don’t think you can search all platforms at once, but it supports Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin. You click the Lemmy icon to change between them.

    On my phone at least, the Piefed filter doesn’t seem to work, but hopefully you can use this to have another go. I personally didn’t see any NZ music communities, and I’ve never run across one on Lemmy either.

    People tend to go where other people are, and it’s hard to deny that where those people are is Facebook.

    Does Spotify have social elements? That might be something to check. I (loosely) know a few people in bands creating original music, and they tend to post it on Spotify then link to it from Facebook.


  • One time I was in a class where we had this beginner level web dev assignment, and we were writing HTML and CSS. We had to submit the assignment as a zip file.

    When you open the HTML from the zip file in Windows without unzipping it, it can’t access other files in the zip file, namely the CSS.

    The entire class failed the assignment because the teacher didn’t unzip the files first, and refused to entertain the idea they might have screwed up.






  • Honestly? It’s mostly fun stuff (for people that like data).

    But it’s also mostly links. A link to the shopping list (a to do list in HA). I link to the climate control dashboard. A link to the solar info, a link to the security camera dashboard.

    The key actions I have on the dashboard are to lock/unlock the door, and to mute/unmute the HA Voice Preview (when the kids are messing around but they are supposed to be doing something).

    I also have a bunch that are hidden by default but have visibility conditions. When the garage door is open, it shows on the dashboard, but if it’s shut it doesn’t show at all. For devices that provide their own battery level, I have them show when they are nearly flat but otherwise they don’t show at all.

    Otherwise it’s just info, the current and daily total solar generation, the temperature and humidity outside, the temp of the hot water heater. Buttons to dashboards that show other things.


  • They only credit for months you do no searches at all, if you do one you pay for the full month, but it’s a nice touch. Personally I can’t think of a situation where I’d do no searches in a month!

    For something as important as search, paying $5 or $10 a month seems entirely reasonable to me. I’ve been a Kagi user ever since their unlimited plan dropped to $10 a month when they reached enough users that they could do that.