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Suck it dorks!

I may or may not have a former employer’s laptop laying around. Sadly, do not have the hardware to try this. Plus, it said that it was a 10 year old laptop. I would wager that it might not be possible with anything modern.

Just to make sure everyone knows, there is no fucking shortage. We have not run out of sand.

We just have greedy assholes who fabricate shortages through manipulation of resources to spike prices.

Sit tight, don’t buy RAM for a while. Don’t be part of the problem by believing the bullshit. You’re not gonna die without a little RAM.

If you have the mobile app installed, it’s running GPS in the background anway. High accuracy mode just ups the frequency of checkin to your liking. Besides, you only need to have it on for a minute or so to determine vector. You probably already have it, but if there is any question, going high accuracy for a moment will answer it.

I don’t find that high accuracy does much to battery life as long as you’re smart with it. There are may ways to configure it so it won’t eat your battery.

You can just remotely enable high accuracy mode for a minute and it will trace their path on a map cleanly.

_action: notify.mobile_app_your_fone metadata: {} data: message: device_high_accuracy_mode data: silent: true high_accuracy_mode: turn_on channel: loc __

I use home assistant and have a dashboard button that triggers an automation.

Using the notification action, I turn off do-not-disturb, turn off Bluetooth (so it doesn’t pipe sound to earbuds or remote audio), set notification mode to on (not vibrate) and set the notification volume to max. I used to loop the default notification sound, but then switched so that the notification uses a new channel entirely and set each phone with a song so it will play for a while. You can silence it with the volume key.

Took a little tinkering to get it right, but works really well.

Fire also creates activity.

What the fuck do I need to connect my oven to my smarthome for?

Been running Home Assistant for years. never once have I ever considered adding shit like my oven or fridge. The hell would I learn? Ovens get hot, fridges get cold? I could put a temp sensor in the fridge I guess and it would read the same temp all the time. Unless it is a total POS, it’s not going to stop doing the ONE thing it does.