

.bat, .vbs, .ps1: “it’s showtime”
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.bat, .vbs, .ps1: “it’s showtime”
It’s missing a little something, but I can’t put my finger on it
“what do use?”
“the Google”
“huh”
user pulls up their Bing home page, in IE “see”
“…my prices just went up 5x”
flashes gang signs made by my various USB drives
cloudflare sales department: NUT


…it’s supposed to be a bad (sarcastic) argument, for the reader to see that it is bad and reflect on the rest of the argument, followed by a light-bulb moment.
crickets
But I digress. I stopped reading after you called me defensive - you asked a question, I gave you an answer. That you don’t like the answer is your problem. Lead a horse to water but can’t make it drink…


Physical button: 1 action, no logic
Software button: infinite actions, complete logic over everything in HA
It’s like ‘why should I use HA, the light switch is right there’ yes technically but you’re missing the whole point. Why should you go on trips and see the sights of other places, Google Street View is right there.
E: real world example, though my network reaches far beyond my driveway so no button required:
alias: Midnight - Travel, Arriving Home
description: ''
triggers:
- trigger: zone
entity_id: person.midnight
zone: zone.home
event: enter
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.midnight_awake
state:
- 'on'
- condition: time
after: '10:00:00'
actions:
- if:
- condition: not
conditions:
- alias: Connected to home wifi network
condition: state
entity_id: sensor.midnights_phone_wi_fi_connection
state:
- input_text.home_network
then:
- wait_for_trigger:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- sensor.midnights_phone_wi_fi_connection
to:
- input_text.home_network
timeout:
hours: 0
minutes: 1
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
continue_on_timeout: true
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
state:
- 'off'
then:
- action: light.turn_on
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
data:
brightness_pct: 35
- action: input_boolean.turn_on
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.midnight_s_light_override
data: {}
- if:
- condition: numeric_state
entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
attribute: brightness
below: 35
then:
- action: light.turn_on
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: light.midnight_s_bedroom
data:
brightness_pct: 35
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 15
milliseconds: 0
enabled: true
- action: automation.trigger
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id:
- automation.battery_low
- automation.midnight_s_bedroom_midnight_s_thermostat_outside_is_cooler
- automation.midnight_s_bedroom_midnight_s_thermostat_outside_is_warmer
data:
skip_condition: false
- action: tts.speak
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
data:
cache: false
media_player_entity_id: media_player.midnight_s_bedroom_home_assistant_voice_media_player
message: Welcome home, Midnight!
mode: single
Geeky femboys 🥺👉👈


…I dare you to give it a taste test


Windows 10 did/does that, too… but it doesn’t ask
The linux is silent


Sign: “If your penis needs compensation, you may not park here”
Oh look, problem fixed!


GTA2 was my introduction to gta, but
frame generation
gags
(also gags to nvidia, but that’s a whole series of bullshit so I’ll refrain)
“what in the fuck is a luks?”
And you have to have a license to unlock that capability. I just bought one of these boards in June (used) and once I cracked the license, I had to update the IPMI before I could update the bios. This was after two failed bios flashes from a Lenovo server that it was replacing, so I wasn’t exactly excited for this process, but hey, it didn’t kill the board so it’s better in my book than MSI (also killed a board a decade ago) and Lenovo.
All three dead boards had a ups, and I followed the instructions to the letter. Both companies are blacklisted for me.


I have a server that I wanted to do this with, and cpu-only interference was several minutes for pretty simple tasks (all text, couple of sentences). I shelled out the cash for a 5060 Ti 16GB earlier this summer, and even with a pcie 3 x16 slot running at x4, I’m down to 5-30 second responses and rapid output speeds, even with large conversations. But the initial prompt/loading is still a couple of minutes by itself, so I leave the model in vram always.
Very similar, but I’m using Gemma4 12b. I could run 26b but that would exhaust my vram after a short interaction. And ollama. Open WebUI + Home Assistant hooked up with it, a couple very basic scripts I threw together, and connected to Kagi.
I’m trying to get my folks off the Gemini/Google bandwagon for the privacy aspect, but also because it’s just cool from a tech geek perspective. For me, any questions throughout the day that I want info on, but not enough to do a deep-dive for an hour+, gets fed to Steve, my models name. Or I’ll use it as a springboard and then properly read the citations for more info. And I feed it HA automations when I get stuck scratching my head on an edge case or whatever - it’s alright but helps me explain what I want from the automation, and when it understands my goal, great, and when it doesn’t I reflect on what I have setup and can usually go ‘ah ha’ and fix the issue. It’s like a rubber ducky/pair programmer that you can both think is an idiot sometimes, but it doesn’t judge you when you’re the idiot.