I use an AMD mini-PC with Ryzen 5700u, 32GB RAM, connected with my home NAS. Similar software stack, the server is hosted via Proxmox, no issues.

I have a Zigbee antenna. Will have to double check. I’m pretty sure the lights work with the antenna, but scenes are only possible if you’ve integrated them (generally via hue through something like Homekit).

I’m a terrible cook personally, but my wife is fantastic at this stuff. Just FYI, you want a delicious cheese sauce, all you need is some milk or half & half, butter, and cheese. If you want it thicker, use less milk, or add a bit of cream cheese. Heat at a simmer and keep warm.

If you let it cool, it will firm up some and makes for a good cracker dip.

This is why it’s a great idea to refuse to install everything that’s possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.

Even then you can get fucked over. I’ve used Hue smart lights for years, and back when I bought them, you didn’t need an account to use them, just an app and network connection. Years later, they forced an online login for the app, requiring you to be online to interface with the bulbs. You can kind of work around it with Home Assistant, but you still need the account now to add the bulbs, and I don’t think scenes work without an account either now.

I made an edit after more testing, and the behavior is freakish. Measuring with the lid off and a laser pointed into the water, It actually does get up to boiling, but it shuts off as soon as it reaches a boil with the lid on, and when the water settles, within a few seconds the temperature is like 15-20 degrees lower (this also happens if the switch is manually flipped off when the lid is off). It’s like it’s not heating all the water evenly and fully, so when it settles it’s much cooler than the agitated portion of the water.

I also noticed that when measuring the temperature against the outside of the unit, this tracks. At center height, the unit is 204.4 degrees, but if I point the laser just a bit lower (maybe an inch or a bit more), it’s much cooler, like the water is only heated up top.

I’ve decided to just return it, rather than hassle myself further with it.

It sounds like it is but it only gets to the sound I associate with boiling for a second or so before shutting off. the temp reading via my laser thermometer shows 189f (below boiling) even when the lid is off. I tried to test with an analogue thermometer but the only one I have isn’t long enough to go in the water.

I only received it in the Mail yesterday, no way I’ll be doing a disassembly. If I can’t sort it out with normal use I’ll be sending it back.

Yep, it’s within the return window. I have some time before I need to process a return so I wanted to rule out possible user error first.

Linux install: maybe 10 or 15 minutes tops from booting USB to desktop access, login is local, network connection is optional.

New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:

Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice. Renting in HOAs was bad enough in the past.

It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.

Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:

1. They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.

2. I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.

Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.

Move forward, not backward. Not sure about the red flags, but could be you were just comfortable in the old job, and the new one is stretching your comfort zone.

If you want to go back to the old company, grow and apply later in a new role, from a position of strength. If you go back now you’re negotiating from a position of weakness and admitting you will accept less.

I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.

From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great. I’ll never understand MFers in the rurals curating lawns.

Plus, it looks nice, and the deer in the area seem to like it as well.

Not sure about the TV show but I’m pretty sure the comic spans over 100 years.

1. Supporting an authoritarian regime is not punk. It’s like… 100% the opposite of punk.

2. Really glad to know there’s not a single band I listen to on that schedule.

I posted this on your other thread in the rant community, but will add it again here in case others might be interested in some of the books:

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Consider more mature / adult oriented series, and literature. Marvel and DC will always appeal to the status quo.

Try Image comics. Spawn started adult and things go on from there. Tons of shit goes down including the end and rebirth of the world. Savage Dragon has run on so long that characters who weren’t even born when the series started are grown adults with kids, and the main character is literally dead (not comic book dead, just dead and gone).

In books there’s stuff like Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, Murs Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps, Paul Tobin’s Prepare to Die! (a somewhat vulgar example at times but also hilarious, the hero’s power is to take a year off someone’s life by punching them. Most villains just surrender when he shows up, and rarely want to fight him twice).

Also good is Marion G. Harmon’s Wearing the Cape series, wherein time passes, crazy shit goes down, heroes get hurt, die, retire, etc. Starts with the main character at 17 I think, but as of the current book she’s well into her 20s and married. This one is a mix of junior and adult capes, where superheroes are state and government sponsored as a legal requirement.

Consider more mature / adult oriented series, and literature. Marvel and DC will always appeal to the status quo.

Try Image comics. Spawn started adult and things go on from there. Tons of shit goes down including the end and rebirth of the world. Savage Dragon has run on so long that characters who weren’t even born when the series started are grown adults with kids, and the main character is literally dead (not comic book dead, just dead and gone).

In books there’s stuff like Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, Murs Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps, Paul Tobin’s Prepare to Die! (a somewhat vulgar example at times but also hilarious, the hero’s power is to take a year off someone’s life by punching them. Most villains just surrender when he shows up, and rarely want to fight him twice).

Also good is Marion G. Harmon’s Wearing the Cape series, wherein time passes, crazy shit goes down, heroes get hurt, die, retire, etc. Starts with the main character at 17 I think, but as of the current book she’s well into her 20s and married. This one is a mix of junior and adult capes, where superheroes are state and government sponsored as a legal requirement.

Before you read The Daughters War check out The Blacktongue Thief. And if you like that, I’d also recommend Between Two Fires. Christopher Buehlman is fantastic.