Some old Players got a needle that moved on a scale to show the current volume (and Channel if Radio). Do you have something like that? This could maybe be used to encode the current volume into HA via HAL or Ultrasonic sensors.

Ulanzi TC001 with AWTRIX firmware

https://cupboardunderscore.github.io/ios-rcs/e2ee/

RCS is absolut bullshit. You take an „open standard“ and let 100 company’s implement a closed source solution for it that needs to be kept updated so that all features work across all platforms. Oh hey I want to write from TMobile to some cheap third party service, ups they don’t support it…. E2EE? Beta or not implemented. OpenSource apps are also rare.

And once again a chat protocol that Google touched and it was turned into golden shit. Congrats

I am selfhosting HomeAssistant and one automation is for my ceiling lamp. As I don’t whant to touch the electrical wiring or alter it permanently, I control it via IR and imitated the signal from the original remote via the ESP32 and some IR led. This on his own does not build a full feedback loop, so the ESP does not know if the light changed after the signal got send out. I lacked the correct light sensor in my inventory but remembered that my clock got one for display brightness control. The clock supports MQTT and also exposes the light sensor values in HomeAssistant. So after the ESP sends a signal to turn off or on the light, the automation looks at the light value from the clock to validate that it worked, else it tries sending it again.

Yes. I check the logs from my web pages with it.

It is pretty good I use it on many machines. You install it on your machine with a reverse proxy, it then analyses the traffic logs for malicious activity or for known bad IPs and then creates iptable block rules. The web interface is the cloud interface that it connects to, because as the name implies, it works by using log data from all members to block bad actors efficiently

Gemma ran at 50/tops Qwen 27B? was way slower , 5/tops 8B models run perfectly fine, but are mostly useless for chat and agents. 8B is only good for specialists. Like one 8B model that can only write and correct python3 code. And then only in English.

I play Minecraft with the PrismLauncher on the M4 24GB. Shaders and DistantHorizon. 50-80fps

AI also works. Gemma 4 26B a4b MLX runs… somehow.

Google shows how to fuckup their user base. Apple got a better example for that with iOS 16 feature „Automatic Verification“ for CAPTCHAs. It’s not forced, you can deactivate it. And if you don’t have it, you get a normal standard capture like everyone else. Why not that Google, just copy that feature and no one would be pissed of by your „let’s be evil“ marketing.

Oh no, what should the bots do! Starts python authentication pipeline with screen capture and qreader, forwards it to android BlueStacks. Anyway

I also had trouble with that. I had to build some QoS pipes and query’s in OpnSense to reach 1Gbit/s. By now I upgraded my setup with an Intel N100 and 16GB RAM. It’s more than enough for OpnSense

I use OpnSense with Suricata and CrowdSec for that kind of job. But nothing works out of the box in that segment. You have to learn how to setup your environment for your requirements. There a many tutorials and forums, you just have to dig around and find what you need.

Yes. Does PfSense have something like OpenCentral for stack management?

I used OpnSense, OpenWRT and PFsense. Can’t really complain for home lab. But OpenWRT should not be used as a full UTM FW. It is more of a router and AccessPoint software. OpnSense and PFsense are both good options. Where OpnSense goes more into UTM FW with Plugins IDS/IPS stuff. I used PFsense only for IP based filtering but I know it can do more than that.

Nice, I also tried nebula and considered a one time pay subscription. I tried it once’s, found some cool videos but then I had to focus on other things.

Just don’t use any command in proxmox. Proxmox is designed GUI first. It got an update button in the GUI. Only major releases could need tinkering in the terminal. But even changing repos is now possible in the GUI.

I used Nessus for a while and I heard that OpenVAS could be a good FOSS alternative to it.

Could be multiple things. Dry your filament, in an oven or special dry box if you own one. Clean your bed with warm water (no soap or alcohol/acetone)

Use a glue stick for better adhesion.

Also, if you printer support it, you can generate a level matrix to see if it is leveled.