The cruelty is the point

I feel like I am having a hard time getting this across, and I don’t know why.

Because they’re just moving the goalposts until you “slip” and say something that confirms their biases against you. Being “right” is never the goal.

See, you say that. I tried to figure that out for 11 years. I lived it. It doesn’t happen.

Yeah, absolutely. Having been in a marriage with an abusive person, there is zero reasoning with them once they’re in that state.

Homophobia is abusive. Regardless of the intentions. Ignorance of that fact doesn’t excuse it.

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Right? My first thought was “yeah no shit”

You’re not wrong, and I agree in that it feels like W10 is where MS finally got it right.

However, hindsight is 20/20, and those sentiments were definitely not felt in the first few years after W10 was released. Once all the big issues were worked out and people figured out how to remove the bloat/spyware shit though, it was a solid OS. I still run it on my gaming PC (for now - tested some crucial programs last night on my laptop running LMDE6, great success)

What did W11 add that we didn’t have before? A TPM requirement? Ads? AI slop/shovelware/spyware?

W11 right now is essentially a shitty skin on top of W10, with all that extra shit. The kernel is still version 10.x.whatever FFS 😅. But SHINY INTERFACE and ONEDRIVE

These are the people that companies like Apple pander to, with the whole “it just works” schtick.

Microsoft: you had a good thing with Windows <previous version>, and you pissed it all away when you put out the crap that is Windows <new version>.

Ftfy.

That said, there is something to be said for how popular Windows is, and the modifications and QoL improvements offered by 3rd party devs.

If pirates are going to keep hiding behind the “piracy is a service problem” line then at some point they do need to admit that paying for the product is actually the more sensible and straightforward option if they have reached a deadend elsewhere.

Uh, yeah, that’s why “piracy is a service problem” was even a thing in the first place. Music is a great example, because you can get nearly every artist on every streaming service.

This is a widely-known fact often acknowledged by most pirate types.

It does require you provide an email.

Yeah, fuck that. Extra unnecessary steps.

Add 12ft.io/ in front of the URL. It’s a proxy that bypasses paywalls.

Don’t post subscription shit

HDR Global Trading, parent company of BitMEX

You’re welcome. Fuck paywalls, and fuck clickbait that buries the actual info behind the paywall.

Well, the coordinator is probably not the problem, and the soil sensors are probably fine, too; from what I have heard Thirdreality devices are generally quite good.

That’s what I heard, too, and my wife is very happy with being able to know exactly when to water the plants, which is nice.

I trust you are using a USB extension cable for the coordinator and don’t have it plugged in directly in the USB port?

Of course. It’s zip-tied to a plastic support on the shelving that holds everything. Well away from wifi, too.

No idea how good the smart plugs are, but if one of the soil sensors is basically next to the coordinator and still falls off the network randomly then the problem is likely not the plugs or the network mesh.

Ah that was worded weird - it’s one of the smart plugs that’s next to the coordinator. The soil sensors are all on other floors.

All things being equal I would suggest switching to zigbee2mqtt and see if that helps. Even if it doesn’t, and the culprit is something else, zigbee2mqtt is (in my experience) better in the long run, because it generally supports more devices than ZHA and is much quicker in getting new devices supported.

That was my thought as well.

I’m slowly converting everything to run on these little 1 liter PCs. I have three so far (four if you count the Mac Mini NAS), and an Optiplex 7050 SFF that’s been a bit hotrodded with a 300W XE3 PSU, Precision 3420 CPU cooler, & Noctua fans w/extra intake fan.

I like the Optiplex for obvious reasons, but it’s a bit of a power hog with the i7-7700 and 48GB RAM. I haven’t measured them individually, but if I had to guess, the Optiplex probably accounts for a solid 1/3 of the power usage in my entire homelab.

Which coordinator do you use?

Connect ZBT-1

If the network is not well meshed then the link quality could be too low for the sensors to reliably stay online. Adding repeater devices (mains powered devices like bulbs) could help here.

Running six of these over three floors (2x basement, 2x main floor, 2x upstairs): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DQTFM1T6

Soil sensors: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DH25W72N

One is within a few feet of the coordinator. I try to just not look at the network visualization as it just causes more headaches, but I have zero “green” connections… Maybe those plugs are just garbage though, IDK.

For a split second I thought he was about to put himself to “sleep” with the gun 😂

We’ve got a few Echos, but these days they are mainly used as a bluetooth speaker (bedroom), kitchen timer (kitchen), and the kids’ one (basement) is used for music… and that’s about it.

I have one in the garage, too, but I’m about to throw it against the concrete floor and run it over a few times for how often it only plays one fucking song from my Spotify playlist when I’m working on my motorcycles.