Due to two things:

1. The fact that our washer and dryer are actually out in our garage.

And,

2. We live in a very hot and humid area, which accelerates mold and mildew.

We just don’t start loads that will be unattended, even for a few hours. Because laundry left in the washer for even as little as an additional 45 minutes will need, at a minimum, to be rewashed, or possibly even just completely thrown out, as our clothes would have begun to get very mildewed indeed.

Houses are too big + the yards too small.

No thanks.

Pretty sure he meant gated community.

When people talk about CPU limitations on the rPi, they aren’t talking about just the actual processing portion of the machine. There are also a lot of other corners cut for basically all SBCs. Including bus width and throughput.

The problem is that when you use a software raid, like ZFS, or it’s precursors, you are using far more than the CPU. You’re also using the data bus between the CPU and the IO controller.

“CPU usage” indicators don’t really tell you how active your data buses are, but how active your CPU is, in having to process information.

Basically, it’s the difference between IO wait states, and CPU usage.

The Pi is absolutely a poor choice for input/output, period. Regardless of your “metrics” tell you, it’s data bus simply does not have the bandwidth necessary to control several hard drives at once with any sort of real world usability.

You’ve wasted your money on an entire ecosystem by trying to make it do something it wasn’t designed, nor has the capability, to do.

It’s bus limited, not necessarily CPU limited.

We have notifications sent to all our phones when the washer is done, and based on who’s home, there’s also a tts announcement on certain speakers.

Crypto, in my view is more conceded with libertarianism

WTF are you actually trying to say here?

Conceded is the past tense of concede, which is to surrender.

How the fuck do you more surrendered with anything???

Thanks, yours as well.

Mine had an abdominal mesh removal.

If you can’t filet fish, then fill a chair and let me teach you.

TIL Oklahoma is in Australia.

He’s using Sengled zigbee bulbs, probably with their hub. And needs an actual zigbee hub.

At least that’s my understanding of his post.

Yeah, this happened at the absolute worst time for me. I have 6 of their WiFi bulbs that I’ve been planning to replace, but the wife’s car just broke down yesterday, and she had a surgical procedure today. And my kid starts her senior year of high school in a week or two, and registration is now, and she needs new clothes for school. Ugh.

Needless to say, money is too tight to replace these 6 not-so-smsrt bulbs just yet.

Thankfully, the 6 bulbs are: 3 in the kid’s room, and 3 in the front porch. Ad the kid has other lighting that continues working fine, and the porch lights are only needed if someone goes out there, and we rarely use the front porch, as our main entryway is the back one. I also have several zigbee relays, and some esphome devices so it’s not like my entire setup just died…

I was about to pull the trigger on replacing them the last time this crap happened, and they started working again, so they got moved to a back burner.

Yes. Google far-field wireless power.

It’s not really ready for prime time, and there are a lot of things still needing to line up for it to become ready, but it’s coming eventually.

It’s exactly the opposite of what created Putin. He came out of the KGB state security service with control over the elite and the powerful.

How did those elite powerful get to be elite and powerful?

They were the product of a powerful central government giving them said power.

When the people are afraid of the government, there is tyranny. When the government is afraid of the people there is liberty.

You are wildly off base if you think I have any love for that monster.

You are also completely wrong in that oppression is the natural state of power.

i2p

Them: “We need a strong central government to protect everyone!”

Me: “Don’t do that! If bad people get control there’s gonna be trouble!”

Them: “You just hate people!” votes for strong government

Them when that strong government is then taken over by bad people: 😯

How would you stop them from doing this?

By dismantling as much of the power structure as I can. As often as I can.

Burn.

It

All

Down.

The problem is that government even has the power to do those things.

And to paraphrase you, you can’t solve government problems with more government, I’m sorry, man.

Rofl. Your god can eat a dick. I’ve seen exactly what your god does.

It’s easier to start a competing company than it is to start a competing government.

You need a powerful standing army for the latter, and standing armies are part of why we’re in the trouble we’re in.