Before even getting to documentation, I see so many projects that don’t have a short summary of what they do (and maybe what to not expect them to do).

As an example, Home Assistant. I can tell that it involves home automation, so can I replace Google Home with it? It seems like it doesn’t do voice recognition without add-ons and it can work with Google Assistant. Do I still need accounts with the providers of smart appliances, or can it control my bulbs directly?

None of that is very clear from the website.

I’ve seen plenty of other projects where it’s assumed there’s no need to explain it’s overall purpose.

deleted by creator

Pylon appreciation

https://pylons.org/

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

https://www.horg.com/horg

Pathetic motorways

https://pathetic.org.uk/

I have one of the earliest mp3 players, with a 32Mb expansion memory card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

And going back further: a Sharp PC1211 BASIC-programmable pocket computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1211

Can “y’all” be singular, since there is “all y’all” for plural?

And for the 90s: Information Superhighway.

No it’s not. It’s more of a spongy consistency compared to a the dry, breadiness of an English muffin.

“we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

But really I was just pretending to misunderstand the early test flights as a progression of sending larger life-forms, and that we should continue sending larger and larger animals.

Maybe there’s a secret program that They don’t want us to know about.

First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.

After that: people.

And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.

What about drive-thru liquor stores!

They are available now. This was in WaMart

https://i.imgur.com/d5ae1Po.jpg

Some of them even plug in!

But yes, kettles and toasters take forever.

Years ago. Google changes the ways to sign in more frequently. 2FA messages, authenticator, then confirming sign-in on a separate device, which now seems to have been standardized as passkeys.

So many health benefits, “mental wellness” programs, etc. are ultimately all about “affecting you ability to work”.

I get a free joint-pain exercise program. Every so often, the app asks me a survey which is all about “how many days did you joint pain prevent you from working”, “do you expect your pain to cause you to take time off work” .

I’m trying the fork now, thanks. So far, it’s behaving. Thanks for the pointer to the logs, I’ll take a look if it happens again.

Thanks. I’m giving that a try!

Good to know. If I can get it working reliably, it will be worth sticking with. Someone suggested it might just not be auto-starting on reboots. I’m trying the fork of the UI on f-droid to see if it helps.

I have the phones connected, but the app just decides to disconnect and stay that way until I check it. I’ll give that fork a try, thanks!

I could live with a few minutes, but it’s showig as offline for days. Maybe it is failing after a reboot. At least that would be a known situation to watch for.

The only setting I see is “allow background usage”, which is on (I’m using it on a Pixel 7 and 8).