Oh, okay, I was already checking for typical signs of a stroke.

Dunno, for my car it is a bit more. No automatic wipers, no automatic braking and it prevents the parking lock and the parking brake from engaging.

Probably prevents auto engagement of the parking lock and emergency breaking which would result in damage when the car gets dragged along the chain drive in the car wash. At least that’s what that does in my car.

I was too early for that, it’s mostly Shelly, Modbus TCP and EnOcean here, plus some custom API via Ethernet. So, sorry, no experience with Matter, but I’m watching it.

Yeah, Well, everybody’s day only has 24 hours, need to pick the battles, right.

I finally did and it runs everything, from my lights to my energy and heating management. Worth the saved money, literally.

Yep. I mean, these days we use LVM, but I’ve actually resized a mounted partition by deleting it, recreating it with the same start and later end and rebooted for resizing the filesystem within (because the kernel won’t reread active partition tables). Felt janky as fuck, but worked 🤷

Yeah, I’m just staying away from that. There are enough other things that can end up in my frying pan with less crawling through the woods while hanging my continued existence on my ability to read and memorize two books worth of not-plant-descriptions.

I mean, it’s sounds a lot, but when I mesh some medium sized part from my 3D scanner for some diy project 50GB of that get used easily.

That’s what ABetterRoutePlanner is for.

I’m trying, I’m trying.

Usually, yes, I am a bit tempted here though.

If it’s in muscle memory, I think you should look into automation.

Living in the boonies in Germany: Not going to happen. But whenever I’m in a city, the car usually gets stored in a car park for the time I’m there. Way too annoying compared to public transportation.

Buy a modern electric vehicle. You can charge at home on your own plug.

And then my car started displaying ads for subscription services.

Okay, I took that personally, documented it and filed a complaint with the KBA as this started to become a security issue, can’t have the navmap disappear in the middle of a busy intersection. And then that shit stopped again. And as soon as the car is out of warranty, the USB connection to the data modem gets disconnected. I’m lucky enough that that’s still a possibility, but if it weren’t, 🤷

How about a relatively liquid glue injected into the speaker housing? That should solve that permanently.

except for System Shock 2.

No, at some point I’d make a very unmanly noise and Alt-F4 the fuck outta there.

I remember the times when projects had their own infrastructure or at least used infrastructure they could easily move away from, like irc. It works, we just don’t want to anymore.

Yes. In fact, I’m sponsoring the project and I am currently using a special app.

If you’re rooted enough in your life to just recognize the problem and fix it, yes. But for all the younger, inexperienced people, a sprinkle of compassion and help on top of being strict is a good idea, otherwise some or most of them can’t ever reach that point.

As German comedian Volker Pispers said: “It’s important to know who the enemy is. If you know the enemy, every day has a proper, basic structure.”