My hallway is shockingly dark when not lit, and the recessed light is so damn harsh I decided to install LED strips up in the corners. But I didn’t want to switch them, so the lights are motion controlled and conditional based on time. During the day, they’re full bright but with a nice color that’s not harsh. At night, only 6 leds light up a nice green so they don’t blast your eyes in the dark.

I have similar control over the kitchen lights but kept the recessed lighting in there. Full bright during the day, dimmed at night.

When the home alarm is triggered, all lights go full bright.

When the garage door is opened, the garage lights turn on.

When the temp in the living room is below 65 in the morning, or at noon, it kicks the heater on until it hits 70.

In the evening, when the outside temp falls below the inside temp, I get sent a message to open the windows. This only triggers in warm months because that crossover doesn’t happen in the cold months. It’s just always warmer inside than out. Similarly, in the mornings, when the temp outside becomes warmer than inside, I get an alert to close the windows. I use Aqara temp sensors on my front and back porches to grab the temps, so it’s very local and takes into account the radiant heat built up from the direct sunlight and works really well. This also has me thinking I might be able to work my contact sensors into the automations too…

I’ve got a contact sensor on my bedroom door to alert me if anyone enters while I’m not home.

My crawl space is encapsulated and I have a large dehumidifier down there. I have a smart switch connected to it so I can have some easy control and monitor power usage. I also have a temp and humidity sensor down there with alerts for if either temp or humidity change too much.

I set up LED lighting on my front porch and have HA turn it on an hour before sunset and off an hour after sunrise. I set it to different colors usually based on holidays, but have it set to a purple that I really like otherwise. Way less harsh than the white porch light.

And of course I can control nearly all the lights in my house from my phone or with Siri.

Having my hallway and kitchen lights be motion activated and brighter/dimmer based on ambient light is fucking great. If you get there you might wind up loving it like I do lol.

Light bends in space all the time. Our sun has enough gravity to bend light.

But it’s not a stand in for he or she. It’s a term to address people when gender is ambiguous.

This is hundreds of years old and not just something that’s come into vogue recently.

Are you saying that the singular use of ‘they’ is only about 20 years old?

I don’t think it’s ethical. But if it’s take that job or lose my house? I’ll take the job until I can find something better.

Can you imagine how gerrymandered those state borders would be?

2 points:

Use multiple lock types to increase the required angles of attack.

Keep the locks up off the ground so thieves can’t use the ground for leverage with bolt cutters.

Oh bullshit. I know so many absolutely stunning and conventionally attractive women who are wildly attracted to fat ugly men. And I know plenty of conventionally attractive men who are attracted to fat ugly women.

There is no set principle for matching with people, none at all. You don’t have to settle for someone you’re not attracted to, you just have to put the effort into finding the people who find you as attractive as you find them. It’s not always easy, but the people are there.

You might think you’re ugly, but I guarantee there are plenty of people out there that find you wildly attractive.

The first thing to do is believe that and start working toward finding yourself attractive. I’ve been working on this for the past few years and just yesterday had my first moment where I looked at my naked body in the mirror and was like ‘oh…. That’s nice’. Having that confidence is a game changer.

Also, short kings are a whole demographic of highly sought after people. Being short is not a detriment except to toxic masculine men.

They removed the start/stop from the key fobs and paywalled it behind the app.

Edit: yes yes, I get it, I was wrong. No need to tell me again lol.

There was a minute when it wasn’t on the key fob for a lot of the Korean cars. My extra wife’s 2022 Kona, fully loaded, doesn’t have remote start on the fob, only through the app.

Interestingly, these do include roadside and the cheaper option is $5/month and the more expensive one is just over $12/month.

So it sounds to me like this would be a good value for you.

All of those things?

While there’s a bunch I am assuming you can’t look up the location of your car through an app or website, or adjust the climate controls remotely, or get alerts when the alarm is triggered.

There are some features in here that require some sort of connection, what I find criminal is that they remove the features we DO have on our old cars from the key fob and paywall them behind an app.

There’s also the fact that remote start, while shorter range, has existed on key fobs for like 20 years. My ex wife’s 2022 Hyundai has remote start, but only through the app, while my 2013 Focus has it on the key fob.

That’s honestly the only feature that’s bundled in those subscriptions that I really want, though the alarm notification is a nice to have.

What hospital do you work for?

I ask because I want to know which one to avoid should I ever need to go.

Oh damn.

I’ll def keep an eye out at that price.

I really want to upgrade to an oasis but I haven’t been able to justify the cost. My paper white works so well but the touch swipe is finicky fairly frequently which makes me miss page turn buttons a lot.

I haven’t had a problem pirating books and reading them on my kindle. Just make sure you’re downloading an epub and you’re gucci. The send to kindle feature is excellent and your ebook shows up in your kindle within minutes.

Curious how I’m supposed to pirate the theater experience.

This doesn’t really seem like a problem that piracy can solve.

Similar experience when my local restaurant/bar theater got bought by regal.