In fact, I put off updates as long as possible. A lot of things can't be backed out of they go wrong, and the devs do this on purpose to avoid having infinite version compatibility issues. It really sucks to update something like that and find people who held back a version are OK... And you just have to deal with having something broken until a dev feels like it should be a priority.

They're pretty good about that, but I just want my system to work.

Typically I back up my entire VM and then spend a day or so trying to update all the configurations they've moved or changed the formatting on. If it's too annoying, I revert the whole thing and try again at a later date.

Only tinkerers should have auto-updates enabled.

The reason people look to Mars is that it is more hospitable than the Moon and has greater potential to be made self-sufficient.

We really ought to be putting small mammals in centrifuges in orbit though, to get some data on whether or not our biology will function normally in .38g. It might be no better for our health than freefall.

I honestly don't know what to say to that. I run my HA in a VM on a grossly over-powered server now, but I started on a PI and never noticed an issue beyond it being difficult to install and configure the RTL_433 addon back in the day.

Venus is not a valid colonisation target with current or foreseeable future technology.

Floating around in a bubble in an acidic atmosphere above a surface you will never reach for resource extraction limits you to an Earth-based supply chain. At least on Mars you can walk around and dig stuff up. On Venus you are crushed and melted.

Not sexism, statistical accuracy.

35 is also young enough you could be creating a horde of desperate, violent men.

I purchased a Chinese generic of the Leadingstar USB dongle. It should cost around $20 through Walmart.

No power consumption data for you, but... I just installed the RTL_433 addon with the config wide open and I pull in everything.

It all shows in the MQTT console with the mosquito_sub command. The challenge can be picking out your own stuff if there are a lot of devices in your vicinity.

Zigbee does mesh net, so you can plan your device placements to help with range. Though that only applies to line powered devices, so trying to chain the power-miser battery sensors won't work. I have a smart outlet I use to help some sensors that are at the edge of useful range from the hub.

I do kind of wish I'd initially chosen Z-Wave for my low-power encrypted wireless for the extra range, but Zigbee has been adequate for my uses so far and I like to keep things as homogeneous as possible, so I'm not switching any time soon.

No, they're morons.

I am overwhelmed by them, but not because I lack the ability to understand them. There are simply so many of them and they are dedicated not only to not adapting, but to holding everyone else back with them.

Morons. Maybe not by medical definition, but close enough that it is a descriptively useful term.

It's not morons.

It's people overwhelmed with multiple crisis scenarios that they can't handle. Most of us wish for a stable society and environment because it makes it easier to plan a future. You wouldn't build a house if you're not sure it's still going to be there in five years.

Calling people morons instead of understanding the actual problem is also a way to avoid looking at it too closely, probably because the complexity is overwhelming to you, too. Easier to just call people morons and be done with it.

Climate change is very much a social, cultural and political problem and the scientists have only looked at the meteorological and biological side of it.

We don't.

It's just not necessary in 90% of Europe. We didn't build mega-cities in near tropical climate. A week or two of really hot weather during the summer is not a problem and you wouldn't install an AC just for that.

Maybe some are, but both in my place and where my parents live (1200 km away, that's 750 miles for the metrically challenged) temperatures have plummeted to near freezing at night and single-digits during the day (in Celsius, that's the 35 to 45 range in Fahrenheit for the temperature scale challenged).

I don't doubt climate change at all. But shoddy journalism that creates headlines where those allegedly affected go "what? not at all, why are you lying?" only helps the deniers.

If you look at a weather map of Europe, like this one stuck in the early 2000s - https://www.weatheronline.co.u... - you'll see that at least right now only the very, very southern tips of Europe (in Spain and Greece, that's in the bottom-left corner and the bottom-right corner, no not the very corner that's already Africa, damn where were you in geography?) has temperatures above 20ÂC predicted for today, and that's not unusually hot for those regions.

We did have unusually hot weather 2-3 weeks ago, but they were unusual only for the season and still well below ordinary summer days.

Please get your reporting right, or you're only feeding the trolls that claim climate change is made up.

Globe is another brand you'll find on the discount shelves. Total garbage.

My general rule is to start with Zigbee devices for anything I want secured because they cannot route to the Internet. 433MHz devices for anything I'm OK sending data in the clear (like my weather station).

I fall back to WiFi if I must, a lot of that stuff you can get to work by configuring it with the manufacturer's app, THEN blocking it from further communications with the Internet. I don't like it, and I'm definitely boned if I have to reconfigure something and the manufacturer no longer supports it, but some devices are just only available with WiFi communications, or sometimes you need more range than you're going to get with Zigbee.

Look at how many people on Slashdot jump on these articles to post about how it's all a hoax or whatever. It's not just the wealthy, and I doubt they're all part of a paid social manipulation campaign. It's morons. We have hordes of useful idiots holding us back in addition to the much smaller number of elites with entrenched interests in the current state of affairs.