[-] Sticky@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but I do see and agree with your point: "Branding matters"

A significant portion of the population will not rub two brain cells together to understand the "warming -> change" connection, as reasonable as it is. Same thing with the "defund the police" slogan. Yes, when you understand the concept you can see the meaning, but for those that don't bother to understand the concept, the "brand name" is the beginning and the end of thought applied. When the "brand name" is easily attackable, the idea is dead so far as they're concerned.

As frustrating as it is, persuasive arguments need to also appeal to those who are persuaded by quips and jokes as well as those who are persuaded by logic and reason. Unfortunately "Global Warming", the "old brand" is still sticking around, and still able to be joked away by many people, hence the reason for the image post in the first place.

[-] Sticky@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Once they rolled out ads on the home page (Shame. Shame. Shame.), I installed "Launcher manager" and "Wolf launcher" to give it an interface I really like. A big background picture, some large buttons for the commonly used apps, and then progressively smaller buttons as you scroll down the screen for the less commonly used features.

It broke once when an update rolled out, but since then has been running fine and I never once see the bloated monstrosity that is the default home screen.

The only qualm with my setup I have is that access to the configuration sidebar isn't as intuitive as it was with the pre 9.0 version (which frankly I don't remember anymore aside from the general impression). That's a very minor price to pay to have an interface without ads.

[-] Sticky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the response, that confirms my assumption, seems like I was configuring it right, but the behavior is not as expected.

  • If HA is active/onscreen already, the command will do nothing.
  • If HA is idle/offscreen, the command will bring HA to the forefront, but not change pages. (This is the state it is in after the "turn_off" sends the launcher intent.)
  • If HA is off, the command will launch HA, and navgate to the correct page.

Is this all that is to be expected? or should I be able to get to the desired dashboard, from any previous screen or application state?

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Hi All! I'm very new to home assistant, so forgive me if this is a bit of an obvious answer for someone who knows their way around a bit, but I'm having trouble controlling my tablet's active dashboard with the "command_webview" notification command.

For reference, I'm using "madface"'s suggestion from this link to handle the screen on/off behavior, and its working great, except for the fact that no matter what I use for the "command_webview" nested command: "/lovelace-flur" in the linked example, I cannot get the companion app to switch to any dashboard other than the default/main dashboard.

I've traced the issue to here, which implies a resolution can be found in the definition of "path", (linked from the documentation for command_webview), but the link is dead as a doornail.

My assumption is that the "path" corresponds to "https://homeassistant..com/", but that doesn't seem to do the trick, and I'm at a loss for other things to try in the absense of a working "path" documentation link.

Hopefully someone here might be able to point me in the right direction? Any help is much appreciated!

[-] Sticky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Winner winner chicken dinner! This is EXACTLY what happened. I reprinted again after tightening belts, fixing bed wobble, and re-leveling, and kept a closer eye on it this time. The nozzle was indeed catching on that "Y" support due to the edge curling up. Wasnt enough to kill the print this time, but enough to make me nervous...

Ironically, the thing I'm printing is an all-in-one case so that I can segregate the PSU, main board, pi, and controls from the printer itself to enclose it and have better temp control!

[-] Sticky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That is awesome! Looks great!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sticky@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

Curious if I can get a sanity check off my problem diagnosis (or alternate theories!)

I tried a long print today and wound up with a 1/2 inch layer shift on the x-axis near the end of a long print, taller than most I've done, not certainly not the tallest.

It occured on a spool I just opened a few days ago and printed two other ~250g pieces with. I'm very certain that I never lost control of the filament end. My spool in mounted using the stock ender 3 mount on the left side is the gantry and a filament guide arm.

After reading a bit, I'm thinking this was due to the filament on the spool loosening up from a large travel and then binding on itself. Seems the easiest way to fix this might just be to put more space between the spool and the printer so the slack can absorb the shifting without pushing back on the spool and loosening several turns off filament.

I don't think it's heat or any general axis binding as the shift only happened at a single layer, at a hight that I've been able to print through before, and the motion generally appears smooth when I exercise it.

So... Experimentation will probably prove me right or wrong, but before I sink another day of print time... Does that sound reasonable or am I missing a common problem?

Edit: Solved, see comment by @Vathsade@lemmy.ca for the actual problem. Many thanks to all who provided their thoughts!

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I've got a problem. I'm a technology hoarder. I still have the first PC I bought myself some 15 years ago cause "I might use it for something!"

My desktop after that one is an unRAID box. The one after that is my "lab" PC (3d printing, embedded projects etc) and then finally, my current generation main PC.

I want to upgrade my main PC soon (can't run new games, CPU and GPU limited), which means potentially kicking everything else "down the chain" to a new purpose as it gets a slightly better version of itself. I find the thought of this exhausting though. So much configuration/setup to give upgrades to things whose existence is only because I didn't want to part with functioning hardware.

My current thought is to "break the cycle" by condensing all non-primary functions to my current PC, as an unRAID box hosting everything other than main gaming PC. From there, the rule needs to be tech goes into one of those two boxes, or it gets sold/donated.

What do you all think. Is that reasonable? How do you manage your spare equipment post upgrade?

Sticky

joined 1 year ago