alex3305

> All you've done is told your customers that their data isn't safe with your service.

And not only Influx's current customers, but also their future customers. I really like Influx for my homelab. But with this attitude, I would be really hesitant for a real world production deployment.

> Reddit has granted a pass for some apps on this basis though.

But with two major caveats. This is only for non-profit apps, which excludes almost all of them. For Android there is only RedReader now and for iOS there are Luna and Dystopia left.

And still without any NSFW content.

Completely agree. More so because font sizing is IMHO all over the place. I'm using my OS and browsers' zoom because I'm visually impaired and than Lemmy is kind of a mess.

> If the group owner did not log in during the in-app notification period, they were then emailed (the email you received today) notifying that the group was impacted.

I think there is a glitch in your mail or something else is going wrong. I'm currently not in any groups and still got an e-mail telling me that my top level group (starting with 5060) has reached the 5 members limit. Searching for the group also doesn't yield any results whatsoever.

And you can make a LackRack from it [1].

1. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

I get where you are coming from, but why not? What IKEA produces for the price is seriously impressive. Also why would you need particle board or MDF when filling furniture with cardboard is way cheaper and mostly fits the bill.

However, I think that we as software developers are more like hand crafted furniture makers. And that there is WYSIWYG (like Squarespace) for the masses. And IMHO there is nothing wrong with that.

I bought the first Cities: Skylines because I'm a massive SimCity fan. Ever since SimCity 2000 that I received for my birthday as a child (in a bundle with Theme Hospital). But the text and UI were way too small for me. So I couldn't play the game. I even created my own (very simple) mod [1], but I never got around to playing the game. I hope the developers will address this issue and implement proper UI / text scaling.

1. https://github.com/alex3305/CitiesSkylinesTextScaleMod

> [...] who need to do it are too blind [...]

You mean, those who cannot use the official Reddit app because of lack of accessibility?

> I've been using the Docker container for a couple years without incident.

Before I ran HA Supervised [1], but that was a pretty poor experience. It broke every so often because of some sudden software incompatibility because Supervisor was silently updated in the background. And it really broke everything instead of having a grace period and/or sending me a notification.

> I've never really been a fan of the new automations and scripts UI, though, so I just stick to editing the YAML definitions manually.

Same here. Although things seem to improve in the next version with copy-paste support in the Automation Editor [2]. I would love being able to edit my YAML automations though.

Did you also known about a little known feature that you can setup different automation sources? Just like this:

  automation: !include automations.yaml
  automation foo: !include_dir_merge_list automations/
  automation bar: !include_dir_merge_list automations2/

Although not _best practice_ per se, you can have both UI and YAML automations at the same time. This is especially useful when you want to use Blueprints [3].

1. https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux#install-hom...

2. https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/05/31/release-20236/#...

3. https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/using_blueprin...

for me that happened because of interference. I switched from a Conbee II to a Sonoff Dongle-P and that already helped tremendously. That new dongle is way more stable for me. Also I changed my wifi and Zigbee channels and reduced the transmit power for less interference. Since than my Zigbee netwerk is really stable.

> My philosophy with HA is not to touch it too much.

I get where you are coming from, but for me updating hasn't given me any issues since about a year or so. Especially if you stick with the .2 or higher releases. Those are really stable.

I have been running Home Assistant for over 4 years (end of 2018) and and the beginning was rough. However since about a year and a half, a lot has done to improve stability. I can now safely update every time without breaking anything. The only integrations that break from time to time are custom integrations, which aren't supported anyway. But those have become rarer too. Automations and scripts have been stable for years now. And the release notes are also really, really good.

I would recommend to take another look at HA if you get the chance. Especially within a VM (or bare metal) it's a really good experience.

My personal favorite: WinRAR (1995).

Recently switched from Namecheap to Cloudflare. Cloudflare was significantly cheaper for my sole .io domain.

Recently Google started translating some of my English search queries into my local language (Dutch). Which doesn't help at all. There is a reason I search in English.

For instance I wanted to see if there are new Iberico spareribs recipes, so I search for that. The first page has 8 results with 7 in Dutch and 1 in English. When I visit the English site, the recipe is auto translated in Dutch. And four of those 8 results are stores where I have to buy their rub to even follow the recipe.

The shortest sync interval is still 5 minutes. But I have developed the habit of CTRL+S'ing after each important change. Which is coincidentally the sync shortcut key within Joplin. So for me that isn't really an issue.

But to be fair, I was looking for a 'real-time' webbased app, like Notion. But I wanted it to be self-hosted, use Markdown for formatting, (a little) polished and easy to setup and maintain. And while Joplin isn't perfect, or even fits all of my criteria, it was a close second. Even if it has it's drawbacks.

I have setup Joplin a few weeks ago and I really enjoy using it. AFAIK it is not as powerful as something like Notion or Obsidian, but it just works. And is already miles better than using loose txt files, like I was before.

There was an official name change [1] to Türkiye.

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/un-registers-turkiye...

AFAIK Wolf3D required a 286 and I found a forum thread[1] that seems to agree.

1. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/wolfenstein-3d-sys...

Thanks for posting this. I am broken by my current employer and I've just hit rock bottom (hopefully). Little backstory:

In 2019 I've had burnout because of team members that didn't care about being in a team. They just messed up the team dynamic completely and I just couldn't handle it. I asked my supervisor to act upon this, but he didn't, so I went on sick leave (Netherlands). Nothing happened for about half a year when I was sidelined in another team.

In 2020 and 2021 I just had nothing to do. Or just stupid chores doing rework or refactoring, but it just didn't do it for me. I asked constantly for work, but there wasn't any. I had to, however, justify my hours, which was becoming impossible.

Whatever I did finish, often didn't make it in the final product. Or I got berated for spending too much time, without getting any time allotted prior. It destroyed my motivation for working.

In the mean time I was looking out for other jobs, but not finding anything that suited me. You see I'm visually impaired, so I hate commuting as it costs me quite a bit of energy, which I'd rather spent on something else.

In the end of 2021 I urged my supervisor to find a solution as it was becoming dire to me. He promised that he would, but as you can guess, he didn't. Going into 2022 I wrote him a letter saying the situation was unsustainable for me. I had quite a lot of panic attacks, especially before starting a new week. That didn't change anything. So in march of 2022 I went on sick leave.

During 2022 the situation only deteriorated. Everyone 'tried their best', but without any results. I got assigned a budget for 2500€ for external help. Which wouldn't be sufficient for any meaningful help. But inquiring on how I could use that budget left me with no answers. This finally resulted in conflicts with my supervisor, HR supervisor and the CEO. And still no help. No psychologist, nothing.

I also went to my GP in May of 2022, but the waiting list for mental help are extremely long. I just got my first appointment last week. In the mean time my mental complaints only increased. I'm now suffering from depression, anxiety, anger, suicidal thoughts and being unable to stay asleep. Because of inflation financially things are getting harder too. It's just stress upon stress upon stress.

I just want to leave. I want to get out of this situation. I don't want anything to do with these folks ever again. They fucked me up by sidelining and ignoring me. And finally they don't take any responsibility. I don't even enjoy my computing hobby anymore.

I just wanted to ventilate my story to a bunch of strangers on the internet, like you. Thanks again for posting this and I hope I can start over soon. Good luck!

> I don’t think allowing your competitor to use your own data against you is ‘anti-competitive’

Counterpoint would be that Twitter grew (partially) due to it's easy to use API. And one could argue that Twitter has a monopoly on short message social media because of this growth. Thus being anti-competitive by suddenly disabling its API.

It must be heart wrenching to build a business on top of an external API and have API access revoked without prior knowledge. I hope we can have a meaningful Twitter alternative. This situation sounds to me like some anti-competitive BS that cannot just happen.

Probably posted by John Titor [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

Great project. Every once in a while I'm checking it out to see if an easier root method has become available for my vacuum (Roborock S5 Max). But unfortunately it is still quite involved.

Specs matter, but differently, at least for me. I don't need the best performing chip out there, I just want an efficient chip. I love having a simple ESP chip that I can connect some wires to and flash ESPHome on. When I was a kid I only dreamed of such simplicity and efficiency. Especially with things such as Raspberry Pi's, which makes DIY computing really affordable too.

Thank you. Really appreciate that!

> Are you still feeling this way or are you feeling better now?

To be honest, I am feeling even worse than the first day I called in sick. I haven't had any noteworthy mental health help in the 9 months. Like I said in another comment, my employer denies that he is (co-)responsible for my situation. So they just don't really help me out. And without my own funds this seems neigh impossible because of waiting lists.

My employer didn't have enough (challenging) work for me anymore. According to my employer I had to find my work in the organization myself. Which IMHO is a load of BS. This had be going on for close to a year, and before I realized it, it was too late. Although I have mentioned this every sprint retrospective and with every performance review, nothing was done about it.

> [...] hav[ing] minimal labor protection legally in many places.

Here in the Netherlands that's not the case, luckily. That would break me instantly. But I get where you are coming from.

> Being a team leader isn't great if you are vulnerable to stress.

I think there are differences in being vulnerable to stress. I really perform under pressure. Especially with difficult technical challenges. I'm also the kind of person that can be a locomotive in a team, pulling them forward. I did that in the past and would love to do that again. But I crack when I'm threatened on a personal level. For instance my job security. Or when team members don't want to work in a team anymore, but management still wants them there. Although that's hard on the whole team.

Thanks for the insight though, greatly appreciated. And to be honest, I don't really mind my resume. It's nothing special now either.