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Controlling heating (lemmy.ml)
 

I have a (non-automated) gas fired boiler supplying my heating. It comes on before I wake up so the house is nice and warm for me when I crawl out of bed.

I also like the bedroom to be warm at night when I go to bed, so the radiator is on in the bedroom.

What I don't like is waking up in a room that's too hot.

So is there some way of controlling the TLV on my bedroom radiator, maybe turning it down overnight? I know I could just remember to turn it down when I go to bed, but the plain fact is that I don't.

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Github hiding repo URLs (lemmy.ml)
 

I hate github with a passion. I have a slightly different name for it that I won't use here because I'm a polite c**t.

They've sunk to a new low now though, in not displaying the URLs for git repos. Not if I allow their (non-free) Javascript to run, and certainly not if I don't. Maybe I'm not using an "approved" browser.

Well at least MS' reason for buying github are clear now - if people can't get at the code then open-source dies.

While we are on the subject of home assistants, are there any privacy-respecting open source ones? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] N0b3d@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems like Snips was the voice control of choice with HA but was bought up by Sonos.

Rhasspy - https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy - might work (https://dev.to/jeikabu/home-assistant-voice-recognition-with-rhasspy-1jb2).

All depends on you using Home Assistant of course, although looking quickly at the docs Rhasspy seems to work with other systems.

https://jasperproject.github.io/ might also be worth a look.

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K-9 Mail replacement? (lemmy.ml)
 

I've been using K-9 for some years now. Today, some idiot (i.e. me) decided to update it through F-Droid. The new version is.... horrible. It feels like MS Lookout or some such sh...thing.

Can anybody suggest a replacement that just does basic email and doesn't have some kind of "slick" UI? Thanks.

How to re-jig screens when I disconnect one in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] N0b3d@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Hmm. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but doing

inotifywatch -e modify /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-2/status

only gives me "No events occurred." (after ctrl-c stops it). Oddly, I can see the file contents change (connected to disconnected and back again) if I cat it in a separate term window so I don't know what's going on.

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How to re-jig screens when I disconnect one (lemmy.ml)
 

Setup: Ubuntu, Openbox, notebook, occasionally an external screen.

I've set things up so that if an external monitor is attached when I start my notebook, a script (run by Openbox's autostart), xrandr makes that the primary monitor.

What I'd like to do is run that script when I turn off or otherwise disconnect that external monitor, so that I can make the notebook's built-in screen the primary again. Does anyone here have any ideas how to do that automatically?