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[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Oh no, I wasn't trying to disprove your point at all! Just showing how extreme the situation needs to be to justify a suit. From what I remember most of the guests didn't wear a suit either, but I can totally see it being a thing on the east coast.

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Also Colorado. Granted, covid didn't give me much opportunity here but I wore a suit this summer for the first time in about 5 years. It was a wedding and I was the officiant ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Assuming not-Montana US, you can be fired for any reason other than membership in a protected class (race, religion, etc). Attending an ice cream social, even a company one, is not a protected class.

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Used Bolts are a hell of a bargain right now, especially with the tax credit. I have an EUV Premier and that's got a lot of little things that add up to a really nice car (ventilated seats!)

The only catch is slow DC fast charging (some older ones don't even have that). No problem at all for commuting and short trips out of town (living in southern Denver, I can easily go to Colorado Springs on a charge) but you need to know what you're getting yourself into for longer trips

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

There's a difference between "I know we're not your employer any longer, but you're still forbidden from this thing" and "hey, I know we're all kind of disappointed and emotions are hot right now. What people say to the media can come back to haunt us. Please don't do that, especially if that's not your area of expertise, as it may have implications in the next election"

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That, plus a couple other things I saw in different places, ended up doing exactly what I wanted! I posted my final solution above. Thanks for finding a piece to the puzzle!

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Organize for what, exactly? A big reason he shouldn't be in office is because he incited an insurrection on January 6 to overturn an election. Any kind of organization to prevent him taking office would also be an attempt to overturn an election.

If you have a different goal in mind, I'm all ears. But I've been crying that democracy and elections are sacred and I'll be damned if I'm going to change my mind because it's gone the other way.

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It's not even a crime, it's a civil lawsuit they filed

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That just might work! It's definitely an easy way to control both at the same time. I just need to figure out a way to change the group's dimness when the dimness on one light's physical switch (a Kasa, unlike the Zigbee one next to it). Maybe an automation for that, targeting the group instead of a single device

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Honestly, I've been kind of wondering what his tea leaves read. I'm not sure about everything he's predicted, but he was right about Trump in 2016 and the predicted red wave in 2022 being a dud.

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Taking a different approach of starting simple and working up,

100.0 works

{{100.0}} does not work

"{{100.0}}" also does not work

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Combining this with similar comments, plus adding in the math to convert to a percent, I tried this:

brightness_pct: "{{state_attr('light.kitchen_sink_ceiling', 'brightness') | float(0) /255*100}}"

Still getting the same message

Message malformed: expected float for dictionary value @ data['brightness_pct']

For what it's worth, if I try to set brightness instead of brightness_pct, I get a different message

Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data['brightness']

(I'm assuming that device just doesn't accept a brightness attribute - not a big deal to math it out though)

 

Solved!

Solution was to create a group and perform an action on that:

action: light.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: light.kitchen_cabinet_sink
data_template:
  brightness_pct: "{{100*state_attr('light.kitchen_sink_ceiling','brightness')/255}}"

Original:

Trying to run an automation to match one light's state (on/off/dim) to another's. Have this currently:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 100
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

That works fine to turn the lights on or off, and I have triggers in the automation for that and changes in brightness. But using a non-static number for brightness_pct (yes, I know I'll probably have to math the 0-100 scale instead of 0-255) is giving me trouble. When I try something like this:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: {{state_attr("light.kitchen_sink_ceiling", "brightness")}}
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

I have also tried {{states.light.kitchen_sink_ceiling.attributes.brightness}} instead. Both seem to have the correct value when I play around in the developer tools. But when I put it in the automation, I get an error that a float value was expected. I see some similar issues online, but it always seems to be in a different context and people fix it by changing some value I never had.****

 

My, how the tables have returned!

 

Year and a half old. It may feel silly, but she's always been in the single-digit percentile, usually low-single-digits at that. She was born about 3 months premature, and after her weight gain stalling, they prescribed a medication with a side effect of increased appetite to give things a jump start. I think it's going to work ๐Ÿ™‚

 

Running on a Raspberry Pi 400

Lately my home has been dumb and unassisted at random times, and the HA app can't connect to my HA rpi server. Ditto when I go to homeassistant:8123 in a browser. I'm trying to see what's causing this, but the logs in app only show since last restart. Tried plugging my Pi into a monitor and getting something from the command line but not sure how to do the equivalent of a Linux tail or whatever. Searching was surprisingly unhelpful. Any advice?

Thanks much!

 

I get that some instances use the domain + TLD to make a word, like lemm.ee or to an extent, sh.itjust.works. But I've seen so many TLDs I had no idea existed, like .world, .zone, .social, and yes .works as well.

Is there any real reason for that? Trying to look cool or kinda underground-y? Cheaper and more varied domain options? Something actually kinda functional?

Interestingly, I started on vlemmy.net because I was a scared Reddit refugee and the .net TLD gave me comfort. Then it vanished a few days later without a trace. So here I am on lemmy.world

 

I originally created this community to post a few of my own projects and get a few others, but found retrolemmy before I could post anything. I'll still keep my lemmy.world account and all, but in the interest of keeping themes within instances, I think retrolemmy is a better fit. Admin, feel free to nuke this community if you wish! I don't see a way to on my end.

!antiqueradios@retrolemmy.com

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