I want to point out one of the failures of this administration, one of many, I know, but I think this specific example partially exists because of DOGE. Late last year, Congress passed a law, and Biden signed it, that all Chinese drone manufacturers have to undergo a security audit by December 23 of this year, or they will no longer be able to import drones or parts. The big player of course is DJI.

To date, no agency has started the audit, so the restriction a went into effect a few days ago. Once current stocks run out, we won’t be able to buy or repair those drones.

Thing is, even the (few) US made drones are affected, because the motors come from China as well.

Trump’s administration has failed to address this issue. I’m sure that the DOGE idiocy contributed by gutting so many agencies.

DJI has been pushing to get this audit started for months, to no avail. Maybe they should have created a gold peace prize drone to bribe Trump.

Yeah, like those security lug nuts. Guess what, guys?

We’ve had two vehicles come with them. I remove them the first time I have a wheel off for some reason.

How do people listen to this and go, “Yep, he’s great!”

I just don’t understand it. I know, cult, but… Wow.

Avoid Tuya wifi devices. They’re nothing but trouble, requiring all kinds of hacks to get working locally, and even then can still be a headache.

If you really want the lock, try to see if you can run the Tuya cloud cutter on it, so it’ll be a truly local device. Then control it via HA, using a VPN or HA Cloud if you need remote access.

I don’t understand the connection to fireworks - maybe the sound hides the sound of the explosions from the bombs for a moment, but do they think people are going to just not notice the damage?

If this is as reported, they sound like idiots.

I’m not sure I understand your “framejob” comment. Do you think they weren’t trying to plant explosives? If they were planning to do it, even if they wouldn’t have been very effective, it’s still a problem. They could have still hurt or even killed someone.

In my previous job and my job at the bike shop, yes. But I don’t really care, its issues aren’t my problem.

Keep in mind they’ve gotten rid of the leading generals that opposed Trump and put in loyalists.

Interesting. After I got the new Debian running, I just updated the source for Jellyfin (and a few other packages) to Trixie, and it updated just fine.

Well I finally upgraded to 13, a few months later. The only issue was the blob file in glances, which I was ready to deal with. Oh and I had to install php-mysql.

I don’t like that you can’t start the Debian upgrade and just walk away. It stops and asks you about configuration files, so you have to babysit it. Other than that, it works well.

Yeah. Maybe I’ll see if I can get the gdt bot working again…

I have two Sengled zigbee bulbs (they also sell wifi bulbs, so choose carefully), and they’ve been great. They’re in my outdoor fixtures, so they deal with both freezing and very hot temperatures. They didn’t even have an issue when I changed my zigbee network channel. I’ve had them several years now without any issues at all.

They’re probably the same bulbs as yours, but I just wanted to give people another option.

Yeah. I help mod the Washington Capitals hockey team sub, and recently I looked through every other NHL team’s sub, and we’re the ONLY ones that post game day threads. And even with us, it’s basically only one or two of us commenting on the games. Compare that to dozens or even hundreds of people commenting on every game in every team’s reddit sub.

So now we do care what other countries think?

Oh don’t forget the ultimate in classless gifts: A gold pager from Israel.

Most people bribe with money, but FIFA shrewdly found a cheaper way.

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For some reason, if I were doing the physical media route, I’d want to ship the drives via FedEx or something similar. Presumably this isn’t the only copy of the data. Even if you still need to go, just dragging these drives around seems risky.

You can turn the encryption off if you are comfortable with the network you’re storing your backups on. The encryption is a good idea for people using cloud backups, but I’m not sure it’s necessary for backups on, say, my internal server.

Yeah this was a feature they enabled by default for everyone a while back. When people complained, the True Believers told everyone they should have read the release notes. I think the developers undid the encryption by default option, but there are a lot of people out there with encrypted backups as a result of the change, and some of them have no idea.

Some instances have block lists for certain words.