[–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

I live in the UK, and seeing air conditioning in a house is maybe like a 5% probability maximum. The story is pretty similar in places on the continent I have seen, except maybe bits of Spain and France. Sure, commercial buildings, trains (with a notable exception being hell the Central Line), and cars have AC, but that's only for when you go out in the day, except for hotels that more often have AC.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yes, this exactly! This works especially well if you have temperature sensors in your house, since then you can know when exactly to open and close based on the difference between internal and external temperatures (or at least that's what I say to myself to justify my Home Assistant setup). Extra effective if you put a fan in the window during the cooler night.

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    Although Steam Input does now support the Pro Controller 2 for all Steam games, this driver works for anything that runs on Linux, which is especially useful for any emulators. However, I must emphasise your mileage may vary a lot with this driver - it took many tries of changing file permissions, manually copying files, and configuring SELinux before the driver worked as normal, at least on my Fedora Linux install. However, once I set it up, it works quite well. Keep in mind that you may also need to disconnect and reconnect the controller sometimes to get it to work. Still, it's not a bad sacrifice to use (in my opinion) one of the best controllers out there for more games.

     

    Due to the unprotected nature of most Wii saves, Dolphin has functionality built in to export and import Wii save files.

    To export from Dolphin, right click the game, select "Export Wii Save", and select the root of your SD card. Then go into your save settings, find the file on your SD card, and copy it over to the Wii system memory.

    To import saves, copy them to the SD card, then in Dolphin go to the Tools menu, and within there are "Import Wii Save" (singular) and "Import Wii Saves" (multiple) that you can then provide the location of a single file or whole SD card to import your saves.

    The only exceptions to this process are games that use protected Wii saves that cannot be copied from the system menu. In that case, you need to use a modded console and a save manager of your choice (like SaveGame Manager GX), but the process is broadly the same.

    [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    From my experience trying to find retrofit displays for my ThinkPad P14s Gen 5, there's two routes Framework probably could go down for this.

    An OLED would be the best display option, and is somewhat more available. However, it requires extra voltage circuitry in order to work compared to an LCD, so there would probably need to be a mainboard revision to accommodate this, making it quite unlikely as it locks out users of existing systems (Unless they have some sort of adapter? No idea how that would work but maybe something could be done).

    Alternatively, I have seen that there are Mini LED displays with the same connector (40 pin 4 lane eDP) and voltages that can work as a direct replacement, although without the per pixel backlight advantage of OLED. However there appears to be very few panels available in this configuration, probably raising the price a bit, especially since I can't find any in the 13.5 inch size of the Framework 13. Considering this Pro version has a custom manufactured display though, they could probably source one eventually and sell it as an upgrade.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is quite an impressive launch from Framework. Even with the high RAM and storage prices, it is still cost competitive with an equivalent MacBook Pro (my yardstick for mid-high end laptops), but with a fully open design you can run Linux on without any virtual machines, and with (claimed) nearly equal battery life. I am somewhat disappointed though by that display, in my opinion touch is not as worthwhile compared to a display with local dimming (OLED/Mini LED).

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Since you are running Docker, it's most likely Home Assistant's auto discover being blocked by a firewall or port settings or something else along those lines. Make sure the container's network mode is set to host, and then you have one of two options. You can either manually add the bulbs (not familiar with LIFX but I think it is done by IP address in the "add integrations" part of the devices menu) or find what is blocking the auto discovery so it will find the bulbs and other devices automatically.

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