Nice! I have some sensors running for many years as well. One of the older particle sensors, a BME280 and a geiger tube, just in case there’s some secret nuclear explosion. It’s super sensitive to sunlight, though. It’s all mounted underneath the balcony, so no rain either. And the temperatures are a bit off, due to the wall of the house.

Yeah, I meant condensation as in the grass is soaking wet in the morning. There’s no rain on my sensors either, yet I threw out 2 or 3 DHT11/22. I tried drying them as well, but to limited success. Idk. Some people say there’s low quality DHT clones out there and better ones?! But I have no idea why mine kept failing. They’ve all been from different batches and online sellers.

102F plus humidity sounds nasty.

Wonder if it’s possible not to get water on the sensor. I mean at some point there will be conditions outside when water condensates. And that’ll inevitably get them wet.

Yes, I figured out BME280 dissipate heat. There’s different refresh rates available and they’ll all generate more or less heat and skew both temperature and humidity readings. I’ve now set them to the lowest interval. I don’t need several readings each second anyway, at least for my outside weather station 😆

From my experience, I wouldn’t buy DHT22 anymore. I’ve had multiple ones fail outside. After several months, they’d report random humidity values, or saturate and report 100% all the time. Whereas you could swap the BMP280 for a BME280 and get humidity on that chip. I haven’t had any issues with those.

Though I’m not sure about calibration. I had DHT22 and BME280 run in parallel for a while and they’d report different values. Not sure which one is more accurate.

Yeah, I never know if people write genuine, stereotypical posts like that. Or if that’s bot activity. Being adamant not to be a bot is kinda what bots do.

Haha, yeah, pick your poison. Though we’re a diverse crowd. I really appreciate how there isn’t an endless stream of doomscrolling for me. My feed just ends at some point and reminds me to resume with other things 😅 (Also less noise, US politics and mainstream memes, which would be the real reason why I’d advise not to scroll All.)

Yeah, unfortunately the Fediverse isn’t as big as I’d like it to be. I can’t find people to talk about some of my interests, either. I’ll occasionally put in keywords on https://lemmyverse.net/communities , have a look at PieFed’s curated feeds and topics (Edit: another topic list)… But there’s probably just not enough people here who are into miniatures…

Delete the All feed! It’s just stupid. Subscribe to what you like. Maybe have a short glimpse at the All feed on a biweekly basis for 5min, but that’s it.

Hope it was a Golf 2 Fire & Ice edition…

Dunno if that’s “on purpose”. I think it’s more, back in the day .ml was the defacto standard instance, so lots of average people went there and you’d find a wider bandwidth of people. That might have changed with some people leaving and the new visitors not signing up on .ml anymore. That makes the rest of the group condense to people who pick .ml on purpose. But that’s not a deliberate plan, more how maths works. 😅

Here’s someone reverse-engineering the device: https://github.com/Lexy1972/Reverse-Engineer-a-Quntis-Monitor-LED-Bar-Controller

I’d say an ESP32-C6 with an NRF24L01 and some custom code would probably work as a bridge. The ESP32-C6 (and H2) can do Thread. And the NRF24 blast out 2.4GHz signals. I have no clue how Tread and Matter work, though. If it’s HASS, it’s probably easier to skip all the Thread and Matter stuff and write some ESPHone component and forward it over Wifi. Basically an RF bridge. But seems like it’s a major coding and soldering project.

Yeah dunno. Did they follow instance rules? It states inflammatory posts need a Content Warning and I can’t tell whether the author is in violation of the instance CoC or following the rules?! Seems there is no such warning on the screenshots. We could probably ask the admin or mod in question. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it wasn’t… We don’t really know any details besides how Kazim thinks they’ve being wronged.

I’d check that as well. I’ve had remotes which just hid the IR diode behind some plastics, I had assumed they were RF, but that wasn’t the case. Also there’s at least two other ISM Bands, could be 2.4GHz or 433MHz or maybe 868MHz in products meant for Europe. They’re usually required to disclose the frequency in the manual or on the packaging, or on some sticker. I’m not sure. Once that kind of information is missing, use it as an opportunity to double-check it’s not IR.

I wish my friends and family did the pre-screening of messages and their importance to me as well 😆 I get important messages and silly memes all mixed in the same group chats, so it’s impossible for me to tell whether I need to pick up my phone.

Background will do. I think even swiping it away is fine, as long as you don’t force-close it. Just pay attention there is some Play store or Aurora store doing automatic app updates. I skipped on the updates and once WhatsApp hadn’t been updated for several months, they closed the connection.

I run continuwuity and the mautrix-whatsapp bridge. It’s not 100% reliable, but close enough for me. Especially after I moved it from the NAS in my basement to a VPS in some datacenter. I occasionally had some issues with my ISP doing maintenance, a power outage at home… I let WhatsApp run on my kitchen tablet 24/7 so it keeps that 14 day timer running. To my knowledge that’s unavoidable unless you switch WhatsApp Business or something.

And I like Continuwuity way better than Synapse and the ridiculous amount of resources it uses to forward text messages.

But yeah, silently dropping the connection isn’t great at all. I think the only proper solution is to nag people into using a different messenger. Signal is relatively straightforward to use, made for average people and comes with the same functionality as WhatsApp.

Thanks for the community recommendations!

You’re probably right. I don’t spend a lot of time on Mastodon. I likely missed drama and defederation. Other than the occasional shitstorms. But I think that’s just “a thing” on microblogging platforms. And the German privacy nerds I follow on Mastodon do way less of it anyway.

And regarding language… That seems to be a factor as well. The German speaking community here on Lemmy established a different atmosphere. From my perspective, there’s way less yelling at each other amongst the Germans than in the broad English speaking Threadiverse. There’s trolls and a lot of memelords, but seems to me some people still remember the “Netiquette”. And those ideology- or identity wars aren’t as loud. I heard from other people, it’s similar (also a noticeably different atmosphere) in the French speaking corner.

Reads a bit like the description of the average nerd? We’re nearly all into Star Trek (to some level), write way too long and measured paragraphs. A good chunk isn’t really into politics, instead they’ll spend their time reading blog posts on how this place is designed… The Threadiverse has in fact stopped growing (by user count)…

I’d say we better stop all the witch hunts. We already have plenty drama here, every other week. Leave them be and focus on something constructive. For example using all the activity tools and statistics to filter out all the slop bots 😅

Thanks for explaining. I’d agree with the reasoning. And it’s a mix of several factors, I think. Basically our history. We grew and that means you can get away with more (bad) things in a large group of people than in a smaller, more tightly coupled group. We attracted a wider audience, so now it’s not just a few privacy nerds, Linux users and a buch of tankies coexisting, but all ideological factions of society. We also got a few Reddit refugees who got banned over there for good reasons.

But in my opinion it’s an entire thing: The political landscape got way more extremist in recent years in general. And we do lots of talking about politics here. So with being a link aggregator and sharing news articles we get all the polarizing stuff and due to psychology, people share negative news articles because that gets you riled up and want to talk. Or fight. We also copied some social media design elements which reinforce some specific kinds of negative behaviour. Subscribing to groups does compartmentalization. And the entire philosophy of the Fediverse adds yet another layer of compartmentalization, which doesn’t always work in our favor. I think it also awakens some tribal instincts in some people. Which might not even be bad(?) unless they start to disunite and fight each other. Which some do. I don’t think that’s an issue on Reddit for example, because that’s just one central place, plus they keep a tighter leash on their mods. And Mastodon would be yet different because you can’t split up into groups/communities, there’s just people to be followed and global hashtags. And once there’s any level of normalization of drama and negativity, the internet will add more on top 😅

I wonder how many people realize the importance of independent platforms. Especially with what’s going on in politics, big tech, shaping discourse in a top-down way… All not really healthy for society. And we got an uptake in surveillance, manufactured truths, all the age-verification already cost us some internet forums in the UK… I think the Fediverse is more important than ever.

Did we grow, though? You say it like it’s accepted truth. But every time I have a look at the numbers (for example on Fediverse Observer), it seems to me like we’re doing the opposite. We peaked 3 years ago and we’ve been shrinking since. It’s even worse for platforms like Mastodon. Seems they’ve lost several hundreds of thousands of users. I’d say we here on Lemmy/PieFed/MBin kinda stabilized(?). I also think there’s been a slight uptake in content and discussion. Feels to me we’ve become more active over the years. But judging by the numbers, I’d say it’s because we lost the new users and lurkers. And these days our average userbase shifted to people who (on average) post more. But we didn’t grow as in: there’s more people around than it used to be.