Yeah it’s essentially a trigger. I have a few purposes. One is for my dumb washing machine plugged into an energy monitoring smart plug. After it registers the washing is done, I’ll get alerts through the house in intervals until I get up and scan the NFC tag on the washing machine (I forget to hang out washing.

As I’m in a rental and I can’t have smart switches so I have smart globes and put tags on the switches to toggle the lights.

One by my bedside table to turn off all the lights and smart plugs.

One on my front door to set my away from home scene.

I also have a signed band poster hung on the wall with one, which opens the album in Spotify.

Good fun.

NFC tags are cheap and fun

I tend to meal prep for my bad days as I’m usually taxed from society and work. If I don’t meal prep, I eat convenience food or take away.

It does help with the energy levels and saves money. But that’s about it.

I have to do this with my ISP whenever I make a change. The most recent was when I wanted to downgrade my internet and I had to send all the details of my licence and do a selfie. Even after 2FA and a bunch of security questions.

Then they wanted me to fill out a form providing details about my employer, if my house is a rental or mortgage among other things. I refused that part. Especially seeing as my ISP had a huge data leak recently. It’s wild.

I’m having success with TubeSync through docker compose.

Yeah I get that technically he did get what he ordered and you can’t argue with it. Still, it’s dodgy.

In general these are shipped with an NVMe and then the expansion slot is for a 2.5 inch sata sdd. So this has been modified at some point and the seller probably should have stated.

Oh now I’m worried about my order. Got an optiplex 7060 MFF on the way and ordered a sata 2.5inch SSD for expansion. Please be an NVMe!

I am partially deaf so it’s hard for me to hear lyrics, specifically the consanants of words. So I always sink into the song as a whole and vocals are just an instrument to me. When I read what the lyrics actually say I cringe a bit.

Agreed. Visually beautiful and morally hard. So difficult to save everyone but I loved it.

I love that idea. My partner also does this. She likes to see how much of the kitchen she can clean when the kettle is boiling.

Not quite related but when I have no motivation to clean I set a timer for 5 minutes per room. It becomes a race for me to see if I can get it done in time. I might do something similar for exercise.

Side note, I have a notification for daily tasks that notifies me every hour until I do it. It annoys me enough that I do it.

Not everything works for everyone though.

I’m not OP but can’t choose between Lateralus and Aenima. You?

I’m similar to you. Always on the hunt for something new. Yet the classics always find their way back at times. Deftones are my thing right now.

Banging list. Looks like it would have been similar to my listening activity around ten years ago (Apart from Kendrick).

It’s a light globe for the house that has some sort of connectivity with it. Like wifi, bluetooth, zigbee so that you can control it remotely or automate it.

Ooh nice. I need to figure out some other type of bulb. The ones I have are TP Link Tapo Wifi and they’re too unreliable.

Oh and you can put Adguard on home assistant too as an add on.

I started my home assistant journey with 4 smart globes, a Google home speaker with a pi 4. I learned how to use it and started integrating things I don’t need hardware for, such as shopping/Todo lists, weather, Spotify, last.fm, calendars, basically anything I can learn without hardware. Right now I’m working on getting a shopping list sent to me when I enter the shops zone.

Then I bought a bunch of NFC tags (they’re cheap) for medication reminders, kitty litter reminders/tracking. I have a music poster in my house I’ve stuck an NFC tag to and it opens up the album on Spotify, turns on Bluetooth and connects to my speaker.

I’ve slowly been adding more devices as I go along due to cost constraints. Not that smart home stuff is expensive, I just can’t afford to do it all at once. Which also gives me time to consider/research smart devices before I buy.

100% recommend. It’s addicting actually.

Nice build. That is a lovely case by the way! Not too exxy either.