Our negotiations with Core Devices have broken down, and we need your help, as the community, to decide what to do next: rebble.io/2025/11/17/c...
(Aside: Ugh. This is probably the least pleasant thing we have ever had to write. We're incredibly sad it went this way, and sorry to have to post it.)
Alas, the optics of the Vive are quite poor. Maybe I'll pick up a used Index headset.
Re-realizing how much I absolutely hate Oculus (Meta Quest?) crap. My Quest 2 barely works. Meanwhile, my original pre-launch edition Vive works totally fine and doesn't need adware to work. Did I mention I haven't turned the sucker on in five years?
Which has _now_ spiraled into me learning completely random weather radar API's I should have nothing to do with. Never thought I would be googling weather radar acronyms. But here I am.
There's this whole hidden realm of weather APIs NOAA just has I have never known about. Very interesting.
Apparently, NOAA discontinued their XYZ-format map tiling API. This kicked off me learning how to use "opengeo.ncep.noaa.gov", which then spiraled into me making a "proxy" that converts standard XYZ tile requests into WMS requests: github.com/blockarchite...
Anybody know of any good recipe tracking software? Almost on the verge of building my own 🙃
Hmmm
I have joined the foldable gang 😁
Galaxy Z Flip7. Let's see how this goes.
A screenshot of an Android home screen that contains a battery widget that shows the phone battery being 19% and the connected watch battery being 6%
Pictured: Late Stage Pixel Syndrome
Random reminder to test your smoke alarms 🙃
Randomly decided to check today, turns out they are from 2013 😬
(they, in fact, did not work)
Screenshot of a weather app showing the current temperature in Phoenix. 113°F, with an Extreme Heat Warning through Monday. But it's a dry heat! (lol)
But it's a dry heat!!! (lol)
A LiftMaster wireless remote with some wires coming off the bottom connected to the open button
Had to get a new myQ-connected garage door opener, conveniently incompatible with those generic ZWave opener things. Less than an hour later:
Hackathon #1 was three years ago 🫣
I wonder how difficult it is to hack in my transit card to Google Wallet. Surely it's not that difficult 🙂
(famous last words)
All new HVAC technicians should be forced to watch a @techconnectify.bsky.social video.
That is all 🙂
Email from 1Password billing. "Your 1Password subscription will start soon"
Someone should tell 1Password I've been using them for uh, three years 😁
"OpenAI wants their open model to be a closed model"
That'll be interesting to see how it comes out! If I recall, you'd probably need to hook into the appstore API to do anything like this. I wonder how Core would handle this. It seems like a non-insignificant amount of traffic for Rebble to just suddenly have on their servers 😅
To clarify - does this mean that the eventual Core Devices app will have its in-app store point to apps.rebble.io? Or will we have to sideload apps and faces?
And we're done! I love this stupid little case. It wasn't actually that hard to build in either!
Also, with this, comes a necessary motherboard switch, so I've decided to go Mini ITX with this ridiculous case from Silverstone: www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/i...
Upgrading to 12th Gen Intel! Currently on a i7-10700. Found a great deal on a 12700KF I couldn't pass up.
Problem: GPU 😁
I think I'll stick with my Quadro P2000 for now. Was eyeing a 9070 XT, but it's darn near impossible to find one at retail (or in stock!)
That sucks! Hopefully good news follows 🤞
I'm using a Home Assistant Green. I'm honestly not too sure why it's not working.
Was going to pop by the discord if I couldn't get the container to work 🙃
Nobody saw that coming.
I've heard the container is more stable. I think I'll give it a go, it's just a pain to have to host ZWave-JS and Matter myself. IMO this should all just be bundled with Home Assistant.
I give up! Home Assistant just hates me.
This is my second reinstall on my Home Assistant green 🙃
Had too many issues with the VM so I decided to just buy the box.
First line: "Restore a backup" Second line: "Restore in progress" Followed by an indeterminate progress bar Third line: "The restore process is running in the background. Home Assistant will automatically start again once the restore is complete. Please be patient, this can take a while. Do not close or refresh this page."
Trying to restore my state history from a backup. It's probably working, but I have no idea because I can't tell what percentage the restore job is at!
"Preparing Home Assistant" Home Assistant installation screen
Third time's the charm 🙄
I must have bad luck, because I have never gotten Home Assistant to last longer than three months. HA would be perfect if it didn't randomly break itself! 😅
