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

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.

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.

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.

I just watched the episode of the Simpsons yesterday where Burns buys all the news outlets in town so that all of the reporting about him is positive. The only paper he doesn’t control is Lisa’s newspaper, which she eventually has to print on a mimeograph machine, because Burns cuts the power to her house and school. Eventually Burns takes her down by conning Homer into giving dirt on Lisa, but by that time she has inspired everyone else to create their own newspapers that Burns can’t control.

Lol that’s amazing. I’ll stick with Linux!

I’m not sure most Christians these days are concerned about spotting false idols.

Yeah, I was like “WTF” for a moment, then I realized. All good!

I haven’t seen one lately, but there for a while it seemed like I was seeing them about every other month.

I’m always amused by the stories about loaded guns being confiscated at airports in people’s carry on bags. The one place everyone should know that you cannot take a gun. Inevitably, they say, “I forgot it was in there.”

Stories like these don’t inspire my belief in safe gun owners. I’m sure they’re out there, but so are a lot of idiot gun owners.

Oh, yeah. They live for this fantasy. We have an Airstream travel trailer, and there are people in that group that are absolutely certain that someone WILL try to break in sooner or later while they’re camping, and they will be Ready For It.

I assume they are the same group of people that end up shooting an innocent person that had their car break down at 2 am and just wanted help, or knocked on the door to what they thought was a friend’s house.

It’s really disturbing how certain they are that this will happen. Too much Fox News, I assume.

I have to admit, I forgot about the Zigbee part when I replied.

The S31 Lite, which uses Zigbee, is supported by Tasmota. However they have a max current draw of 5 amps and don’t do power monitoring like the regular Wifi S31. I haven’t used the S31 Lite, so I can’t speak to how the pairing works or other details.

I have a bunch of S31 plugs from Sonoff, flashed with Tasmota.

In Tasmota, you can set it to default to on and ignore the button. In fact I’m not sure if I can even turn it off via the HA interface without changing an option in Tasmota.

I have this set for several plugs - fridge, freezer, pellet stove, sump pump, etc. No issues with any of them, and some are a few years old. I think I even have the switch on the washer’s plug disabled, too.

With his money, he could eliminate poverty right now. Why wait?

Translation - they were not expecting this announcement. Soon, Trump will order them to conduct test explosions just because.

Trump is going to build a modern Vasa at some point. And all his supporters will claim the ship is perfect even as it sinks.

I gave up pretty quickly on trying to name things. Early on I was having a lot of issues with zigbee, and I frequently had to reconnect things, and renaming them into my scheme got to be another step I just didn’t want to bother with. It felt like a waste of time.

A better use of time was fixing the zigbee issues (wifi interference - fixed that, and now the network is solid). But now I don’t really ever need to worry about the device names, so, eh.