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    • Zigbee > WiFi
      • Zigbee is a mesh, it’s more reliable, it’s low power so it allows for battery powered devices
    • Z-wave
      • Perhaps even more reliable than Zigbee due to using a different spectrum

    Home Assistant can run Zigbee and Z-wave radios simultaneously. I have two. Then you can pick devices from a wider range of vendors and models. When considering smart plugs, keep in mind that most have relays rated for non-inductive loads. Motors are generally inductive loads. I’m not sure if computer power supplies with their big capacitors would cause similar problems or not. If you want to be able to plug anything without thinking, make sure the plug you buy says its rating is valid for inductive loads. I have some units from Zooz which qualify. My IKEA ones definitely do not. Philips don’t either but they’ve survived switching some ductwork fans for a few years.


  • Should have played Black Mesa instead of HL. It’s everything HL is but better. It was incredible even having played HL back in 1998. I recommend people who’ve never played HL to just do BM.

    As a lifelong Half-Life fan, I really liked some of Frictional Games’ titles. I liked Penumbra a lot and I think Soma was an absolute masterpiece. It’s at a level similar to Half-Life for me. If you don’t know anything about it, don’t read, don’t watch. Install and play.


  • Your reaction makes perfect sense. Been there too many times. It’s completely insane that some people feel their car’s integrity is somehow equal or more important than the integrity if your body. I’d only keep my mouth shut if I lived in a country / area where guns are prevalent. You don’t know whether the psychopath is armed and crazy or not. In either case, I might simply confront them with:

    “No, I did not hit your car, you hit me with your car. What’s your name and insurance policy? I might need those if the pain gets worse and I need medical attention?”










  • That doesn’t speak much of the architecture. Also it’s really odd. Not denying what you’re seeing is happening, just that it seems odd based on the setups I run with ZFS. My main server is in fact a shared machine that I use as a workstation and games along as a server. All works in parallel. I used to have a mirror, then a 4-disk RAIDz and now an 8-disk RAIDz2. I have multiple applications constantly using the pool. I don’t notice any performance slowdowns on the desktop, or in-game when IO goes high. The only time I notice anything is when something like multiple Plex transcoders hit the CPU hard. Sequential performance is around 1.3GB/s which is limited by the data bus speeds (USB DAS boxes). Random performance is very good although I don’t have any numbers out of my head. I’m using mostly WD Elements shucked disks and a couple of IronWolfs. No enterprise grade disks on this system.

    I’m also not saying that you have to keep fucking around with it instead of going Btrfs. Simply adding another anecdote to the picture. If I had a serious problem like that and couldn’t figure it out I’d be on LVMRAID+Ext4 which is what used prior to ZFS.