| cmaloney | JoDee and I are celebrating 15 years of wedded bliss today | 13:28 |
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| jrwren | Congrats. Happy Anniversary. | 13:28 |
| cmaloney | Thank you | 13:28 |
| cmaloney | Also: blast from the past: | 13:29 |
| cmaloney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_EZ_135_Drive | 13:29 |
| jrwren | The anti Zip drive! | 13:29 |
| cmaloney | I had one of these | 13:29 |
| cmaloney | I remember it being pretty nice, but constrained | 13:29 |
| cmaloney | had to get a Jaz drive much later on | 13:29 |
| jrwren | I had one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlewood_Orb_Drive | 13:30 |
| cmaloney | Nice! | 13:30 |
| jrwren | I almost never used it. What a waste of money. | 13:30 |
| jrwren | if I had spent that $200-$300 on AAPL shares instead... :) hahahahahaha | 13:31 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, that would have worked | 13:31 |
| jrwren | I have absolutely no idea what happened to that thing. | 13:32 |
| waldo323_ | i remember thinking the ls120 disks were cool | 13:42 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, floptical all the way | 13:44 |
| jrwren | are those the drives that read 1.44 disks too? | 13:45 |
| jrwren | yeah, those WERE cool. | 13:46 |
| jrwren | https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17364004/nest-goes-offline-thermostats-locks-cameras-alarms | 15:07 |
| jrwren | why I don't ahve smart stuff in my home ;) | 15:07 |
| flipsidecreation | They are all dumb devices now | 15:10 |
| flipsidecreation | Apparently this stopped the Dropcams form working as well, so no security footage | 15:13 |
| jrwren | when I got a new furnace and AC, they asked, do you want a nest or some wifi thermostat. I said "no." | 15:31 |
| flipsidecreation | I have thought about building a thermostat control system with a PI or some other devices that I am in control of | 15:32 |
| jrwren | Have you investigated it at all? Its kind of tricky because of the voltage of those wires. | 15:33 |
| jrwren | Need something to step down to the 5v of PI GPIO AFAICT | 15:34 |
| flipsidecreation | I was just going to use a relay module | 15:35 |
| jrwren | that works. :) | 15:39 |
| jrwren | or does it? I think there are analog signals on those wires. | 15:39 |
| flipsidecreation | All you need to do is open or close them to turn the system on and off | 15:40 |
| jrwren | oh, cool. | 15:40 |
| flipsidecreation | when my thermostat died I was warming up my house with two alligator clips to close the circuit. | 15:41 |
| jrwren | :) | 15:48 |
| jrwren | Its the OTHER wires that I'm thinking of. | 15:48 |
| waldo323_ | i think the need is pretty great to have an on premise home hub for smart devices which can control all of a home's smart devices and doesn't rely on external network connection | 16:29 |
| cmaloney | https://www.peppercarrot.com/article440/episode-25-there-are-no-shortcuts | 16:38 |
| jrwren | yes, and most providers want to sell you that hub, which also happens to send every event to their cloud services for reasons. | 16:43 |
| waldo323_ | "if I win the lotto"... I'd start a company that doesn't want your event data... | 16:50 |
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