[13:28] <cmaloney> JoDee and I are celebrating 15 years of wedded bliss today
[13:28] <jrwren> Congrats. Happy Anniversary.
[13:28] <cmaloney> Thank you
[13:29] <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
[13:30] <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.
[13:31] <jrwren> if I had spent that $200-$300 on AAPL shares instead... :)   hahahahahaha
[13:31] <cmaloney> Yeah, that would have worked
[13:32] <jrwren> I have absolutely no idea what happened to that thing.
[13:42] <waldo323_> i remember thinking the ls120 disks were cool
[13:44] <cmaloney> Yeah, floptical all the way
[13:45] <jrwren> are those the drives that read 1.44 disks too?
[13:46] <jrwren> yeah, those WERE cool.
[15:07] <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 ;)
[15:10] <flipsidecreation> They are all dumb devices now
[15:13] <flipsidecreation> Apparently this stopped the Dropcams form working as well, so no security footage
[15:31] <jrwren> when I got a new furnace and AC, they asked, do you want a nest or some wifi thermostat. I said "no."
[15:32] <flipsidecreation> I have thought about building a thermostat control system with a PI or some other devices that I am in control of
[15:33] <jrwren> Have you investigated it at all? Its kind of tricky because of the voltage of those wires.
[15:34] <jrwren> Need something to step down to the 5v of PI GPIO AFAICT
[15:35] <flipsidecreation> I was just going to use a relay module
[15:39] <jrwren> that works. :)
[15:39] <jrwren> or does it? I think there are analog signals on those wires.
[15:40] <flipsidecreation> All you need to do is open or close them to turn the system on and off
[15:40] <jrwren> oh, cool.
[15:41] <flipsidecreation> when my thermostat died I was warming up my house with two alligator clips to close the circuit.
[15:48] <jrwren> :)
[15:48] <jrwren> Its the OTHER wires that I'm thinking of.
[16:29] <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
[16:38] <cmaloney> https://www.peppercarrot.com/article440/episode-25-there-are-no-shortcuts
[16:43] <jrwren> yes, and most providers want to sell you that hub, which also happens to send every event to their cloud services for reasons.
[16:50] <waldo323_> "if I win the lotto"... I'd start a company that doesn't want your event data...