Synestine

Just a regular everyday normal muthafucka.

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Unpopular opinion from what I’ve seen in this forum, but for me it is Nextcloud followed by Jellyfin.

    I use Nextcloud setup fory whole family, about a dozen all together. I even sprang for the DavX5 plugin for several people so we can share calendars and contacts as well as files and notes. We backup photos from our phones using the Nextcloud app. Several of us use it as a backend for KeePass.

    We use Jellyfin for streaming; movies, tv, music videos and music. It is the backend storage and library organizer for four Kodi boxes, five browsers, several phones and tablets and a couple of Roku’s. It works like a champ, even with the occasional library re-sync.






  • SynestineOPtohomeassistant@lemmy.worldHA Doorbell
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    We have about the simplest/cheapest mechanical chimes you can get. (2 total, one on each floor).

    Add “Older than dirt” and that’s what I have too. House was built in the late 70s.

    Did your Reolink doorbell come with a little battery-looking-device that you had to wire into the mechanical chimes?

    How long have you had yours in service? And what model is it, if I might ask.


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    1 month ago

    That is effectively what I had with my EZVIZ doorbell-cam. The image quality was actually really good compared to my basic cameras (2k, 180-degree FoV, daylight and infrared modes). The reason I went this way is that it’s damn near impossible to run any sort of wires to the front porch location (Very long story, involving bore-scopes, drills, failure and drywall repairs) which is why I went this way, even with some people being weirded out by the camera on the doorbell.

    I may have to go this route if I can’t find a doorbell-cam that doesn’t suck and is still available for purchase, but that will take months and several tests of the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor).




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    All the Reolink doorbells I can find that look like HA/Frigate compatible have a stupid electronic chime that won’t work for my situation. I need something capable of ringing the mechanical bells otherwise this will fail the WAF check.


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    That’s kinda what happened to me, except that it was a month of back-and-forth with EZVIZ support until they finally copped to “Our company broke that, use the Android App or go to hell” (paraphrasing). Also mine always rejects the verification code, no matter how hard I hammer it in the app. That’s why I’m ripping it off my house, telling everyone to avoid this company and their customer-hostile unethical behavior, and trying to find a replacement.






  • Right now I’m stuck on a Mac laptop. I hate it, but after our Network team could not manage to get Global Protect working on Linux, and my boss decided keeping them happy was easier than keeping me productive, I didn’t have much choice (Mac or Windows). I’ve worked in environments before where I was able to run Linux on my laptop/workstation, so long as I was able to support myself and do the required work. I used remote desktop (Or a Windows VM) for my Windows work; my browser and Java for most everything else. Now even Office is a shitty webapp for the most part, and Teams “works” on Linux (As much as Teams works at all).

    Even here, I have to wait until Helpdesk manages to build out support for new Mac OS releases, so I’m still on 14.6.

    I told them prior that I would be leaving the company if they forced me to migrate to Mac. I’m currently looking for a better position elsewhere and will tell them exactly why when I turn in my notice. Not that it will change anything, it’ll help me feel better.