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New comment by a2dam in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

a2dam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:13:55 +0000

I do nearly this exact thing with these shoeboxes, so you can pull them out from the front and have enough collapsed in storage to always have more on hand: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T6TC4FW

New comment by a2dam in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

a2dam — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:42:22 +0000

This can also be fixed by increasing supply. People buy housing as an investment because they expect it to increase in value. The best way to counteract that is to build and continue building so that doesn't happen.

New comment by a2dam in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

a2dam — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:39:53 +0000

I have one of these for this exact purpose and it's amazing, really underrated. Makes me want a bigger one for sure, though.

New comment by a2dam in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

a2dam — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:12:10 +0000

The Inkplate10 is an excellent, much lower cost way to get into this

New comment by a2dam in "I overengineered a spinning top [video]"

a2dam — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:10:08 +0000

This rules

New comment by a2dam in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

a2dam — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:51:29 +0000

The snow falling in front of the text here really drives the point home

New comment by a2dam in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

a2dam — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:49:50 +0000

Hard to justify snow falling in front of the text on a blog post about how a redesign isn’t helpful design.

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:58:42 +0000

That's the case currently! What I said is why those laws and judges don't ban advertising!

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:57:58 +0000

Certainly you can see the difference between that and advertising.

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:56:55 +0000

I didn't say that all speech is ads, I said that ads are speech.

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:22:52 +0000

Ads are speech. Replace all mention of "ads" in your post with "speech I don't like" and see how it reads.

New comment by a2dam in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

a2dam — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:55:21 +0000

I've been talking about making a site like this for years! It is easily the number two criteria I have when looking for hotels after location.

New comment by a2dam in "Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others"

a2dam — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:23:42 +0000

An enormous bummer of a fact is that Majel Barrett, who was the voice of the computer on Star Trek (along with a number of other roles), did phonetic voice recordings specifically to reproduce her voice, yet nobody has used those recordings to do so. I'd love to see her on this list.

New comment by a2dam in "American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks"

a2dam — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:25:17 +0000

It doesn't. There's some minor evidence, but it's very quickly reversed.

New comment by a2dam in "Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation"

a2dam — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:42:05 +0000

I think there's an actual Roborock integration for HA. I forget if it's official or on HACS, but I've used it and it worked well at the time. It requires cloud, which obviously isn't ideal, but better than nothing IMO.

New comment by a2dam in "ChatGPT Atlas"

a2dam — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:31:29 +0000

This happened to me too. I eliminated it in text responses, but eventually figured out that there's a system prompt in voice mode that says to do this (more or less) regardless of any instructions you give to the contrary. Attempting to override it will just make it increasingly awkward and obvious.

New comment by a2dam in "Just let me select text"

a2dam — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:57:08 +0000

Same here, I even have a fun mini game in my head where I try to make the selection box beginning line directly up with the end on the row below.

New comment by a2dam in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

a2dam — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:49:13 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by a2dam in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

a2dam — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:24:01 +0000

Which one do you recommend?

New comment by a2dam in "$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer"

a2dam — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:26:27 +0000

Color is the hardest thing on your list. I think something that meets most other requirements is the Inkplate 10, which I’ve been using as an apartment status display for a few years now. It’s ESP32 based and I have it grabbing an image from Home Assistant every minute, which it works great for. Black and white only though.