Awesome stuff. I hope to have a better season for tomatoes next year, so I will potentially need to find new ways to preserve them.

I’ve thought more on this yesterday, and I think my issue is-

I don’t want something that ‘just works’, I want to BUILD something that ‘just works’

The distinction is that I don’t want to buy premade solutions. I want to make them. Not because of the customizability, but because the fun is in the building. Think Lego- hundreds of people build the exact same product in the end, but why are they sold in pieces? Just assemble the damn things and sell them complete (with markup). You think more people wanna buy that?? I’d bet against it.

I’m in the PNW. which most people assume is rainy/wet. But really it’s bipolar: cold/wet in winter, hot/dry in summer. We’re entering fall, so I guess the humidity was too high this time. I also did the drying in my greenhouse which gets very hot (120F in daytime) but I also think the humidity spikes at night. So next time I’ll try with a fan blowing on them.

That’s why I always use hexagonal windows. It never goes out of style.

Do you make the sun dried tomatoes? Or buy them?

I tried sun drying some tomatoes myself this year and they all got moldy/slimy before drying enough. I really want to get better at preserving my garden surplus, but not just can everything.

Hard agree. In fact, I think there’s a market for JUST the guides. It’s true that there’s a TON of guides out there already, from old blogs to YouTube, but the issue is: all of them start or end with: “your use case might differ, so perhaps this solution isn’t for you.” Or “make sure this setup is compatible with your specific hardware”

For example: I want to set up some sort of backup/cloud storage type system. Well there’s about 1400 ways to accomplish that. I can easily just grab one and go, but I’ll always wonder- should I have done this a different way? Would my life be easier/more secure if I chose a different set up?

So offering hardware that is compatible with whatever “stack” of services included would be a huge plus. Sorta like getting a raspberry pi and following a specific raspberry pi tutorial- you know the issues you get aren’t gonna be due to incompatibility.

I think it really boils down to the scale of one’s home lab- are you just tinkering to get some skills and make something cool? Or are you hoping to do something much much bigger? Different software solutions fit those extremes differently.

Sorry, got off rambling there. I guess I’ve been down the home lab hardware/software wormhole for too long these last few weeks.

Damn. This doesn’t match my experience in Hawaii at all. My in-laws live there, and everytime I visit I sustain my life with fruit and Avacados. I’d kill for some plant based SPAM.

You forgot v) collaborates internationally for work, requiring them to be awake early to maximize overlapping hours in their workday.

But even I know not to do noisy shit outside until at least 10. Those few quiet hours in the morning where it seems I’m the only person alive are to drink coffee and cherish.

It was awesome ending, but if you were watching the game: harbaugh was signaling that they were going to go for 2. So I think a juicier ending would be a single play from the 2-yard line- win/loss sitting on balance.

Every time we get a weird knife wednesday- “where do you keep getting these weird ass knives?”

It’s some of the best content available.

Invest in a standing desk. Sitting all day, even in a good chair is no good for you. Mix it up.

It’s why I never say “eat the rich”, instead say: “compost the rich”. That way everyone knows I am serious about both parts of the ‘joke’.

Edit: I remember why - I wanted to use a single button dimming option, and as far as I can tell, there wasn’t that option in Shelly natively. There isn’t really a “native” version of this in Tasmota, but someone had already laid out the method to do such a thing with rules and whatnot within the Tasmota console. But after tinkering with it all this morning, I think I busted it beyond repair, so I might give the native Shelly a try!

Mostly because I’m lazy. This device was set up before Shelly made it so easy to run offline versions of the native firmware. And I’ve got a handful of devices already running Tasmota, so I’m just resistant to change.

Yeah, Tasmota has ‘setoption19’ to enable autodiscovery, and I triggered it, and it finds a whole host of SENSORS - but none of them are the switches. It does add one entity which is a single switch. But it seems this just correlates to switch1. I’m thinking it has something to do with how I originally set up the dimmer… it was years ago, so I guess I need to dig into my notes and see if I can figure out what options I set on it before I moved it to it’s current spot.

for reference, the data spit out by Tasmota: {“Time”:“2024-08-29T15:17:19”,“Switch1”:“OFF”,“Switch2”:“OFF”,“ANALOG”:{“Temperature”:35.1},“ENERGY”:{“TotalStartTime”:“2021-07-13T17:05:01”,“Total”:37178.152,“Yesterday”:0.000,“Today”:0.000,“Period”:0,“Power”:0,“ApparentPower”:0,“ReactivePower”:0,“Factor”:1.00,“Voltage”:117,“Current”:0.000},“TempUnit”:“C”}

This is my take away as well.

(Burger looks great, btw!)

Damn. I swear it didn’t say that when I commented!

I wish the wiki post said something about how the tofu was prepared!

I second this. How is the tofu prepped? Pressed? Frozen? I’m always looking for new tofu recipes

Aye, good call. My bad. Didn’t mean to come off judgy!

Weird! I love it. I’ll give it a go next time. I’ve got some dill in the garden, so it’s an easy adjustment. I used Thai basil and cilantro in this one. Got both growing this year. Seems like herbs and squash is all I can get to grow around here!

Do it! It’s so easy. And squash is so plentiful right now.