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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I think this is a double edged sword; It is easier for auto makes to make a profit on larger vehicles. Example of Ford discontinuing all cars in US except mustang in 2019 because of profitability. Americans feel they must compete in the road arms race because they do not feel safe with larger and larger vehicles. There is more demand for bigger vehicles and bigger vehicles make more profit, naturally this will explode into every manufacturer making larger things.

    Next up: Caterpillar will release their ASV (armored security vehicle) to the civilian market and it sells like hotcakes!













  • I would recommend one but I have always been wery about sending password data through the internet to be stored on some companies server. So I put in the effort to host my own Vaultwarden docker instance through TrueNas scale (True charts) on my home server and access it via a VPN tunnel (Wireguard). It’s very complicated to setup compared to a web service but this way I own all of my password data locally. The android app (Bitwarden) works alright but sometimes it has trouble understanding what is a login screen and you have to force fill things. Vaultwarden as a docker instance works great. The only time this setup needs to be on VPN is to save a new password. Using existing passwords seem to be cached on my device.


  • Same thing here. Using ESPHome almost identical config from the tutorial except for my wifi secrets.

    If anyone is interested here is the ESPHome config I arrived on:

    substitutions:
      name: "vindriktning_01"
      friendly_name: "vindriktning 01"
      project_name: "ikea.vindriktning-sensor"
    
    ota:
      password: !secret freindly_password
    
    wifi:
        ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
        password: !secret wifi_password
    
        # Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
        ap:
          ssid: "Ikea-Vindriktning-01"
          password: !secret freindly_password
          ap_timeout: 30s
    
    esphome:
        name: "${name}"
        project:
              name: "${project_name}"
              version: "1.0"
    
    esp8266:
      board: esp01_1m
    
    # Enable logging
    logger:
      baud_rate: 0
    
    # Enable Home Assistant API
    api:
    
    uart:
      rx_pin: GPIO2
      baud_rate: 9600
    
    sensor:
      - platform: pm1006
        pm_2_5:
          name: "Particulate Matter 2.5µm Concentration"
    
    web_server:
        port: 80
        local: true