Note that the top “ribbon “ is visible from all of those ribbon choices, while the content pane stuff, like the “About” box are only visible in “Code”

Comments like this are so frustrating to see, as my company goes backwards, moving from Gitlab to GitHub.

gayness Patrol is probably the more senior scouts, always looking out for penis patrol

Feel free to Google whatever info whose author you won’t dismiss as less learned than yourself - it does not seem as clear cut an issue as you seem to believe, nor is this one specific issue core to the religion and culture

I’m sure your opinion as a random internet poster is more accurate than an historian who actually looked into it, but are you someone who seizes on one idea out of an entire culture, then tries to judge that entire culture on it?

Why would you assume my religion or my preferences? I am merely someone who recognizes that ancient societies operated differently from today. Many behaviors and actions that were acceptable 1,000 years ago, no longer are. And good riddance: societal evolution is a good thing. But that doesn’t make it reasonable to judge ancient people by today’s standards.

I can certainly judge today’s people by today’s standards and see where they fall short

And yes there’s certainly room for doubt

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/17/muhammad-aisha-truth

For much of history, adulthood was defined by puberty. While this case seems extreme, it’s based on the victims memory as a child in a society with no birth records. While it would have been too young for modern standards where we define adulthood differently, there do seem to be doubts about how accurate those stories are

The people who actually write ancient books couldn’t help but include their experiences and biases, even if the spiritual message were divinely inspired.

I’m not sure you’d even call it flawed morals if their moral beliefs were compatible with the society they lived in. There are all sorts of of behaviors and attitudes in older societies that we now understand as unacceptable but it hardly seems fair to judge them by our standards rather than their own

At the the end of the day, this verse is indefensible.

I’ll try ……

That really more a description of cultural conventions of the time, how to be a proper person, rather that an article of faith. At the time the Quran was written, this was normal and acceptable behavior.

Even if you’re religious, you can’t take ancient books literally but need to place it in the time it was written. Whatever you believe inspired the ancient books, it was actually written down by humans and likely modified many times by humans. This is the type of content I would dismiss as an archaism, were it in the bible. If you want religious inspiration from your ancient books, the first chore is to separate the culture of the time from whatever may be an enduring message

Same deal: is it realistic to expect space travel to be so cheap and plentiful, while not highly automated, that we would ever develop an underclass?

Sure it’s easy to see the corporate oligarchy part, where companies become ever more powerful royalty. But when it only takes a few specialists, you’re going to be highly trained and compensated. No underclass.

I think of it like current software engineers. We’re nothing to the corporate royalty, and are definitely exploited. But we’re also paid more, treated better, more specialized, than many individuals. There’s just not going to be an underclass there

If you’re starting with ha, don’t feel confined to only one.

IMPORTANT: a local area mesh is not just a low powered way of connecting devices but is inherently local-only. Highly recommended

The more common local area meshes include

• Zigbee - open standard, lots of inexpensive sensors
• Z-Wave - devices need to pay for certification but are more standard. I found more smart switches using this in my area
• Thread - the new standard. Same frequency as Zigbee but IPv6 based. Slowly rolling out.

The new Matter/Thread standard has support of the major players (Apple, Google, Amazon) so seems like the way to go for the future, but products are slow to roll out so you can’t count on it yet

Personally I found the strengths of each compelling so quickly added all three of the above to my ha setup. Ha is fine with it so why limit yourself

I follow the principle that devices must work “as expected” for my users, automation adds capabilities but does not replace them. This comes together with a focus on smart switches

• can be used interactively just like any switch
• continue to work as expected even if ha is down
• typically act as routers to strengthen your local area mesh. I have switches acting as routers for Zigbee, zwave, and Thread, so all my local area meshes are solid everywhere
• then I can automate

Step 0. Make sure your networking equipment can do vlans and subnets.

Given how much I paid for a “high end” consumer router, I just assumed ……

I got into each mesh technology for specific devices. Home Assistant supports them all and they seem to coexist just fine in my use case.

I have a small to medium setup with only a few simple automations and a focus on voice control and scheduling

Preference

• Thread - given Apple, Amazon, and Google support and the standardization work, I expect this to be the future. Eventually. But I’m getting impatient. If I’m buying a device, I prefer Thread but usually it’s not yet
• z-Wave - my first, and most devices. Basically this was what was most available at local stores when I started. No complaints
• Zigbee - by far the biggest selection of simple, cheap sensors. I need to more of those
• all too much is WiFi but I try to avoid

But it also helps that my approach is generally switches and outlets. Hard-wired, predictable network, tend to be repeaters. I have comparatively fewer leaf nodes.

This approach also fits in with my biggest challenge. While my house is small, it’s an older one with dense materials that blocks a lot of radio signals. For example I have no cell phone reception inside yet strong signal just out any door. My focus on switches and outlets overcome this with a repeater in every room

So for example a few years back I got a z-wave IR blaster to control a mini-split AC because at the time I mostly used z-wave. I already had a z-wave light switch in the same room, acting as a repeater, so no worries about connectivity. Now I have both z-wave and Zigbee light switches in that room so expect both meshes to be strong for any future devices in that room

I’ll also vote to reconsider WiFi. Home Assistant supports a variety of local mesh networks that by default can’t connect to the cloud and whose devices are cheaper and lower power.

I use all three of zwave, Zigbee, and thread; ha works with whatever you need.

I choose to pay for remote access, but it’s for convenience and to support the developers. You are free to configure it yourself in a couple ways (and there is decent documentation) or do without remote access

I don’t know how you set up remote access for OpenHab, but from a quick glance at the web site it looks similar

I’ve been trying to comment more, but we have to post as well

There are also strong movements to healthier eating and a good strategy might be to build on that.

While it’s always dangerous to generalize from personal experience, I know far more people who have reduced their consumption of red meat, or even overall meat, For health reasons over climate reasons

I naively thought we were finally heading this way with climate change. It was always too little, too late, but there seemed to be a global movement by countries to finally take the right actions. Everything was coming together. But then the pendulum of politics swung the other way

Google says livestock production creates 11-20% of global human co2 emissions. Even If we could make that disappear, it’s not enough

Meanwhile energy production is 73% so it’s critical to focus there

Realistically there is to switch to zero for any category of emissions so the only right answer is to cut as many as possible as much as possible

I’m not entirely sure why all the hate : Jenkins can do the most things the must ways. And yes, it’s so much nicer defining a pipeline with a fully functional language than an assortment of yaml files

Actually that was my response when my company wanted to start using Gitlab ci. It only has one way of doing things so you can probably get a faster start if you had no ci, were a small company, and had simple builds. However we’re over 4,000 builds in many languages from 12 year old monoliths to modern micro services and containers…… and way too much godawful JavaScript. Do you want the quick and simple tool great for a small startup or the all powerful kitchen sink of tools?

Do you have a chance to watch more live sports locally? I’m more interested in college hockey and every year take at least on road trip to see my college team play. Locally my town has a college with an older rink that has no moving ads. Now that my kids are in college, I make at least one road trip to see their school team play.

College hockey is much less expensive to see in person and their rinks are a lot less commercialized. Given the ages and much shorter career you can get more invested in a player developing, improving, and get excited if they make the Bigs. My youngest has team autographs from road trips where we happened to use the same hotel as the team!

And to be clear: it’s not just you or your condition. Ads are getting obnoxious and distracting for everyone

Edit: a couple years back I went to see the Islanders in their new rink and it was horrible. The noise wasn’t just loud but painful (my watch repeatedly flashed dangerous noise levels). Everything moved or flashed. It was not enjoyable and I’m never going back

Edit2: I have no idea what streaming college hockey is like but maybe that’s less obnoxious. Might be worth a try