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  • Where I live, smoke detectors come with a guarantee that the (9v) battery will keep them operational for at least 10 years.

    When the battery is low on charge, they start beeping in regular intervals and from when the beeping starts it still takes a year or two for them to run out. Which you will surely notice at some point when you’re at home.

    So I don’t really understand why someone would need a notification.

    I guess a notification could be nice if you have a hearing deficiency, but instead you could make a calender apointment to replace them in 8 years just to be safe.


    The alternative is getting smart smoke detectors that are compatible with home assistant and that know their own battery level.

    Edit: this last bit still applies and is one way to do it

    Then you’d need to selfhost home assistant on some always on device. And buy compatible smoke detectors.

    https://www.home-assistant.io/

    https://community.home-assistant.io/t/smoke-sensor-with-battery-status-in-ha/357762


  • Just to give you some extra impressions:

    My brain mixes up all letters with the same/similar form (regardless of rotation or flip) - so I often mix up [d, b, p, q] or [a, e] or [u, n] when typing. And then I read the command 20 times over until I find which letter got mixed up, because my brain autocorrects to the right command when reading.

    It helped to use the Dyslexie font in the terminal, because it makes those shapes more unique distinct. (not to be confused with open dyslexic which did not help me at all).

    Also asking an AI to correct the command is huge, but takes time.

    But man GUI has none of the hassle, it says what the button will do when you click it, so you click it and it does that. How wonderful is that, ay?




  • HelloRoot@lemy.loltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSome things never change
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    18 days ago

    Unintuitive.

    I heard of photoshop when I was 13 and I installed a pirated version, just started clicking around and I always found what I wanted in a minute.

    10 Years later, I switch 100% to Linux, I have to do some light design work, I open gimp - I CLICK AROUND FOR HALF AN HOUR FOR SOMETHING SIMPLE - give up and google it, it gives me a reply like yours “just go to a completely unrelated menu to conjure a hack out of your ass that barely resembles what you originally intended to do”