Thank for the insight. I think I’m going to see what I can get started and then expand

Of course. It’s the most logical solution

I saw one of those around 2000 lb pumpkins. They are a beautiful sight. I want to grow one but I know I don’t have the space

Don’t worry the Republican better healthcare plan is about to unveilied. First we need to get through infrastruture week

I thought I never had to hear about Kim Davis again. I never want to hear or think about that toad again. What a shame

I am a data scientist and we use databricks which has copilot (I think) installed by default. So with this we have an autocomplete which I use the most because it can do some of the tedious steps for an analysis if I write good comments which I do anyhow. This is around 50% accurate with it being the most accurate for simple mindless things or getting the name of things correct.

There is code generating block tool that I never use. There is also a something that troubleshoots and diagnosis any error. Those are mostly useless but has been good to finding missing commas and other simple things. Their suggestions sometimes are terrible enough that I mostly ignore this.

We have a Copilot bot as part of our Github (I don’t know is this standard now?) that I actually enjoy and has uses. It writes up great summarizes of what code was commited which has a great format and seems almost 100% accurate for me. Most importantly it has a great spellchecker as part of their suggestions. I am a terrible speller and never double check names so it can fix them both in the notes and in my code (It fixes it everywhere in the code which is nice). The rest of the suggestions are okay. There are some that are useful but some that are way off or overengineered for what I am doing. This I like because it just comes in at the end of my process and I can choose to accept or deny.

I think Black Friday will be the day to buy them. I have heard that they last 7-10 years so a bummer they don’t last.

Makes sense to have a switch to make it simple and idiot proof. We have a sink that has a sensor and a handle that both need to be on to turn on. We have to explain it to everyone who tries to wash their hands at our house.

We have check the main electrical panel multiple times and its up to code and safe. That was redone when the previous owner did the basement. We had people out to install heat pumps and they had enough power. We are thinking about getting the wiring redone on the mainfloor but haven’t got around to it…

The wiring isn’t poorly done just old. With houses this old all the bad ones are already gone. The only one’s left are working fine.

We want to upgrade the electrical but you are talking about a couple of grand if not more to replace everything. It is on our to do list.

I am a little concerned about flipping the physical switches that make them useless. I will have to figure out what to do with smart switches for our chandelier

I am glad that your bulbs have lasted 7 years. I knew the Hue were the high end brand and am glad it isn’t all branding but hold up over time. I didn’t consider the switch but that will be needed for a few of these. Some we were considering would be set on timers all the time but having a switch would be nice

Wasn’t considered any of the no-name brands. I might consider looking into the IKEA sets because I have had great luck with their furniture.

If I was going to do more automation I would consider moving away from Google. Since their smart speakers are 90% of what we have automated there doesn’t seem to be a point now.

To be honest the best “home automation” we have are two sets of these Wireless Remote Controls that are dumb automation. Just a remote to turn things on and off. Its been the most reliable thing and simplies thing to set up so far.

What was your problems with their Zigbee Hub? I know I will need one but want something that is plug and play. We just had a new baby so I don’t have forever to play around with setting up automations

We don’t have neutrals anywhere except the kitchen which have a GFI which ground at the outlet. The rest of the wiring is very old. I have installed new light fixtures and there are no ground anywhere. Almost all have the larger gauge older wiring and some don’t have a white or black wire. (That is really fun to try to figure out what black wire is hot and which one is neutral). I am thinking smart switches will be out.

We have considered having an electrican to install more outlets and set up grounds for the main floor. Its just kind of expensive and would rather spend it elsewhere for now.

If I get an IKEA bulb can I intergrate with google things? I am assuming I will need some kind of Zigbee hub which I then connect into things for automations.

I don’t know if this is 100% true or not, but I in The Goldfinch stolen art is used as collateral for criminals. The items are known to be worth money and can be used as collateral for various criminal activies. So it can be passed around. Not sure how true that plot point is.

It helps to think about a longer campaign as a series of different story beats that are different lengths to tell their story. To keep a big campaign these stories are all happening at once and at overlaping togehter. There are hints of other parts within one story for a larger campaign. They are more fun to run and easier to manage since you only need to fill out the parts that your players are interested in interacting with.

I have found that I LOVE short campaigns. They are easy to create and you really don’t have to balance anything. Have game breaking magic items avaiable, throw monsters way above their CR just to see what happens. You can focus on one idea and really get it working.

I once did a siege campaign and had the players defending walls from an invading force. I had lots of ways for them to get out and engage with the enemies outside the walls. But they ended up shooting bows from behind the wall and dropping prone. Range really mattered on that one. It was fun and a little bit of a slog but worth doing