I typoed, fixed now, sorry

ESPHome has firmware for the BT proxy:

https://esphome.io/projects/?type=bluetooth

The I installed the xiaomi app on my phone, I think it was called zepp life or something for the scale I have, you do the initial setup of the scale on there, and then it’ll be picked up by the Bluetooth proxy.

Yep, pretty much. Just get an ESP32 and not an 8266.

I have it plugged into an old Nokia charger and hidden in a cupboard to service all the Bluetooth temperature and door sensors.

When I use the scale it automatically sends the data to HA. Really convenient to use.

I have a Xiaomi scale connected through an esp Bluetooth proxy. Works pretty well.

Oh wow, that’s awesome! Thank you so much

Oh shit, I didn’t know Solid Edge existed. I thought fusion was the only free commercial 3D cad software. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll check it out.

Edit: Just had a look at Alibre Atom3D, I think I’ll give that a try too, the price is reasonable to own forever.

Looks like you can download and install it using this:

https://store.rg-adguard.net/

Paste in the product url and select retail.

Https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfj3t6

It will take a little Google to see which files to DL and how to install them.

I’m going to keep a copy on my PC now that I know it’s been taken down.

Wait, you can’t downland it from their store at all anymore?

No, it’s adjacent to 3D Paint. I never really liked 3D Paint actually.

For parametric modelling, that’s super easy and you can get into it pretty quickly, but organic modelling is a whole different story and is what takes the hundreds of hours.

While I’ve messed around in Maya and 3DS Max, its so much more difficult than parametric and Modifying high poly models requires tons of ram and a beefy PC. I spent a month trying to bake a bump map onto a model so that I could 3D print it and 90% of the time the applications crashed, Maya, 3DS and Blender all crashed when trying to do it, and none of them could do it right either. I pretty much gave up on that.

May not be a popular opinion, but if you just want to fix shit like that, you can use Microsoft 3D Builder, it’s super simple and pretty powerful.

Modifying existing meshes is difficult, especially more complex ones, I find that this makes it much easier to fix dumb shit or make simple modifications.

It’s been a few months but I as far as I remember used all the same mounting options

It’s doing something different, I was using to mount an AWS FSx for ZFS share on a beefy machine (1.2GB/s network throughput) and was getting less than 50MB/s throughput using docker to mount it, but getting the full 1.2GB/s when mounted outside and mapped to a volume in the container.

I found this to be extremely underperforming. If you plan on doing anything that requires high throughput, don’t use the docker NFS operator.

It may be worthwhile checking this out as an alternative: https://hackaday.com/2022/10/12/toilet-paper-tube-pulls-dissolved-resin-from-ipa-cures-it-for-disposal/

I only really have issues when I’m out of the country, especially when I’m back in South Africa

Fuck you! I’m eating!

Docker and the docker-compose yaml files. They’ll be invaluable. Compose files allows you to create custom networking and run multiple containers.

Super useful and what most people use to run simple docker workloads.

You don’t have to understand how to create containers, just understand how they work and the commands to use them effectively.

Yeah, a real fall from grace. I hate what it’s become.

I just gotta say, I’m glad I don’t know what all that coffee terminology is, I’m better off not knowing.

Every day, all the time everywhere, to the point where Linux users become insufferable? Yeah…