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Chris Warwick
@chriswarwick.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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Old-time tech-nerd (retired). Woke AF.

Into #Green Energy
#HomeAutomation
#HomeAssistant
NHS 💙
Non-violent Civil Resistance
Extinction Rebellion #XR

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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Truly dreadful
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/11/tories-rightwing-junktanks-no-10-government-civil-servants
Like its Conservative predecessors, Starmer’s is a government beholden, to a shocking degree, to lobbyists. Their influence appears to explain a wide range of policies, from the ban on Palestine Action, to the planned deregulation of the financial sector (as if the 2008 crash never happened) and new private partnerships in the NHS; from the environmentally disastrous planning and infrastructure bill to this week’s decision to allow bottom trawlers to keep ripping up England’s “marine protected areas”.
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Just received an email from Microsoft about a 20%+ increase in my M365 subscription. They are taking the piss. Since none of my (otherwise perfectly performant) hardware supports W11, I have already been experimenting with Linux and Proton Mail and this will obviously […]

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Extract of an email from Microsoft about a rise in price for an M365 subscription. It reads "Effective 14 February 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase from GBP 79.99* per year to GBP 104.99* per year. To continue with the new price, no action is needed—your payment method on file will be automatically charged."
August 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Woohooo! 👍 💰 🤑 💲 😂
Screen shot of a spam email from ALHAN SAHID BELDUMA SALAZAR <asbelduma@uce.cd.ec> The email reads: "This email is from Elon Musk and the Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of the SpaceX team; early-stage investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; Founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAl. With an estimated net worth of around 439.4 billion USD. Your email address was randomly selected from the Us,Canada and Europe e-mail database and you've won 18,087.71 Tesla Stock at 436.23 USD per share (TSLA) valued at $4,131,028,00. Please take this email seriously by replying to this email or by contacting (elonmuskphilathropy.musk12@gmail.com) for claim."
February 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I came across a good looking display panel/IHD mentioned on the Octopus Energy forums, details in a blog here: https://www.topbytes.net/projects/ihd
This uses a Nextion 2.8" display (https://nextion.tech/discovery-series-introduction/)
#homeassistant #OctopusEnergy
A small in-home touch display for #HomeAssistant showing energy usage information
January 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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@WiteWulf ...looks like I need to have a battery-replacement session!
#homeassistant
#HomeAssistant Lovelace card showing a list of (run-down!) batteries
January 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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@WiteWulf I use a card with the attached config: - I also have some yaml (somewhere!) that pulls off the lowest 5 in a list (let me know if you'd like me to try to find that...!)
#HomeAssistant Lovelace card yaml code to display battery states. The card type is custom:auto-entries driving a custom:battery-state-card
January 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
chriswarwick.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Looks like I'm going to have to update some of my automations at some point....
Octopus are changing their Outgoing rate to a variable tariff.
#homeassistant #octopus #solarbattery #OctopusEnergy
Section copied from an email from Octopus Energy, reads: We’ll continue to pay 15p/kWh but this won't be fixed for 12 months so you won't need to renew each year. The rate can rise and fall based on the wholesale price of energy, but we’ll give you plenty of notice if anything changes.
December 23, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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I love the Duck Player in the Duck Duck Go browser - a reminder of what the web could be (and used to be) before the corporate greed of the big ad providers went wild. Ad-free. Lovely.
Yeah, I know, content creators need to get paid. I use patreon and other monetary […]

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Screenshot of a yucktube video playing in the DuckDuckGo Duckplayer - no ads :-)))))
December 3, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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@falken @revk Got this working quite easily - neat! #WLED #homeassistant
An LED string attached with some WAGO connectors to a LED controller board and a PSU A setting screen from the LED controller web interface. Highlighted text: "leave blank for HA to pick" A Home Assistant settings screen for the MQTT device exposed by the LED controller. There are two switched to enable preset light effects.
December 2, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Can anyone help, please, with some #homeassistant templating...? I'm trying to produce a table (using flex-table) of devices connected to my Fritz! router. I'm OK at Jinja, but this has got me foxed completely :-(
Connected devices are presented in the Fritz! […]

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Home Assistant screen shot showing device tracker entity in Developer Tools/States, with entity name, state and attributes.
November 6, 2024 at 11:22 AM