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Agreed. In the US its hard to find anything without added sugars.

In my mind, Boomer is an attitude not an age.

I my not so humbled Opinion Added Sugars Do not Belong in Foods or Drinks that already sweet enough. Such as Fruit Juices and anything with Molasses for example. My Beef ATM is Golden Barrel Blackstrap, which they add sugar to this for some strange reason. For those of you who don't know Blackstrap is, it is the third or last stage of sugar production from Sugar cane. It is sweet enough to use as natural sweetener. Basically it is the leftovers. Due to that it was taxed at much lower rates. Sugar itself was historically imported with high Tariffs.  
 
There are plenty of other Foodstuffs I can name if I look them them... Would the other Posters be so kind to list some?
 
 

As someone who just financed a gasoline car - can't help but feel I couldn't have picked a worse time with electric ramping up as well as it is now lol

Looking forward to the Polestar review

Think about how much money they can save without the need buy ink, to print physical money anymore. The US will finally be out of debt!
 
/s

Summary
 
The US is considering processing digital currency in addition to paper money. This isn't crypto related, its about providing a public alternative to debit or credit cards, as they are all run by the private sector. Presumably with no fees.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Why was this not done 20+ years ago? I never understood this. Why does the government manage paper money, but not digital money too? Why am I paying private companies processing fees? Shouldn't it be the government maintaining that? Makes absolutely no sense to me why this wasn't done decades ago. There will be little reason to even use cash once this is implemented, as the only reason I ever use cash is so I can avoid paying fees to private companies to profit off of.
Credit cards will still have use of course. They would still likely have better fraud protection, and of course they help in making large purchases.
 
Sources
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/1072406109/digital-dollar-federal-reserve-apple-pay-venmo-cbdc

I'm gonna be honest, as many times as I've uninstalled his antivirus, he was kinda legendary.

Well they have like 50 people, a bunch of which (editors) are constantly downloading and uploading stuff from their servers, they their 1 petabyte server (or however much it has these days) is constantly being backed up to google drive.
 
A lot of the things they do are because they can, they have money, companies often send them free stuff, and and LMG gets to make videos about it.
 
How expensive is upgrading your entire network when you have all these editors saving time (time=money), and you get to make videos about it? Probably pays for itself pretty quickly. LMG just makes so much revenue, they'd be kinda dumb to not have insane network speeds
 
edit: another thing to remember is they now have several channels that upload videos regularly, and for all we know, a 10 minute video could have hours of Raw 8k/4k footage. Thats a LOT of data. Everything from getting the footage to multiple Editors' PCs, to uploading them to YouTube/Floatplane, requires an enormous amount of data, which means they either need a super fast connection to their server/the internet, or they will end up wasting a ton of time.

Well they have like 50 people, a bunch of which (editors) are constantly downloading and uploading stuff from their servers, they their 1 petabyte server (or however much it has these days) is constantly being backed up to google drive.
 
A lot of the things they do are because they can, they have money, companies often send them free stuff, and and LMG gets to make videos about it.
 
How expensive is upgrading your entire network when you have all these editors saving time (time=money), and you get to make videos about it? Probably pays for itself pretty quickly. LMG just makes so much revenue, they'd be kinda dumb to not have insane network speeds
 
edit: another thing to remember is they now have several channels that upload videos regularly, and for all we know, a 10 minute video could have hours of Raw 8k/4k footage. Thats a LOT of data. Everything from getting the footage to multiple Editors' PCs, to uploading them to YouTube/Floatplane, requires an enormous amount of data, which means they either need a super fast connection to their server/the internet, or they will end up wasting a ton of time.

The dry contact sensor would be for anything Linus would do with an esp8266 or esp8285. The issue with any of these smart devices is when companies change their policies. Full DIY does not have those problems.

should have just connected it to the minecraft server and push the button to open in minecraft.
 
To know if retracted door either make it so it sends a signal, like a button or something with resistance changes when going up and down, or if it had other ways in the box that can tell that. Connect to luigi board, and get help from mario.

Dear linus/jakkah/LMG,
 
I'm glad you finally tried Home Assistant. In the end of the video I noticed linus mentioned that he wanted to keep using the original relay to avoid the 5 second closing delay. It is possible to control the Sonoff relay in Home Assistant, you could use a custom integration that lets you do so, or a much better solution that would also avoid their cloud entirely, is to flash the Sonoff with custom firmware that allows it to be controlled 100% locally, and gives you pure control over the device.
 
Another thing is if you won't want your relays on the wall next to your buttons, you could also put them on the ceiling. Open the cover off your garage door opener, and if you see a button that opens/closes the garage door opener, that means you can run leads from there to the relay, which should allow you to control it again from the relay with no problems.
 
Another reason why you might want to do this, is you know how you said Chamberlain is a bad company? Well, even though now you are controlling the garage door opener locally, Chamberlain will still screw you over. You see, there is no official MyQ API, this means that the way the Home Assistant integration for MyQ has to work, is by emulating the mobile app. So when you close your garage from home assistant, they think you are closing it from the app. This is bad, because this means that every time MyQ makes a change to their app or API, the integration breaks, no longer allowing you to control the opener. Normally the Home Assistant developers patch it after 1-2 days, but it's still really annoying. It breaks every few weeks randomly.
 
Back to flashing the Sonoff. Personally the firmware I use is called ESPHome, which is open source firmware designed to run on any device using an ESP8266 microcontroller (like Sonoff wifi devices), and they connect directly to the Home Assistant local API. There is also an alternative firmware called Tasmota, but I'll explain how to use ESPHome, because it is simpler.
 
First, you will need to buy some things if you don't already have them.
 
USB to TTL/Serial converter: (this is the one I use)
https://amazon.com/dp/B075N82CDL/
 
Jumper wires: https://amazon.com/dp/B07GD2BWPY/
 
Next, you will need to install the ESPHome Home Assistant Add-on from the Add-on Store.
 
Open the ESPHome interface and add a node, fill out the wifi info, device name, etc. There are video tutorials that explain this.
 
After you do that, click "edit". This is the configuration code for the firmware that you are about to flash to your Sonoff. You're going to need to add some code. The code that's there will work, but the device will just connect to your wifi network and not do anything. You need to tell the firmware that you want to control relays.
 
From the video, the relays you use look like a Sonoff 4CH Pro. I have that too, and this is the code I use. Just copy and paste this after the line with your OTA password, the change the names of your relays to whatever you want, something like "Garage door 1".
 
# paste into ESPhome node config after "OTA" binary_sensor: - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_1 pin: number: GPIO0 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 1" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_2 pin: number: GPIO9 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 2" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_3 pin: number: GPIO10 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 3" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_4 pin: number: GPIO14 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 4" - platform: status name: "Sonoff 4CH Status" # Change the names of your switch: - platform: gpio id: button_1 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 1" pin: GPIO12 - platform: gpio id: button_2 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 2" pin: GPIO5 - platform: gpio id: button_3 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 3" pin: GPIO4 - platform: gpio id: button_4 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 4" pin: GPIO15 output: - platform: esp8266_pwm id: blue_led pin: GPIO13 inverted: True light: - platform: monochromatic id: status_led name: "Sonoff 4CH Blue LED" output: blue_led After you finish with the code, click "validate". If all goes well, click "compile". It should download a .bin file when complete (that's the firmware).
 
We are almost done. Next, you need to install the ESPHome flasher tool on to your computer. Once that's done, open up your Sonoff. You should see pins labeled 3v3, GND, RX, and TX. You need to get your jumper wires and usb to TTL converter. Make sure the usb converter is set to 3.3v, because 5v will fry your Sonoff. You need to solder a wire from GPIO 0 to GND (ground), this will short out GPIO 0 and out the device in flashing mode. Then, connect the jumper wires from your USB to TTL converter to the correct pins on the Sonoff board. Plug the USB adapter into your computer, and open the ESPHome flasher tool. Choose the .bin file you downloaded and click flash. It will tell you when the Sonoff is done flashing. Once completed, disconnect the wires from the board and remove the wire you soldered from GPIO 0 to ground so it doesn't start in flashing mode next time. Then put it all back together.
 
Now, power up the Sonoff. After a few seconds, it should connect to WiFi. 
 
The last thing to do is to go in your home Assistant configuration page, and it should have discovered your Sonoff automatically. Type your password and you are good to go! Your relay is in home assistant. 
 
And you can still connect contact sensors. 
 
Ugh I'm out of time I'll add to this later

Dear linus/jakkah/LMG,
 
I'm glad you finally tried Home Assistant. In the end of the video I noticed linus mentioned that he wanted to keep using the original relay to avoid the 5 second closing delay. It is possible to control the Sonoff relay in Home Assistant, you could use a custom integration that lets you do so, or a much better solution that would also avoid their cloud entirely, is to flash the Sonoff with custom firmware that allows it to be controlled 100% locally, and gives you pure control over the device.
 
Another thing is if you won't want your relays on the wall next to your buttons, you could also put them on the ceiling. Open the cover off your garage door opener, and if you see a button that opens/closes the garage door opener, that means you can run leads from there to the relay, which should allow you to control it again from the relay with no problems.
 
Another reason why you might want to do this, is you know how you said Chamberlain is a bad company? Well, even though now you are controlling the garage door opener locally, Chamberlain will still screw you over. You see, there is no official MyQ API, this means that the way the Home Assistant integration for MyQ has to work, is by emulating the mobile app. So when you close your garage from home assistant, they think you are closing it from the app. This is bad, because this means that every time MyQ makes a change to their app or API, the integration breaks, no longer allowing you to control the opener. Normally the Home Assistant developers patch it after 1-2 days, but it's still really annoying. It breaks every few weeks randomly.
 
Back to flashing the Sonoff. Personally the firmware I use is called ESPHome, which is open source firmware designed to run on any device using an ESP8266 microcontroller (like Sonoff wifi devices), and they connect directly to the Home Assistant local API. There is also an alternative firmware called Tasmota, but I'll explain how to use ESPHome, because it is simpler.
 
First, you will need to buy some things if you don't already have them.
 
USB to TTL/Serial converter: (this is the one I use)
https://amazon.com/dp/B075N82CDL/
 
Jumper wires: https://amazon.com/dp/B07GD2BWPY/
 
Next, you will need to install the ESPHome Home Assistant Add-on from the Add-on Store.
 
Open the ESPHome interface and add a node, fill out the wifi info, device name, etc. There are video tutorials that explain this.
 
After you do that, click "edit". This is the configuration code for the firmware that you are about to flash to your Sonoff. You're going to need to add some code. The code that's there will work, but the device will just connect to your wifi network and not do anything. You need to tell the firmware that you want to control relays.
 
From the video, the relays you use look like a Sonoff 4CH Pro. I have that too, and this is the code I use. Just copy and paste this after the line with your OTA password, the change the names of your relays to whatever you want, something like "Garage door 1".
 
# paste into ESPhome node config after "OTA" binary_sensor: - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_1 pin: number: GPIO0 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 1" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_2 pin: number: GPIO9 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 2" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_3 pin: number: GPIO10 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 3" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_4 pin: number: GPIO14 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 4" - platform: status name: "Sonoff 4CH Status" # Change the names of your switch: - platform: gpio id: button_1 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 1" pin: GPIO12 - platform: gpio id: button_2 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 2" pin: GPIO5 - platform: gpio id: button_3 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 3" pin: GPIO4 - platform: gpio id: button_4 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 4" pin: GPIO15 output: - platform: esp8266_pwm id: blue_led pin: GPIO13 inverted: True light: - platform: monochromatic id: status_led name: "Sonoff 4CH Blue LED" output: blue_led After you finish with the code, click "validate". If all goes well, click "compile". It should download a .bin file when complete (that's the firmware).
 
We are almost done. Next, you need to install the ESPHome flasher tool on to your computer. Once that's done, open up your Sonoff. You should see pins labeled 3v3, GND, RX, and TX. You need to get your jumper wires and usb to TTL converter. Make sure the usb converter is set to 3.3v, because 5v will fry your Sonoff. You need to solder a wire from GPIO 0 to GND (ground), this will short out GPIO 0 and out the device in flashing mode. Then, connect the jumper wires from your USB to TTL converter to the correct pins on the Sonoff board. Plug the USB adapter into your computer, and open the ESPHome flasher tool. Choose the .bin file you downloaded and click flash. It will tell you when the Sonoff is done flashing. Once completed, disconnect the wires from the board and remove the wire you soldered from GPIO 0 to ground so it doesn't start in flashing mode next time. Then put it all back together.
 
Now, power up the Sonoff. After a few seconds, it should connect to WiFi. 
 
The last thing to do is to go in your home Assistant configuration page, and it should have discovered your Sonoff automatically. Type your password and you are good to go! Your relay is in home assistant. 
 
And you can still connect contact sensors. 
 
Ugh I'm out of time I'll add to this later

Dear linus/jakkah/LMG,
 
I'm glad you finally tried Home Assistant. In the end of the video I noticed linus mentioned that he wanted to keep using the original relay to avoid the 5 second closing delay. It is possible to control the Sonoff relay in Home Assistant, you could use a custom integration that lets you do so, or a much better solution that would also avoid their cloud entirely, is to flash the Sonoff with custom firmware that allows it to be controlled 100% locally, and gives you pure control over the device.
 
Another thing is if you won't want your relays on the wall next to your buttons, you could also put them on the ceiling. Open the cover off your garage door opener, and if you see a button that opens/closes the garage door opener, that means you can run leads from there to the relay, which should allow you to control it again from the relay with no problems.
 
Another reason why you might want to do this, is you know how you said Chamberlain is a bad company? Well, even though now you are controlling the garage door opener locally, Chamberlain will still screw you over. You see, there is no official MyQ API, this means that the way the Home Assistant integration for MyQ has to work, is by emulating the mobile app. So when you close your garage from home assistant, they think you are closing it from the app. This is bad, because this means that every time MyQ makes a change to their app or API, the integration breaks, no longer allowing you to control the opener. Normally the Home Assistant developers patch it after 1-2 days, but it's still really annoying. It breaks every few weeks randomly.
 
Back to flashing the Sonoff. Personally the firmware I use is called ESPHome, which is open source firmware designed to run on any device using an ESP8266 microcontroller (like Sonoff wifi devices), and they connect directly to the Home Assistant local API. There is also an alternative firmware called Tasmota, but I'll explain how to use ESPHome, because it is simpler.
 
First, you will need to buy some things if you don't already have them.
 
USB to TTL/Serial converter: (this is the one I use)
https://amazon.com/dp/B075N82CDL/
 
Jumper wires: https://amazon.com/dp/B07GD2BWPY/
 
Next, you will need to install the ESPHome Home Assistant Add-on from the Add-on Store.
 
Open the ESPHome interface and add a node, fill out the wifi info, device name, etc. There are video tutorials that explain this.
 
After you do that, click "edit". This is the configuration code for the firmware that you are about to flash to your Sonoff. You're going to need to add some code. The code that's there will work, but the device will just connect to your wifi network and not do anything. You need to tell the firmware that you want to control relays.
 
From the video, the relays you use look like a Sonoff 4CH Pro. I have that too, and this is the code I use. Just copy and paste this after the line with your OTA password, the change the names of your relays to whatever you want, something like "Garage door 1".
 
# paste into ESPhome node config after "OTA" binary_sensor: - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_1 pin: number: GPIO0 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 1" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_2 pin: number: GPIO9 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 2" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_3 pin: number: GPIO10 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 3" - platform: gpio on_press: then: - switch.toggle: button_4 pin: number: GPIO14 mode: INPUT_PULLUP inverted: True name: "Sonoff 4CH Button 4" - platform: status name: "Sonoff 4CH Status" # Change the names of your switch: - platform: gpio id: button_1 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 1" pin: GPIO12 - platform: gpio id: button_2 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 2" pin: GPIO5 - platform: gpio id: button_3 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 3" pin: GPIO4 - platform: gpio id: button_4 name: "Sonoff 4CH Relay 4" pin: GPIO15 output: - platform: esp8266_pwm id: blue_led pin: GPIO13 inverted: True light: - platform: monochromatic id: status_led name: "Sonoff 4CH Blue LED" output: blue_led After you finish with the code, click "validate". If all goes well, click "compile". It should download a .bin file when complete (that's the firmware).
 
We are almost done. Next, you need to install the ESPHome flasher tool on to your computer. Once that's done, open up your Sonoff. You should see pins labeled 3v3, GND, RX, and TX. You need to get your jumper wires and usb to TTL converter. Make sure the usb converter is set to 3.3v, because 5v will fry your Sonoff. You need to solder a wire from GPIO 0 to GND (ground), this will short out GPIO 0 and out the device in flashing mode. Then, connect the jumper wires from your USB to TTL converter to the correct pins on the Sonoff board. Plug the USB adapter into your computer, and open the ESPHome flasher tool. Choose the .bin file you downloaded and click flash. It will tell you when the Sonoff is done flashing. Once completed, disconnect the wires from the board and remove the wire you soldered from GPIO 0 to ground so it doesn't start in flashing mode next time. Then put it all back together.
 
Now, power up the Sonoff. After a few seconds, it should connect to WiFi. 
 
The last thing to do is to go in your home Assistant configuration page, and it should have discovered your Sonoff automatically. Type your password and you are good to go! Your relay is in home assistant. 
 
And you can still connect contact sensors. 
 
Ugh I'm out of time I'll add to this later

I've really been impressed with the Apple M1 chip, though it seemed too good to be true at first, but after researching it extensively it looks like the claims actually do hold up.
 
My question is, what's next? Can Apple Silicon wipe everything else out? I've recently been thinking about building a new high end gaming system, but now it just seems like Apple might speed past anything in the years to come (in reference to single thread performance at least). The whole thing is making me extremely discouraged to invest in any type of Windows machine at the moment... - Yes I DO know that Windows and Macs, don't compare directly depending on a persons specific workload, but I think you get what I'm trying to say.. it's just making x86 CPUs feel a bit old ...
 
EDIT: I am NOT saying I want to play games on a Mac. I am just simply stating that the potential of Apple's new chips to wipe every other Intel or AMD off the face of the planet might move manufacturers like Intel or AMD to start looking at developing an ARM based chip as well and the potential that would have in a Windows machine..
 
Anyways, what do you guys think?

Okay, I don't like how this video didn't have sponsored in the title. Whereas on Floatplane they do, seems like Floatplane users have that choice of avoiding no doubt because they're paying a fee for content and don't want to watch ads, whereas the youtube plebs even though I pay for YouTube red am not being informed what is an Ad on the channel or not until I've clicked it. That tells me more about the content right there, the fact that Floatplane users seem to have this allowance of skippability whereas youtube users are no doubt baited. Like, there was a decision at a higher level here to go, Put this as ponsored, this as non-sponsored until they click the video and we get that click/view.
 
You had me for about a minute, so the retention was there and Monday.com was blasted in my face.
 

 
You guys could do really well with this in just reviewing the Monday.com platform, if you use it like you say you use it, then do it in a normal LTT way, obviously since it's being used by you, an endorsement from you goes a long way rather than this obviously planned skit video. LTT sells content, I know what you guys do I know your workflow and I know how hard it is, instead I got a video of Riley going across the internet taking in all the news possible firing them into a doc and calling it job done, like, wow great.
 
I'm really interested in mangers like this for in work, it's a big factor of my job to review platforms like this and see if we could be doing things better. This "different feeling" to everything else that you guys produce content doesn't sell me on it. It tells me that you are either hiding something or doing it for the dollar rather than being straight up.
 
Which I get, you have to do. Maybe it isn't selling to me, but your audience having someone like me in it, which I feel is trying to sell to me, I mean it's a bunch of gamers, kids and enthuiests right? Who has the power in their workplace to change project management platforms, not many. If you want to keep doing this type of content, fair enough, let me know so I can skip it, else simply put I'm not a fan of being snaked like this so I will stop watching.
 
Really, these videos just aren't my cup of tea, so I do skip over them. It seems obvious if I want to do that, I need to shell out for floatplane to do so. Maybe I'm the only one on this, but the number of times I've felt like this watching a video is only increasing, and I know you've had posts like mine on multiple videos before but it feels like either no one is listening or no one cares. You've got a ton of staff members and need to pay the bills. Somehow that's our fault and we now need to skip videos of yours we feel will be ads because you aren't telling us in the title.
 
Edit: More Info:
 
 
I also seen from the comments, you guys don't even use this!!!
 

 
This clearly shows you're using the trial version. WTF. Why!!!
 
I've been blatently lied to. I don't like this at all. Can we get some response to this?

bought optane memory thinking it was ram for my first pc build.

Buy the AMD Athlon 3000G On Amazon https://geni.us/NUML On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8mPto
 

Oh.. I feel stupid. I guess I'll pick up a GT 710 or 1030 or something then lol
Edit: ok so I got a 710 and the PC works great now! Probably the most graphics intensive thing we will every do on this PC is watching YouTube so it is fine

i really thought ford would donate just because they hate elon

lttstore.com

$19.7 million!

Are you trying to resurrect Channel Super Fun?

YouTube might demonetize you for "cannon".

Assuming you dont have good sound card