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  • I remember when Star Trek Online redid the map for Deep Space Nine and it was so much better because it stopped being comically large. The downside is that it’s a little bit possible to bump into geometry (in particular, the spiral stairs are a little awkward), but the change was 100% worth it.

    (They also made a huge improvement re-doing Earth Spacedock, but it wasn’t a location we were intimately familiar with from TV and they changed the layout significantly, so the wow factor wasn’t as directly attributable to fixing the scale.)

    Too bad they seem unlikely to fix Starbase 39-Sierra, Deep Space K7, or any of the other older social hubs any time soon.









  • grue@lemmy.worldtohomeassistant@lemmy.worldHome Wiring
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    3 months ago

    Well you definitely don’t want to put the power cables in the same conduit with the data cables (PoE being the exception). Run two conduits (one for power, one for data) separated by the distance specified by your local electrical code (probably at least a foot or so, and wider is better). If the conduit is metallic, then the spacing can be less.

    In those conduits, run:

    1. The wires you actually know you need right now, and
    2. A pull string.


  • grue@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldServer for a boat
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    4 months ago

    Don’t forget to think about how to keep the salt air from corroding the electronics. Either build a spare or two that you keep sealed in plastic, or find an airtight case with an integrated heat sink or something.

    Edit: you might want to look into conformal coating and dielectric grease (for the connectors) as well, although I don’t know enough about that to competently give advice beyond the mere suggestion.


  • Heck, if HA knew for certain it was a workday, it could boot the laptop for me…hmmm. Maybe something to think about for the future.

    I’ve been meaning to look into how to integrate HA with a NextCloud CalDAV server or something, because I have a lot of ideas for automations that would be best triggered by calendar events (e.g. ringing an alarm [get ready time] + [travel time] before [appointment]).