This light bulb uses ESPHome.

You can also get IR transmitters that use ESPHome for cheap on aliexpress, but you’ll probably need some kind of enclosure. There’s zigbee transmitters as well, but I’ve yet to find one that plays nice with Home Assistant, unfortunately.

I’m rapidly becoming convinced of the “they’re true believers in American exceptionalism propoganda, and all the competent managers of empire are long dead and gone” theory.

And I gusss that’s not incompatible with the theory that “this is a mafioso-style shakedown of our states and vassals” or even Nixon madman 2.0, it just means that they’re playing with forces they don’t understand. Or, more accurately, forces they wildly misunderstand, even to their own detriment.

While TSMC plans to produce the front-end process of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips in Arizona, the company will ship the chips to Taiwan for packaging as its north Phoenix fab lacks capability for chip-wafer-on-substrate packaging, Reuters reported.

https://www.aztechcouncil.org/tsmc-may-make-ai-chips-for-nvidia-in-arizona/

It’s not as prominently reported on, but there’s sporadic, buried mentions in other articles mentioning a shortage of labor and increased costs in staffing even just this Arizona fab, which is the furthest ahead AFAIK.

I can’t imagine this happens with what I’m sure will be every single capitalist in tech banging down his door over it? 100% tariff on TSMC just seems like way too much of a threat for finance captial to tolerate, like “call the CIA and arrange for Trump to visit Dallas in a motorcade” intolerable.

Edit: Actually, after seeing his canceling of all federal grants, fuck it. I guess there’s just no handlers this time around and he truly is just going to do whatever he wants unless the other oligarchs can cobble together a coup.

There’s post somewhere else on hexbear about the crypto guys getting pissed off at all the Trump & co. crypto scams that have been coming out because they were worried it could reduce confidence in crypto overall, so it could be that? Or maybe wallstreetbets guys withdrawing so they could short Nvidia? Lmao, what a stable system for currencies when any fart in the wind could have done this.

I think that’s a no for general manufacturing and a not a chance in hell for high-end chip manufacturing. I forget where I read it, but one of the problems is something like domestic manufacturing is so hallowed out that we don’t even have all the necesaary educational institutions/programs to produce the kind of specialists you’d need for a high-end chip fab.

So even if the US could somehow overcome corruption of companies just pocketing government funding (also not happening) there simply isn’t a workforce to run things.

Trump will give Taiwan to China in exchange for getting to kidnap TSMC engineers, who will then be forced to live onsite at a de facto abandoned fab construction site in Arizona.

True, but at least tariffs (probably) won’t be able to prevent Nvidia from crashing at that point. Who really knows, though, all this is shit is built upon multiple layers of irrationality, anyways.

Even if it doesn’t, I’m sure it won’t be long until China overtakes the West in manufacturing the best GPUs and at a much cheaper cost, too.

Idk, but I’m suddenly having the same gut feeling I had in February 2020. I bought a bunch of non-perishable foods at that time, thinking that if it turned out to be a nothing-burger I would just not have to shop for several of my pantry items for a few months. Of course, March hit, and I was very thankful I didn’t need to visit the grocery store for pretty much the entire lockdown, and even when I did it was only because I was getting sick of eating the same things for a month straight.

Anyways, looks like I’ve got some extra grocery shopping to do this week

BTW, masks are really cheap in bulk on Aliexpress right now, and bird flu or not, we can be sure that Covid will surge again come spring/summer.

Quoting my post from another thread for no particular reason:

Cant wait to learn about the next pandemic (on top of the current ongoing one) through healthcare workers anecdotally reporting a huge uptick in respiratory cases, and everyone else noticing a “really bad flu going around.”

Their space station is seriously impressive, and that’s just one piece of their space program.

Cant wait to learn about the next pandemic (on top of the current ongoing one) through healthcare workers anecdotally reporting a huge uptick in respiratory cases, and everyone else noticing a “really bad flu going around.”

PayPal is getting sued by a bunch of content creators for their Honey extension, which literally works by stealing affiliate referrals. But PayPal is probably big enough to never see real consequences from this, so who knows what will happen.

Same company that is complicit in genocide btw.

Panic in global metals markets as China rare earth export bans close brokerage hubs (Disclaimer: I’m unfamiliar with this author, I just came across their video version of this article through the youtube algo)

The Chinese bans are pushing metals prices violently higher, and causing panic across defense sectors where these materials are vital for aerospace, ballistics, and munitions.

US miners are reluctant to invest in new production, arguing that China could simply relax restrictions in the future and prices would fall below their cost of production. But industry insiders admit that any production in North America and Europe would fall far short of demand, and would take years to come online.

Gotta love when one hand of capital can’t cooperate with the other hand because it might negatively impact their profit margins in the short-term. Nevermind that the military arsenal the west uses to maintain the current world order - bullying other nations into selling us their resources and labor for violently-low prices - is itself still heavily reliant on those nations exporting materials to us. I’m sure that contradiction won’t blow up in 's face at all.

Meanwhile China stays winning

It’s extremely unlikely they’d find usable fingerprints that are also certain/likely to belong to the suspect from such heavily-trafficked areas. Anyways, most forensic “science” is pseudoscience and copganda, so I don’t expect much to come from this.

If they find him, it will be because he fucked up and left some digital trace somewhere. Let’s hope he didn’t have a cellphone on him.

If the kitchen has a gas stove then you should install a ventilation hood that vents to the outside, that’s probably the biggest air quality win you could make. (Edit: Well, aside from switching to induction, if that’s in your budget)

I dunno about filters that can fit in wall cavities, but for general filtration: “The Best Air Purifier Is A $150 DIY Option”. I suppose you can DIY something that saves some space by tucking into a wall cavity, but I don’t know if it’s worth sacrificing the insulation, unless you’re also building ventilation to the outside using the same wall. I would poke around DIY/workshop youtube channels, a quick searched turned up this build that utilizes ceiling space. (At least with the walls down, you can more easily install ceiling outlets.

I use an older AirGradient to track particulates and CO2, it’s been great for knowing when the room I’m sitting in is spiking in CO2, so I can crack a window or something.

I see they went with the New York Time’s passive voice for this one. Except instead of running cover for cop murders, its to cover for the West getting its ass kicked by Yemen.

"no no Yemen didn’t strike these vessels with missiles, these ships just happened to catch fire in projectile-based incidents near the coast of Yemen. We are NOT turning into corncobs "