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Re: Tutorial: Home Assistant ePaper Dashboard with IKEA Frame

stickyc — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:42:22 -0000

Thank you! It builds now without errors! Now I just need to update all the sensors :)

Re: Tutorial: Home Assistant ePaper Dashboard with IKEA Frame

stickyc — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:05:26 -0000

FWIW, I'm having issues compiling the YAML due to missing fonts/glyphs. My ESPHome setup does not have the fonts segoui.ttf or materialdesignsicons-webfont.ttf. I was able to download segoui from some random site on the internet and I grabbed the materialdesignicons-webfont from the CheapYellowDisplay sample project repo I already had on my machine. Unfortunately, I still am getting compile errors due to not finding specific glyphs in the materialdesignicons font. Where did you source these fonts?

Font /config/esphome/fonts/materialdesignicons-webfont.ttf is missing 3 glyphs: 󱴕 (b'\\U000f1d15') 󱴖 (b'\\U000f1d16') 󱴗 (b'\\U000f1d17').

Re: Gamer Escape: Gaming News, Reviews, Wikis, and Podcasts

stickyc — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 13:44:23 -0000

He is NOT near the Nightsoil Pots Aetherstone. He is in the main Eulmore Aetherite Plaza on the top floor.

Re: The Summer 2020 Digital Event Schedule

stickyc — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:36:16 -0000

Would very much like to see a curated iCal feed for this stuff...

Re: Mood Tracking Apps on iOS: A Review of Apps for Logging Your Emotional Life

stickyc — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:30:20 -0000

I realize this article is now pretty old - Are you still using MoodNotes?
One thing you don't cover is cost. I don't know about at the time of writing, but iMoodJournal is a flat $3 app, while MoodNotes is $40/yr. It also looks like iMoodJournal now supports geotagging your entries.

Re: Fix WiFi Adapter Not Showing up after Windows 10 Creators Update

stickyc — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:55:38 -0000

Thanks for that! That Creator's Update did indeed set the WLAN service to manual start. Because, you know, Windows. SMH.

Re: A Frame That Listens

stickyc — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:32:12 -0000

Just wanted to see the raw hardware underneath and what the other visualizations looked like.

Re: A Frame That Listens

stickyc — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:01:51 -0000

Instagram account hosting the pics has been disabled :(

Re: Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server

stickyc — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:21:07 -0000

What is the power draw like at idle/heavy use?

Re: DIY R/C Hovercraft From Cardboard and Trash Bags

stickyc — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:57:33 -0000

Though, now that I have an STL for the motor mount, it'd be handy to know what motor they bought that fits the mounting holes.

Re: DIY R/C Hovercraft From Cardboard and Trash Bags

stickyc — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:16:23 -0000

The STL file is in the link at the bottom of the parts list in the upper right hand of the page. You have to scroll down to see it. Took me a few to find it. (https://makezine.com/go/car...

Re: Reading Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling

stickyc — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:15:57 -0000

That worked. For whatever reason, 5.0.30 was the latest version of Virtualbox that the built-in upgrade command would see. I had to DL it from Oracle's site manually. Thanks!

Re: Reading Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling

stickyc — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:01:25 -0000

I seem to be unable to get Vagrant working with the geerlingguy/centos7 image.
The images are booting, but Vagrant isn't able to SSH in to complete the setup. I've booted them with the GUI enabled and they're sitting at the login prompt - the network config is pretty barren.
Tried the geerlingguy/centos7 image with a bare Vagrant config and still the same result.
Vagrant works fine with the default hashicorp centos/7 image.
I'm assuming this is some config conflict on my machine or there'd be widespread complaints. Any ideas where to look?

Vagrant 1.8.4, Virtualbox 5.0.30 r112061 with the latest plugin, OS-X 10.11.6.

Re: Chocolatey Gallery | NUnit (Install) 2.6.3

stickyc — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:12:57 -0000

I'm running into size comparison failure issues with the older versions. I'm fairly new to Chocolatey, so I don't know if there's something I'm doing wrong or what. I'm installing several other apps without issues. I see this on both the 2.6.3 and 2.6.3.20140715 versions. 3.4.0 seems to work fine. I've tried downloading directly and launching the installer, but it fails to launch. It's definitely a binary and not some web-page error.

Is anyone else running into this or know how to avoid it?

2016-11-08 09:05:57,559 [INFO ] - Downloading nunit.install
from 'https://launchpad.net/nunit...
2016-11-08 09:05:57,575 [INFO ] - Using system proxy server '[IP obscured]:8080'.
2016-11-08 09:06:59,325 [INFO ] -
2016-11-08 09:06:59,356 [INFO ] - Download of NUnit-2.6.3.msi (2.88 MB) completed.
2016-11-08 09:07:02,544 [ERROR] - ERROR: Chocolatey expected a file at 'C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\nunit\2.6.3.20140715\NUnit-2.6.3.msi' to be of length '3015214' but the length was '253990'.
at Get-ChocolateyWebFile, C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\helpers\functions\Get-ChocolateyWebFile.ps1: line 365
at Install-ChocolateyPackage, C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\helpers\functions\Install-ChocolateyPackage.ps1: line 302
at <scriptblock>, C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nunit\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1: line 6
at <scriptblock>, C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\helpers\chocolateyScriptRunner.ps1: line 48
at <scriptblock>, <no file="">: line 1

Re: The Book of Plex, Volume III: Plex Cloud

stickyc — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:25:41 -0000

Amazon does offer a paid option where they'll ship you a storage appliance, you fill it and ship it back, and they dump the contents into their cloud servers. The pricing looks like $200 for 50tb or $250 for 80tb (not including shipping). https://aws.amazon.com/impo...

Re: How to Turn Google Into the Best To-Do App Ever

stickyc — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:20:23 -0000

How do you integrate the Amazon Echo with Google Keep? I couldn't find any recipes in IFTTT, which is my go to Echo integration tool.

Re: Our Favorite Laptop Backpacks

stickyc — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:39:26 -0000

SwissGear stuff does seem to be the IT worker's bag of choice, at least based on my observations at various tech conferences. Based on that, I picked up one from Amazon a few years ago (they occasionally go on super steep discounts - I think I paid ~$40 for mine) and it's become my favorite daily laptop/travel backpack. TSA-friendly, good organization, very sturdy.

Re: Heat-Shrink USB Plug

stickyc — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:32:27 -0000

Bonus points for marking charge only vs charge+sync.

Re: Migrating from Rdio or Spotify to Apple Music is now just a single click

stickyc — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:54:04 -0000

"It seems to work. While I have yet to try it myself"
It costs all of $5. At least the Lifehacker author who referenced this article was willing to forgo his venti mocha to provide a meager "it does work" (even the original article that CultOfMac references didn't actually *use* it). Forget what's wrong with the music industry, this is what's wrong with journalism. :)

Re: Quick VirtualBox/Vagrant setup with Heroku-like box - Icebergist

stickyc — Sat, 30 May 2015 11:23:43 -0000

FWIW - Your CMS converted the ">" in the Vagrantfile example to html-safe text, which breaks a copy/paste.

Re: Bits of Cents — Disassembling the Dash

stickyc — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:30:04 -0000

If Amazon was smart, the low battery info would be part of the re-order payload and they'd send a replacement one without you even asking :)

Re: Bits of Cents — Disassembling the Dash

stickyc — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:27:51 -0000

Probably a lot less painful to get FCC certs as well.

Re: Reversible USB Type-C finally on its way, alongside USB 3.1’s 10Gbit performance

stickyc — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:23:22 -0000

"The ability to provide 100W of power, as opposed to 10W, however, means that nearly every manufacturers could ditch clunky power bricks."

I don't understand this statement - There still needs to be a 'brick' to convert wall power to D/C, the only difference now is the device end of the cable is standard.

I suppose manufacturers could go the small USB-powered device route and expect the consumer to provide their own power adapter, but I'd be annoyed if my $800 laptop didn't come with one.

Re: The Road Coders Survival Kit

stickyc — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:59:57 -0000

Absolutely love the Tom Binh stuff. I use a Ristretto as my +1 bag regularly and a couple of their Absolute Straps on my other gear that's super heavy and it makes a huge difference over stock shoulder straps.

Re: The Road Coders Survival Kit

stickyc — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:12:46 -0000

FYI - The plug on the Belkin rotates, so you need not block the 2nd outlet. given that it's got two USB power ports (at 2.1amp combined), surge suppressor and $10 cheaper than the Hybernetics, seems like a much better choice.