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wa27 posted:Talking about outlet timers like they're old fashioned is baffling to me. I buy one every few years (when I can't find the ones I have). What do you guys use to time your outdoor Christmas lights? Well, here in the Nordic countries we don't celebrate Christmas, so that's one thing.
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Indoors I use smart switches on outlets that are grouped. So I have one button in my Home app that turns on all the trees and lights.
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1. IoT 2. unplug them in the morning, they're leds who cares 3. outdoor what? ,lmao
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For Yule lights I have one of these: that I operate with my big toe (i.e. turn it on on the first Advent Sunday and turn it off on Epiphany).
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Jan 26, 2023 14:14
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Well, here in the Nordic countries we don't celebrate Christmas, so that's one thing. Wait a minute, what? I'm willing to believe this but it also goes so hard against my presumptions that I assume I'm being whooshed https://www.nordicvisitor.com/blog/a-little-something-about-christmas-in-the-nordics/ ?
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wa27 posted:What do you guys use to time your outdoor Christmas lights? Unreliable IOT garbage which gives me a low-stakes use case to futz with technology but doesn't impact day to day lighting needs.
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Data Graham posted:Wait a minute, what? We celebrate Yule, which predates Christmas by quite a lot. (You might argue, for example, that the French don't celebrate Christmas either, but rather Noel, except Noël specifically refers to the birth of baby Jesus. So it's not the same thing.)
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Pham Nuwen posted:for a mere $32k you too can live like a trucker! But just imagine how cool it could be to put it in a room with one of those galaxy lights going & play space sim games
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Jan 26, 2023 14:46
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I've never seen outdoor Christmas lights in person, only in movies. How does powering them even work? It's not like there are electrical outlets outside. Do you crack a window and run an extension cord through it?
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Jan 26, 2023 15:04
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Dip Viscous posted:I've never seen outdoor Christmas lights in person, only in movies. How does powering them even work? It's not like there are electrical outlets outside. Do you crack a window and run an extension cord through it? I have an electric outlet outside. Most houses with any kind of front or back yard will.
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Jan 26, 2023 15:07
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My house has no electrical outlets outside so I got some cheap solar powered lights. Battery only lasts a few hours, but it's enough. This thread might appreciate my new scarf.    (Designed it and had it made through Wildemasche). Only lets you use 5 colors which is why the start menu icon is blue/orange.
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Dip Viscous posted:It's not like there are electrical outlets outside. Do you crack a window and run an extension cord through it? I can't tell if this is a bit. Even my 50s house has original outlets on the exterior. Are exterior outlets just a  thing?
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Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever seen a house with outdoor sockets here in 
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History Comes Inside! posted:Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever seen a house with outdoor sockets here in They put the water pipes outside and the eletric pipes inside what a country!
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Humphreys posted:Now i can watch all the original Star Wars on Laserdisc at the same time! SAMPO MEANS FLAVOR
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History Comes Inside! posted:Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever seen a house with outdoor sockets here in I've seen them, you can get cases that go over sockets that have a flip-up cover and weather sealing on them to protect them rain and stuff. 
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:SAMPO MEANS FLAVOR No it means a mint.
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Dip Viscous posted:I've never seen outdoor Christmas lights in person, only in movies. How does powering them even work? It's not like there are electrical outlets outside. Do you crack a window and run an extension cord through it? This is genuinely bizarre to me. I’ve even got an outlet on the exterior wall of my apartment’s living room on the balcony that I solely use to hook up my Christmas lights which live on the railing during the season. And yes, I have a timer because the lights are useless to me when I’m sleeping or during the brief few hours of daylight we get around Christmastime. My mom who lives even further up north also uses timers on all of her extensive outdoor lights, bar the ones on and around the front porch since the socket on there is controlled by an indoors switch. In the era of LED lights I’m pretty sure the timer actually uses more power than the lights but it’s not like they’re hooked up all year so who cares 
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I swear I have more outdoor power sockets than indoor ones here. Dude who put this place together sure wanted to ensure anywhere he was had the ability to run power. Wonder what he did with some of them, I mainly have lights on IoT/traditional timers.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:We celebrate Yule, which predates Christmas by quite a lot. (You might argue, for example, that the French don't celebrate Christmas either, but rather Noel, except Noël specifically refers to the birth of baby Jesus. So it's not the same thing.) technukly americans celebrate XMas
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Now I don't know if I'm crazy or this is just some regional thing. Half expecting to go outside and find a bunch of outlets that I went years without noticing.
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Tiny Timbs posted:technukly americans celebrate XMas Ccchhhhhmas?
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 Qwijib0 posted:I can't tell if this is a bit. Even my 50s house has original outlets on the exterior. Are exterior outlets just a
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Qwijib0 posted:I can't tell if this is a bit. Even my 50s house has original outlets on the exterior. Are exterior outlets just a Plenty of houses in Australia have outdoor power sockets/power points. I was disappointed that the back deck area of my current place didn't have any.
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There’s one on my apartment balcony that I’ve never used, I assume it’s there to run power washers, vacuum cleaners and such.
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If you don't have an outside outlet, how are you going to run the block heater in your automobile?
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Christmas light wires (especially low voltage LED ones) are thin enough to just feed through the letterbox slot on the front of the house, and through a closed window at the back of the house. Block heaters aren't a thing where i live. We just have cars that start fine at the (at worst) - 10 deg C it might get here. My 1960s amsterdam apartment block did have a DIY'd outlet on the balcony, very convenient for hooking up a laptop or some lights outside on long, warm summers. The person who made it, drilled straight through an asbestos cement facade panel.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If you don't have an outside outlet, how are you going to run the block heater in your automobile? In Australia? Pretty easily, I imagine.
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madeintaipei posted:In Australia? Pretty easily, I imagine. 5am, sun cracks the horizon... Time to melt some steel.
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Humphreys posted:5am, sun cracks the horizon... Time to melt some steel. Hey did you see my previous posts about the tech tool protege?
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an actual frog posted:
There's this thing called outdoors rated sockets that have like, flip-up covers on them. It's literally not an issue, other than questionable wiring choices overloading the circuit and burning up a fuse whenever you try to run the power washer from one of the sockets.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Hey did you see my previous posts about the tech tool protege? Holy cow! I sure did miss it! DM sent mate.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Well, here in the Nordic countries we don't celebrate Christmas, so that's one thing. I live in a city devoted to Christmas. Santa is our most famous resident. Christmas is absolutely celebrated here.
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So a week or two ago I was bitching about the prohibitive expense of inkjet printers that print on CDs. Luckily I was able to go on eBay and buy a thing no one seems to make any more 20 years old and working very well, though it has issues printing on branded Verbatim BD-R media (glossy top probably fucks it up) or when a disc surface goes from matte to glossy  $29.99 plus shipping, no AC adapter (apparently it didn't come with one to begin with and runs on 8 AA batteries). So until non-branded printable BD-R come in I'm using it to label previously unlabelled CD-Rs and dad-rock DVD bootlegs 
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Just remembered being excited about having a dvd drive that could etch stuff onto the top of DVDs. Think I used it once or twice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
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Lightscribe media now costs soooo much
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That Casio label writer looks neat, but I'd worry about running out of the special thermal transfer ink. How many discs can you do with one ribbon? The inkjet on my Primera keeps clogging because it sits unused for too long, but at least I found a cheap refill kit on ebay where you stab the original cartridge with syringe needles that should last a lifetime, I'm a little proud of my home made organizer for it  https://i.imgur.com/REM3FGT.mp4  awww yeah
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c0burn posted:Lightscribe media now costs soooo much
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