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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Not who you asked but I have a smartish home. There is no real need. It just affords convenience and for me lands pretty squarely in “hobby” territory.

    My lights turn on prior to sunset, and turn off after I go to bed. My porch lights dim at 10pm so I don’t disturb my neighbors as much. I have additional states of lights that are predicated on various scenarios. In short, I never touch a light switch, I never walk into a dark house, and my energy usage is reduced.

    My vehicle mileage and tire pressures are reported on a dashboard for me to monitor.

    My network statistics are monitored and graphed.

    Energy usage of electronics of interest to me are monitored and graphed.

    I have a software defined radio that I’m able to use remotely. Using a smart outlet I’m able to turn it on and off remotely as well instead of leaving it on 24/7.

    Unfortunately I have a camera that is cloud based my SO uses to monitor pets. Using a smart outlet I turn it on only when we are not home.

    Some of this can be accomplished with less smart means, some of it can’t, but it’s been fun to get it all setup.



  • I got a little curious too and just did a small amount of digging. The DHS latest report (Q2 FY 2023) can be found here:

    https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration

    “About 11,700 refugees were admitted to the United States in FY 2023 Q2 (Table 2), a 113 percent increase from FY 2022 Q2, when only about 5,500 refugees were admitted.”

    So about 4000 a month, 1000 per week and 150 per day.

    That includes countries other than South America:

    “76 percent of refugees arrived from the top five countries of nationality: Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Syria, Afghanistan, and Colombia“

    I haven’t found a great source on illegal immigration yet.

    Edit: I got also got curious about the scale of this number so I looked up births per day (from some random sites) in the US and it seems like that’s about 10,000. Number of deaths per day seems to be around 8,000. So a net of about 2,000 people are added to the US per day “naturally”.

    Last edit: Found some info by the cbp: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

    Looks like an increase but nothing crazy. I don’t know what an “encounter” is either.






  • They now have unlimited searches for $10/mo. That’s what got me to try it out.

    You are correct though. I really do not like having all of my search history tied to my credit card (and then me). What helps me justify that is that instead of me being the product like google, by paying I’ve become the customer. Hopefully that incentivizes keeping them on the up and up.

    I did come across searnxg in this thread. It looks like that can be self hosted so I’m gonna give that a try as well.