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  • In the 70s we had a cassette tape kids story about a wizard who lived in a mountain and kept all the winds in a box.

    The story was about someone who went in and retrieved the winds.

    It involved blowing up sections of passageways (the narrator talked of lighting the blue touchpaper), and the wizard woke up and chased the hero.

    He had a walking stick so his steps were reproduced including that, and he was calling, “My wind! Somebody’s stolen my wind!”.

    I think it was probably on the front of a magazine or something. I don’t know if it’s a traditional story or something written for that production but I thought it was brilliant at the time.



  • Sim@lemmy.nzOPtohomeassistant@lemmy.worldLowest latency input
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    1 year ago

    I have a wired device sending HTTP POST updates very regularly (often more than one per second) and if I watch those arrive, they appear almost instantaneous. If the sending device used IP (or, more likely, had cached the lookup) I guess that would be fast too.

    Good point about the MQTT persistence, cheers.












  • I want my server to host a desktop that I can use remotely. Not for managing the server itself; like you describe, I use common tools for managing it.

    I just need a desktop for a while - sometimes I want to work on a machine that’s not the one I’m physically using. At the moment I simply have an old desktop running Windows; I VPN to home and RDP to to the machine which works very well, but it seems a waste to have a machine running for this purpose only. I could add the machine to the swarm if I could host a desktop in Docker but that’s not really the intent of Docker and doesn’t yield great results.