Why are people asking the same questions over and over again? (Or the Regulars' Chatroom) 🤷

[armedad]

@petro

would be real nice if we could have notes for other users that are just for us on Discourse

Ive never seen this or used this… I presume this lets a person keep personal notes about someone else… but you said “just for us”… I would be super interested in seeing the notes y’all have noted for any particular user. that would be quite telling!

[aceindy]

@Stiltjack

I’ve noticed this several times: a newcomer to HA, with lots of professional IT experience, joins the forum and posts a couple of questions in which they have clearly got the wrong end of the stick about a lot of things. Then within days they start on the “what rubbish it all is…” rant

I fail to believe that they are experienced, and would recommend they change job.
Flower arranger or something…

[Stiltjack]

@petro

I use this on discord all the time to mark people who behave certain ways.

Double arrrrrgh! Not only do they talk about us, they make notes!

[francisp (Francis)]

@Stiltjack

with lots of professional IT experience,

I have worked (and still do) my whole life in IT, and I realize there is more I don’t know about, than what I do.

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

What tools are you using to interact with the forum? Just the browser? Are there any useful desktop and mobile apps?

[aceindy]

But maybe it is also how the new generation works (says the old fart).

If there is something I don’t know about that I need, I learn it until I do know enough.
And that doesn’t seem to happen a lot anymore nowadays

I do agree, HA can be a steep learning curve, but it is learnable…

[Stiltjack]

There’s an Android app called Discourse Hub, but I can’t get it to work. Nor can anyone else, apparently - its average review rating is 1.5 stars.

[Stiltjack]

Also…

There’s an open source project called Lexicon.

I think the idea is to allow the operators of Discourse forums to publish their own app (it’s all a bit above my pay grade). That would be pretty cool, though, wouldn’t it?

[code-in-progress (Bill - I write code.)]

@Stiltjack

There’s an open source project called Lexicon.

I would love to see them implement this.

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

I’m going to ping @MissyQ in case this is something they want to look at when they get to here on the priority list.

I like never use mobile so I don’t care, but I know they are collecting data…

[fleskefjes]

My favorite time of year, snow’s melted, temperatures are rising and my automowers are due to come out of hibernation so my dashboard won’t have unavailable devices much longer!

[tom_l]

Use this to tidy it up:

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[Nick4 (Nick)]

… sorry for you losses man!
I know my, or anyone else’s, words does not make your feeling go away.

So why am I responding then.
Well, your world has stopped turning and to many people nothing has changed.
In the beginning you get a lot empathy but for out standers, things go back to normal, sometimes very fast and your loss becomes like a ‘fait divers’ for others whereas, for you, nothing is the same anymore.

Having to say goodbye to our parents can be easier because that’s how it goes.
Loosing a child… that should not happen!

Wishing you the strength to go on and also find some memories that eases your loss!

[MissyQ (Missy Quarry)]

I can write this down for sure. At a glance I am not sure if it will solve problems being talked about here, and it seems it’s not a good thing for admin features, but always good to look at options and compare!

[code-in-progress (Bill - I write code.)]

grumble grumble grumble Just walk away Bill… walk away…

[MaxK (Mark)]

My tongue is still bleeding. I thought I handled it okay?

[code-in-progress (Bill - I write code.)]

@MaxK

I thought I handled it okay?

You did a lot better than I was going to.

[MaxK (Mark)]

Iron fist, velvet glove