rarkgrames

I've recently purchased a Samsung Q990C and so far I'm really happy with it. I want to get the best out of it and was hoping someone could give some advice on rear speaker placement.

My room is a strange shape, but basically where I sit I have my TV in front with the soundbar underneath. My sofa is on the other side of the room, a little distance from the wall behind me, enough that I am able to place the rear speakers just behind me and to each side, around ear level (ish). However, there is no wall on mi right side as my room is L shaped, so there is nowhere for the right rear speaker to bounce the audio from it's side speaker back in to the room.

What I was thinking was I could change the setup in the Samsung SmartThings app and put the rear speakers in to front speaker mode, and swap them over so the Right is on the Left and vice-versa. In my mind, this would mean the side-facing speakers on the rears would be facing in to the room rather than out, but would be on the correct side.

Would this cause any major issues in terms of the audio? I'm thinking this could affect the upwards firing audio but would it really be that much of an issue? Would I be better off just having the speakers in their "correct" positions with the right one firing on to open space?

If it helps the distance from my seating position to the TV is approx 4 - 5 metres.

I installed Dashy a couple of days ago and have got things pretty much how I want them I think. There is more off the bottom of the screen but this screen shot shows the main things I need.

I've set the stats widgets to auto-collapse on load so they don't take up the entire screen, and I'm pulling those from Glances running on my ProxMox server.

Really impressed with Dashy, and how easy it is to configure and customise.

I decided to spin up Home Assistant on a VM on my server yesterday, and so far I'm not having much luck getting to to much that is actually useful.

I'm wondering if it's me doing something wrong, but I can't see what that would be.

I've signed up for the free trial of the cloud services which all seems to have gone fine, and I have a couple of integrations working (Roomba, printer ink levels, Sonos and a couple of others) but mostly everything else I've tried just doesn't want to play ball

• Apple TV - won't pair - I press the pair button in HA but the ATV doesn't respond with a pairing code

• Ring doorbell / cameras - these are found but won't display a live feed

• Ring alarm - not recognised at all

• Netatmo thermostat - widget displays but doesn't sync correctly with thermostat and if I try to adjust temp it sets the target temp to 137 degrees C

• Hue lights - having issues but this one might be my hub not HA

I was really hoping I could set up automations to, say, turn off my TV, turn off the lights, arm my house alarm - all with one press of a button but it looks like currently this isn't going to happen.

Is it just me? Am I doing something wrong perhaps? Maybe I'm missing something obvious but it just seems like the integrations with these devices just isn't quite there? I'd really be interested in other people's experiences and whether they were able to solve these issues (if indeed they had them at all).

I use Cloudflare tunnels for most of my self hosted stuff and I wanted to point a subdomain at my piHole, but it seems that you can’t install the cloudflared software on a pi zero. Is there any way to get this working?

It’s not a massive issue if not as I’m currently just pointing to my Pi-hole from my load balancer but it would be nice to have everything tunnelled.

Xcode 15b3 allows as many child views in SwiftUI as you need, with no need to use Group!

Gone are the days of forgetting how many views you’ve used and then getting an error at compile time because you used 11 child views 😂

This is our new (yet to be named) kitten. He joined us yesterday. I now have seven cats. Some people would say I have a problem :)

Good luck with the App Store submission. Hopefully you’re not stuck in “Awaiting review” limbo for too long.

Over the last year I've been learning Swift and starting to put together some iOS apps. I'd definitely class myself as a Swift beginner.

I'm currently building an app and today I used ChatGPT to help with a function I needed to write. I found myself wondering if somehow I was "cheating". In the past I would have used YouTube videos, online tutorials and Stack Overflow, and adapted what I found to work for my particular usage case.

Is using ChatGPT different? The fact that ChatGPT explains the code it writes and often the code still needs fettling to get it to work makes me think that it is a useful learning tool and that as long as I take the time to read the explanations given and ensure I understand what the code is doing then it's probably a good thing on balance.

I was just wondering what other people's thoughts are?

Also, as a side note, I found that chucking code I had written in to ChatGPT and asking it to comment every line was pretty successful and a. big time saver :D

Edit: Thanks everyone for insightful and considered replies.

I think the general consensus is basically where my head was at - use it as a tool like you would SO or other resources but be aware the code may be incorrect, and the reality is there will be work required to adapt and integrate with your current project (very much like SO) and that's where you programming skills really come in to play.

I think I still have imposter syndrome when it comes to development, which is maybe where the question was coming from in my mind. :D.

The updated dev betas have dropped.

I've just installed Arc browser and will see how I get on. It will be interesting to see whether it helps organise things and improve my workflows.

I'm always keen to try new things so who knows, maybe it will become my browser of choice.

I'd be interested to hear of things that might be useful to know about Arc, hints and tips to improve my experience.

Edit: Ok so I've had a chance to play around with this browser fora little while and so far it's great. Spaces are great, split views I love (hellooooo CHatGPT and whatever I'm working on in the same tab) and I'm looking forward to trying out Profiles.

I've just got to hope when I install it on my work laptop the IT department don't get wind of it LOL

As there are at the type of writing zero posts in this community I thought I might as well get the ball rolling.

I was diagnosed with UC around 10 years ago and, after my initial flare it was pretty mild. Around a year and a half ago I flared and suffered for most of that time, with the drugs I was being prescribed not really helping. Since the beginning of this year I’ve been on new meds and they finally seem to be working and I’m finally able to live more normally again.

In my spare time I’ve been working on building an iOS app that will allow IBD / IBS sufferers to keep track of their symptoms. I know there are apps that do that already but I’m hoping my app will simplify things and allow people to provide their doctors with graphs that show trends for symptoms over a period of time.

It’s a way off yet as I don’t have huge amounts of time to devote to it but I’ll get it built eventually.

Anybody else who wants to introduce themselves?

This is my gorgeous Maine Coon, Hudson. He's 1 year old today and as you can see he's really pleased with his birthday collar.