Detector de mentiras

Me estoy haciendo viejo y olvidadizo. Esta mañana recordé un truco de cartas que me gustaba hacer, pero no recordaba los pasos ni en qué libro o revista lo aprendí. Finalmente reconstruí los pasos y decidí que necesitaba escribir estos trucos. Cabe destacar que esto no es original. Simplemente no recuerdo dónde lo aprendí.

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Rápido y rollo

Esta es mi versión del "Riffle 'n' Roll" de Jack Carpenter, de su libro "El portafolio del experto n.º 1". Soy fan de la obra de Carpenter y recomiendo cualquiera de sus libros.

La razón principal por la que ideé esta versión es que su método me parecía un poco engorroso al mantener múltiples frenos. Esta versión elimina ese problema, pero con el gasto de usar una tarjeta con un engarce de ventilación.

Citando de “La cartera del experto n.º 1”:

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Moving Home Assistant from a virtual machine to dedicated hardware

I have been running home assistant on a generic Linux virtual machine using Oracle’s Virtualbox system for several years. It has worked pretty well for me, but I recently decided to purchase a mini pc and move home assistant to it.

In part what prompted this was finding a low cost mini PC that looked pretty good. $139.00 for an OUVISLITE Ιntel Celeron J4125 (Up to 2.7GHz), with 8GB DDR4 128GB M.2 SSD Mini Computer, 4K HDMI, Triple Display, Dual WiFi, BT4.2, and HTPC. For that price I figured “what the hell, let’s give it a try”.

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Restoring Home Assistant from Google Drive backup

Normally you restore home assistant to a previous backup using the backups stored locally that are listed under Settings -> System -> Backups. Just click on the backup you want to restore and a window pops up. Simple.

But if you want to restore to a version saved to Google drive you first have to copy the backup file from Google Drive to your local PC and then upload it to Home Assistant. Then the feature to upload a backup file is hidden under the “three dot” menu at the upper right of the backup page.

Open the menu, select “Upload backup”, and find the backup file you copied from Google Drive.