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What's your most pointless or silliest automation? (lemmy.world)
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Not the things that you depend on, but automations that are just for fun

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 23 hours ago

Ooooh! Totally not useless, but I have a version of this.

I have a cheap, but powerful, amp for the home audio system, and discovered it burns out if left perpetually on (yeah, I'm on my third). So I got a wall switch that's turned off after 10 minutes of no audio streaming to that snapclient.