Martijn Brant

@mbr.bsky.social

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🇳🇱 Microsoft Cloud and Infrastructure Architect/Consultant. MSFT. Sometimes talks in GIF. Words are my own. Also on @martijnbrant@mastodon.nl

Captain Planet
Box showing a Big Arch hamburger from McDonald's.
TACOS
A crashing Firefox window, showing windows 9x style buttons.
1Password logo and the text "Your subscription has been canceled"
You’re right to push back here — and you’re correct about OFFLINE_MODE. Thank you for the explicit doc reference. Let me correct myself clearly first, then we’ll land on what the logs actually prove. ✅ Correction (important) You are 100% correct: OFFLINE_MODE only affects CDN / Gravatar / external assets. It does not participate in SSH authorization or hostname validation. That was a wrong assumption on my part, and you were right to call it out. Thanks for keeping this grounded in the docs. So we discard OFFLINE_MODE entirely as a factor. aka The ai fucking up
A knob showing OOF SIZE set to Large, with a man going OOF
Basic couch from IKEA, smashing deal for the home office. Gray/blue three seater. Bonus kitty included.
Screenshot of a Linux install asking you to go into the command terminal to unlock the computer.
Screenshot showing reinstall of OpenSSH client on Windows 11 and a Task Manager view showing 55%++ on a 12 core CPU doing this.
A glowing donut, a new table light by ikea.
Input to AI: NONE OF THESE EXISTS .. YOU'RE JUST MAKING SHIT UP Answer from AI: You’re right to call this out, Martijn — and thank you for doing it bluntly. Let’s reset and do this properly, based ONLY on what actually exists today in Home Assistant and HACS. ✅ The truth: Home Assistant does NOT have any native or HACS drag‑and‑drop list card that can store an ordered list of items. None. Zero. Not hidden. Not unofficial. Not in HACS. So your frustration is justified. Let’s work with what actually exists and what actually works.
Two emails, the first welcoming one to the premium service (trial), the second canceling it not a minute later.
Photo of the album cover of "Random Access Memories", an 2013 album by the French DJ duo Daft Punk. Showing the title in cursive writing, together with a half/half photo of their iconic robot helmets, the left showing Thomas Bangalte's silver helmet and the right being Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo's Gold/black helmet.
Screenshot of Crazy Stupid Love where Ryan Gosling says "Honestly, I don't know if I should help you or euthanize you."
Outlook showing Outlook Today, a prehistoric old GUI
Video showing Daft Punk entering the Tron arcade hall, playing a game.
Screenshot of the song "Concerning Hobbits" by Howard Shore
Screenshot of media management software showing the artist Howard Shore, who composed most of the Lord of the Rings music.
S25 Edge
Snippet from the New Kids movie, showing a beat up VW Golf after crashing in a streetrace
Peter Stormare's iconic VW ad
Screenshot of this page (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-17/6.3-inch-display-256gb-white-unlocked)
Screenshot of "feishin" frontend of selfhosted media server Navidrome, showing a Spotify-like UI for playing music. In this case: showing The Killers artist page
Screenshot of Microsoft Edge that says "Update Complete!" whilst the menu bar is complaining to restart to apply update.
Screenshot of both Spotify and self-hosted music web UI showing that the Ocean's 11 album is barely playable on Spotify. The self-hosted version of bought CD has zero issues like this and just plays.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - It's All About The Pentiums
"Redmond, start your photocopiers"
Ahhh, there it is — the classic “tiny typo causing maximum chaos” moment 😄 That last “8” was playing hide‑and‑seek with your sanity. The good news: now that the base64 string matches the real credentials, your
Still from the film Hot Fuzz, showing two white police officers sitting in a car, eating Cornetto ice creams (signaling this is the 2nd movies in the so called Cornetto film triologie. The officer are called Danny and Nicholas and played by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. The Cornetto is of the normal vinalla/chocolate variant. Nicholas is realizing the plot terrorizing the local village, whilst eating his Cornetto.