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Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰

Hello all!

To celebrate Lemmy.zip turning 2 years old, we are once again hosting a small giveaway to say thank you for being here ❤️

We're giving away 3 prizes to 3 lucky winners. This will be 1 x £25 Steam gifts, and 2 x £10 Steam gifts.

The giveaway will be open for 48 hours from 12:00 UTC on the 10th June 2025, to 12:00 UTC on the 12th June

You can enter by making a comment in this very thread! Your comment can say or be absolutely anything you want (within reason!)

Once you've made a comment, you should get a message back from ZippyBot confirming you've entered and a ticket number. For transparency, at the end of this we'll publish the entry list and ticket numbers.

You must be a Lemmy.zip user to enter (comments from anyone else will be ignored!) and you will need a Steam account and be happy to send me your username so I can gift you the value via Steam. Your Lemmy.zip account must have been created before the 9th June 2025.

At the end of the giveaway, I'll lock the thread and Zippy will pull three random entries. The first username pulled will win the first prize (£25), and the other two users will win the other prizes (£10).

I've put a few FAQs in this spoiler tag if you want to know more:

FAQs - PLEASE READ!

::: spoiler FAQs

  • Q) Can anyone enter?
  • A) You must be a lemmy.zip user, have a steam account, and your lemmy.zip account must have been created before 9th June 2025
  • Q) Can I have a giftcard for a different platform, i.e. xbox or playstation?
  • A) Unfortunately not. Those platforms (to my knowledge) don't allow me to purchase a giftcard in the UK and you activate it anywhere in the world. Steam allows currency conversion on gifts.
  • Q) How quickly will I get my prize?
  • A) Steam requires that someone must be on a user's friend list for 3 days before giftcards can be sent, therefore I will share my Steam profile with the winners (or vice versa) and after 3 days of being friends on Steam, I will send the gift over. (Unless you live in the UK, in which case I can send you a code within 24 hours)
  • Q) I think my entry was valid, but I didn't get a reply from Zippybot with my ticket number. What do I do?
  • A) Send me a message asap! You can try commenting again too.
  • Q) Are Lemmy.zip user donations funding this?
  • A) No, just making it clear here that the donations to Lemmy.zip only ever go towards the server and Lemmy.zip infrastructure. The funds for this are coming from my wallet :)
  • Q) How does Zippy select the winners?
  • A) Zippy randomly shuffles the list of entrants in the DB. It then randomly shuffles the list again in Python. Then it randomly selects 3 winners from that double shuffled list. You can see the code for this here.
  • Q) What if something goes wrong?
  • A) If for any reason something goes wrong during the giveaway, it will be paused until it can be resumed. If too much time lapses, the giveaway will be restarted.

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muzzlereply
lemmy.zip

Is the Kofi for the giveaway only or is it a generic way to contribute to the instance finances?

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Zippy Bot
lemmy.zip

Congratulations to the winners of this giveaway: Untold1707, nasi_goreng, Neon_Carnivore!

The winners of this giveaway have been drawn randomly by ZippyBot.

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w3dd1ereply
lemmy.zip

Jalapeño and Pineapple pizza is my favorite.

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slaughterhousereply
lemmy.zip

Add some pepperoni to that and get the trifecta of flavor! Sweet, savory, and spicy!

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TheSchatz
lemmy.zip

It's a shame lemm.ee is shutting down, but this isn't such a bad way to start on a new instance!

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TacoEvent
lemmy.zip

Still can’t believe I signed up for this instance solely because of the cool name. I don’t deserve this wonderful community 😢.

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Havatra
lemmy.zip

You're an awesome admin, Demigodrick! The transparency, the hospitality, the constant positive engagement with the community! As long as you remain, this community will thrive, I'm sure of it ;)

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Green Wizard
lemmy.zip

Thank you for hosting .zip, I've found myself far more involved than I ever was with reddit.

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Lumun
lemmy.zip

Thanks for your hard work over the last couple weeks, Demigodrick. So many new zippers!

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Nelots
lemmy.zip

Paid for out of your own wallet? That's super cool of you.

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xonigo
lemmy.zip

Thanks for the warm welcome. I've been with lemm.ee for 2 years. I hope this instance sticks around for years to come

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Untold1707
lemmy.zip

lemm.ee refuge here, thank you for all your work in supporting the influx of new users!

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SwizzleStick
lemmy.zip

Congrats on another year of keeping us all shuffling along :)

Best of luck to all!

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zarkony
lemmy.zip

Happy anniversary, and thank you for everything you do to keep this place running.

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errror
lemmy.zip

Still the best community and wishing everyone all the best :) Let's keep this side of the internet growing!!

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w3dd1e
lemmy.zip

Does anyone know how to convert an old garage door opener from wired to wireless?

(Happy birthday Lemmy.zip! I’m happy to be here now. )

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w3dd1ereply
lemmy.zip

This is interesting. I’ll try to see if I can get it to work! The opener is very old and currently opens with a doorbell. It doesn’t even have obstruction sensors.

Thanks!

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SwizzleStickreply
lemmy.zip

No worries.

No garage for us so no personal experience setting up, but I know it from a few years of soaking up related info.

We use Homeassistant here & ratgdo is mentioned a lot when the subject comes up. There's a whole thing about the manufacturers going to shit and locking down their remote options, hence that hack.

If yours is just a simple switch, something like a Shelly1 could do the job too. I've got one of those wired in parallel with our heating thermostat to control the boiler - either by user input or automatically based on other connected sensors :)

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w3dd1ereply
lemmy.zip

Shelly1 is exactly almost exactly what I was picturing initially.

I was thinking I just need some sort of simple relay to send a signal.

Thank you! Shelly is out of stock right now but I’m sure there is something similar out there.

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SwizzleStickreply
lemmy.zip

You can usually pick them up from the usual suspects (jungle shop, fleabay etc) too.

Failing that Sonoff do a fairly decent one - MINIR2/3/4, they have updated the model a few times. I use one of their ZBMINI switches as ZigBee is preferred here over WiFi where possible.

This one also worked well in our setup. It's switching a small dehumidifier here.

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w3dd1ereply
lemmy.zip

You have been enormously helpful. Thank you!

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SwizzleStickreply
lemmy.zip

Always welcome. Best of luck with it & be careful working with our around mains electricity. Get a sparky in if you're at all unsure.

If you're looking at making a start on smarting up a home, or just bringing a load of existing smart devices under a single point of control - I can't recommend Homeassistant enough.

The hardware requirements are any old lump of junk (bust laptop, etc) recent enough to have UEFI. Or just run on your existing PC as a virtual machine - that's how I started.

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monoboy
lemmy.zip

Hey! 👋

I won a prize in the giveaway last year. If I end up winning this year, can you give my prize to the person who has the oldest Lemmy.zip account that comments in this thread?

Happy gaming! 🎮

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Crozekiel
lemmy.zip

Oh man, I didn't even realize that Lemmy.zip and I share a birthday, so cool!

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Klajan
lemmy.zip

Thank you for the awesome instance and all of the work, I have been enjoying my time here, even if I am mostly lurking.

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D06M4
lemmy.zip

Oh, my! I might be able to gift back some games. Thanks! 🫶

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Rose Thorne(She/Her)
lemmy.zip

Congrats to the instance for standing strong for two years, and to many more! It's really cool to see you doing something extra to include the community in celebration.

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Rift5899
lemmy.zip

Thank you for the amazing instance!!. If I win I would double it to the next person

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fefellama
lemmy.zip

Good timing given the whole lemm.ee thing. Should be plenty of new people to participate in the contest.

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Rose
lemmy.zip

Thank you for hosting this. Many users have alts though. On another note, would you be able to send the gift via email? At least with game gifts, that is possible on Steam.

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RogueBanana
lemmy.zip

Glad I made the switch as well, a lot has happened but I am happy I chose a great server. Thank you for your service. :)

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MagicShel
lemmy.zip

Congrats on two years! Looks like you've done good so far! This was supposed to be a temporary home while my old server struggled to get maintenance performed and things weren't working. But I just never went back.

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SuperSpruce
lemmy.zip

Even more happy I moved off of lemmy.ml. No reason to move from this instance, I struck gold choosing this.

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coaxil
lemmy.zip

Oh awesome! And from my short time here post lemm.ee you are doing awesome things! Thanks.

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fefellama
lemmy.zip

Did anyone else not receive a number from the bot? Regardless, thanks for doing this!

Edit: Demigodrick responded via pm. So if you didn’t get a number definitely reach out!

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Cethin
lemmy.zip

I've been here 1y 11m and I'm just now realizing how new this instance was when I joined! I appreciate the work you've done here! It's been great, with only a few memorable issue, which I'm sure we all remember.

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