I recognize it’s not the answer to your question, but the ZigBee ones I have run on AAA batteries and last about a year on a charge.

With Eneloops, even after a decade they still keep over half their charge capacity. Could probably go 15-20 years per battery in regular trickled use with at most quarterly swaps - I think that’s kinda ideal operation for these guys.

One battery every 15 years, and an annual swap when it drops off my HA is a small price to pay for the flexibility of being able to deploy anywhere with zero infrastructure. I have a dozen sensors and would not want to have to wire each one.

FYI - Stock white charger that came with eneloops did not like how low the voltage gets when they run low in the temperature sensors, so I swapped for the “super pro” charger and it’s significantly better at managing the batteries: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B2WXJH43

Ubuntu (like 100 years ago) > Debian > Mint (for several years) > a bunch of things > Kubuntu > PikaOS (GNOME)

Cinnamon Mint is almost perfect as a daily driver, but had hangups in gaming (frame stutter, controller disconnects, etc…)

Tried PopOS! for a hot minute, Cosmic is pretty but very clearly still WIP

Rode the plasma train for a little while on Kubuntu, but everything felt a little half-baked and games crashed pretty regularly.

I’ve settled on PikaOS GNOME for now as my daily driver. Things seem generally solid, but I’ve only been using it for a few weeks, TBD on the long-term stability, but I’ll probably hang here at least until whenever Mint reaches stable Wayland support, at which point I’ll give that a go.

Assuming the graphics drivers baked into the installer work in the first go - ask me how my weekend went.

I use SEMs, BTW.

Ehh, they’re meh. Give me a Stardew Valley or a Minecraft any day over something like Valorant or Call of Black Dutyfield 12

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While you’re searching for batteries (or any other potentially smart appliance), check if they are supported by just searching for “device home assistant”

Those that have official support will have a page on home-assistant.io and scrolling the description will tell you if it’s controlled locally (preferred) or via cloud polling/API (less preferred)

Some devices may have custom integrations you can setup from Github via HACS, where the quality and support can vary more significantly than official integrations.

Proposal, all FOSS slicers come with a secondary download with a disclaimer like:

THIS ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE IS definitely not SPYWARE MANDATED BY THE US GOVERNMENT. For residents of XYZ jurisdiction you are “required” to copy this file to your slicer/snitchoneverythingyoudo folder. If you DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE, your slicer will not be able to report your activities to the government. You have been warned.

Respectfully, this software could solve all my problems in life, and I would still struggle to ask my friends to “federate with my continuwuity server so we can chat”

Can you use the gun lobby loophole on everything banned for guns and buy your 3d printer as a kit?

IDK about a true voice call but you could definitely set something to play a message through a second satellite. You could even make it recurring until snoozed e.g.:

Grandma: “Computer, I need help”

HASS - Trigger automation say (through separate speaker) “Grandma called, she needs help”, delay 30, repeat until button is pressed.

The tricky part is teaching it enough permutations of “I need help” that Grandma doesn’t have to get the phrasing exactly right in an emergency

https://www.percussionplay.com/instruments/talk-tubes/

If communicating between relatively fixed points, this may be more effective

As someone else said, the main reason is to support the devs.

Secondary benefit is the features are seamless and not something I have to maintain. I only have so much time in my day, so I have to choose which things I want to DIY and which I want to pay someone else to manage, but that’s a side benefit to supporting the devs.

I hear you! I was on the same boat - I had telemetry locked down as much as possible, but I eventually got tired of the arms race and decided to give Kagi a spin.

Took a while to commit but a big selling point was being able to bring my very non-technical wife along for the ride.

Hosting for two:

• Domain - $300/yr (it’s a great domain, don’t judge me.)
• Proton Duo - $180/yr
• Kagi Duo - $168/yr
• Nabu Casa (Home Assistant) - $65/yr
• Donations to FOSS projects & initiatives - $250/yr
• Lingering security camera subscription (next to go) - $120/yr
• ISP Unlimited Data - $600/yr gofuckyourselfISP
• Typical added network load ~50W - $131/yr
• ~10yr Hardware Upgrades - $200/yr

I just upgraded my home storage setup, so offsite backup is now running at my parents house, saving me ~$250/yr (but probably costing them ~$50/yr in added utility costs)

I have a little Proxmox installation running a VM on a 256GB NVMe, which as you can imagine is tight

Not as tight as I was imagining a 256 MB installation to be.

I know nothing about promox, but because it’s quiet in here, I imagine cloning the original drive for the original system then expanding it to take over the whole drive is the easier thing to do, it’s a fairly standard process and generally nondestructive because you can just put the old drive back in if something breaks.

So, I would probably go e) unless you really want to set everything up again from scratch (which is sometimes nice to do)

Two reasons:

1. because “free” often means there is an ulterior motive for providing the service (see: search)

2. because developers need to eat, and servers cost money. Paying for goods and services helps keep them from collapsing under their own weight.

Big for profit businesses are generally bad, but small dev teams transparent about their costs just trying to live comfortably? They can have my money.

Do y’all not reboot after kernel/firmware updates?

Even in very cold regions heat pumps maintain a COP>1, so even running it as a space heater may not be free if you have access to a more efficient alternative. Also that may be a responsible justification for Folding@Home, but I doubt OP is turning off their LLM in the summer.

No, not free, OPs power bill just climbed behind the scenes to match. Probably a discount but definitely not free.