HomeAssistant is great if you can source locally-controllable accessories. I've got smart bulbs and plugs but they all run Tasmota and never leave my local network (not that they can on their isolated VLAN lol). They're just getting more difficult to source. Last I checked, Zigbee is the way to go.
I've been playing with an OrangePi zero 2w the last week and a half. Definitely fun if you don't mind occasionally frustrating lol.
100% this.
But also "We're shutting down the servers for iMow 1 after which it will become unusable and we will not release an SDK or OTA update to allow 3rd party firmware. Please visit your nearest retailer to purchase iMow 2 and we promise we won't do the same thing to it in 2 years.
I'm sure we're past that now and firmly in the "you're just gonna have to deal with it" phase.
Thanks. Now I'm gonna start calling AI news summaries "tAIbloids" and make fun of the people who use them. ๐
Mine is also from the "Born to be a Bureaucrat" song but it's the "born to be all obsessive and snotty. I made my friends and relations fill long applications to get into my tenth birthday party" part.
Exactly. I've got so many half-finished ESP-32 projects laying around, but at least they're mine and work for me.
In VOY S5E07: Infinite Regress, Seven was sedated and Tuvok mind-melded with her to save her from the effects of the Vinculum. The way it was portrayed there, it would be like the mind melder entering the dream of the meld-ee.
It was, and I remember that too. Was just being farcical...
Spoiler
...to balance out the downer ending.
I've gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.
I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one "distraction" the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it's got an e-ink screen).
I'm just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value ๐