We recently got one of those ice cream gizmos that can (among other things) turn a brick of frozen fruit into a sorbet. It's surprising how good something incredibly basic like canned pineapple turns out.
Haven't tried any actually adventurous recipes yet.
Is dumb doorbell + separate CCTV camera a valid alternative? Even my fairly basic Reolink camera has a much better image quality than any doorbell camera I've seen, and HA can pull an image from it and push it to my phone in only a few tenths of a second whenever someone pushes the doorbell.
Hell, there were plenty of retail Christmas displays before halloween over here.
I know its too early but
Some of my neighbours have had their lights up and on for the past couple of weeks. It really does come earlier every year (not that I mind).
The sad thing is we don't even drive the Kuga that much, only for long trips. I think it would be a reasonable bet that we've spent less on fuel than we have on maintenance.
Last road trip from Auckland to Wellington, we just hired a big car (a mid-size SUV, I guess). 100% recommend anyone shopping for a car (or whatever) does a quick check to see if it's actually worth owning it vs hiring. In my case (one kid and no boat), it's way cheaper to just hire something big and flash for the occasional road trips.
Oof. I'm pretty confident that I've spent less than that servicing every car I've ever owned, which is... 15 years or so?
Japanese subcompacts are so cheap that it's more or less impossible for me to justify buying anything else.
You're right in that it's a useful tool for various kinds of abuse, but so is almost every useful home automation/home security sensor.
The most obvious/useful use cases I can see are:
Both should be easy with load cells under the bed legs but rather difficult otherwise.
(Useful assuming a household of two adults in one bed that is).