Do you have any articles discussing this? I’m interested to learn more as someone who doesn’t live there.

It’s good to plant trees, but beware of folks using it as cover to avoid more important work like actually reducing fossil fuel usage: https://art19.com/shows/the-climate-deniers-playbook/episodes/5322de3f-ffc0-4258-a890-c648f59bc195

It is expensive but that Frient keypad is what I have and it’s fantastic. Been running it for about a year now and it’s rock solid. I’ve even repurposed Nest tags to work with it.

I’ve been using Neo Launcher for a while as a Nova replacement and it’s pretty good. Both of those features are included as well as things like shortcut actions when you double tap or swipe on the home screen.

I don’t understand the downvotes either. Maybe folks don’t like your opinions? Either way, I’d rather see a discussion instead of just downvotes

I’m experimenting with the Music Assistant add-on but it seems to be early days for that project. Could be awesome though as it combines media libraries from services (e.g. YouTube music) and self-hosted things (e.g. Navidrome) and plugs them into the Home Assistant ecosystem.

https://github.com/music-assistant/server

I’d recommend looking at the Wyoming/Piper/Rhasspy system. There’s some really good minds working on it and it’s got a big community behind it already. It’s also plug and play with Home Assistant which is awesome. It’s the system I use and while I’m still fine tuning it for my use cases it’s already pretty great.

Haven’t used it yet, but Proton has a beta desktop app that might be what you’re looking for.

Bungie didn’t do it. It was a community member just having laugh.

You’ll be glad to learn that rumor was actually just a joke. It came from a joke TWiD post that went the rounds on Reddit and YouTube but isn’t real. Don’t worry, Kotick isn’t joining Bungie.

I just have a home assistant dashboard running as a full screen webpage. I don’t have auto wake on movement but it works great otherwise.

Oh that’s cool. Didn’t know you could self-host the server. I’ll have to check that out.

I’ve used Joplin for a while and it’s solid.

It would he 900%. The equation is: profit percentage = (profit / cost) * 100%

Haha I’ll confess I didn’t actually read the blog post. I just read the synopsis and made an assumption about it :b

I love all the local firmware swaps people are doing these days. I’m waiting on the day I can swap all my Google Homes to be Home Assistant powered. It’ll probably (almost certainly) require a hardware swap to an ESP32 but I’ll do it anyway as long as it’s pretty straightforward.

I love Immich. Such an amazing system it still shocks me that it’s foss