I am in bed right now but tomorrow I can take a look at my setup and suggest some things.

A couple examples: I connected my litter robot (litter box) to HA and it notifies me when the cats break something, and I can see statistics of which cats use it and how often to keep an eye on their health. I have it turn on the portable air filter after a cat goes and leave it on for 15 minutes. I also automate 2 dehumidifiers based on humidity sensors I built with some tiny wifi microcontrollers and hard wired humidity sensing chips (I can tell you more about that with specific models later)

I also control a roomba-style lawnmower with HA.

Lots of other little things too like sunset-based light triggers and doorbell-triggered events and stuff.

All of these are things I already owned before I set up HA. Just browse through integrations and also get HACS (a community extension store built-in to the UI) and see what you already own that can be connected. I bet it will be more than you expect.

Yes! This will cover a lot. And the HA Green is super easy to set up, as far as home assistant deployments are concerned. I don’t have any extra antennas yet and I’ve automated so much of my existing smart home stuff with just the Green.

I still find joy in it. I work in tech support but I also am setting up my first homelab with ubiquiti gear and I’m having a lot of fun. Some parts are cobbled together from bits I can get free or cheap and those are the most fun. I don’t have a lot of money and that keeps it interesting.

I will carry the torch and have enough fun for the lot of us. I hope you have just as much fun doing what you’re doing.

Because you’re using LLMs. AI is more than that. LLMs are generally the worst of it.

Already mentioned seerr.

My steam deck can play more Nintendo games than my switch.

I’m not a plex user but I’m butthurt because you’re being insufferable. Realize that not everyone is like you. You cannot apply your experience or tendencies to everyone. Sometimes, things are just too complicated for people to figure out.

Many people who have plex set up struggled to even do that. For them to then have to install multiple applications that don’t automatically work with default settings out of the box is asking too much for a not insignificant portion of plex users. Not everyone knows how to do proper self hosting. Not everyone can figure it out.

You’re right, they’re the worst.

Yeah, it transcodes AV1 just fine. Half my stuff is in AV1 and I’ve never had an issue watching it on any device.

Damn my bad, that changes everything! My sincere apologies!

Time to switch to Jellyfin.

I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or if you truly don’t understand. But let me know if you’re serious and I can fully explain why everyone else here finds it funny.

I enjoyed it too and I wish it took up more of my screen space. We’re in the lead now!

Don’t you go dragging Linux into this /s

I’m not sure where you live but around here middle class income is enough to buy most used cars except luxury, and if you make concessions in other areas of life a new car is entirely within someone’s means. Not mine, but if my situation was slightly different and I didn’t have certain financial responsibilities I might be able to afford one. And I make just about the median income around here. I live in a relatively poor neighborhood.

New cars aren’t that out of reach with loans for a large portion of people in first world countries. I’m not saying it’s a GOOD financial decision, quite the opposite. But it’s possible to do.

The what? I’m not familiar with any yellow ball in the sky. You mean when corn gets really tall? That shit can make so much ethanol.

I’m referring to the market of people who can already afford one, but choose not to because of various reasons like range, charging speed, politics, charging availability, etc. I never said the only reason they’re unattractive is anything specific. But anything that helps them get in the mainstream consciousness will eventually help things like mass production, research, and market share, which will also help price and overall technology improvement speed. $5k electric cars may come in the future but nothing relating to ethanol in gas will directly cause those to appear and before that happens EVs in general need to become more accepted and more adopted.

Oh I’m explicitly not talking about tesla here. But yes, those are all good points that I agree with.

Yeah I know it will barely make a dent. But I think making them just a little tiny bit more attractive is a good thing. Speed up the adoption, cultural acceptance and general acceleration of technology ever so slightly.