Up until recently, Debian on everything. Main PC/ laptop are running Artix (Arch minus systemd) and my servers are still on Debian

I agree, with the caveat that it’s very nice to be able to pay with my phone/ watch if/when forget my wallet, rather than having to go back home to get it.

Lol, thanks. I think it’s still worth it if you want more ownership over your searches, but just expect some rough edges

Recently I’ll often get results that aren’t at all related to what I searched for. I also get a lot of timeouts from the upstream search engines, and sometimes I get results that are in Chinese for some reason

Self hosting and the maintenance is painless, but the results have been pretty terrible lately

Sell to pay my electricity bill

SFF Optiplec are great. I went with a decently spec’d Intel NUC running Proxmox that handles all my home services nicely without using too much power.

Fully custom? Sick! Where do I get one? 😅

Oh this looks interesting, thank you. So you basically just backup the relevant parts of the file system and then use this to restore in case of an incident/ emergency? A little more hands on than just restoring from a Proxmox backup, but probably also more agnostic/ interoperable.

I recently started playing with scenes too. Maybe I should go that route with more of my lights

Molto bello!

Yes, definitely. That’s one of the reasons I’ve implemented this way. If a light (for example) had the physical switch turned off and back on, a lot of smart bulbs will go to the on state, even if HA had previously set (and expects it to be) off. The next execution may turn it off in an off state, on in an on state, on from an off state or off from an on state, but either way that truth table will resolve after an iteration

Oh that’s good to know. I have a handful of Kasa bulbs and I don’t give them WAN access. They seem to be mostly fine without WAN, but I do get communication issues with them from time to time (which is why I’m exploring zigbee as an alternative). Thank you for the reply!

Great points. I have white a few smart switches through the house to control things both physically and via Home Assistant. Most of the other lights are wifi based and work mostly as expected with occasional drops (which can get annoying). Was wanting to experiment with ZigBee to see if it was more reliable, but it sounds like that might not be the case

Ambient Weather looks great. Just with it had air quality as well

I’ll check this out, thanks!

Thanks for the reply. Something like this guy? That looks perfect, thanks!

Rsync or SCP?

That would be my exit sign

Good idea. I should back these up to Tresorit from time to time as well. Thanks!