Most of the blame should be on the heritage foundation who is coordinating all of this.

Have they finally realized that the government is trying to take away their rights too?

I decided to burn a forest down and empty an aquafer for you. I hope you appreciate it!

I’m still disappointed that tags are absent from the mobile app.

That explains all the problems when I got a new phone. Now I know how to fix it properly.

I will agree with you on the mugshot/arrest thing. You could have 100 charges brought against you and still be innocent.
If you’ve been convicted of 34 felonies and been impeached twice, that’s a slightly different matter.

Unfortunately, making a point succinctly often means making a broader statement than desired.

I didn’t know that. I’ve been using HACS for years and never needed an account.

If it is needed for new installs, then I’m very disappointed. An open source add-on for an open source, self-hosted project should not require users to make an account with a large corporation who routinely adds spyware to their products.

I bought a Brother laser printer (all in one). HomeAssistant immediately detected it and asked if I wanted to install the integration. All diagnostics were available immediately, and aside from some Wi-Fi issues (not the printer’s fault), everything worked perfectly.

Unlike my old Cannon printer, I can print flawlessly from Linux and from my phone with no additional setup. I haven’t tried aftermarket toner, but I see no reason that it wouldn’t work.

My Brother printer has a local webpage for advanced settings. I used the webpage to add a shortcut to the printer screen so that family members can scan to the NAS with one button.

A Brother mono laser printer is probably the best value you’ll get. I certainly didn’t need an all in one color laser printer, but it’s nice to have.

Do you think you could make an automatic warranty claim for the door not being strong enough for standard use?

If your device is not quite strong enough, a small spring that’s too weak to open the door on its own could help.

If you access to the side, then a form of lever could provide mechanical advantage (just check what the fulcrum rests on or you might dent something).

If you aren’t concerned with reusability, dynamite is fairly effective at opening doors.

I don’t believe any AI has the ability to do what you’re asking. AI often fails at the simplest of programming tasks, and even when the output runs, it usually has some major flaws.

Even if the AI could do what you want, it would take more effort to find the right prompt than to just do the work, and the prompt would be longer than the resulting YAML code.

You can ask for advice on specific home assistant features, or offer to hire someone to build the interface for you.

My personal recommendation is to just give it a try. Make a few interfaces and automations, and try downloading and modifying other publicly accessible interfaces and automations until you’re happy with them. The YAML code makes it easy to copy other people’s work, and the non-YAML UI makes it relatively easy to try things without programming knowledge.

It was the best option at the time, and I didn’t feel like setting up Windows more than once as I gradually added new software and removed other software.

That particular VM doesn’t get booted very often anymore.

I use it in a VM because it’s better than Windows 10, some programs refuse to run on Linux, and I don’t need to provide the VM with an internet connection.

My actual server is an old laptop and it does not run Windows.

Even my friend who insists that Windows is superior still uses Linux for his gaming server because it’s easier to set up and manage.

If you want really cheap and low power, a Raspberry Pi will do for most tasks.

If you want more processing power, an old Thinkpad laptop is reliable and has a built-in UPS (a laptop battery).

Any desktop computer will give you the customisation and upgradability you want, but you’ll need to decide on each part individually. I don’t have any specific recommendations here.

The one good thing is that the AI features are opt in, not opt out.

I’d prefer to have it as an add-on or integration you have to manually install, but I guess I’ll survive with inactive bloatware.

A device was occasionally failing and I wanted to know about it fairly quickly. I didn’t always notice push notifications, so I made my room light cycle through the rainbow. It’s hard to miss.

Welcome to the club!

I have 3 computer monitors, and one is effectively dedicated to displaying Home Assistant. I started running HA on a Raspberry Pi 2 (not recommend, but possible), and upgraded to an old ThinkPad when adding a few more demanding tasks.

I’ve recently got into self hosting, ad found that HA runs equally well in docker as OS. The output on the laptop is not particularly useful considering you can do just about everything remotely.

Advice: Make backups, save any configuration files you make/change, then just go nuts and tinker with everything.

Almost everything can be done using the GUI (and it’s fairly user friendly), but it’s worth at least knowing how to access the YAML. Copying other people’s code (with permission) is a great way to learn and find new features.

Read the documentation before installing the community store (HACS). Is easy to install, but has a few steps that will keep you troubleshooting for hours if you don’t follow them the first time.
My favourite HACS integration is apexcharts-card. It takes a little learning to get right, but the graphs look really good. I’d be happy to share some tips and examples if you’re interested.

Biden could have used it to prevent fascism. He chose not to.

I’m not saying both parties are the same, but party is actively making things worse while the other is happily letting them do it while fighting against anyone trying to stop them.

Maybe capitalism needs to be removed from politics.

It looks a lot like Kettle Logic to me.

I’m guessing https://www.getzooz.com/ but it’s hard to be sure when there are so many companies named ZOOZ and the article doesn’t clearly state which one.