Are you using those sensors for something? Have you seen this?

https://github.com/esphome/wake-word-voice-assistants/issues/26

Sounds like for many people, just disable, but if you’re actually using it, need to do some manual config migration to a new entity.

Did they ever fix the orientation?

Just following longstanding studio practice of putting the masters in a vault so you can forget about them.

They’re not used to the risks of bit rot.

If they ever come out with a service that has everything, no commercial breaks, and you can download for offline use, those pirates will be in real trouble.

Arbitration clause for wrongful death?

Eww…

I heard Southwest Airlines is migrating from Windows 3.1 to Steam Decks.

I hope it’s a case of the writer glossing over details, like it corrupts its own files in a way Steam can’t understand or recover.

The implication that a malicious app can break the whole OS is scary.

Apple implemented a kernel API for security software and made it good enough that they forced their own tools to use the API.

MS’s own tools depended on kernel access but they tried locking out 3rd party vendors without building a replacement like Apple did.

McAfee and Symantec correctly pointed out how this would be using monopolist powers to block competitors.

Microsoft needs to shut up and do the work to make their kernel secure.

DRM music in 2024?

Steal the song because you do own it and DRM is trying to steal it from you.

Hold up, that’s like a 1 in 10,000 chance of getting busted. Sounds like the smart move is to roll the dice.

American term for German car.

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Pretty sure you mean https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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A service needs a server, not just a phone. Do you want to self host, or use the entire hardware installation in someone’s cloud data center?

You can run HA on lighter hardware, or use a VM or docker, but it needs something to host.

When I say “hey Siri open my garage door”, my phone does voice recognition, calls the Apple Home app, which calls my local Home Assistant server, which calls the RATGDO which opens the door.

40-drive RAID is moving out of homelab territory and pretty deep into enterprise storage systems.

Do you already have these 40 drives or are you spacing out a new NAS from scratch?

If it’s from scratch I’d first see if I could get it down to 20 or 24 larger drives to allow the whole thing to fit in a single 4U rackmount case.

Bigger than that and you’re probably stuck with proprietary NAS hardware to link together multiple racks.

They’re not publishers so this only adds costs to them.

They will oppose it just enough to skirt responsibility by offloading enforcement to an unaccountable automated system.

It’s a niche of the hard drive market. It persists in “surveillance” HDDs but that’s because they’re optimized for endurance, and low noise is just a side effect.

Not too many people are putting a NAS in their living room.

I use Lutron Caseta which has a local hub and no cloud control. It’s the same company and I didn’t get that notice.

Wonder what’s different about the Decora switches?