If you’rein the US I’ve been looking at the Honeywell T6 Pro which is the Pro model of the thermostat I already have and can apparently integrate with HA via ZWave and last I saw they were like $140.

They switched away from the donations to implement this when they got acquired by FUTO

Awesome that’s good to hear, all my LEDs and stuff I have blocked to everything but HA at my firewall but some devices like my smart vacuum apparently NEED internet access to work at all which I was hoping it didn’t. My current doorbell needs it I think but hoping to get a new doorbell and camera when I move next year.

Are you able to have it blocked or limited from the greater internet and just comm with HA or does it need that as well.

The cheapest option Is the monthly one for no security updates, there are still regular pro and higher plans which are one and done, no grandfathering

Once you learn it it isn’t super crazy but takes a lot of effort obviously. I think most people who do use k3s and k8s at home are people who use it for work so already knows how and where things should work and be. That said I work with kubernetes every day for work managing a handful of giant production clusters and at home I use unraid to keep it simple.

Appreciate the info, hadn’t heard of any of that and I’m typing this from my Nothing Phone2. It was the only high performance phone cheaper than the galaxy and pixel devices and supports custom ROMs for the future. I don’t use any specific Nothing apps or buds or launcher or anything. Also moved off most google apps as well so using open source and Android system apps or calls so hopefully shouldn’t be too affected!

Why is that?

I use Kavita since I don’t get audiobooks and found out about it before ABS. I convert amazon bought ebooks to epub using calibre and put them on my unraid server to get picked up by kavita. Any epub can be emailed from kavita to my device.

Was just about to comment I manually upgraded to 555 and Firefox crashes every so often, running a game for 12 minutes was smooth

I use endeavorOS with my 3070 and if runs great. Better than what I could get from Pop and nobara when I evaluated them months ago

I appreciate the look behind the curtain but since apple was found in a court to have deceived customers and was proven of wrong doing it certainly is a bit more than just the media blowing it out of proportion or Apple actually doing people a favor that was misinterpreted. For example 3 days a week I use a phone from 2018 that was my daily driver for 3 years and needed to use it as a backup MFA device that I also sometimes stream and watch media on for a few hours a day. Updated it to the latest LineageOS and haven’t had to worry about freezing or being slow or shutting off and corrupting my shit.

So much so that TFLClassics on YouTube in Colorado bought a well maintained model T and drove it to the nearest dealership and had mechanics there change the oil and take it for a spin just the other week.

It’s not even almost, in 2019 there was a settlement where they were found to literally be making older devices artificially slower once a newer model or two was out. Settlement sign ups ended in 2020, search Apple slowdown lawsuit.

Because that phone would last and you would only need a new one every 4-5 or however many years instead of 1-2 so capitalist companies won’t see that as having any value.

I think companies know what people want and how to make a great phone like that, just none of them will or want to be the first.

I have an all Ubiquiti setup and only use local accounts for everything. UDM Pro, 2 8 port switches and 2 APs, U6Mesh and another older AP. One of my accounts had me turn on MFA but every device still let’s me use a local account with a password and ssh key. Do you know what devices are forcing that?

I had a Samsung for the past 4 years and TIL best buy had a Samsung repair program

Started playing and currently addicted to XCOM Enemy within. Started playing on PC but thought it was old enough I could continue it on my deck. Only the expansion enemy within launches so had to start over but my first play through was NOT going very well at all. Really enjoying that game and picked up XCOM2 for $3 a few days ago.

I dig it, if they had this version out when I got my Phone2 6 months ago would have snagged it.

I will say I have an RTX 3080 and AMD CPU and had issues gaming with fedora, Nobara and PopOS just a few months ago, endeavorOS is the only thing that hasn’t had or caused issues. Been running it for a couple months now