oh, didn’t notice that the implicit assumptions stopped at “meeting an alien race”

wondering if all this investment they’re doing on voice is going to have diminishing returns, like, the whole pitch for HA cloud integration is that you could see and use your HA devices with your cloud enabled voice assistant services, right? Nabu Casa makes money for the HA project. is getting rid of the middle man worth it? I needed some first hand experience to convince myself about getting into it or just simply keep paying for NC

I mean, there’s also a DLNA browser built in which I can browse my media with, but what we are looking for is a Jellyfin/Plex experience right?

my personal excuse is that I have a Samsung TV and there’s no Jellyfin app yet on the app store (I don’t want to side load)

we’ve never breed humans selectively for tastiness

I believe that the OS puts the CPU in a different state, that’s all. while the BIOS and the UEFI shell had it boosting all the time or something like that

I bought a N5100 from AliExpress and I use it to run my -arr apps and Plex, and so far it has behaved really good. It’s fanless in an all-metal case and it gets a bit hot, but nothing you wouldn’t put your hand over. Weirdly, before I installed Debian in it, the BIOS and UEFI console made the CPU so hot I was worried it would not work without a fan, but after the OS took over, it’s working without any issue. I installed 16gb of ram in it and two SSDs, and the power consumption is so low I’m really amazed.

Edit: I might add, I bought it barebones, so I missed the W11 license, but I was never planning to use it anyway.

Follow up question: does anyone have a good source for ebooks in Spanish? currently using lectulandia

the problem with VPN and HA is that if you want to use your phone as a presence sensor, you need to keep your phone connected to your VPN at all times or the HA app won’t be able to update your sensors.

Some things that you might notice are devices going through battery much faster than you might expect, this has to do with the implementation of battery reporting on some devices under ZHA, I can’t say who’s fault it’s it, but at least on Z2M you can even set the reporting intervals manually (if the device supports this)

I don’t have anything bad to say of Plex as a company, and I wish them luck on their endeavor, but if they ever fall, I just hope they open source their software…

I have the feeling that this is very dependant of the motherboard having virtualization support for the PCIE slot, but I can’t recall the name of the feature

I’m planning on moving my media server to this machine too 😅

I have my house switch to night mode after a certain amount of time after sunset. During night mode:

• turning my computer on or off will toggle my desk light.
• if my cellphone is put over my wireless charger it will turn off my bed light (or turn it back on if I remove it).