At least on Android, you can make TTS go through your alarm channel on your phone at max volume, to really make sure you don’t miss it. I do this for my alarm and doorbell (only when I’m at home).

Crontab to just auto reboot daily is probably better - if your PC becomes unresponsive I doubt it would be able to execute another script on top of everything. Ideally though, you’d do some log diving and figure out the cause.

I got a NUC on ebay for about the same price, maybe a little less. Has more I/O and an SSD.

Why block Wine? It’s gotta be a tiny fraction of their user base.

Can you share your redacted frigate config?

I use scenes to control my lights and use those in my automations instead. This lets me create “groups” of lights to control.

Greedy short-sighted execs strike again.

Will the game world still be empty?

They haven’t released that information yet. We won’t know until the layoffs are complete.

Your “guess” is incorrect because you have no idea how any of this works, and no idea who is being let go. You also clearly don’t use Twitch very much, so how could you possibly know the features that need to be maintained, deployed, fixed, and managed?

You have not provided examples except for your own company and Valve, which is in a different industry. None of those work as a comparison.

I hate greedy corporations like Twitch, and am not defending them. I’m simply trying to tell you why you’re wrong, and you just keep parroting the same incorrect assumptions back. Why do you want Twitch to lay off even more people? It seems like you might be the one defending them, since this is a thread about layoffs after all. Layoffs that they shouldn’t be doing because ultimately the execs were the ones that fucked up if they overhired, and they’re also the ones that want more money for themselves. Layoffs = bigger exec bonuses.

No. Video is much more bandwidth intensive. Transcoding streams is also one of the most hardware intensive things you can do. They’re not the same, and just because they don’t own the hardware does not mean that they don’t have to manage their hardware. AWS only provides access to their platform to Twitch in the same way they do for normal customers, therefore Twitch must handle everything the same as a normal customer would. They just get discounts, that’s the only difference; they still own their infra. I think you might not know what “infra” is.

You are continuing to assume that you’re correct and smarter than a huge company with thousands of employees. If you know how Twitch can reduce headcount further, I’m sure the greedy execs would love to hear your ideas. They’d love to fire more engineers with your brilliant solution.

Scale and bandwidth. Valve is not in the same industry, and you cannot use it as a comparison.

Bandwidth doesn’t require extra manpower? Since when? If you have a solution to reduce manpower for massive amounts of daily bandwidth, you could change big tech forever. So please enlighten us.

Where are you getting the idea that having that much traffic, bandwidth, and daily active users only requires a skeleton crew? It’s clear to me that you’ve never worked at scale, and never have you had to deal with anything related to big tech (and I have, which is why I know that you’re incorrect). If you ever go to a bigger company, you are in for a shock. You really think a huge company like Twitch just has dead weight that they pay salary to for no reason, when their goal is ultimately to make more money?

It’s okay to be wrong. What’s not okay is continually refusing to admit that you are in the wrong when multiple people are telling you exactly what the flaw in your logic is. You clearly are not worth arguing with, because you always have to be right and can never be wrong.

so we don’t have to scale much

I think this is the part that you’re taking for granted. “Customers in the thousands” is no where near the scale of Twitch, and I can guarantee that Twitch uses more bandwidth a day than your company uses in a year (but probably multiple years).

Friends don’t let friends use Snap.

As of January 2024 Sony has a market cap of $116.02 Billion. This makes Sony the world’s 119th most valuable company by market cap.

Yeah, $14 mil is the cost of doing business for Sony, a slap on the wrist.

Reolink has a wifi video doorbell that works great, it has an integration with Home Assistant but also with Frigate. I use Frigate personally, since it’s better at person detection and I can record directly to my server. If you don’t use Frigate, you can record to an SD card that you slot into the back of the doorbell.

How will it last as long as Skyrim when it has relatively little to no content?

This is the main reason I haven’t even entertained buying 2.

This thread on the inovelli forums has the wiring you need to do, but you can directly associate z-wave bulbs with the z-wave dimmer. I have the inovelli blue dimmers, and do exactly that (except with Zigbee, easier to find the lights for those though)

And this site has z-wave devices, you can probably find compatible bulbs there.

Was about to mention Mikrotik. They even have a 100GBit switch for under $800 (CRS504-4XQ-IN).