I took a peek in a recycling bin last time I was at Target and saw a handful of vapes in there, this would be a good place to start.

…I just put a Zigbee contact sensor on my mailbox lid and called it a day…

I have a similar thing, it just sends me a notification to my phone on Tuesday night and it won’t let me clear it unless I mark the trash as taken out

I just moved into a house with my friend and he gave me full reign to smart home the house. Every light has an Innr Zigbee bulb, which are great for having colors during parties and color temperature throughout the day (Adaptive Lighting in HACS), as well as motion controls in the hallway (which has a broken 2 way switch) and kitchen. The front porch light turns on when I come home if I’m on foot, and the back porch light comes on if I’m driving. The lights in the living room turn down if something’s playing and it pauses if I leave the room. We’ve got an old android tablet I stole from the trash on the kitchen wall for a shopping list as well as an overview of the house. They washer and dryer have vibration sensors so we get an alert on our Google homes when our load is finished (we’re both forgetful as fuck). I had an extra contact sensor left over from the doors that I put on the mailbox, so we get a nice AOL “you’ve got mail” when the mailman comes.

Frankly I don’t know how I survived without automation. I forget things so much less now.

As far as I’m aware they can only be used on Android. I did a search for APK on Roku and I all found were some articles erroneously calling custom channels APKs. Roku does let you side load custom channels in developer mode, but you can remove software like you can on an android box, so you’re always stuck with Roku’s ad riddled home page and whatever injects ads into HDMI

Roku is not android based, and doesn’t have an accessible ADB interface or similar

HTPC or Google TV. With Google TV you can at least ADB the shit away

Avoid Sengled. I switched to Innr Zigbee bulbs for repeater functionality & they’re better than the Sengleds in every way (except price, like $25/bulb but it’s worth it)

If you don’t want to buy a domain you can try a reverse DNS lookup, your ISP may already give you one. Mine was C-XX-XX-XX-XX.hsd1.pa.comcast.net and I could get a let’s encrypt certificate with that. I did end up buying a domain but it was good for personal use

Not the original question, but if you have just a normal “Nest Thermostat” (Not learning or E) it has matter support and you can add it over matter without paying $5

Well this isn’t the news I wanted to hear from this…

In America I just use my buddy Carl. He’s also my doctor.

Edge has done this by default since release, with an option to be more strict in what it blocks

I’d give the Pope a copy of undertale

LocalTuya on HACS, it’s a bit of a pain to setup and requires you to make a tuya dev account (free) but as far as I can tell you can delete it after, it’s just to get the security keys to actually control the devices, and then issue them locally. My devices were much more responsive after doing so

Glad to hear it worked! I edited the comment in case anybody stumbles across it with the same issue

It’s not “best practice”, but a compromised key is a compromised key whether that key is used to connect 1 or 100 computers to a server. No, I can’t shut off access to exactly one machine, I do not however have any difficulty in shutting off access to every machine and replacing it with a new key. Your system and my system are no different with a single compromised key.

If I had 100 computers that I had to change identity files on each time it was compromised, and my keys were being compromised often, I would see a benefit from using multiple different keys.

Quit acting like I’ve left the front door to my house open when the door is locked but my roommate and I share the same key.

This is actually quite handy, I’ve got a yubikey already and didn’t know they could be used for ssh

Again, I know it’s not amazing security but it’s not inherently bad. The key (actually encrypted), if (not when) compromised would provide the same level of access to my system as having two keys with one compromised. Assuming I’m an all knowing wizard and can smell when a key is compromised, I can log in remotely and replace the old key with a freshly generated one. More likely however is that if anybody was going to actually do something with my compromised key, they’d clear my authorized_keys file and replace it with a key I don’t have access to. Don’t kid yourself into thinking having multiple keys suddenly makes you 10x more secure.

What’s more likely is someone finds my flashdrive on the ground, goes “oh boy free flashdrive full of Linux ISOs and recovery tools!” And proceeds to wipe it and use it for their own shit, while I regenerate a new key when I notice it missing.

I use the same identity file for all of my computers. I don’t have password auth enabled on my server and it’s an extreme inconvenience when I’m on a new machine and have to dig out a different machine to get a copy of my new key to the server. Best practice? Probably not, but I’d rather that than having password auth enabled. I keep an encrypted copy of my id_rsa on my thumb drive so I’ve always got it when I need it.

I had never personally heard of ConnectBot, but it says last updated in February of this year on Google Play. I don’t see a real reason to use it over Termux however.