In addition to these guys knowing what they are doing and pushing firmware updates straight through Home Assistant, every purchase also supports the Open Home Foundation.
I’m pretty sure you can achieve similar performance with cheaper dongles.
When they first released ZHA the interface was very barebones compared to Z2M. I saw the current Home Assistant interface in their stream on the ZBT-2 and it looks a lot more like a proper Zigbee interface now.
I don’t think there is going to be much of a performance difference between ZHA and Z2M, mostly just how you interact with it.
I have been waiting for them to release the Zigbee equivalent to their ZWA-2. Ordered one.
Does anybody use Zigbee directly in Home Assistant? I’m currently still on Zigbee2MQTT but I’m wondering if I should switch over to the Zigbee integration in Home Assistant.
Yes, but that doesn’t help you with the large providers (Gmail, Outlook, …) unfortunately.
I finally moved my mail server from Hetzner to my homelab.
Pretty smooth sailing so far. For now I’m using Scaleway for outgoing mails since I can’t set a PTR record here but I might just try sending a few without PTR to see how other providers react.
Did they ever fix the invisible enemies in Bloodborne on higher resolutions? That was the only issue keeping me from finally playing Bloodborne.
How do they know who abuses their refund policy?
They can’t track play time on downloaded titles at all.
Self-hosting is trivial and everyone can do it.
Exposing services to the internet is not.
Just like everyone doing open heart surgery on dummies is fine, everyone self-hosting in their own network is fine. You can buy hardware right now that connects to power and wifi and you are self-hosting.
If you play it on PC (and have a proper HDR monitor/TV), check out RenoDX’s HDR mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/6
Absolutely gorgeous.
I bought Resident Evil 0 on GOG yesterday but Heroic wouldn’t download the game for some reason (stuck at 0%). Refunded, got it on Steam for cheaper and it launched right away.
Sometimes I purchase on GOG out of principle and for some reason they always punish me for it.
Not sure if it counts as “budget friendly” but the best and cheapest method right now to run decently sized models is a Strix Halo machine like the Bosgame M5 or the Framework Desktop.
Not only does it have 128GB of VRAM/RAM, it sips power at 10W idle and 120W full load.
It can run models like gpt-oss-120b or glm-4.5-air (Q4/Q6) at full context length and even larger models like glm-4.6, qwen3-235b, or minimax-m2 at Q3 quantization.
Running these models is otherwise not currently possible without putting 128GB of RAM in a server mainboard or paying the Nvidia tax to get a RTX 6000 Pro.
They could also finally allow you to start games without updating.
Check out Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps as well.
Majima is the best.
I really miss playing as him with breaker style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAGRUO1nwM
The game is Steam Deck verified and the developer even noted that Steam Deck support for the new anti-cheat was tested before release. I played a few hours right after release and it worked fine, so not sure when “initially” is.
I didn’t get this because it’s not Steam Deck verified on launch and it does not support ultrawide resolutions out of the box.
You can do better Double Fine.
The Matrix server is a normal Signal client that can encrypt/decrypt messages from your account.
Assuming you trust your server, no. I would not use it on a third party Matrix server.
Sure, I got all my Signal/Telegram chats synced to my Matrix server.
That explains why my Matrix <-> Signal bridge was complaining about being disconnected.
Do you mean Zigbee in general or the ZBT-2?