While probably true, it’s not like I can trust Guinness World Records on this.

Good.

Yeah, I chose it since it’s at least local-only. Much higher doubt Apple can ever take that integration from me - and if they do, I can just stay on a Home Assistant version that doesn’t.

I swapped from Nest to Ecobee. Working in Home Assistant via HomeKit entirely on my local net. All is well. Thanks Google!

Recently was given an Ecobee smart thermostat. Ecobee does not have a great integration for Home Assistant, but Home Assistant can act like an Apple HomeKit hub, and if you provision the smart thermostat through that, it is entirely local.

I think you gotta use the app to provision and then turn on the RTSP or ONVINF settings, then once you have the IP address, you just add the RTSP stream to Frigate

They said 2-player splitscreen on console.

I use Reolink front door camera with RTSP (thru Frigate) to HA if that’s at all interesting

I mean preppers try to be as self sufficient as they can. Hosting your own stuff is similar to that, so yeah, I guess.

My outage was when the internet to my house was intermittent, not when AWS went down

I started up an Arch box a few months ago. I have an Nvidia GPU and Intel CPU. I’ve had no issues with drivers since that install, and I’m updating proprietary drivers when available.

Yep, or Pop! OS.

I was just surprised exactly how easy Arch was after years of being told it’s practically like building your own distro by yourself. I was meaning to convey even the memetically difficult distribution is not that hard anymore.

Recently did this. I have a fair bit of history in CLI Linux and ancient desktop distributions. However, it’s my first time using Arch. Not only did archinstall sidestep the meme that Arch is hard to install, but I just installed nvidia drivers, steam, and started playing games. Aside from arch not coming with a browser by default to help look up things on the wiki (I didn’t specify in archinstall, so my fault), one pacman command later and it’s time to configure it to my liking.

Genuinely curious: what’s the use case?

I’ve been using a Reolink Wi-Fi doorbell connected to my own Frigate server over RTSP. Frigate talks to HA via MQTT and everything works from there.

Competition has grown in the industry and long-term live-service black hole games have captured parts of the potential purchase-base so wholly that they don’t really spend elsewhere.

Game companies have plenty of methods for bringing costs down, but making games faster gives you more attempts at a very competitive market. (Some) Indie games are sort of proving this right. If you make a relatively quality game in a short time period and release it for a relatively good price, you can get your foot in the door of the market. If you spend 5+ years making the biggest game you’ve ever made and it sucks, your studio dies.

The big question is if AAA shifts to making games faster, are they going to be of a high enough quality to justify the outrageous price publishers will still want to set for them? (easy: no)

Basically I see it as the industry splitting even further. The AAA games that make money will continue to do so only so long as their last game lets them float 5+ year dev cycles. Otherwise, companies and publishers are going to reduce risk and investment and push developers to make their game faster, get to market faster. Arguably that would be healthy for the industry, but I know it won’t be.

Apparently not canceled

Possible, but I think that particular feature is more aimed at EU electrical prices.

Fix would be government regulation.

Alternatives are sending cash by mail, accepting bank ACH, and of course, cryptocurrency.

Technically just a neural net, but yes

BYD uses lidar, so yeah, Tesla