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That's cool. Similar to how I use my heating Home Assistant integration.

Yes, typically you get to talk to real lawyers. They may not be the best lawyers on the planet, but if you just need some advice, you should be perfectly fine.

Imagine being American and not even having health insurance

I recommend you try Gentoo and DWM. You don't have to use this setup forever, but at least try setting it up. Installing Gentoo, patching DWM and st, etc. is fun and it's an interesting experience. If you want to use Wayland, check out dwl and the foot terminal emulator. Perhaps you're actually gonna like Gentoo and stick with it, I think it's a great distro. They also provide binaries for larger programs, so you don't have to compile stuff like Firefox. But definitely try out custom kernels.

Anna’s Archive is probably the best source for books. I use it all the time, actually, I even use it right now. It's also great for students who need textbooks. Fuck Pearson and those other scammers!

The developer is German, in Germany it's pretty common to have a Rechtsschutzversicherung. You pay them monthly or yearly and in exchange you can request legal advice from one of their lawyers af any time. It's pretty neat.

Let's prove to companies that hostility towards open source can be really bad for them

This is cool, I actually such something similar for my old school (~10 year old) AC unit because Infrared is the only way to control it.

I haven't seen such a list. But GitHub maintains a repo at https://github.com/github/dmca with all the DMCA notices they receive. And also, fuck Mazda as well for taking down innocent FOSS projects. Simply for this reason, I'm never buying any of their cars. There are enough other car makers on the market.

I don't even think this is honest, I doubt that a small FOSS project is causing "significant economic damage" to a company of such size. It's just user-hostility and the wish to control the users and the products they bought and paid for. Unfortunately, this is an increasing trend among companies.

Well that's even worse and it's the reason we need local, self-hosted open source alternatives like Home Assistant.

Corporations and their shitty proprietary cloud services...

Yeah, but the delay is minimal. I'm sure you wouldn't notice.

The UEFI firmware shouldn't connect to the internet at all. You can't rule it out entirely, but the threat is pretty small. Theoretically, it can access your hard drives, but again, it's very unlikely that your BIOS will exfiltrate your data and send it somewhere. If you want to be sure, use LUKS for full disk encryption.

That's amazing. I love such open source projects! I love the Lemmy, Home Assistant and Open Source community.

Usually, the open source community finds a solution for everything

Awesome! This is why I love the Lemmy community.

Still a ridiculous move. If I buy an appliance, I pay for it and I own it. I am allowed to do with it whatever I want. If I want to use my own solution for controlling it, hosted on my own server, I should have every right to do so. Fuck corporations and their shitty cloud solutions.

Too many probably

Do you use any smart home solution with your AC? Maybe even Home Assistant? Just curious