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Flying_Hellfish @ Flying_Hellfish @lemmy.world
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Home Assistant 2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything!

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  • Development has been going crazy for the last year or so. I don't regret a single cent I've paid for the nabu casa cloud subscription (not many subs I can say that about). I do, however, regret that I only have so much money to spend on new things to attach TO home assistant and start automating.

    • Do you all have any tips on activities to do yourself, instead of consuming content all the time?

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  • I started just with a 2 bay nas that I had a few VMs on... then it spiraled. Back with PIs were cheap it was fun to spin up new stuff all the time. Now an N100 mini-pc is way more cost effective long term, plus you get to start dipping into VMs, LXC, docker, etc.

    Not to mention Home Assistant is an entire hobby in itself. 4 more aqara devices just came for me today.

    I do feel like I should second the comment that it isn't cheap, but you can do things in bits and pieces that don't make it feel like you're spending your life savings.

    • 11 Democratic senators call on DEA to deschedule marijuana entirely

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  • givesmefucks beat me to it. :)

    • Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks

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  • Very true, the big issue with them is a lot of popular hardware keys, including the yubikeys that I have, are limited to the number passkeys they can store (yubikey is 25 unique). Luckily password managers are starting to support them, but now you're back to having a strong password + hardware 2FA to store those passkeys anyway.

    I do like TOTP or just hardware 2FA as a backup for my passkeys. What I really can't stand is sties that only offer SMS as 2FA, it makes me more angry than it probably should.

    • Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks

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  • Not entirely, but now MS, and a lot of other companies, are pushing passkeys. I still prefer password + hardware 2fa but it's safer than people reusing the same password everywhere.

    • Unironically spray on shoes could be a good idea

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    • Resetting Timers

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  • No, but you CAN use HA timers in NodeRED. You just have to trigger off the state of the timer itself. I did get it to work but it was quite a bit of spaghetti, I found it easier to use eventID triggers in the standard automation GUI for dealing with persistent timers.

    • Self hosted free iOS MDM

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  • Mobile Device Manager, used for protecting/locking down devices.

    • Ah yes, smart lights need Tor.

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  • The zigbee bulbs I've had the best luck with are Innr, although they are kind of pricy. Ikea bulbs are good for the price, but every one I have, has very loud coil whine when off. I had some on bedside stands and had to move them to other rooms. Sengled are nice when they work, I've had issues with them dropping off my network.

    Both Ikea and Innr are also repeaters, Sengled does not do repeaters in their bulbs. Neither Ikea or Innr are exactly cheap, but they've been the most solid for me.

    • Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

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  • I did this as well, I still have 2 pihole instances running with gravitysync for now, but AGH sync is much easier to setup and maintain. My 2 pihole instances are running for my guest network only and AGH is running everything else.

    • What should I use my RPi4 for?

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  • I ran HA on mine for a while before I moved it to a VM. Right now I'm using my Pi as a secondary wireguard VPN in case my primary is down for some reason.

    Also, quick tip, I found that ikea zigbee bulbs work really well but have really bad coil whine when off, don't use them for bedside lighting.

    • Washington state sues to block proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons grocery chains

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    • Your PC will thank you...

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  • Thank you. I saw there is a community goxlr project on github as well. For me, not having the official support is frustrating. I spend a lot of time messing around with community projects for my homelab. I don't want that effort transferred over to my daily driver.

    What I'm really waiting for is a decent/cost effective AMD laptop I can scoop up to put linux on.

    • Your PC will thank you...

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  • Gaming? Use Windows (and yes, although I’m a proud Proton user, some games just won’t work, like Valorant and PUBG).

    I love proton on my steamdeck, and I'd like to try to go linux vs having to stay on win10 with no updates on my gaming computer. But outside of some games not working, a lot of hardware/accessories don't have official support either. As far as I can tell, goxlr, streamdeck, and other hardware/software I use daily, have no official support, which for items I use that often makes it pretty much a non-starter on migrating.

    • Especially with a real one!

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    • Here's a phone, call somebody who cares

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  • How, how are you disabled?

    • Android may soon tell you when it's time to replace your phone's battery

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  • Knife goes in, battery comes out

    • HGTV 'FLIPLANTHROPY' PILOT - Exclusive First Look | Nathan Fielder [CC] (8:43)

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  • This is likely a marketing video. Fliplanthropy is the name of their show that they are selling to HGTV in The Curse.

    • What's the funniest WiFi network name you've seen?

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  • This is actually one of my SSIDs. FlowersByIrene

    • Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested

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  • I still use "We did it reddit" at least once a week, in response to someone fucking something up