My best friend at work is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He will never not be - and I rush to profess that he is not an asshole...he just thinks conservitave/republican is the side he needs to support probably because that's what daddy did, dunno. We see eye-eye on most other things.
We do not agree on anything political except that everyone is way too heated up over everything. We are still friends, regardless.
My point in responding is that his gay daughter disconnected from him after Trump v.1 - would not take a call or interact in any way. This is painful for my friend and he has been confused by it but does not realize why his daughter won't engage. I think she is offended that his political choice doesn't allow for her right to exist and, frankly I agree with her.
I think my friend has lost his daughter forever because he is a stubborn man. I hope your dad can open his heart to accept you.
Being of use to someone else - something as simple as opening a door or something as hard as helping someone change a tire on the road. That karma is like a hit of the stuff I don't do anymore.
You have the safety in your life apparently to decide that your moral high ground is more important than your income. I can not speak for Snoop but for myself I need any work I can get if it pays.
As my wife pointed out - has Snoop ever said "you want to pay me? No, I'm not interested"...I see nothing wrong with a performer pulling a paycheck. Could he say no and earn nothing, sure - why would he? I, personally, think that having Snoop in the suck-circle might get weed on the radar as something that needs to be normalized.
Mushrooms - I once puked them up on the table when my mom made me eat them...canned mushrooms FTW! I now, of course, can not get enough of them - sautéed, baked, sliced/raw on a salad...gimme some fungus already!!
For a number of years when I was younger I would go find a sub-$1000 vehicle that was current on registration and just drive it into the ground then go get another one. With nothing but oil, gas, tires and occasional DIY repairs I could generally get a couple years out of them. What I saved on car payments went into a fund for the next one. Then I grew up.
I had a Hue remote laying around from before I started using HA. When I moved everything Hue onto my zigbee dongle from the hub I did the same with the remote. There is a blueprint out there that makes configuring it a breeze.
They have an API available so I could siphon off my data if I wanted to but then I would need to build something like it to use said data in. I'm good.
It isn't federated but I use Trakt to manage watch lists and scrobble my viewing history from Plex. There are some discovery features and a minor social aspect.
I join exactly at start time, down to the second. Once everyone has been counted or noticed and the droning idiot starts presenting I bug right TF out. Nothing will happen that matters because its a freakin' meeting - if something important was going on it would be an email.
I would be happy to have groups of community maintained blocklist filters - one for memes, shitposts, politics, nsfw (or not nsfw), music/media, etc. Then we could subscribe to the blocklists and when a new community is created that offends just one person has to add it to the appropriate blocklist for everybody to benefit.
Private equity used to buy distressed firms then build value to sell. The new norm is buy anything and suck it dry then let it fold in on itself and take the money elsewhere.
For example, the firm that bought Red Lobster leveraged everything their brand had to sell (cheddar bay biscuits in the grocery store). The individual stores which sat on company-owned land had their budgets re-configured to "pay rent" to the overlord which now owns everything including the land.
The costs of advertising and company image maintenance were passed down to the stores as fixed costs that local managers had to account for in their budgets without impacting the owners of the name.
No surprise that very few locations can turn a profit in that environment but the leeches at the top aren't hurt by store closings.
Private equity acquisition today is simply buying something of value to slurp it's blood then discard the husk.
I have read and worked through most of the O'Reilly animal books - perhaps this is before your time. Perl, C, C++, Java, etc.... Yak, Camel, animals galore. I still have most of them buried in a closet somewhere.
This was before you could just google or (gasp, CGPT) your answer. You had to read and learn how to do something then try, practice and refine until you had a solution.
To this day I really prefer to enter a new language with a manual that has an index and examples. I could not have learned shit with nothing but Discord and (today's) google to help.
I've only ever had 1 Shelly go out on me and it's still installed. It's a 2.5 that stopped speaking wifi. It was set to detached mode to keep some hue bulbs powered. Now the physical switches are no use but it still works so I just left it for now.
I had never heard of Shinobi, had do duck it to find out what it is. Sorry I don't have any help to give you but you mentioned unifi - you know that you can now add onvif cameras to Protect, right? That's what I use for my NVR.
They integrate fine with HA - I have several PoE and one wifi and no problems. For NVR I use unifi now that they will let you add onvif cams. For day-to-day reference to video streams I prefer viewing events in HKSV via Scrypted.
My best friend at work is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He will never not be - and I rush to profess that he is not an asshole...he just thinks conservitave/republican is the side he needs to support probably because that's what daddy did, dunno. We see eye-eye on most other things.
We do not agree on anything political except that everyone is way too heated up over everything. We are still friends, regardless.
My point in responding is that his gay daughter disconnected from him after Trump v.1 - would not take a call or interact in any way. This is painful for my friend and he has been confused by it but does not realize why his daughter won't engage. I think she is offended that his political choice doesn't allow for her right to exist and, frankly I agree with her.
I think my friend has lost his daughter forever because he is a stubborn man. I hope your dad can open his heart to accept you.