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Without the closing delimiter it reads as if you’re telling him he’s dead.

Everybody’s dead, Dave

They banned the user that did the robust cybersecurity audit. They banned everyone who pointed it out or linked to the post or mentioned it. They took the subreddit private. The clown dev has a donate feature and claims that it will be used to put his daughter through school. Just scum all around.

Personally I prefer my software to give me options, I hate when stuff like this is picked for me when equally valid options exist

Any experiences with a self-hosted assistant like the modern Google Assistant? Looking for something LLM-powered that is smarter than older assistants that would just try to call 3rd party tools directly and miss or misunderstand requests half of the time.

I’d like integration with a mobile app to use it from the phone and while driving. I see Home Assistant has an Android Auto integration. Has anyone used this, or another similar option? Any blatant limitations?

Install Ollama on a machine with fast CPU or GPU and enough RAM. I currently use Qwen3 that takes 8GB RAM. Runs on an NVIDIA GPU. Running it on CPU is also fast enough. There’s a 4GB version which is also decent for device control. Add Ollama integration in Home Assistant. Connect it to the Ollama on the other machine. Add Ollama as conversation agent to the Home Assistant’s voice assistant. Expose HA devices to be controllable. That’s about it.

But what’s acting like the little box in your house that listens like an Amazon echo?

Got a little bit of money. Almost wet out for Mexican but decided to do it at home. Flank steak burritos with store bought salsa, guacamole, tortillas and side of refried beans. Probably the most expensive Mexican meal I’ve ever had outside of a restaurant. But they didn’t have any tomatoes or ripe avocados.

Cost per person, $9 Still cheaper than a restaurant. Unfortunately home doesn’t have any margaritas or Negro Modelo.

I always add 2 teaspoons of cumin and one of homemade chili powder to my refried beans.

I’ll give that a try next time, thank you!

I run Home Assistant in a virtual machine on my home server. Sometimes I need to restart it and I’m not always in a position to SSH or VNC in. Is there anything out there that would allow me to do this quickly?

Not looking for a workaround but thanks

OK now we’re talking! Thanks.

That’s incredibly helpful and informative, a great read. Thanks so much!

Abefinder/Neofinder is great for cataloging but it costs money. If you do a limited backup it’s good to know what you had. I use tape formatted to LTFS and Neofind both the source and the finished tape.

The title says basically everything but let me elaborate.

Given the recent news about the sold out of harddrives for the current year and possibly also the next years (tomshardware article) I try to buy the HDDs I want to use for the next few years earlier than expected.

I am on a really tight budget so I really don’t want to overspend. I have an old tower PC laying around which I would like to turn into a DIY NAS probably with TrueNAS Scale.

I don’t expect high loads, it will only be 1-2 users with medium writing and reading.

In this article from howtogeek the author talks about the differences and I get it, but a lot of the people commenting seem to be in a similar position as I am. Not really a lot of read-write load, only a few users, and many argue computing HDDs are fine for this use case.

Possibilites I came up with until now: 1. Buy two pricey Seagate Ironwolf or WD Red HDDs and put them in RAID1 2. Buy three cheaper Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue and put two in RAID1 and keep one as a backup if (or should I say when?) one of the used drives fails.

I am thankful for every comment or experience you might have with this topic!

It is a gamble, fuck the my butt bozos for speculating us into economic uncertainty

F in the chat for your savings, least you’ve got the peak of home NASes. Pretty fuckin cool and I hold out hope when the drop comes in a… 6 months to 3 years…? that I’ll be able to afford full SSD NAS life. The power savings, the speed, the no worries of shock or vibrations, the silence - jealous

down again ?