Don’t forget to think about how to keep the salt air from corroding the electronics. Either build a spare or two that you keep sealed in plastic, or find an airtight case with an integrated heat sink or something.

Edit: you might want to look into conformal coating and dielectric grease (for the connectors) as well, although I don’t know enough about that to competently give advice beyond the mere suggestion.

Research papers should be typeset with L^AT_EX.

I really miss the ubiquity from 2020, where it was all local.

I was definitely leery of Ubiquity for that reason since before 2020. Even though back then it could all be local, I feel like pushing people to the cloud was already well-established as being a thing.

My criteria for routers and wi-fi access points up to this point has basically been “can run OpenWRT and is relatively cheap,” so I’ve settled in on TP-Link. I’m still running on an old Archer C7 from a decade(?) ago and would like to have something that fits in my rack for aesthetic purposes, though, so my next router might be a 1U DIY x86 machine running OPNsense instead.

Not really. It’s just a normal Zen 4 CPU with some server features like ECC memory support.

I’m pretty sure all the Zen CPUs have supported ECC memory, ever since the first generation of them.

Licensing is a bitch to maintain.

That, right there, is how you can tell the entire premise itself is ridiculous nonsense: if you buy something, there’s nothing to maintain because every right associated with the purchase is transferred in perpetuity. There is no licensor left to need to maintain an ongoing relationship with.

If Steam “needs” a “license” to continue to host the files its customers have purchased on their behalf, it means somebody fucked up.

That’s the neat part: you don’t have to, because copyright was never a property right to begin with.

First, not only are ideas not property, they’re pretty much exactly the opposite of it. I’ll let Thomas Jefferson himself explain this one:

It has been pretended by some (and in England especially) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions; & not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. but while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural, and even an hereditary right to inventions. it is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. by an universal law indeed, whatever, whether fixed or moveable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property, for the moment, of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation the property goes with it. stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. it would be curious then if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. if nature has made any one thing less susceptible, than all others, of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an Idea; which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the reciever cannot dispossess himself of it. it’s peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. he who recieves an idea from me, recieves instruction himself, without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, recieves light without darkening me.

Second, a copyright isn’t a right, either; it’s a privilege. Consider the Copyright Clause: it is one of the enumerated powers of Congress, giving Congress the authority to issue temporary monopolies to creators, for the sole and express purpose “to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.” Note that that’s a power, not an obligation, and the purpose is not “because the creator is entitled to it” or anything similar to that.

Besides, think of it this way: if copyright were actually a property right, the fact that it expires would be unconstitutional under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. But it does expire, so it clearly isn’t a property right.

I don’t understand. “Turn… off?”

…these shows (the ones still airing anyway)…

I specifically listed only shows still in production to preclude any possibility of OP being able to finish, even if they did spend 37 days trying! 😈

(Also, Case Closed and One Piece are the only ones I’ve ever watched any episodes, of, LOL.)

My recommendations:

• Sazae-san
• Soreike! Anpanman
• Doraemon
• Chibi Maruko-chan
• Case Closed
• Crayon Shin-chan
• One Piece

(I woke up today and chose violence.)

Acute subdural hematoma… isn’t that usually caused by head injury?

If my medical knowledge from Star Trek IV is anything to go by, yes.

Why can’t you use the app to do locations?

I currently keep everything LAN-only because I haven’t figured out how to properly set up outside access yet.

(I would like to have Home Assistant available either over the Internet or via VPN so that automations keyed off people’s location outside the home would work.)

Two GPUs? Is that a thing? How does that work on a desktop?

GPUs these days aren’t like your old Voodoo, with its daisy-chained VGA port and one-way, fixed-function graphics pipeline. They can actually send the results of their calculations back to the CPU over the PCIe bus instead of only out to the monitor!

(In all seriousness though, you don’t actually need two GPUs.)

I really don’t need this and I don’t get their appeal [of RGB].

It costs manufacturers pennies to include but gives them an excuse to mark the price up by dollars, so every single one of them shoves it down all our throats.

Well, let’s see:

• You no longer have to set jumpers to “master” or “slave” on your hard drives, both because we don’t put two drives on the same ribbon cable anymore and because the terminology is considered kinda offensive.

• Speaking of jumpers, there’s a distinct lack of them on motherboards these days compared to the ones you’re familiar with: everything’s got to be configured in firmware instead.

• There’s a thing called “plug 'n play” now, so you don’t have to worry about IRQ conflicts etc.

• Make sure your power supply is “ATX”, not just “AT”. The computer has a soft on/off switch controlled through the motherboard now – the hard switch on the PSU itself can just normally stay on.

• Cooling is a much bigger deal than it was last time you built a PC. CPUs require not just heat sinks now, but fans too! You’re even going to want some extra fans to cool the inside of the case instead of relying on the PSU fan to do it.

• A lot more functionality is integrated onto motherboards these days, so you don’t need nearly as big a case or as many expansion slots as you used to. In fact, you could probably get by without any ISA slots at all!

(Side note: Make sure to follow good practices. Feel free to ask if you want more information)

Not OP, but I’d like some more information about following good practices, please, especially in terms of “the best way” to make services available outside my lan (forwarding ports vs. a reverse proxy vs. a tunnel vs. a vpn – assuming some of those terms aren’t the same thing and I’m too much of a noob to realize).

The other major problem I’ve ran into, is that HAOS assumes that you would have no need to run any other Docker services other than those that are add-ons or Home Assistant itself.

With the caveat that I can tell just from your post that I certainly know way less about this stuff than you do, HAOS’ assumption seems pretty reasonable to me. Isn’t the point of using HAOS (as opposed to installing HA some other way) that you’d be either (a) using it by itself on bare-metal hardware, or (b) using it in a VM? I’m running HAOS and Docker in two different VMs on Proxmox, and it’s working fine for me so far.

(The first complaint you mentioned, about reverse proxies and subpaths, sounds a lot more legitimate. In fact, that’s something I’d like to learn more about because I haven’t yet figured out how to make my HA install – or anything, for that matter – accessible outside my LAN and “Tailscale Funnel” sounds intriguing.)

https://alternativeto.net/software/duolingo/?license=opensource

Of the programs in that list, the only one I’ve heard of before is LibreLingo, and I’m not sure how good or bad it is. (It seems different enough from LinguaCafe that they might be complement each other more than compete.)

I think $700-800 for a server with SFP ports sounds like good value in terms of price relative to capability, but the absolute price and capability are probably overkill for a residential use-case (even a homelab one). It’s a no-brainer if you’re the Other Linus (the Tech Tips one) and have unlimited budget for all the latest electro-bling in your house, but if you’re any sort of normal person you don’t need 10 gig networking yet.

Does Minisforum make anything with 4 ethernet ports and a <100W TDP in the <$300 range? If so, get that instead.

The problem is that running Ethernet cables is a nasty job

Yeah, but – and I cannot stress this enough – FUCK batteries!

So then if the choice becomes running romex for power and using wireless for communication vs. running ethernet for both, the latter is strictly superior.

Smart home devices are geared 95% towards retrofitting because that is a much much larger market.

Smart home devices are geared 95% towards retrofitting, but also 99% towards vendor lock-in and exfiltrating telemetry data. It’s disgusting and ought to be illegal.