Cool story, bro. You hate boats and the people that enjoy them. We get it.

Sir, we’re talking about boats.

“Hey! This guy believes people should be allowed to own nice things that they enjoy! Get him!”

I disagree, but I also don’t have a problem with people or companies being wealthy enough to make or own them, either.

Electric boats seem like a great idea, especially with all the pollution the really large cruise ships put out. I’m happy to finally see this become mainstream. On the water there’s nothing to really get in the way of solar panels, either, so it makes sense to have them for charging.

I’m using Memmy for iOS. Guess I’ll have to reach out to the developers.

Hmmm I haven’t tried linking anything yet. Might as well here:

!homeassistant@lemmy.world

Edit: it didn’t do anything…

Very good point. HomeAssistant offers a paid service called Nabu Casa that provides you a secure way to access your entire HomeAssistant instance, including cameras, sensors, you can set up mobile push notifications, and more.

HomeAssistant and OpenHAB are good places to start. I don’t know too much about OpenHAB, but for HomeAssistant you can do almost everything locally.

ESPHome is a good example of a project that they fund where you can use ESP8266/ESP32 devices to create several sensors and other devices for local IoT. They also have a number of ways to bypass cloud requirements for Tuya based devices, Phillips Hue, etc.

Plus this year is “Year of the Voice Assistant” and they’re working on enhancing a locally accessible and hosted voice assistant that doesn’t require cloud access.

Edit: If you’re a DIY kind of person like I am, HomeAssistant offers compatibility with a number of other projects like presence detection via ESPresence, custom firmware for ESP32Cam via Tasmota, WLED for controlling RGB lightstrips and matrices, lots of 3D printing opportunities too. I found it a lot of fun to go through my home and find ways to make things work. Blinds, accent lighting, automations based on time and other factors, etc.

Plus the hardware requirements for HomeAssistant aren’t that high. You can run it on an RPi4b with 2/4/8GB RAM (I would suggest at least 4), a VM that you can expand later and so forth.

Great to hear. The Intel NUC series was great for some power efficient devices for homelabs and self-hosting. Great upgrade options, too.

I’m excited to see the M3 and what it can do, especially with the rumours from March about the M3’s benchmarks on GeekBench.

I don’t have time to maintain an open source project

So just upload the files and let people fork it on GitHub. I don’t understand this attitude. I’d love to have something like this.

Considering the Steam Deck accounts for a huge portion of Linux installs, I think flatpaks are going to be here to start and only grow in popularity.

I have to ask though, why do people dislike flatpaks?

I bought the 8800GTX because it was the first DX10 compatible GPU available, and that thing was an amazing powerhouse. No need to fiddle with SLI profiles, just raw graphical power.

It’s amazing seeing 2TB M.2 NVME drives being sold for less than what I bought my original 120GB SATA SSD for.