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It's not pedantic to point out obvious issues. It's not an operating system.

I got what they meant by "OS" about 10 seconds after landing on the page, but I still think it's a bad term here. The system is not controlling the operation of the home or of the people within it. It's a home-centric to do and calendaring app.

Nothing pedantic about that observation.

That is objectively not an operating system.

From the README.md:

> Manages household tasks, shopping lists, notes, prayer times, and birthdays from a single shared display.

So what does it *operate* exactly?

> No need to be pedantic

When people misuse words, we get Cloudflare-style marketing BS. Can we be better than big corps?

I think the disagreement comes from the interpretation of "home" or "household". You might assume a HomeOS would operate all of your smart devices in your house or something like that, which would be fair. But if you think of the members of a household as being an essential part of it (which they are) then a HomeOS is also a fair description of something which operates on those members' behaviour.