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- Offsite Backups

- Voice control (Alexa & Google Home)

- Voice Processing (STT/TTS)

- Better media streaming (video/audio)

In addition to dedicated support, as part of their free Cloudflare tunnels.

Sorry for being snarky, but given the tone/point of the announcement is anti-big tech it's funny to complain that the pricing is so high compared to big tech.

Taken on its own, for the price of a nice coffee a month you also support Home Assistant development and get something in exchange. Pretty good value.

> Google Play receives absolutely no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS as opposed to bypassing the app sandbox and receiving a massive amount of highly privileged access.

It doesn't mention IMEI here, but hopefully READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE is included in "privileged access."

One awesome feature was being able to find "drinking water" while we were walking around. I did come across a tap that was shut off/unavailable, but only once. Again, this is more of an OSM data thing than CoMaps, but I generally found the app pleasant to use.

There sometimes feels like there is something slightly off with the "Route To/From" UX that I can't put my finger on, but no complaints.

https://github.com/krrishdholakia/blockchain/commit/556f2db3...

  - # blockchain
  - Implements a skeleton framework of how to mine using blockchain, including the consensus algorithms.
  + teampcp owns BerriAI

I doubt I'm offering anything that hasn't been part of discussions already, but having the ability to manufacture vehicles seems like an area of industrialization a country shouldn't part with lightly.

I've been wanting to add some authentication lately so that I can manage access to the homelab resources. I currently prohibit all traffic and only allow the Wireguard subnet, but this means any clients have to be provisioned in Wireguard, which is a nuisance to setup manually. It does seem to work well enough though.

Pangolin seems like it would be a one-stop replacement and simplify the setup, especially once I look at adding user management to the mix.

I think it exists already, found this randomly today: https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...

With rclone, you can also have a step to seamlessly encrypt the contents on the client side before sending to an external provider like B2.

I chose B2 because it is the most affordable option, but rclone supports many backends.

The EV6 has a big touchscreen, a touch screen for combined media/climate controls, capacitive buttons for seat heat and steering wheel heat. However, many of the controls are available as physical buttons as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTAcVjJsd0

I wondered what would happen if you were touching the screen, but it doesn't seem to interfere with the audio too much.

I started with NvChad (weird name) and have been happy so far. I love to ecosystem of Pycharm Professional, but I have to restart it frequently as it slows down my system. I haven't been able to determine if it's a specific plugin, or just a result of my fairly bland usage patterns.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/30/anduril-unveils-roadrunner...

I'm slowly returning to curating my own music files and integrating them into my homelab via Jellyfin and Fintunes (can be found on F-Droid). I currently keep Spotify around for its podcast archive but those days are likely numbered as well. I'll end up supporting them forever though, since weaning my family members off of its convenience is unlikely to happen.

Edit to suggest "Cloudspeakers Weekly Chart" as my recommendation for a curated Spotify playlist with a wide variety of new music with updates on Saturdays. Occasionally includes pop hits, but I've otherwise found lots of new artists in there. Found it through a recommendation on here, definitely not through Spotify itself.

I have 3 sets of DNS entries for the home lab servers:

1. "internal"/home network addresses (e.g. your 192.168.x.x) 2. Wireguard addresses (e.g. 10.0.x.x) 3. public DNS entries that all resolve to the jumpbox

The purpose of #3 is to support simple Letsencrypt setup: nginx on jumpbox forwards Letsencrypt requests to the internal servers over the Wireguard connection.

Internally, I use a https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy setup, so that any time I want a new service running inside the home lab I just have to:

1. Pick a hostname and add it to public DNS 2. Configure its Docker container to add the environment variables that nginx-proxy looks for 3. Add the hostname to the jumpbox /etc/hosts 4. Add the hostname to internal LAN DNS

It's a little much but I like how it works. It's not so bad to get setup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17

When I reported it to the support, I was first told to visit the account login screen at the provided URL. To which I responded that, yes, that was what I was trying to do but could not reach. Next I was asked to reset my password; I did so, as that page is not protected by the same security challenge. Alas no change. Finally, it was suggested that I reset my router. Since it was the middle of the day with many other users on my network, I asked whether this was to see if IP blocking was in place. They said yes. Rebooting the router didn't change anything. I switched browsers, and it immediately worked.

So if anyone at Hetzner is listening, maybe have a look at your login protection and consider whether there is an alternative way to block bots (or whatever) without impacting legitimate customers.