It can, unfortunately.

We might celebrate Steve Jobs as an entrepreneur who started building computers in a garage and grew it into one of the world’s largest companies but that’s not common.

For me the scamminess is pure internet “entrepreneurs”. We’ve all seen those who have no real product or service except self-promotion, and it seems sketchy that part of that is calling themselves an entrepreneur. We’ve all seen mlm’s where victims are sold on being “entrepreneurs”. Basically word inflation: using a more important sounding word to seem more on the level

But you can’t opt out. It scams the vendors but also the people who don’t take part.

A big part of it was the rise of credit card perks like cash back, supported by higher credit card fees. I gotta admit, why should the vendor be paying for our cash back?

Anyone try Rancher? Is that still a thing? When I looked into k8s a few years back, Ranchers was highly recommended to simplify managing k8s if you couldn’t automate. Supposedly friendly and free.

Tesla always had “light show” as a fun gimmick. It’s one of the first things you show friends and family.

There’s a few canned versions but apparently you can create your own on usb stick. Supposedly it was an outgrowth of qa, so it includes things like windows and trunk opening and closing, side mirrors folding and unfolding, all timed to music, etc. Even before the active matrix headlights were approved for regular use, one of the canned light shows used them to spell out “Tesla” on whatever is in front of you.

A recent update mentioned new light shows and a way to synchronize. I can certainly imagine a Tesla club having great fun with this

It was well before that. French were saddled with the white flag, from results in wwii, whether deserved or not

They could also try some of their equipment other than their gun, such as a radio

So chief, you’re saying “qualified immunity” doesn’t apply here?

Step 0. Make sure your networking equipment can do vlans and subnets.

Given how much I paid for a “high end” consumer router, I just assumed ……

I got into each mesh technology for specific devices. Home Assistant supports them all and they seem to coexist just fine in my use case.

I have a small to medium setup with only a few simple automations and a focus on voice control and scheduling

Preference

• Thread - given Apple, Amazon, and Google support and the standardization work, I expect this to be the future. Eventually. But I’m getting impatient. If I’m buying a device, I prefer Thread but usually it’s not yet
• z-Wave - my first, and most devices. Basically this was what was most available at local stores when I started. No complaints
• Zigbee - by far the biggest selection of simple, cheap sensors. I need to more of those
• all too much is WiFi but I try to avoid

But it also helps that my approach is generally switches and outlets. Hard-wired, predictable network, tend to be repeaters. I have comparatively fewer leaf nodes.

This approach also fits in with my biggest challenge. While my house is small, it’s an older one with dense materials that blocks a lot of radio signals. For example I have no cell phone reception inside yet strong signal just out any door. My focus on switches and outlets overcome this with a repeater in every room

So for example a few years back I got a z-wave IR blaster to control a mini-split AC because at the time I mostly used z-wave. I already had a z-wave light switch in the same room, acting as a repeater, so no worries about connectivity. Now I have both z-wave and Zigbee light switches in that room so expect both meshes to be strong for any future devices in that room

I’ll also vote to reconsider WiFi. Home Assistant supports a variety of local mesh networks that by default can’t connect to the cloud and whose devices are cheaper and lower power.

I use all three of zwave, Zigbee, and thread; ha works with whatever you need.

I choose to pay for remote access, but it’s for convenience and to support the developers. You are free to configure it yourself in a couple ways (and there is decent documentation) or do without remote access

I don’t know how you set up remote access for OpenHab, but from a quick glance at the web site it looks similar

Not really. With this flipped around my reaction is …. “whooOOSHH”.

How is it that now even self-deprecating humor targeting oneself can get someone ‘s panties in a bunch?

Even easier: maintain my weight then you’ll gain all you want

Huh, I might try that. While I like the taste of radishes, I never know what to do with them other than toss in a salad. My kids don’t like the taste so another option is bonus

I was optimistic for a while that we could be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, and the scary part is that musk made it possible. At this point I don’t expect that news from the us in my lifetime

Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style

A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs

Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at

What do you want from it? How long?

• I always went with a barber for anything that looked like a traditional men’s cut, and that includes a variety of lengths.
• any special requests, non-traditional or significantly longer, a stylist
• I’ve had bad cuts from both barbers and stylists, all you can do is vote with your feet
• realistically all the old barbers are gone and new barbers feature very short modern styles that I’m not interested in, so I go with one of the cheap salon chains

Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams had unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

• zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
• slack for texting
• files in a variety of tools specific to the need

Keep up the pressure. We went through the same thing, but after a year of Teams misadventure, execs finally realized the savings wasn’t worth it