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Cake day: March 28th, 2026

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  • This is what I use: https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-7-5-ePaper-Panel-p-6416.html

    Using ESP Home Builder in Home Assistant I can push updates to it.

    It works, but for me its far too much work for what it is. Updates are a pain in the hole, and come fairly frequently.

    I’ve just ditched it now to be honest.

    I was using it to display the weather where my wife worked each morning so she could dress accordingly. It did what it was supposed to do but was too much work. Wireless firmware updates seldom worked and it needed to be connected to a computer to reliably update.

    For me personally the convenience isn’t there. Compare it to a similar sized tablet that I can run Fully Kiosk in to display a Home Assistant dashboard that updates effortlessly, and its a non-runner.

    May be absolutely fine for other use cases but for me it was prohibitive. Battery life is a few months based on waking up each morning to refresh and going back to sleep until the next morning, but, you can’t monitor the battery level, a known issue with these. That simply is bananas!


  • eYou, you are simply too late to the party. As the piece highlights in the early paragraphs, its already being done by Mastodon and the Feds (the good Feds).

    I just discovered Mastodon and the Feds (that should be the name of a band) and I’m utterly thrilled to have control of what I see. Its a breath of fresh air. I look forward to my feed every day. I know its not going to be full of bollocks about Trump and other toxic stuff. Its a game changer for me.

    The future is FOSS and data sovereignty and I feel a little bit closer to it today that I ever have.

    🙏🏼