Fucked up my home setup today but thanks to home assistant unfucking was pretty easy. Also - the only things that are missing from HA are thermostats (Eve Thermo is not really playing nice with HA), Nanoleaf Essential bulb (I hate it, can’t wait to change it to something more HA friendly) and my set of cameras. But I don’t think there’s a way to have cameras in HomeKit security camera whatever and home assistant.
I’m gonna change this Nanoleaf one day but changing thermostats is going to be pain in the ass especially because they do work great and finding something that will be as quiet (they are not really quiet but quiet enough) and work nicely with HA is a couple hundred $ and I’m not really looking for a new place to spend money.
Simply because, if I could ever bring myself to break out of Apple’s walled garden, I would want to steer clear of anything similar. I wouldn’t want to just replace everything Apple with everything Google, for example. Source: https://chrishannah.me/micro/2024-04-26-00-30/
That’s why I’m trying to get out of this walled garden.
Yeah but Arc just dropped Sidebar Sync for Mobile too and now it just makes sense to use Arc because - apparently - it’s the only browser that keeps whatever tabs you have open between devices and operating systems. Bonkers.
I have an itch to create an app. A Mastodon client. I’m gonna start fresh either way but I’m wondering on which platform should I start. I’m using iPhone everyday but I’m thinking about moving to Android sometime soon and there isn’t anything for Mastodon that I’d like to use so I might as well try to make something I’d like to use when on Android. Decisions decisions.
But I think Android is a better way right now. Especially because I’m gonna work on it on my Windows PC, so it would be easier to do it natively for Android. And when I’m gonna do an app that I love, it’s gonna be easier for me to switch fully to green robots.
I spent a couple hours during the weekend looking at my read-it-later queue and I’ve found out two things: I’ve saved LOTS of articles during the pandemic, about the pandemic, that are irrelevant four years later. And most of the stuff that I’ve saved pre-pandemic is not relevant after/during the pandemic.
I am rethinking my RSS reading and read-it-later reading flow and I think I’d like to move to Readwise but paying $100 per year to read my stuff is CRAZY. Plain crazy. Currently it costs me nothing, so I think it’s not going to happen.
My existence largely revolves around transferring my saved bookmarks from one browser to another and from one read-it-later service to another. Rinse and repeat.
After two months of being on windows I’m starting to think about installing / at least virtualising Linux alongside Windows. Mostly because of all of this Windows related bloatware. I’m worried about games because I love playing games, so that’s why I’m thinking of virtualising Linux. I’ve got enough CPU, ram and GPU to use both at the same time.
