Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be…

Many people want home automation integration, I don’t have any (centralized) home automation

Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)

Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab

I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.

Its the “service economy.” Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).

It does not benefit the individual.

That poor guy, the ai is just ganging up on him

Well, in that case maybe you just forget to shut the door ;)

Hmmm…so it costs Waymo $11.25 if you “forget” to shut the door.

Maybe people will become very forgetful.

Or, upon reflection, just don’t use Waymo, and don’t play into it at all.

I’m stealing that post title to use myself

“You’re absolutely right! That was just a party balloon!”

Translation: our vendors have no idea where this data goes. If they can’t find it, it’s deleted, right?

It’s like a delicious home cooked meal, instead of fast food.

Actually, this was already asked in a cross post: https://lemmy.zip/comment/24461385

Sorry

If I use Firefox, am I immune to this kind of privacy invasion?

Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.

My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).

One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)

Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.

Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.

Things I’d like to add soon:

• kiwix instance
• normalize my ebook/magazine collection
• setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
• something for music to ditch that subscription

Yes my cat does this too. The only foods that get a modestly interested reaction are sweets, falafel, and cheese. Very different from our previous cat who loved and tried (or wanted to try) all our foods, except eggs.

Their preferences are so specific, and seem mysterious since I don’t understand them!

They would love if they can get you hooked on a monthly subscription for human thought

🤷‍♂️ ironfox exists

It is possible to restore the old notepad.

I didn’t include a link because I could not find a non-spammy one, but a search finds a few. I did it on my work PC.

And switching to a FOSS OS is probably preferable, but that’s not always possible.