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I think the focus of the article is more on using services deliberately rather than pure privacy, and I think the all or nothing approach to thinking of online privacy as you mention detracts from any positive effects of the little things people just starting their journey may try.

Those big companies don’t care about you. Every small step taken toward privacy is beneficial, even if it’s just eliminating one data point at a time. If you make it harder to find your info, they aren’t going to hire a PI to track you down, there are plenty of easier marks to chase.

The one near me got torn down this year…so not a whole lot I guess.

There are quite a lot of fairly good quality IEMs that are really inexpensive these days. Most of Linsoul’s brands come to mind.

Right, if you’re somewhere cold, you can cover up pretty much everything and not be out of place. Now, eating a meal at a restaurant or spending an extended time indoors like that would be a little out of place.

If you have a powered doorbell, the Reolink cams can be powered by that too.

Gonna throw in another Reolink recommendation. I use Blue Iris as my NVR and have both that and the Reolink integrations in Home Assistant for motion notifications and lighting control. The cameras are durable (even in my very cold temps like -30C) and have really good image quality. If you don’t have an NVR or Home Assistant, the built-in motion detection and app is still pretty good and you can just pop an SD card in for recording.

This is the government’s favourite sport. What do you think all the tariff announcements and later withdrawals are doing?

I’m always curious if a non Android OS would work on these devices with multiple displays. I’d imagine likely only the main display would work without a fair bit of tinkering, which diminishes a fair bit of functionality for a device with 1.5 screens.

I went with <function>_<room>. So like motion_garage, or door_office. The function of the device won’t change, so it seemed logical to have it in that order.

It’s also not hard to change names of devices in Zigbee2MQTT and propagate that through HA if a device moves.

There’s a fork called Tubular that implements SponsorBlock as well.

Change that G to a T, add a zero, then we’re talking (e: about data hoarders).

No one could’ve ever seen this coming…

I really hope this becomes the actual end of fossil fuels for common things, because we’ve demonstrated we are otherwise powerless against the oil barons, even when the end of the world is nigh.

I don’t really expect anything to be mainstream for a couple decades, but that’s better than never.

disregarding all instructions

Probably not the best practice…I’d look through the release notes between the versions you’ve upgraded through to be sure you didn’t miss any necessary changes to the docker compose or env files and upgrade as the documentation recommends.

Looks like v2.0.0 was just released as well.

I think they’re organized into individual user directories (in one location), so could probably set up a directory backup per user to their own device if so desired.

Yep, Reolink integrates really well with Home Assistant.