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  • Linux in California is in deep trouble - The Bryant Review

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  • Just add a "Not To Be Used In California" note.

    If - yep, a VERY big If - that happened it would at least trigger a larger discussion. At the moment, no-one in the general public knows about this erosion of privacy.

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • This comment thread is about your opinion on the developers wanting to gain renumeration for their efforts.

    Considering their influence on standardising open protocols across the home automation industry rather than proprietary lock-in protocols, then this is a much wider commitment than just software development... attending conferences is not cheap.

  • I'm about to take my CCNA!

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  • Nice.

    I have a few in my team that took their CCNA last year - it's definitely a good broad level for networking, but I recall there was a lot of other Cisco product knowledge required (ie "adverts") in the exam for products that we never use, so a lot of learning is just wasted.

    Good Luck.

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • Flash with ESPHome? Not that I'm aware of (but would be nice to know)

    Edit: just found this: Smart Bulb (9W/RGB+CT) - Preflashed & Preconfigured

    I'm happy with the Shelly bulbs, they work without internet shenanigans and can do MQTT, etc...

    I have used Pi Zeros and ESPresense for prsence detection... seem to work ok, but if you're wanting to do room-level detection, (ie who's where), then that seems to be really difficult to tune the sensitivity

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • It's clear that the Nabu Casa Inc. people, who also happen to be the Home Assistant project leaders, are focussed on making money over making well engineered software.

    It's clear that Paulus created a free home automation product and developed it for 5 years. For free.

    In 2018 they started a fund raising system which also helped provide secure remote access for those that don't know how to do it themselves.

    I'd say they are focussed on making well engineered software over making money.

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  • Is there an application that stabilizes the volume level of downloaded mp3 files?

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  • And under Settings->Extra Settings->Audio on Android version of VLC

  • Simple inexpensive cloud backup?

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  • Another +1 for Hetzner.

    I did an initial backup of my music (so I wasn't concerned about encryption) with plain old rsync to get a feel for the system first, do a restore, etc. to feel comfortable with it all - and see if there were any hidden costs.

    Then I wiped all that and moved over to rclone to encrypt my data into different chunks (photos, music, work, etc)

    It all worked well and they even skipped charging me 1 month becuase I hadn't exceeded their minimum charge (rolls up to the following month)

    I've had proactive emails from them notifying me of work which might have reduced my ability to access their system, but ad it was outside the time of my backups, then no issue.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • A post introducing a graphical web-based system would be remiss if an image of that graphical system was missing.

    Of course you can block those posts (if that function is.enabled) , but you'd be missing out on many discussions.

  • How do you effectively backup your high capacity (20+ TB) local NAS?

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  • No worries, I don't have a time limit on responses 😉

    But... I took somethong like ~3 days to get an initial baxkup done.

    Then ~3 years later I was at a different provider doing the same thing.

    What I did do differently was to split the data into different backup pools (ie photos, music, work, etc) rather than 1 monolithic pool... that'll make a difference.

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • Define "Operating System"...

    I guess my washing machine & car are also going to be "not for use in California."

    Those Cisco switches & Broadcom DSLAMs would be tricky too ... I guess the internet's "not for use in California."

    And the air-gapped power station control system? "not for use in California."

    It is annoying that these laws come in (I'm also including magical thinking about encryprion backdoors for "the good guys") without any form of real-world, practical assessment. Complete waste of tax payers money and undue stress for everyone.

    FFS.

  • Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026)

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  • Hmmm... I have a spare Pi kicking about, I might give this a go.

    Before I go looking for stuff, did you need a BT adapter to get better range, etc?

  • Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026)

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  • And then after that command has run try ^update^upgrade

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    Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Ok, I started to disconnect about halfway through that article and skimmed the rest, but I don't see how this is a trap.

    I just see someone highlighting LLM categorisation and the legality of training data... but no trap.

    Or, am I the one stepping blindly into a trap?

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

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  • I used to put all my setup & config notes into tiddlywiki, and to some point I still update them, but it's become difficult for others to update and maintain when I share them as you need a browser addin to be able to save updates properly.

    The formatting is similar to markdown, but just a little different to make copying the original source that way too... but... I'd still consider it, esp. once you've really played with it and found all the things it's capable of.

  • My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

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  • +1 for logseq... it literally saved my life when I changed jobs, nothing else came close.

    However, the original markdown version has really slowed down development whilst the newer db version is slowly catching up, so, I'd rcommend the MD version for now, but people might want to hold for a little while...

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • 👆🏻 This is what I install everywhere for others that I'd need to maintain as I can leave it for 6 months and then do an update.

    For more advanced users that want to play & learn, plain vanilla Arch. You learn what the hell is in your own machine.

    But, as someone else said, get a feel for different desktop environments (DE) as Linux has many whereas Windows only had 1.

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • I thought Bazzite was now dying?

  • How do you effectively backup your high capacity (20+ TB) local NAS?

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  • What's your recovery needs?

    It's ok to take 6 months to backup to a cloud provider, but do you need all your data to be recovered in a short period of time? If so, cloud isn't the solution, you'd need a duplicate set of drives nearby (but not close enough for the same flood, fire, etc.

    But, if you're ok waiting for the data to download again (and check the storage provider costs for that specific scenario), then your main factor is how much data changes after that initial 1st upload.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Desktop Security

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    XMPP... on a Pi?

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    AUR with Ansible

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    HA redundancy options