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EarMaster

@ EarMaster @lemmy.world

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  • 2 million homes strong - State of the Open Home 2025

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  • I don't know if Home Assistant is so niche. Everyone who does some form of smart home comes to the point where there are several manufacturers forcing you to use their own app. If you're lucky you can use something like Google Home or Siri to have a unified control interface, but these are usually very basic. You can try to stick to one system for as long as possible, but sooner or later that will fail. A system like Home Assistant is the inevitable solution to these problems and it is a very good thing that HA exists as a strong and open software to solve this problem.

  • Advantages of 35mm photography from a book published in 1940

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  • Keep in mind that 1 Cent in 1940 equals the buying power of about 23 Cents today. While this still does not work out for today's film prices it get's a lot closer...

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  • I have an Intel NUC (3rd gen I think - it's several years old by now) which runs Proxmox, which runs several VMs including Home Assistant on HAOS. The only thing I did was upgrade the RAM as the VMs eat this quickly...

    Other services I run on this small box are AdGuard, Paperless-ngx, KitchenOwl, tt-rss and two Nightscout instances.

  • Google Pixel Watch 4 renders leak showing new buttons in a thicker body

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  • A thicker body...that's exactly what those watches needed... /s

  • Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?

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  • While almost everyone here seems to hate AI (maybe for the wrong reason, but who am I to judge) I like to have AI as it is able to provide answers a simple search engine cannot.

    What I don't see is hosting something like this myself. The managing of source and indexing them would take too much of my, my server's and the web servers to be indexed energy (maybe I am wrong).

    There are already good solutions (OpenWebUI with Ollama) that can be tweaked to almost do what you're describing and the AI models get better every month, so I don't think a custom AI search engine could keep up with it.

  • Dinner time!

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  • The two on left are like: I don't like flies! I only like plain noodles - with Ketchup!

  • How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?

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  • For a general guide on how to make ssh more secure I stick to https://www.sshaudit.com/

    You can check your config and they also provide step by step guides for several distros...

  • Lavender Lollipops

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  • Yes it's flowering chives, but I wanted the title to be an alliteration... 🤷

  • Home Assistant 2025.4 Time to continue the dashboards!

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  • Absolutely. While I love fully automated solutions there is also stuff that needs an user interface more complex than just a button. I love how much easier it has become to create personalized dashboards that even can adjust themselves based on the situation.

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    Is there a way to redirect voice traffic from WhatsApp and Signal to a landline?

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  • As far as I know that's not possible for WhatsApp.

  • Which non-US domain registrar to use?

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  • I use INWX (based in Germany). Prices are consistently low (not always the cheapest, but fair). The web UI is a bit rusty, but it works perfectly and you can manage everything there.

  • Wreckfest 2 early access review

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  • Expecting sequels to start with the same level of content as it's predecessor which has had years of free and paid updates is unrealistic and is not going to happen.

    You can keep on playing the previous game (even games like CSGO which have been replaced by its sequel can still be played on Steam) and you propably should if you're missing the content of a specific DLC. It's a sequel, but it's also a different game which may develop to be a totally different kind of game.

  • Self-Hosted podcast

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  • That show is equal parts content and advertising. That is a bit too much for me...

  • The Saga of Star Citizen and Chris Roberts. Part 1

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  • Chris Roberts is doing the same game for 35 years now and has proven to be bad at organizing it several times.

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    Feature request?

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  • Dashboards can get quite complicated and funnily enough TV remotes are not all the same. With a small userbase (it is by far not the most requested feature) it will be hard to maintain such a feature without just fulfilling a one-user-usecase.

  • Pairing a Hue bulb on Home Assistant with serial number? (removing hue bridge)

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  • ZHA works just as well. You just need to use the remote to pair Hue devices either way.

  • Secure remote access

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  • I am not sure how two synced HA instances (if that's even possible) would help. You would need to allow your IoT devices to be accessible by the Home Assistant instance you want to use with your personal devices. If that seems like a risk to you, then why not run HA in the DMZ alltogether?

  • NSFW

    Random people started sharing child pornography on my matrix server, what are my options?

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  • This is bad advice. Do not listen to this guy.

  • What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread

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  • Paperless-AI is fantastic. I had 750 untagged documents (all my physical mail since 2017). Paperless-AI processed all of them using a local Ollama installation, tagged them, created correspondants and a title for each document. So much work I didn't have to do... 😍