NC is fine. Ignore the haters.

Why the hell would the FUTO guide recommend OpenVPN? It’s a nightmare. I guess they also recommend pfSense instead of OPNsense so there’s that.

For your own sanity, learn about Wireguard.

Happy to help.

The docker setup is probably less maintenance than a straight install, but your usecase might need the bare install. there’s also Home Assistant that can add Piper as an Addon (which is a docker container inside the HassOS docker container). Also the Hass install will let you add faster-Whisper and Openwakeword for a full voice assistant that autoconnects via the Wyoming protocol.

I’ve bought several Dell laptops over the last 20 years, the Windows install on them was strangled in it’s crib every time, and it was still miles cheaper than these other vendors.

If anyone needs to have Linux preinstalled on their computer and can’t click through the 3 steps in a typical Linux install nowadays, they probably should use something like a SpeakNSpell instead of a computer.

If a home automation product isn’t self hosted, it can fuck right off

Piper just moved to https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

It’s fine, and it’s probably the best TTS you’re going to run locally.

Rebuilding containers is trivial if they supply the dockerfile. Then the base image is up to date, and you can add any updates/patches for things like the recent react vuln.

Someone linked this fork, seems maintained:

https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower

Watchtower, the automatic container image update platform notorious for breaking things

That’s kind of a bullshit allegation. Watchtower did what it did, if you set it up to grab unstable tags, then too bad for you.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.

And I know you aren’t investing here, but the point is that if you’re looking for things like bubbles to pop when you expect it, don’t. This could last for years yet if there’s enough will for idiots to keep buying.

I figured you did. It’s the guy you were replying to that seems confused.

Someday, maybe, the Paxton-bot will become self-aware.

You really don’t understand what a browser engine is, do you?

idk about a 4b these days but the 5’s are stupid priced. You can get a refurbed 6th gen intel machine with 16gb of ram and an SSD for the price of a 4Gb Pi 5. Add an ESP32 running ESPhome or Firmata and you’ve got everything you could do with a Pi and a lot more.

Do their radios still not do 801.11af? You still need to have their stupid POE injectors hanging on the wall?

I can’t say I particularly trust even Bitwarden’s servers. I export Bitwarden passwords to a spreadsheet once a month and rsync it along with SSH keys to a USB key. Takes a couple minutes.

To be fair, the farmer bailout is a drop in the bucket of what they’re down over lost sales to China and higher fertilizer prices. Like, have the day you voted for and all that, but 12B is 1% of this years military budget.

IDK how Frigate handles alerts, but Blue Iris will write an alert to MQTT topic if it matches object recog, and I have an app MQTT Alert that watches that and goes nuts if it comes up. The BI android app is underwhelming in its alerts.

I’d have to figure Frigate has some sort of MQTT capability. I tried using Frigate but it was pretty basic for my needs, so I moved on.

there’s a box at the bottom of that page for them to help assess interest from other countries, supposedly. It never asked me for anything other than my email, idk if they’re geolocating the IP to know where people are signing up from.

I’m tempted, because I really like SailfishOS when I used it on an Experia, it’s such an intuitive interface for gestures. But I’ve never spent that much on a phone, and no guarantee it’ll work in my neck of the woods.

Glad to see they hit their target and I’ll be watching.