You wouldn’t be able to play official tournaments or at most hobby shops. Hobby shops are where most people play now.

But everyone believes they’ll wait and try again.

What software are you using on the RPis as a client to Music Assistant?

Some.bands do that. Most do not.

The Pedo in Chief won’t stop him, won’t allow the DOJ to act, so he will get away with it.

No they’re not. All but one major network DRM’d the whole works in my area. They want to turn OTA TV into Cable/Streaming. FCC should force them to give up the public airwaves leased to them for doing that. Make them broadcast over the internet like every other DRM’d pay service.

And Europeans and their governments are currently talking of denying all Americans immigration. Europeans are for more xenophobic, and refuse to see Americans trying to leave the US want to leave this all behind.

It’s basically live streaming like if you had YoutubeTV.

IPTV from Z2U. I went with a Trex provider.

No, that’s not it. It was never economically viable. They had to use ultra expensive exotic materials to make it work. No one outside a lab wanted it, and the project proved the point. Oak Ridge and other military facilities could produce all the weaponized material the US needs, they don’t care about private industry producing it.

It’s a materials problem that has persisted for decades. The US ran a thorium reactor for nearly 20 years and couldn’t make it work, but that was shut down in the 60s. I’m not holding my breath.

The problem with molten salt designs is they eat the pipes transporting the molten salt. They require lots of maintenance to replace those pipes. That’s why no one has made an economicly viable molten salt reactor yet.

Mozilla: Continuing Netscape’s legacy of shitty leadership.

Mozilla: Still pissed they only shipped a browser and email client instead of obtaining W O R L D D O M I N A T I O N!!!

Don’t worry, Microsoft will turn it on by default in next month’s patches. Undocumented, of course.

What are you afraid she is going to have to learn? Where the apps are? You have to do that with a new Windows install. I find people vastly overestimate the complexity of Linux. The UIs have VASTLY improved. I go to the terminal when I want to, not because I’ve been forced there. Thanks to Steam and their Proton layer, gaming hasn’t been an issue. I think there are too many Linux users out there worried they’ll lose their wizard status if everyone finds out how much easier Linux is vs how it used to be. Or how most perceive it to be.

I’m a Windows Server admin by trade and have been daily driving Linux at home for almost two years now. I am VERY familiar with the Windows UI, and yes more technical than the average person. Linux on the desktop has been very easy. More people should be giving it a shot as Microsoft makes us jump through hoops to do what we want.

Meta is training sexbots, isn’t it?

And I’m still here with a 1080p TV. Because my previous ISP had data caps, I’m not convinced my current ISP won’t move to data caps, and there isn’t a lot of good 1080p content out there besides DVD/BluRay and my Rips, let alone 5k or 8k content.

For the Home Assistant install, I would suggest a mini-PC. I run mine on an old Intel NUC. The mini-PC will give you more flexibility as you add and expand automation. I had read of Raspberry Pis bogging down under load (this was pre version 4 and 5). But even the NUC bogs down with local voice assistant use. I’m thinking of building my own, local LLM computer to offload voice. Eventually.

As far as other hardware, I’d go with the ZBT-1 (formally called SkyConnect) for Thread support, which is the new kid on the protocol block and we’re starting to see a good set of devices.

After that you’ll have to make a choice between Zigbee and Z-Wave, and buy a dongle for one of them to attach to HA to get the functionality. Both work solidly. Z-Wave devices tend to be more expensive because of the rigorous testing Z-Wave certification requires. Zigbee is cheaper, but it works on the 2.4Ghz spectrum, same as Wifi. It can lead to some interference if you still have a lot of old Wifi devices. You’ll have to look and see what kind of devices you want to run, what they cost, and decide from there. Personally, I went Z-Wave and most of my light switches are Z-Wave. it’s been solid but pricey. Hoping to see more Matter/Thread switches soon.

You’ll see a lot of Matter talk. Matter comes in two flavors, Matter/Wifi and Matter/Thread. Matter is a framework for devices to talk to automation hubs to tell them what functionality/sensors are available, Wifi/Thread is the protocol it communicates to the hub and other devices. I look for Thread devices since it is more like Zigbee/Z-Wave (Thread from what I understand is based on Zigbee). It builds an internal mesh network and keeps everything local, and it can’t communicate over the internet by itself.

If you don’t mind a bit of tinkering, I can recommend the Home Assistant Voice Preview devices. It is a voice device that talks to HA to be the voice front end. It is not nearly as polished as Google Voice or Alexa, but since I regulated Google Voice to basically be a voice front end to HA, it has been a decent replacement.

In 1980, sure.

Boohoohoo, I’m a conservative and I’m so oppressed!