Well anyone must have the right to be defended, even rapist and child predators have rights you know…

Even the worst of the human beings is still a human being.

I have the same experience. 5he worst ones are the cheap ones from aliexress. I think some of them generate lots of interference maybe by sending energy consumption updates too often

In my experience I needed some routers, not smart plugs, to ensure a smooth mesh. Maybe my smart plugs where too cheap. Anyway, I added one router per floor and had no more devices dropping out randomly.

A dedicated router is a small dongle connected to a USB power adapter in a wall outlet. Add to the mesh, and they only provide routing for other devices, no other function.

Maybe you have better quality devices… I have lots of super cheap switches that behave weirdly without.

My home has some 100 ZigBee devices… Definitely can recommend ZigBee. Lots of cheap options, specially anything from Sonoff is good quality.

Some devices like thermo/igrometers and smart plugs you can go as cheap as aliexpress allow you…

Some devices like TRVs, smart energy switches I would spend money for a Sonoff or equivalent price point.

You need to invest in pure router devices too, specially in a biggish home. Definitely in multi-stories homes.

And go with an high quality coordinator as well.

You can check my wiki https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=homeautomation%3Astart which I wrote mostly for myself for future reference, in the hope it could be useful to others.

Buy a Home Assistant green and self. Host HomeAssistant itself

Great software, and purchasing the green is a great way to support them. Also, the green is a beautiful and very high quality piece of hardware that’s worth the money anyway.

Buy also the thread/ZigBee dongle they provide, again, top quality for the bucks and also support the project.

Maybe, but why would somebody do that in the first place? Put effort, money, time and resources into a loss net gain?

You would need lots of those stores to justify others to lower prices like one or more on every town and place…

Maybe a state run enterprise at that point… But that woul be… Communism I guess.

Bot at all, here is my wiki where I wrote down how I did https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy its for my own memory and benefit, but shared for others who might need it.

My single user instance cost almost zero.

Self-hosted on my hardware that already used to host other stuff. Cpu overhead seems negligible, and network bandwidth is free (=already paid for). Disk space is nothing compared to my Linux ISOs collection.

Llm is just a tool and it usage will only increase over time.

There is nothing intrinsically bad in that, as with any tool, it’s not bad per se, but how we use it.

So, push for ethic and proper usage of AI, rather.

Projects will use AI more and more, nothing bad in that. Provided it’s used properly, vetted, tested, verified and such.

I also wrote mine, a bit of JavaScript that load a json file and populate the page.

AFAIK Joplin is FOSS, but be aware that it’s markdown format is not compatible with… Markdown. Funnily enough.

Because it’s like now somebody came to you and asked to discuss about babies being brought in by birds instead of being born from mothers. How would you react?

I have traveled a lot in my life. I have seen the round earth from airplanes, i have experienced time zones first hand and have been flying all around the pacific ocean as well.

I can assure you, proof that earth is a globe is not required. What is required is get out of comfort zone and check it yourself if you don’t believe science, physics. It takes a nice clear day high altitude (commercial jet i mean) flight, and if you still are not convinced, well, take an airplane like i did from Europe to far east, then to French Polynesia, then to Easter Island, then to Chile. Woah, man, it’s round and connected! i did myself, i am living proof of that. You even get to experience the fun of living the same day twice when you spend your Saturday night in Auckland, NZ, then fly to Papeete and spend AGAIN your Saturday in Tahiti… Fun stuff.*

But i was already sold on the “globe” thing when, almost 30 years ago, i did my first overseas trip to US and was phoning my parents with a -9 hour time difference, and it was actually real.

/s Now, see, back to that “babies brought by birds” thing, i read on the internet that all this about mothers giving birth is a big conspiracy to keep the woman enslaved… /s

• = to be clear, that was not a SINGLE flight, i did it over the course of a few weeks taking those flight legs separately and with flight times perfectly matching the distances covered on a globe surface, not some weird convoluted flight route that i have seen from flat earthners to try justify that it’s possible.

As an additional note, once i also fly the route more north, going trough Micronesia and hawai… again from Europe to US. It was even an US commercial airline flight.

As a final note, there are plenty of seamen who even SAIL still today (for fun) across the Pacific, from US to Asia.

Supposing you are serious, you cannot argue with somebody that defies logic and science to a level such as believing the earth being flat.

To be clear: nobody ever really believed earth to be flat, not even in ancient times since both Greeks and Romans knew its a globe.

Even in the middle ages earth was known to be a globe, despite common idea that middle wages where dark times.

Flat earthers are a modern thing and this says it all.

Yes, more redindancy is good and indeed worth having. Still 5 12tb drives are probably yet more energy and heat efficient than 10 4tb ones.

Even if I had 10 4tb for free I wouldn’t use them. Maybe a couple for backup reasons or cold storage, but not active 24/7 for a domestic raid environment.

I actually have 4 6tb hdds that I dismissed for the 4 8tb sdds, and I use two for local backup and keep two spares to replace them when they will fail.

4 8tb in raid5 provide 24tb total space that its far more than I need, and the risk of a double failure is mitogated by a proper 3,2,1 backup strategy in place

As for the higher I/o frankly I never felt the need. 1gbps home network is always the bottleneck anyway and if you require such disk troughput on your network, you are doing something wrong anyway.

Even many 4k video streams would sturate your lan before saturating your disks unless you store uncompressed video streams.

10x4tb = 40tb can be achieved with 4 12tb drives (actually 36tb in raid5) .

Doubtfully those 12tb uses much more power than the 4tb ones, each. So the 28€/m probably cut down to 14,€/m counted in excess.

Considering 120m (10y) of uptime, you should save enough to justify cutting down from 10 to 4 drives.

I wouldn’t use more than 4 or 6 disks in a home environment. Specially with mechanical drivers, power consumption 24/7 would get me very worried.

I run 4 x 8Tb SSDs, not cheap, but solid, low power AND low heat (even more important).

Consider also heat dissipation as most likely at home you don’t have a constant temperature and humidity, so many spinning disks can suffer from heat, and that will kill them faster

Longevity… With so much space I would expect to keep it running a decade or more… So factor in 10x365x24 hours of operation, energy consumed, heat dissipation and failure rate.

On top of that, whatever gpu and ram you throw at it is meaningless, whatever wi work, even an Intel n100 NUC. Having enough cables and port instead… Well.

Yes, I was trying to be funny… Don’t worry… ;)

Was it… Made with AI?

Thanks! Tomorrow will see to upload to my wiki…

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Ahahah I like the “zero AI” logo idea, maybe will use AI to create one… :)

Yes I am that bad with graphics

Anyway check the main page of the wiki I explain why I did it.