GreatAlbatross

It's like if you went to church, and the vicar said:
"You know what? I don't fancy delivering this sermon with moral guidance. Lets just sing 10 hymns in a row."

You'd need steel chestnuts to even attempt such a thing!

Toot! Toot!

The only thing I can see really shifting it, is people saying they'll support trump to stay in with their communities, then making excuses why they stayed home on election day.

And if I'm honest, that's a hell of a hail mary pass.

It's also entirely possible that the shriek was for comic effect, but the serious people in the room took it seriously.

"Remarkable! There is an invisible force-field around my dinner!"

My plan is to buy something Valetudo compatible, and have it all run in network.

I try really hard to stick to the policy of "if it needs internet access to operate, I won't install it on the house"

There are some in the datahoarder community pushing a PB.
They mostly store Linux ISOs.

Gotta check for Pampas Grass, that's the hallmark.

I guess when you have double-height rooms, you have to use that space for something.

z-wave may be easier than expected, as I think the devices stay linked to the hardware dongle used. (This is just from memory, mind!). But if you need to change the dongle, perhaps less fun.

imo, it will be a bit of pain to get everything inside HA, but once it's done, you'll be inside a platform that is pretty open, and commonly used, with lots of other people (hopefully) posting up solutions to problems before you encounter them!
And because it's software that will run on pretty much anything, you have the reassurance that even if something crazy happened, you could just reinstall an old version.

If it were me, I'd clear an entire weekend day, power off the old kit, and work away at getting HA controlling everything.

I was impressed by this! As the resident person who carefully takes creepy-crawlies outside, this is great to see.

imo, tiktok is a nesscary evil to reach a demographic that may not otherwise use their other media.

From the looks of the comments, they also seem to avoid the facebook and HYS crazies.

RSPB have leaned into it, and run a very silly channel with Bird Of The Week.