At least on Android, you can make TTS go through your alarm channel on your phone at max volume, to really make sure you don’t miss it. I do this for my alarm and doorbell (only when I’m at home).

Crontab to just auto reboot daily is probably better - if your PC becomes unresponsive I doubt it would be able to execute another script on top of everything. Ideally though, you’d do some log diving and figure out the cause.

This probably doesn’t help, but I use watch together by going to the individual episode and clicking it there. Of course, for a playlist or TV show that means you have to click it for every individual episode.

Funeral potatoes are the one food I miss from Utah. The ultimate comfort food.

I got a NUC on ebay for about the same price, maybe a little less. Has more I/O and an SSD.

Why block Wine? It’s gotta be a tiny fraction of their user base.

Here in Western WA, we have so many better (and cheaper) options. I’m always surprised to see a line at Starbucks.

Can you share your redacted frigate config?

I use scenes to control my lights and use those in my automations instead. This lets me create “groups” of lights to control.

Rip parking pin

Friends don’t let friends use Snap.

M-Disc is the way if you’re going to use optical discs for backups.

Safeway has some of the best generics for sure. I’ve never been let down with any of their stuff, and that doesn’t only include food items.

You can get close depending on the language by using decompilers. Usually though, they’re rough translations of what the decompiler thinks that the (compiled) machine code does. It’s not a 1:1 deal.

Basically, a compiler translates the human-readable code to machine code that can actually be recognized and executed by your computer. A decompiler attempts to do the opposite, it translates the machine code back into the original language. But like some “translators”, it’s not always correct. That’s the hard part - once decompiled you will likely have a lot of blanks to fill in and bugs to fix before anything will be compilable again. You’ll likely never be able to get an exact copy of the original source code via decompiler.

Reolink has a wifi video doorbell that works great, it has an integration with Home Assistant but also with Frigate. I use Frigate personally, since it’s better at person detection and I can record directly to my server. If you don’t use Frigate, you can record to an SD card that you slot into the back of the doorbell.

Bold to connect something like that to the internet.

Also using a Model M from 1991, still going strong. Very serviceable too if I ever need to repair it, so long as I can get the replacement parts on ebay.

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Almost took out the spotter drone!

For drives, Shuckstop has a table of current shuckable drive prices. Shucking is usually the cheapest way to get new drives, you just have to get them out of their external case (or in your case, leave them in and plug them into your pi, ideally with some sort of fan). There’s also ServerPartDeals for refurbished enterprise drives.