Okay done. I’ll give the instance a try and see how it goes. :)

For one, Hexbear made it perfectly clear they expect their users to abide by the rules of the instances they visit and not cause trouble.

The users at Hexbear made it perfectly clear in the discussions about federation that they weren’t going to respect that request and were openly encouraging each other to brigade other instances. They seem to have quite a number of participants who were really looking forward to being able to “bully the libs” and a quick scan showed several comments about sending offensive DMs to users of other instances. I was also able to find multiple HB users who openly admitted to already being banned multiple times from beehaw for trollish community breaking behavior.

The idea that BH users would have been well behaved is wishful thinking as they’ve already shown the Fediverse how they behave. Their instance Admins and Users are also not shy with how they are approaching Federation. They very specifically want the freedom to participate in other instances without those instances being able to engage them. Put together they want the freedom to “own the libs” all across the Fediverse without having those same libs show up in their carefully crafted safe space. They want to eat their cake and have it too.

To be clear I don’t agree with how Lemmy.World handled the blocking of Hexbear. I would strongly have preferred community engagement on the issue prior to the block but looking at the Troll Army being formed at HB I can’t necessarily fault the admins of LW either. Dealing with ideologically motivated extremists is a lot of work that no one wants to do.

Even if the project is verifiably hacked the instant that remake becomes available on the web Disney will sue the shit out of them. It’s just how Disney is.

Could be 10,000 Wagners and NATO wouldn’t be concerned. They’d be destroyed by air power in a matter of hours.

“Bases”, when the majority of them are an office building with 20 people or less in it. Then there’s the ones like “Corinto (Nicaragua)” with no information listed and when click the base location turns out to be in the middle of the water with literally nothing there. Seriously, show me where this supposed base is. Perhaps its hiding in that little tiki hut on the beach or maybe it’s packed away in someone’s backyard shed?

The US has a lot of bases, there’s no denying that, but there are most definitely not 850 of them. That database is pure propaganda.

Huh, duckdns was one of the very first integration I did with my HA installation. It was pretty straightforward to setup using these directions and it’s been super reliable.

Wireguard was also pretty straightforward using these directions and it too has been very reliable.

I mean, I say ‘announce’ but the message is “she’s home. Panic and tidy!”

This is basically what I’m looking for! Thanks for the link to the Alexa Media player, do you happen to know of a write up for putting the HA / TTS / AMP pieces together?

I didn’t know that TTS existed. I’ll have to look that up.

Leviton Zwave. They work great and should go fine with matter.

I recommend you stay away from anything that requires any kind of portal to setup. If you have to download an app and create an account in order to pair the device or get it setup then don’t use that equipment. There’s a near endless array of sensors and things you can get now that work using Z-Wave, ZigBee, and even HomeKit that work DIRECTLY with HA, meaning that they don’t require commands to be sent up to the cloud via the Internet and then come back down to your device.

There’s an easy answer to that…don’t use IoT devices. I recently rebuilt my HA setup into a VM running on Proxmox, added a Zoos USB to ZWave dongle and then replaced every device that needed a network connection with a Z-Wave device. I have nothing left that needs, or can even connect to, the Internet and all of my routines / automations are fully local. I can turn my Router off and the only thing it will impact is remote access and voice control.

The surprise of no one.

You rang?

Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.