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HomeKit-over-Thread and Matter-over-Thread has been pretty okay in my experience, using HomePods and an Apple TV 4K as the border routers. I'm using Home Assistant, and the HomePods control everything nicely. Setup is a little weird (you have to set up your devices in HomeKit first, remove and then add again in Home Assistant without resetting) but they work great. My only complaint is that HomePod Software and tvOS updates tend to bork the devices until I reboot HA, but that takes 10 ish seconds so not a big deal.

Newest Proton Experimental fixes it for me, give it a try!

I would love to use Bard, if it were available in Canada. Don't quite understand why it's still not.

My online life has been way less stressful since I both deleted my Twitter account, and set up my own Nitter instance.

Same goes for Reddit.

I've completely stopped paying for streaming services (apart from Apple Music and TV+, because of Apple One). I pay $5 a month for Mullvad, and "acquire" everything I could ever want and play it using Plex on an old HP Elitedesk with OpenMediaVault installed on it. It's all automatic, so I request what I want using Overseerr, and it does the rest for me.

Do I feel a little bit bad for stealing content? Maybe. But I'm not paying for 4+ streaming services just so I can occasionally watch shows a few times a year.

I will never forget what the media did to Corbyn. Absolute joke.

Microsoft, why?? It's an easy fix sure (within the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center) but why is it so hard for you to respect people's default browser choice?

I'm currently using Time Machine for my Macs, running on a Debian box that runs OpenMediaVault. It's a pretty simple switch to enable Time Machine on a network share, and it seems to work fine.

I'm a pretty big supporter of Xbox (had every console they've so far released, heavy into Game Pass) and my god they need to get naming right. They should have called it the "Xbox 4" or something to make it simple.

Though, Microsoft is never one for making names simple.

It also helps that the service they're re-selling is actually good.

(Mullvad, if you weren't aware)