SystemHome Assistant OS, the Home Assistant Operating System, is an embedded, minimalistic, operating system designed to run the Home Assistant ecosystem. It is the recommended installation method for most users.

From the docs for installing on a RPi

Ooh nice, I’ll give that a go, cheers!

What did you use for outside brightness? Your own sensor or public weather data?

Sunset routine every evening, steps through over 150 separate RGB values over 45 minutes.

Did you use the built-in Flux integration for that? I broke mine recently and it’s a real pain having to do it manually!

Cheers! I’ll let you know if I get it working (in several weeks when I actually have a chance for tinkering!)

What integrations did you use for all those lovely dials and what config did they need? I would like to shamelessly copy!

Never played Vicky but I’m a big fan of CK2 which I imagine ticks most of the same clunky paradox grand strategy that’s horrible to learn but will suck up hundreds of wonderful hours of your life boxes?

I bought the Trådfri hub before I set up HA so it was easier to just connect it rather than resetting and reconfiguring everything. I’ve sorted it now, but if it comes to changing everything or staying again from scratch then I will cut out the middleman and have the devices talking directly to HA.

You were correct, though I couldn’t find a way to update HA with the new IP. Ended up just re-configuring the Ikea integration, weirdly it’s forgotten half my bulbs.

Sims 4? I’m going to assume it’s slightly more realistic than 3!

Well, I already have the power to announce stuff for free here by creating a community, so I guess I’d use it the same way I use Lemmy: telling people about free video games

Depends which bit changed. Docker images are layers built on top of each other; if they only changed the final layer then all the others are the same as the ones you’ve already downloaded, if they changed the base image then everything is considered new and needs to be downloaded again.

Do you do anything fancy with the power supplies? I’ve seen suggestions of removing the batteries and having them permanently plugged in so the batteries don’t swell over time.

Every time I see this quaint but misleading image reposted it’s necessary to make the same comment: the words attached to each image are do not exclusively represent those images. “Equality” could apply to all but the first; nobody uses “equity” this way; and most people use “justice” to refer to criminal justice and punishment.

I think the simple answer is that they are much smaller, so their neurons are shorter, so signals get there much quicker. They don’t really have brains though so I wouldn’t be too jealous.

When all you learn about Pythagoras is that he was a mathematician known for triangles then learning about the cult and the murder definitely takes you by surprise

Never putting any of their software on your personal device is a good rule in general

I use the free tier of Proton VPN, it’s been well audited and proven safe!

Always use a VPN when on a network you can’t trust. There are plenty of free and trustworthy ones you can activate with one click, and then all the company sees is noise.