Price?

My problem with property tax is that (in the US) it creates a system by which areas with high property tax revenue (rich areas) recieive more money for schools. This is not bad on its face, but in the long term, it creates systems where poor neighborhoods have bad schools, can’t fund improvements, can’t attract good teachers, can’t attract residents, lose on tax revenue… and it cycles.

Hawaii has an interesting sysyem by which residents only pay tiny property taxes IF their primary residence is their only livable real estate.

This is great work. Thank you for your contributions

Ollama is FOSS, SD has a proproprietary but permissive, source-available license, but it is not what most people would associate with “open-source”

I have this exact same setup. Open Web UI has more features than I’ve been able to use such as functions and pipelines.

I use it to share my LLMs across my network. It has really good user management so I can set up a user for my wife or brother in law and give them general use LLM while my dad and I can take advantage of Coding-tuned models.

The code formatting and code execution functions are great. It’s overall a great UI.

Ive used LLMs to rewrite code, help format PowerPoint slides, summarize my notes from work, create D&D characters, plan lessons, etc

• The Emperor’s New Groove
• Hello Darkness: Palpie and Vade Cover the Best of Simon and Garfunkel
• Dark Side of That’s No Moon
• D. A. R. K.
• Fathers

Valid concern as I use their browser often. From their FAQ (link):

I’m considering adding it to the alternatives list I posted. Can anybody else validate their privacy policy? Seemd ok but I’m a bit iffy regarding their use of telemetry. Maybe I’m overthinking it

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Oh for fuck’s sake! List of Firefox alternatives:

Windows/Linux/MacOS:

• Librewolf link
• Mullvad link
• Zen Browser link

Android:

• Iron Fox github
• DuckDuckGo? f-droid
• FOSS Browser? Codeberg link

iOS: ??

Roger. I’m leaning away from wifi

These are cool but I need something which will help my existing light switches too. I looked at aquara wall switches and they are nice but they seem to be around the $35-40 usd range

Ok. With Matter, I may consider cync again

I have looked at these and I am seriously considering them especially with newly-announced ZigBee compatibility… This is the trulyb"stealth" and I think cheapest option

Nope. These things are 5ish years old, Cync “direct connect”. I have a few Cync wifi bulbs and even 2 Bluetooth-mesh bulbs from wayyyy back

I’m sorry. I’m still new on my HA journey (and marriage) so I’m sure there are unexplored integrations

Help me out here. I happen to own a few cync bulbs as a carryover from my last home… The app has gotten better. But I feel like they have been extremely finicky. I am trying them on the custom integration and they are still finicky and seems like they break protocol. How do you get them to work over matter on HA?

I’ll look into these. I hadn’t really considered ZWave but I don’t know enough about it not to do some more research. I picked ZigBee because we already have a tonne of Hue bulbs which I will slowly migrate to z2m.

You’re right, the cost of a Zwave USB shouldn’t be the deciding factor when the potential cost is in the hundreds for multiple switches.

I do know that I have neutral wires and have 2, 3, and 4-pole switches which I’m targeting for replacement

Edit: Scene support is not a priority. I need remote control so I can integrate sensors or scenes set up in HA

These are immediately going on the top of the list. Also, I’m going to adopt WAF as a metric immediately. Thank you.

Quick questions about owning these. Do the paddles stay in the center? Or do they click into a position? Also, do you find the click of switching them as loud as non-smart switches?