jfsebastian
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I completely agree. I have a great piece of hardware, which missed a TUI tool for control. Since the api was well documented I gave it to codex and it did also a great job. A few days ago I read a great post here which stated: That tis is the age of re-owning our hardware. Well said.
What is driving me nuts is that we still heavily rely on email. Even to the point were we are unable to get notifications other than that.
I work at a fortune 500 company and they got me, 3 hours after I started working , the basic info about the obvious the internet is already screaming at you.
Since we are responsible for a large web application I tried to reach out to people through VIVA (yes, we only make use of that) and we managed only to reach about 2-3% of the user base. Information-wise it's like a blackout. For living in 2026 this is completely unacceptable.
Completely agree. Teams and Outlook is the de facto standard.
Pretty damn cool and super smooth. Thanks op!
Kitty is my go-to for the Linux desktop. I discovered it in an early stage and really liked it from the beginning. It’s great to see that the project continues to be developed so vigorously.
I would steer in this direction: We have a massive mountain of technical debt that is now being laid bare by AI. I suspect that a good portion of the mess for which various three-letter agencies are responsible has its origins in precisely this mess. We should therefore allow things to get worse before they can get better.
My hoster went apeshit. Don't get it why no one cares?
I can certainly understand your motivation. To be honest, while money is helpful from the start, beyond a certain point it no longer improves your life. I currently support my own family with the money I earn. I’m even able to invest money for my boys so they can get a good education. But millions? These days, I prefer time. It's something which get more worthy every year.
As far as I can remember, framework has this still on their schedule. So sooner or later you maybe can at least have a well maintainable one.
I’ve thought about this a lot in the past, too, because my parents didn’t exactly come from loving homes themselves; their upbringings were defined more by strictness.
I grew up the same way. There was a lot of arguing—it rarely turned physical, but they didn’t take much interest in me, either. I had to sort out many of my own issues on my own. Fortunately, I had grandparents on one side of the family who loved me dearly and made me feel like I belonged. They also always encouraged me and supported my talents.
Now I have children of my own and think about this a lot—especially since my wife’s experience was similar, yet different. We decided to do things better with our kids, and we try to put that into practice every day.
Here’s something that crossed my mind: I’ve certainly achieved a degree of success in life, partly because I had to be very independent from a young age. If I wanted something, I had to take care of it myself—at least in most cases. But I’ve come to the conclusion that while my sons might turn out to be more "normies" or conventional, the psychological toll of that kind of upbringing—the low self-esteem and the lack of pride from one’s own parents—far outweighs those benefits.
I think it solves a problem for you, but I’m not sure if it’s general enough to be useful to others as well. Most of these points can also be addressed directly via Home Assistant and relevant plugins. Nevertheless, I encourage you to continue developing it so that it gains broader appeal.
P.S.: I have developed custom apps for my family myself, so I can certainly relate to the original motivation behind this.
I get what they want to state, but in the end the progress won't be stopped. It never was. If the opportunity exists, it will be used.
That's the downside of the medal, but let's face it. A tool is a tool. You can forge helpful stuff or weapons, but this is not the fault of the tool itself. So we're currently at the stage where we were on the internet 30 years ago. Let's see where this leads too.
My Sony TV also faced some issues in the past, which at least let me start some investigation. Unfortunately it confirmed my assumptions that the hardware is very limited and already runs on full load most of the time. Still thinking about putting some more effort into this, but killing the device was also one of my concerns.
A really fun project was extendending the abilities of my reMarkable Pro. I missed a decent Manga Reader on the device, so I created a native one which makes use of my custom server.
Generally, I'm with you, but over the past decades I often saw companies being lazy about their software. So I think chances are good that we can make use of this situation. Not long ago, you had to accept certain decisions or servers going down with leaving devices useless. I'm hopeful that more stuff can have a 2nd/better life in our hands.
I feel you. Here in Europe you have to pay around 100 bucks or more to get some decent quality from Logitech. In the past I used mice like the G9 which was build like a tank. Nowadays it's something like a throwawy part, even in the higher price range. Same goes for keyboards, which I tend to build now on own.
I fixed a lot of stuff over the past couple of years. Recently I put alot of our shellys back to life. They were taking care of our rolling shutters, but died due to a low quality capacitor. I soldered quality ones in it and they now do their job as expected again.