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Show HN: PersonalPod – Saving my long-distance relationship with a podcast

Posted by smarterhome on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:28PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://personal-pod.com/

I was in a long-distance relationship for some time and it is hard. We love each other a lot but being in different countries, even different timezones for a longer time is quite a burden if you want to build a great relationship. We made it work (we are married now!) but it took a lot of work to stay and feel connected while we were not physically together. We tried quite a few things during...

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Re:Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide blocking ads... on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:29PM (#39280101)
AdGuard Home is amazing! I used PiHole for a time but did run into small issues quite at lot. Mind you nothing serious but things like these are only really useful if they just work. Adguard Home works without any issues on my Pi setup via docker-compose [1] and it even runs on a second Pi as backup using a cool container called adguardhome-sync [2] to keep their configurations in sync. I am not seeing any ads in my network anymore and it is quite interesting to see how many tracking/ad requests are sent by some devices...

1 - https://thesmarthomejourney.com/2021/05/24/adguard-pihole-dn...

2 - https://thesmarthomejourney.com/2023/02/12/adguardhome-sync-...

Re:The Most Compelling Reason to Use Firefox Is Sync That Works on Thursday December 28, 2023 @12:02PM (#38795525)
It works pretty well actually! I love FF sync and I started self hosting it earlier this year. You can find the full details (also changes needed in the browser settings) here: https://thesmarthomejourney.com/2023/03/18/self-hosting-fire... I only wish they would make their new rust based server available via docker(-compose) too. I have not found a working version of that yet
Re:Home Assistant 2023.11 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:30PM (#38117968)
I agree the UI can be improved a lot but in my experience a truly well done smart home does not need a lot of UI. I have automated pretty much everything and only use Grafana to show some data. If you actually want to include Grafana panels in Loveloce... that actually works. I described how to do that on my blog here if you are interested: https://thesmarthomejourney.com/2021/05/30/add-grafana-to-ho...