Done! I like the look of it, the black is great for oled. I’m pretty committed to boost, but I’ll give blorp a good try, and it is already making me resent the charcoal theming in boost…

Update: Is there a way to include the community and post title when I see my posts and comments in my Profile? When I go to Inbox I see all the replies to my stuff, and the context. But when I look at my profile it’s just a wall of text seperate with some lines, no indication of community, upvotes, whether it’s a post or a comment. If I use the filter tap for Posts, it’s much like what I’d expect with communities and votes, but the Comments tab is also a wall of text with no details.

For me, that’s a big downside as I often go back to old threads I’ve contributed to because I want to see if there’s been other replies or to find a interesting point someone made.

I enjoyed that. I could go to the Wikipedia front page and click a random article, but (for me) flicking quickly between some topics until being interested in an ancient Mayan aristocrat and reading about her, is a content delivery service that works for me.

I get why folks might hate it, or not need it, but I often look to my phone as a randomising information delivery system. I can always look into stuff I’m interested in, but I need the chance of being introduced to topics that would never occur to me. Journalism and social media can provide a route to that, but there’s something to be said for scrolling through topics until I find something that intrigues me, instead of preferencing whatever promotes engagement on Lemmy (or wherever).

Can you remember where to allow curse words? I’ve looked through the settings and tried web searches for curse and swear words but can’t seem to find it.

I had it on a old pc, running in a virtual machine alongside other stuff, but switched to running it as HAOS on its own mini pc. Just felt simpler.

I travel a lot, and spend time in a lot of random places, stay with friends and such like. My job means that I can set my own schedule most of the time, but sometimes I need to respond to something pretty urgently. So, there’s been plenty of times when I’ve been travelling light and suddenly been asked to pull a bunch of data from a spreadsheet and write some quick report on it, so usually I just ask whoever I’m with if I can use their pc for an hour and get it out the way.

It’s certainly possible do it all on a phone, but it’s much quicker and more pleasant to just use a proper keyboard and screen. And there have been times (like after a ill-advised encounter with a fountain in Rome) when my phone is temporarily out of action, so if I need to deal with travel arrangements on a public computer it might involve accessing my emails.

Yeah, I didn’t find it particularly bizarre. Both are very natural ways to process verbal information. Anyone who’s ever tried to do arithmetic in a new language knows that we don’t just abstractly do math, a big part is that we know that seven plus eight is fifteen. That’s why they used to teach multiplication tables by rote. It would be lot more bizarre if an llm had independently devised a reliable mathematical algorithm.

Using email clients is fine on my primary devices, but I often have to use email on other people’s computers. I don’t really want to go back to carrying a usb of portable apps again. And some public computers have usb drive access disabled, understandably.

Anyone got a any opinions (or a link to a review) of the different options? Proton and tuta come up, are there others worth considering?

I understand that I’ll probably need to pay (otherwise I’m the product) and encryption / security is good, but the thing that keeps with Gmail (apart from inertia) is that it feels quick and easy to use. My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date. Or Hotmail, which sucks for a variety of reasons.

What automation for lights are not working for you? I’ve found my light automations work reliably, but maybe I’m not daring to do something too complicated!

Are there many aspects of automating tasks that you think need to be focused on?

Yeah, that’s what I’ve done in the past. It seems unnecessarily clunky. Why can’t I control my own WiFi connection? Like, I get why the default is 5ghz when it’s available, but it’s not even a Advanced option.

Yes, same. I’m just looking for an update every 5/10 minutes, so I can chart the temperature throughout the day.

That’s the one I got, but home assistant only sees the switch, not the temperature.

That looks great!

Sorry, yes, small probe on a longish cable. It’s for measuring temperatures on various pipes and hot water tanks to try and understand our new wood stove central heating a bit better.

I’ve recently started using IP Webcam to turn an old handset into a camera. It’s not open source, but it doesn’t seem to be too annoying, and so far it seems to work surprisingly smoothly and has been up & stable for a couple of weeks.

Looks cool! I’d definitely try it out! Does it have options to change the key?

Migration isn’t as smooth as it should be. Generally it’s good at transferring Google accounts, messages and phone logs, reinstalling apps, etc. But it doesn’t automatically log you back in to everything, so there’s usually a period where you keep opening an app for the first time since the move and have to set some things up (although I heard that was changing?). No idea about the home screen layout, as I use Lawnchair, and most custom launchers have options to save and back up layouts. But it wouldn’t surprise me if it didn’t…