Spiciness isn’t related to taste buds. Related; you don’t have taste buds on your eyes or up your butt, but I’ll bet you can feel pepper oil there! So don’t worry, you can still have plenty of ability to taste, and still have high heat tolerance.

I’ve had HA hang while running wyoming-openwakeword, but my setup is pretty different from yours – I was trying to get wakeword detection off the audio track in an RTSP stream. I didn’t solve it, and gave up.

Wendell and Serve The Home in general have totally lost the “home” focus. Sure, I love reading about cutting edge 800GbE transceivers… but they hardly ever cover actually practical home stuff anymore. Their network switch reviews are the only thing vaguely applicable left.