I love HomeAssistant, and my second time on a new home, i'm slowly getting what i want in terms of interface and devices; doing it slowly helps you plan better and execute it perfectly.
I've also been watering my garden (sprinklers) and i even built my custom ESPHome device: https://github.com/mgarces/open-esp-sprinklers
A friend of mine recently built something I thought some people here might appreciate: KindScreen.
It's an open-source, community-curated catalog of YouTube videos that are safe for kids aged 3–12. The key idea is simple: nothing appears in the catalog unless real parents have actually watched the video and approved it.
The project came from a personal experience. He was watching YouTube Kids with his daughter when a video that started like a harmless cartoon quickly turned into something he would never have chosen for her. The automated filters allowed it through, which made him realize he didn’t want to rely on algorithms to decide what his kid sees.
So instead of trying to block bad content, KindScreen flips the model: only allow verified good content.
Every video in the catalog is watched and approved by multiple parents. No recommendation algorithms, no surprise autoplay rabbit holes — just a transparent list of human-reviewed videos.
The whole thing is open source and meant to be community-driven, so parents can contribute reviews and help grow the catalog.
Hope someone here enjoys it and very curious on finding out if it's something useful.
same here; I bought a M2 Max with 96GB of RAM almost 3 years ago, for €4K, but a client paid half of it for a 1 year retainer. This machine is still the best thing i've worked with, and I have zero intentions of switching this machine anytime soon (i'll probably need to replace it's battery in the future). Rather keep the same machine for 5 or 6 years than to buy a crappier one every 2 years
Most people look at computers as a commodity that needs to perfectly balance performance and price; most really expensive computers usually are acquired by professionals that do need the specs and within small time, it gets paid off quickly.
I have a 16" Macbook Pro M2 with 96GB of RAM. Costs without VAT around €4k, but a client paid half of it as a one year retainer for my work, so the device ended up costing me €2k. You would say those specs are over the top, but it's been 2 years and I still have an amazing work machine and there's not enough things I can do to make it feel slow; it pays off, because I don't waste my time waiting for my device, it's the other way around. Would my dad buy such a machine for browsing? Absolutely not! Me as a professional? Makes no sense not to!
There's also the fact that usually, a higher-end machine will have better components that are more comfortable to use. Most brand-new "enterprise" computers we have at work have much worse screens, keyboards and touchpads than my 2013 mbp. I know many people don't seem to care, so that also has to be considered.
Sure, they cost maybe half as much in nominal terms, but seeing how they fall apart even though I take good care of them, I would have needed to replace them so often that I'm not even sure I would have come out ahead. And, at the same time, I would have always had a terrible experience.
Now, I haven't used that Mac in a few years, ever since I stopped going to the office and it stopped being supported. But even over a 7-year period, when I used it daily and carted it around daily, I'm pretty sure it's still an all-around better investment.
I recently received me Moonlander; not only it's an amazing keyboard, but the customisation is beyond good; i'm still getting used to it, so my typing is slow, but i'll get there. And the team behind it is just out of this world, helping you in every step or question you have. This is a hardware company done right
The project that has a feature which allows admins to SSH to any computer in the VPN ? [1]
They have a feature called remote SSH access where the agent running on the node allows other VPN users to SSH to another machine on the network without having SSH enabled / public keys set up. I've tested the project at the beginning of the year and it was a big NO for me. They seemed to fix this issue but it appeared again.
I wanted to check it out but they apparently can't even manage to do IPv6 correctly for their own service; advertising an AAAA record but not answering on it even for ICMPv6 let alone TCP 443/80 - apparently on AWS.
yet to try it but both seem to be comparable if you are self-hosting your own network. otherwise, besides two extra users [1][2] netbird seems to provide in the free tier is the sole key differentiator.
I'm also curious how it differs from self hosting headscale, does netbird have the same kinds of features? Something like magic DNS that is equally seamless?
