I wouldn’t notice

I pay what I consider a pretty affordable price for this ($65/yr), and support HA dev community. It also allows auto-syncing devices to my Google Assistants. No affiliation but an easy way to get something more and give a little back.

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I actually don’t mind paying for stuff I use or get value from.

I do have smartyoutubetv Installed on both an Nvidia Shield and a Google TV, I originally did it when my kid was on a child account but couldn’t sign into the Google yt app. I kinda wish Futo would make a TV version of Grayjay I’d probably use it.

I use premium for both YouTube and yt music and it’s our primary music streaming service too. I even have 11 CCA (Chromcast audios) powering rooms all over the house where we listen to ytm from.

There are a few apps you can get for like Google TV (nvidia shield etc…) Like smartyoutubetv. But they’ve gotta be side loaded. So you need to install some way to get the APK on the device. It’s all doable, but it’s a pain.

I’d prefer just paying and losing the ads. Since I’m dreaming, I’d also like a check box to remove shorts all together from my experience.

The only problem I have with the premium subscription is the lack of ad control from the content creator. They should have to put them into some kind of wrapper that I, as a premium member can decide to enable or not. As a paying subscriber I should be able to watch it 100% ad free without going through sponsorblock, which is a big pita to do on set-top boxes.

I will sit through ads of the people I watch that are small and trying to make a buck above YT’s pittance. OR, maybe YT could share a little of that sweet sweet profit with them and then not allow them to do their own ads (hahahahaha)

Taco Bell started scamming people a long time ago by charging more for their “food” and primarily giving you lettuce and a shell.

If I order, and pay extra for a GRILLED CHICKEN soft taco, I don’t want .1oz of chicken, 3oz of lettuce, and 6 thin pieces of shredded cheese.

I swore that place off years ago even though it WAS one of the fast food joints I would visit on occasion.

Their damage was already done with that CEO statement (for me), since after those remarks I cancelled my VPN plan with them. I’m not someone who’s going to then follow them around and post negative comments on their Mastodon, X, reddit account whenever they post. I’m just going to walk away.

So, they will move to where their base is, just like trump did and they can sell there stuff to a smaller percentage of the market if they want. I will never understand why a company would actively try to cut their sales base in half or whatever.

I’m banking on my 2008 Toyota Tundra will just keep on being a Toyota and not need to be replaced for a LONG LONG time.

Yep, all connected /same garbage IMHO I was a big DSM (Diamond Star Motors) fan back in the mid/late 90’s had a couple AWD Talons.

There’s exactly zero chance I’d buy a car that showed me ads.

There was already zero chance I’d buy a Stellantis vehicle anyway after buying a brand new 1999 Dodge Durango that started rusting out sitting on our garage.

And while they did the bare minimum to remove the rust, but they didnt stand behind it. There was no way we were keeping it or buying anything else from them.

I use an Ecowitt weather station and sensors inside and out.

And I use weewx on a Raspberry Pi to publish that data. Weewx also has a mqtt plugin so I created a weather topic and transmit all the sensors onto it.

Then I created all those sensors in HA :)

Unless you’re a weather nerd and wanna go that route there’s probably better ways. I was already using Ecowitt devices independent of my smart home stuff.

A number of esp32 based devices have temp sensors too. Or gpio pins to add a 1wire or 3wire sensor.

For what? I’m using Nextcloud self hosted on unraid and exposed via Nginx Proxy Manager for external access for storage.

Works fine.

I have not upgraded to the 2025 HA yet because of the backup drama of the first release. Probably will this weekend now that the major issues were addressed.

Unrelated to this topic but also zigbee2mqtt v2 seems to be a nightmare too I’m not ready to deal with that “upgrade”

And why the old “ice boxes” are top load only. And why most boat fridges/freezers are top-load, because energy is scares/finite when disconnected from power.

I’m the same but clearly got lazy and either ok’d it or It still snuck past since it was installed on my phone.

And here I am with windows 11 compatible hardware refusing that upgrade. I’m primarily in Linux on my desktop these days, but it dual boots into windows 10.

I’ll check this out. But some things really need an app. Like gps for payees like ynab4 app has.

But the speed is certainly a factor.

I moved to actual about 3 months ago from YNAB4. I’d moved to nYNAB then back to YNAB4 after a second price hike and then to actual.

No regrets. I run it as a docker on unraid and reverse proxy so I can access it remotely.

Feels a ton like YNAB.

Works on Windows, my macbook. The only missing thing IMHO is a dedicated mobile app (for Android in my case). The web works ok, but a dedicated app could improve the experience

Syncing with Garmin Express seems to have corrected mine!

Oh look, another product of his I won’t use…

Yes “click me click me” title for sure. Looks like those that can plug Into a PC can do a special boot to get write access to the GPE.bin file and remove it. (Fenix 8 for example)

Then keep BT off until Garmin fixes their side.

I’ll attempt this in a bit since today is a run day!