There’s a lot of stuff that can work with Home Assistant, but it’s essentially never listed as a feature on the package, so normal people will never know it’s an option.

That’s the problem – the lack of marketing – not any lack of functionality on Home Assistant’s part.

Of course it requires some tinkering and is not accessible to all users.

Yeah, that’s the point. None of that helps normies who just want to buy the first product they see and have it “just work.”

(And I say “first product they see” because, although Tasmota/ESPHome/WLED devices are available from e.g. Amazon, if not brick-and-mortar stores, if you look hard enough, they’re definitely not what Amazon pushes at you. Amazon wants you to fall for their marketing and infest your house with Alexa so they can exfiltrate even more personal data, up to and including the floor plan if you buy one of their affiliated smart vacuums.)

It’s not adopted widely because every single smart home device marketed to normies is infected with cloud bullshit. Go to Home Depot or whatever and look on the shelf: literally every single product will have “Works with Alexa,” “Works with Google Home,” and/or “Works with Apple HomeKit” badges stamped all over the package, but not a single one will mention a damn thing about Home Assistant even when the device actually is compatible. The closest you get is ones that mention “Matter” 'cause it’s at least supposed to be a standard, but it feels like it’s getting slow-walked harder than CableCard sometimes (and if you don’t remember how that worked out, the answer is “not well”).

I would almost call it a conspiracy against openness, but it’s really just the banal result of no rent-seeking leading to no excess profit to plow back into marketing… which is even worse.

Especially because it must be Free Software!

(No seriously, with HVAC systems often being “smart” these days, that’s my primary cobsideration.)

I mean, I am an urban hipster with a cargo bike… or would be, if I were hip. That part of the comment was self-satire. (Also, I did not say anything about it being “impractical!”)

As for your first notion, I don’t like it either. Now, to be fair, in addition to those farmers markets and “farmers markets” we do also have regular grocery stores that I can also get to by bike. But still, my comment was about factual reality and my actual experience of how it works in my area, and whether I like it or not doesn’t change it.

Even if there were police officers directing traffic at intersections, the cars aren’t programmed to recognize & respond to them.

That by itself ought to automatically disqualify any such driverless car for use on public roads.

There are “farmer’s markets” and then there are farmer’s markets. Riding your cargo bike to the once-a-week market in the urban hipster neighborhood’s park to pay $5 for a tomato is not the same thing as driving out to the actual state-run farmer’s market and spending $5 for a bushel.

Compare:

https://cfmatl.org/

https://atlanta-state-farmers-market.com/

No, for that you need Turbolinux

<impoverished Georgia Power ratepayer noises>

Man, one of these days I need to get off my ass and do some designing like this. I’ve been wanting a (normal 19") rackmount case designed for short depth, front-mount I/O, and hot swap drive cages for a while now, but can’t get it out of my head and into CAD (let alone physical reality).

At least the AI-related videos of his I’ve seen were about running models locally, and for relatively legitimate use cases (training text-to-speech voices and commanding Home Assistant), so it could be worse.

He’s a Spaceball.

Never KYS for something that’s somebody else’s fault.

score updates to -$500

(Whoops, I got him mixed up with Brad Pitt, apparently. I guess you could say he was a figment of my imagination.)

What is Fight Club?

Why the state of the industry is shit, in a nutshell.

…my GPU reaching the age where it overheats easily…

That’s not some sort of natural aging process; that’s you failing to do maintenance. Clean out the dust and/or replace the thermal paste.

That’s why they’re all-in on authoritarianism.

This ruling is not likely to have immediate consequences for the fediverse, since the GDPR is not enforced much.

We’re discussing this on a Lemmy instance hosted in Europe.