I guess it depends on the specifics of what you are worried about. I have a catchall set up for a domain I own, and so I can make up an email on the spot. I’ve never had trouble getting those accepted.

But for random internet stuff I tend to use either Firefix Relay or Simple Login. I use these most of the time and don’t normally have issues, but if I do then I use my own domain.

I think these relay email services (which are not temp/disposable emails btw) let you set up with your own domain too.

Oh so when you said:

subscribed community | posts (today|week)

You weren’t asking for a way to see posts for a particular subscribed community, you wanted a list of communities with the number of new posts in each?

I’m not aware of a way to do that, no. But I wonder if the communities list page might help you find them? If you go to the communities page and sort by Scaled, like this:

https://discuss.online/communities?listingType=Local&sort=Scaled&page=1

Then small communities with recent activity should show at the top?

I’m not quite following.

If you go to the community and sort by new you’ll see new posts? That seems to be what you’re asking.

Also see the “scaled” option for your subscribed feed. This makes low activity communities show up higher in the list to try to stop them being drowned out by high-activity communities.

I use a dedicated Raspberry Pi (5, previously had on a 4).

I host everything else on a different server, the HA one is dedicated. Pretty nice because then it can run HAOS and basically manages everything itself.

One factor in keeping it separate was I wanted it to be resilient. I don’t want stuff to stop working if I restart my server or if the server dies for some reason. My messing around on my server is isolated from my smart home.

I also have a separate Pi (4, previously on a Pi 1B) that runs Pi-hole, on it’s own Pi for the same reason - if it stops working or even pauses for a moment, the internet stops working.

Reminds me of how any app in Android can see all the other installed apps. Great for fingerprinting.

I turned it off because it kept triggering when I (or someone else) was talking to my Home Assistant Voice Preview (which the blog says it won’t do…). I also never really worked out good uses for it. My HAVP is in my kitchen/living room area, and is mostly used for playing music and kitchen related things (setting timers, unit conversions, etc).

If I ask home assistant on my phone to play music, it plays it on the HAVP speaker in my kitchen. I don’t really have a need for timers or conversions outside of the kitchen where I already have the HAVP so didn’t find any use for it on my phone.

It does, yeah. If you aren’t averse to cloudflare then it’s a great option.

From memory I think it’s limited to http/https traffic, but that’s normally not an issue, just have all your services behind a reverse proxy.

One time I was in a class where we had this beginner level web dev assignment, and we were writing HTML and CSS. We had to submit the assignment as a zip file.

When you open the HTML from the zip file in Windows without unzipping it, it can’t access other files in the zip file, namely the CSS.

The entire class failed the assignment because the teacher didn’t unzip the files first, and refused to entertain the idea they might have screwed up.

Honestly? It’s mostly fun stuff (for people that like data).

But it’s also mostly links. A link to the shopping list (a to do list in HA). I link to the climate control dashboard. A link to the solar info, a link to the security camera dashboard.

The key actions I have on the dashboard are to lock/unlock the door, and to mute/unmute the HA Voice Preview (when the kids are messing around but they are supposed to be doing something).

I also have a bunch that are hidden by default but have visibility conditions. When the garage door is open, it shows on the dashboard, but if it’s shut it doesn’t show at all. For devices that provide their own battery level, I have them show when they are nearly flat but otherwise they don’t show at all.

Otherwise it’s just info, the current and daily total solar generation, the temperature and humidity outside, the temp of the hot water heater. Buttons to dashboards that show other things.

You can do something similar in Home Assistant.

Add an integration to a weather service (there might even be one out of the box).

Create an automation trigged by saying a sentence to your voice assistant.

Set the automation action to be a conversation response, and set that to whatever entity contains the part of the weather you want it to say (or a template if you want it to say multiple or other fancy things)

Haha you got me, I do have a charger at home. I’m just not used to charging in the day, I normally charge overnight. But I guess I could charge more if needed.

I spend 90% of my time at home so that probably won’t help my battery much 😅

I was excited too! But they mention it kills the battery as Google doesn’t let the access the system API for it, so we’ll see whether it stays enabled.

TBH this sounds to me like something specifically intended to not be an Australian-like solution, which they could have copied.

I am not sure what’s required of a bare bones Linux install (general computing device) that has access to a package manager (application store)!

Yeah perhaps. Or that “account” doesn’t really need to bw what we think of as an account.

Could it be covered, but they would still have to ask? It says if it wasn’t done at setup it has to ask, so perhaps an account-less OS would still be expected to ask for an age and provide it when asked?

Nah I don’t think it does. You don’t really get that because the intent of a law is important in court cases.

Mobile phones are specifically covered:

(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

Windows doesn’t ask at install, and also this law requires them to ask for already set up accounts too.

This will make it a lot more visible.

Nah it seems it doesn’t apply to physical devices (except general computing devices as mentioned elsewhere)

(f) This title does not apply to any of the following:

(1) A broadband internet access service, as defined in Section 3100.

(2) A telecommunications service, as defined in Section 153 of Title 47 of the United States Code.

(3) The delivery or use of a physical product.

(3) seems to imply the OS that runs your switch or gas pump isn’t included. But I see nothing in the law that clarifies servers or any CLI only interface, or even any OS that doesn’t have accounts.

Where do you quote “reasonable” from? The only part of the law with that word is referring to a different, already existing law (or the bit about reasonable technical limitations causing the wrong signals sent in the API).

Ok I did it, I read the full text of the law, and you’re right.

The existence of Linux or anything not big tech and the broad range of options within seems to be ignored. Does a CLI only OS need to provide a GUI for its “accessible interface”?

On a different note, I did see the last point here:

(f) This title does not apply to any of the following:

(1) A broadband internet access service, as defined in Section 3100.

(2) A telecommunications service, as defined in Section 153 of Title 47 of the United States Code.

(3) The delivery or use of a physical product.

(3) seems to imply the OS that runs your microwave isn’t included.