I don’t like the heat. I hate being hot. Always have. I’m the guy who will leave the windows open when others have already turned on the furnace. And I used to be guy who ran the AC all the time and ran it at a very low temp. Recently though, I’ve come to realize that as long as it’s colder in here than it is out there, it’s all good. However, the delta has be more than just a few degrees. And I need the fan on.
read moreFor a while now, I’ve been automating my apartment using the automations component of Home Assistant. In fact, I had amassed quite the collection of automations and was starting to have a problem keeping track of them all and their various interactions (intentional or otherwise). So earlier this year when Home Assistant introduced automation debugging I decided to sit down and refactor the whole thing.
read moreDNS is one of those thing most people never think about. It’s one of those things in the background that quietly does its job and no one pays it no mind. Which is why it’s surprising to people when they discover that if their DNS traffic can be logged, a very informative picture of them can be created.
read moreOne of the reasons that I find myself going back to Gentoo is that you compile the entire system for your hardware which, in theory, leads to the best performance possible. So the first task that I undertook when switching the NUC over to it was to figure out what compile options ClearLinux uses. Once I had figured those settings out, I then decided to use LTO optimization for all packages that support it. However, I didn’t want to use the LTO overlay.
read moreAn update on my use Home Assistant, I’m no longer running it inside Podman as detailed here. In fact, I’m no longer running it on the NUC at all. Instead, I bought myself a Home Assistant Blue. I bought the ‘dev mode’ version just in case I want to tinker with things further, but I could have gone with the ‘Zen mode’ version just as easily.
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