I have been a tech monkey for a very long time. I cannot remember the last time I received a DOA Crucial memory stick. Dead 32GB SODIMM makes me sad.

Most of the smart home is transitioned to Home Assistant.

You know a system is good when you think "I'll just set this up as a quick test to make sure my devices work" and that naturally becomes a complete implementation.

HA is set up as HAOS in a VM. I'm thinking the long term solution is an RPi.

I'm almost completely out of the Insteon ecosystem. Very happy to be leaving it behind.

Schlage deadbolt: $40. Eufy smart lock with Matter support: $80. Smarthome stuff has really come down in price. Eufy uses a legit keyway as well, it's not trash.

Concerned about smart locks being hacked? Unless you have newish deadbolts on your doors they are probably pickable in seconds.

I have started the transition to Matter+Thread for my smart home stuff. I may also give Home Assistant a try over the long weekend.

Think about the recent revelation that Elon Musk's has been having other people grind out the hard parts of video games so he can pretend he's one of the best players in the world. Good players of those games can immediately tell he's lying. This applies to every other part of his life.

re: Zuck's apparent dude-bro awakening - he seems like he's in the honeymoon phase of learning to fight, getting good at fighting, and hanging out with other fighters who respect you because you can fight. It's very hard to encapsulate what that experience is like and how influential it can be.

Thoughts about Zuck and Facebook fact checking stuff. Zuck played ball with the FBI and Biden admin suppressing discussion about things he later learned were true, e.g. Hunter's laptop. Now that he's reasonably certain the incoming admin won't be cozy with the FBI he's pulling the plug.

I've decided to just block every stupid account that posts about how ChatGPT drinks 300 gallons of water or whatever to generate 100 words.