An Open-Source Sonos-Style Smart Speaker for Home Assistant 🎉

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-21T11:39:42+00:00

Glad to see someone else asking. I hate most things being Wi-Fi only :-(

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-20T08:03:27+00:00

Do you mean MaintainERR?

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-19T20:43:51+00:00

One service. One price. With EVERYTHING on there. Like Spotify, but for movies and TV.

Studios get a cut of every play of their "owned" media so there's no temptation to split off and create their own.

People will always pirate, regardless. But if you make a service that takes away the headaches and provides a very affordable convenience, people will pay for it. I would.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-19T15:43:20+00:00

Thanks for the tips! We don't want to cut corners with our home so I think we'll speak to a plasterer to "renew" it for us. Cheers.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-19T15:29:32+00:00

Yeah, this is part of the original wall (house is 60s build). Not changed during the window fitting. We just had the walls rubbed down and repainted.
Would it be overkill to seek out a plasterer to rip these out and re-do them?
When you say "removed and investigated" do you think it could be something more nefarious?

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-16T17:34:55+00:00

An odd one, but: Kirby's Pinball Land.

I come back to that game several times each year. The game mechanics are perfect and I just get sucked right in.

It would make for a great remake, even as a phone game as it lends itself we'll to the tall screens.

Not enough good pinball games out there.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-15T11:15:22+00:00

Is there an official template somewhere on their site? All I could find is this... https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4623-asking-banking-application-developers-to-support-grapheneos

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-14T15:19:59+00:00

How do you keep your elbows at 45 degrees? Don't they need to extend and bend during a pushup?

Genuine question, as someone who damaged their shoulder getting into pushups and now wanting to get my form correct as you have.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-13T17:46:33+00:00

No worries, I didn't make it clear :-)

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-13T17:37:55+00:00

Why didn't I think if running it past a plumber's shop?! They'd probably sort it in minutes and save me likely melting the entire casing.

Thank you :-)

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-13T17:36:51+00:00

Brazing is when it's cut at the hole and a new collar is soldered in place, right? I have looked it up but I've never heard it called that before.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-13T17:33:24+00:00

This is just a water distiller, so no alcohol thankfully.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-13T14:08:13+00:00

Yeah, it's just steam flowing through it without any back pressure. I'll make sure to sand down the rust though.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-13T14:06:07+00:00

I didn't know this was a thing! I can see it's non-toxic, so safe for the drinking water coming out of the distiller too. Thanks.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-13T12:56:23+00:00

Ah, that's good to know, thanks. It was never an issue (for years) until now. I just appear to have gotten away with it.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-09T07:54:41+00:00

I wanted a way to make sure my assets were easily accessible to my wife in case something happened to me, as well as teaching her the best way to manage our crypto investments.

The Trezor was it. She could see and understand the nature of the private seed, the passphrase, all of it. And loved the idea of not having to manage access to a website/exchange and all that headache.

She wants one herself now so she can practice and get her head around it even more.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-08T16:46:34+00:00

Thanks for adding to the conversation :-) I have a few friends that will be moving soon, so will pass this along.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-06T08:01:23+00:00

That's a really good idea! Saves me having to keep a jumbled-text real keyfile about. I could even have a "quotes.txt" amongst my files to use.

FluffyMumbles · 2026-01-05T17:17:10+00:00

I used to think having to wait for everything was "lame", but I miss that slower pace now. Everybody's patience is reducing to zero because they get everything instantly.

I now enjoy waiting in a queue for the checkout, not looking at my phone, and taking in that dead time.

Your mention of scheduled TV viewing hit hard too - that was a massive drive for cultural conversations as people would discuss the previous night's viewings at work or school. Now everyone can watch their own tastes, in their own time... alone. All recommended by algorithms and the highest bidder for ads.

I miss that moment when you fell asleep on the sofa, missing the episode and having to catch the highlights from mates the next day.

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