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Yeah I’ve been wondering what to do if I ever sell.

Unlike some others in this thread, the 350 devices I have don’t require too much maintenance (have to replace the odd light bulb, and I do some upgrades once a week), and work flawlessly most of the time. I also designed it so that it works without home assistant or any controller.

But what I am going to do - some of the zigbee lights are permanently fixed, but are on manual switches so I guess thats ok. But the irrigation system, some of the lighting systems which are switched automatically, the built in speakers and even the networking might be beneficial to stay.

Would probably have to do an audit and take a couple of days.

I disagree.

I have what essentially is a mastering suite (i just don't do mastering very often) at home and the difference in quality between the majority of modern music and the majority of older music say 25 years and older is large. There are many exceptions that sound amazing that are older, often done by very talented people in the best studios at the time. But one difference, hugely generalising, is dynamics, older music can have more dynamic range with modern music being basically a sausage of audio.

When people come over and want to listen, I usually have to tell them that it might actually be a disappointment to hear your favourite album is badly recorded next to something that is musically garbage but sounds fantastic. Or you wont be able to unhear the amount of distortion on Adele’s voice.

Which is weird, because everyone producing video should know that audio is the most important element in a video.

As a point of reference my wife also loves good movies and cares whether she can hear the audio properly but it might be because English is her second language.

I rate Denon above Marantz for AV. Marantz looks nicer, but its massively overrated and overpriced, and the sound quality is worse than Denon at the same price point.

Both systems I have are pulling less than 10W at the wall. I measured with a meter - I would need to check but I think its 2W each, I only make a mental note when its 5W or above on a device or group of devices and then I start doing something about it. electricity is fairly expensive here.

But a lot only support that on 2 ports (though admittedly how many devices would you have doing that).

I think you hit the only problem I have with receivers being the upgrade of them as new versions of HDMI come out.

Thats fine if you are happy with it, does the job no problem.

Its just I wouldn't want the TV doing the switching because you are still managing two remotes for that and I dont want the wiring to the TV, I would want more speakers and some basic room eq, delay correction and subwoofer management. And I always end up with more devices. I also want Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.

My receiver does everything yours does and more, and the TV auto switches on and off but I am also been into this stuff for years.

Yeah I agree. There are maybe 6 buttons used regularly on mine. Everything else is not needed for the family day to day.

If you are really into AV they are more important than ever.

Yes at first glance a TV does the switching, and the rest. But a modern receiver can be better. Better switching, better ability to handle multiple speakers ( particularly for Dolby Atmos ) including Room EQ. Alot of TVs only have 2 HDMI ports with all the latest features.

Don’t think they are available outside the US.

What exactly are you waiting for. I have two Dolby atmos systems, denon receivers, Apple TVs, OSMC boxes on both, and LG Smart TVs disconnected from the internet. Start up time is less than a second.

Acorn Archemedes was a great machine for its time, and I liked the software.

They have access to the EU market through the EEA but do not abide to 100% of the EU rules, regulations or laws. And they can have their own rules/regulations/laws.

You do realise that in your use cases you still need reliable filesystems both in the cloud and on devices.

Because any corruption at any point will get synced as a change, or worse can cause failure.

Fantastic article.

Makes me want to do the same on some devices I have.

I agree, hopefully it helps not getting the article taken down because its a very good primer on getting any ESP based device locally working.

No they don’t. They build latrines and that is their toilet which they certainly do not sleep in. They cover themselves in mud because it acts as sun block and helps against certain pests. The rooting is either to sort out the land or literally looking for roots, truffles and other things to eat.

We had pigs and dogs when I grew up and was around a lot of sheep dogs.

I would based on my experience say the pigs are more intelligent than dogs, even the sheep dogs which are some of the cleverest I have seen.

The pigs would be solving problems, building things (the first thing in a new place was always a latrine), organizing their environment but then would take well earned rests. There was a social dynamic to them that was also kind of interesting.

Then you must have grow up at a particular time which didnt have them. There was a time period where it would be unusual to have a TV or VCR without them.

I am from the west country (and recognize people in the show) and there really are people that speak like that, including dropping off in the middle of a sentence. We had someone working on our farm that was very hard for most people to understand - basically the same accent/dialect.

I use this for a watermeter. Works quite well as long as you have a good SD card

No one that we have heard of yet.

This is exactly the same as my experience. The first optical migraine was super scary.

I disagree with hating templates. I am used to both, I find templates are much easier to deal with depending on the templating language.

That’s not really fair, I read the article and there is not enough information really to make a statement like that.

My 2021 BMW has iDrive and physical buttons and dials. It’s a fantastic system.

A lot of iDrive systems can be replaced, though I do worry where the cheap ebay components come from.

Later iDrive was so much better than earlier, probably the best system I have used in a car, but now they have gone with huge touch screens. yes it looks impressive and no I don't want it.

It has been written that the s suffix was also used by people that had a “master” and they would adopt their masters surname, trade or first name with the suffix. For example the worked for the Smith, they would become Smiths.

Trouble is I can’t remember where I read it, but I also recall at least two people that were heavily into genealogy telling me the same. It might have been

https://www.routledge.com/A-History-of-British-Surnames/Mcki...

Well I know someone that has that as a nickname.

Things that control the lock or replace it are easier to buy. But you could DIY

Mine shows up on car play on my dashboard when I get near home.