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Being able to use TikTok on your phone doesn’t make you tach savvy. They don’t know anything about how it all works. It’s a false dichotomy.

It blocks in line ads and trackers, that’s why I have been using it.

I do turn off all the rewards and other BS in the browser, but I will look into Firefox and uBlock. Thank you.

I have been using Brave as my browser for years, I have never once seen an ad on YouTube. Nor have I ever had any of the issues that have been reported with people using ad blockers.

Great information, thank you.

Too bad we can’t root our Alexa equipment and use them.

Thank you so much for your detailed answer. This is going to be something I take a real look at.

Is there good app support for Home Assistant? Like a one stop shop or is it spread over the apps of the various pieces of equipment?

Are you using microphones or is it entirely app based? And if so what microphones are you using?

I guess it would be too easy to just have Plug and Play option. 🤷 I am technically inclined but I don’t want to spend a ton of time recreating the wheel.

I can’t ask a question? I am in the Alexa infrastructure and would like to change and I don’t know what’s good to use instead. People are really shitty.

What are you using for microphones?

What are you using for microphones?

What are you using for microphones?

With Sonos shitting the bed with its app update and now the prospect of Alexa being destroyed by fees and AI, my smart home infrastructure is falling apart. So disappointing.

Thank you for posting I am definitely going to spend 4 hours on this. ☺

If this is your cup of tea as well you might enjoy her 4 hour review of a theme park that didn’t make it either.

https://youtu.be/L9OhTB5eBqQ?si=RCadB5T4tVDGlLCe

Thanks for the update!

This tool exists on github.com to do just that. Not sure if it works with ver 0.19 though, it is a few months old.

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Back in the mid 90s, when I was a very low income earner and filing the 1040EZ, I could call an IRS phone automation and input my SSN and the relevant numbers and be done in minutes. Did that go away with the internet? Seems like they were on the ball technically then.