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Comment #45360029
Not as far as I know. One can look up a certain motherboard or laptop to check if it's compatible with Linux before buying it.
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Comment #45357178
The author had hardware with known compatibility issues. They've decided to make some rather strange choices, including the use of NTFS as a file system for their data. I don't wan…
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Comment #45125579
This device has planned obsolescence written all over it. The pen includes a built-in rechargeable battery. The device's battery is also not user replaceable. These are the same is…
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Comment #44024238
It is unfortunate if you want to deduplicate and encrypt in the target backup.
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Comment #44024222
Do you plan to fix https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues/18549 ?
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Comment #44013375
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Comment #43185011
There's no such desktop PC which offers 128 GB of VRAM. The Framework Desktop doesn't do that for the time being. It's not yet available. There will be more options by the time thi…
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Comment #43182571
It is indeed better than the Mac. It's still 1000 times worse than a regular desktop PC which lets people swap RAM modules, the CPU, add a dGPU and so on.
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Comment #43182260
I'm aware of all the limitations they've brought up and how it was sold to the public. It's not as if someone forced them to build this product. They've chosen to build it this way…
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Comment #43181737
There's absolutely nothing repairable about this computer. The motherboard is the entire computer. Only the storage can be replaced. Do you plan to make computers which can actuall…
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Comment #43177161
This is a cool product for people who want a lot of RAM for LLMs. Those like me who build their own systems would get better value out of a machine they've built. The only parts wh…
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Comment #42839197
This is all fluff. It doesn't provide any proof such as links to these changes.
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Comment #42839128
Thanks. I understand where you're coming from now. Your requirement to use Python code for automation could be satisfied by an external component which uses the Home Assistant API …
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Comment #42838732
It's a major pain to write YAML for Home Assistant. Some parts of Home Assistant lack complete examples which are up to date. The documentation doesn't include examples for every s…
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Comment #42838668
Tuya's entire business model is about getting their customers' data and getting them to pay for their services through vendor lock-in. They're not going to give up on all that juic…
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Comment #42838656
Those are just the direct dependencies as far as I can tell. The frontend has its own dependencies.
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Comment #42838643
Home Assistant and the Home Assistant Operating System have a log of bugs, regressions, shortcomings and usability problems. They have far too many problems for me to even track th…
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Comment #42838600
As I've written in the other comment, the Home Assistant Operating System is useless without an Internet connection. It has to pull the Docker images since it doesn't have any vers…
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Comment #42838568
A fresh Home Assistant Operating System installation is useless without an Internet connection. It needs to download several gigabytes of Docker images for it to be usable. It's ve…
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Comment #42822403
How do you like the Discord based forums? Having knowledge buried in a proprietary closed source platform hosted by a third party is another problem. They can wipe out countless po…
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Comment #42822380
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/requirements... lists all the direct dependencies installed in the container. It's enough for just a single direct or indirect depen…
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Comment #42820546
This isn't some regular contributor. They appear to be one of the most important Home Assistant maintainers and a Nabu casa employee. This contributor is also the author of many re…
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Comment #42820351
I've been using Home Assistant for about three years. I was very glad it exists. I wanted to make the most out of it. It has numerous problems and regressions are very frequent. Th…
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Comment #42433424
Some of these instructions have fiber glass or similar for insulation which appears to be used for this. It's not something anyone would want next to their ventilation system or in…
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Comment #42208533
Their tech may be more than adequate today. Bigger businesses may not buy from a small startup company. They expect a lot more. Illumos is a less popular OS. It wouldn't be the fir…