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Can you recommend brands that sell smart devices that fulfill those requirements? Home assistant sounds like a fun hobby to get into but I'm wary of spending 99% of the time in web searches for what to buy instead of hours in web searches for tinkering.

Home assistant is the shit. I’ve got lighting automations based on time of day and via motion sensors within specific timeframes.

Many sensors. Motion, climate, humidity, you name it.

Home theater automations. If I want to watch something, I tell voice assistant (Siri in this case) “turn on home theater.” It turns on the TV, receiver, and Apple TV, and uses the receiver’s API to switch the input to the media input. When I hit play on a video it turns off the living room lights, and if I pause or stop the video it turns them back on.

It has monitoring for all my thermostat sensors, solar, batteries, keeps track of my fridge and freezer temperatures, list goes on.

It also fully supports zigbee antennas and Bluetooth devices over Wi-Fi with simple esp32 Bluetooth extender configs. HAOS is just an outstanding piece of software.

If I had not moved several kilometers away from my favourite bar, I swear some of the baristas would be communicating with me in grunts by now.

There was a period where me stepping in was followed by "The usual?" and a couple of times when they saw me out smoking just as the bar opened, so they just poured it without even asking me, as there was little point.

Life is too short to drive a Hyundai and eat the same meal every day though. Unless the Hyundai is one of their more performant EV models, in which case it can at least be fun.

I kept requesting the transportation subway travel to my stop until one day I forgot to ask and it still arrived at my stop. That's when I understood what it felt like to fit in.

studied mythological origins of witches and their bogs

Say more. Asking for ... Umm ... A friend. Yes, I have those.

AuADHD reporting in.

Lemmy is slowly shifting from "Communism, Linux, and Beans" into "ADHD, Linux, and Beans"

I'm hoping the context implies that it only has to seem innovative to the kinds of people who can't tell the difference between software engineers and tech bros.

Well, think about it. If you are writing software that already exists, it's not innovative. But, think about how rare that is. Has anyone combined the business logic in your specific way before? Chances are no, because if they had, they already beat you to market or you can reuse yourself.

Yep! That’s how I started too. The student teacher installed a bunch of programs for us, and I started editing them and making my own games, like black jack. In high school, I modded my calculator with custom firmware that allowed you to cut/copy and go to lines when editing a program instead of holding down an arrow. I used this a ton as I was making a poker program that used the graph to draw the cards out. It took over half of the RAM, and I regularly backed it up. My calculator crashed hard and couldn’t boot up, so I wasn’t able to finish it.

Cat6? You rich or something? We use cat5e around these parts.

Hyundai has some of the best EVs

I made a spreadsheet to compare cheapo cars. Then my brother, who is a car person, went with me to car shop and insisted I buy a '92 Honda Prelude that was in pristine looking condition for 7k. He was very insistent that it was a steal even if I needed to put another couple grand to fix it up, so I bought it.

Unfortunately, I have indeed needed to put more money into it, its currently in the shop right now in fact.

I've never owned a fast car before, I'll admit its a fun car to drive. All my previous cars were boring A to B basic cars. I wish it's cruise control worked (still can't figure out why it wont), that it had come with cup holders, and that its speakers weren't so tinny.

I dunno about that. Hyundais are cheap, and until recently they were pretty reliable cars. I drove an '07 accent for 14 years with zero issues and minimal maintenance. I only replaced it in late 2020 because I was having a house built and moving to a rural area, and needed something that could handle country roads and at least light off-roading.

I compared a bunch of CUVs (compact SUVs) checked out all of them, and finally got it down to the Honda CRV, Toyota RAV4, some Hyundai (Tucson maybe?), and a Kia Sportage (I know, it's basically a Hyundai, and vice versa).

Every single one of them had some caveat. The Hyundai had a high dash and infotainment blocking part of the view, the CRV had a low front end that caused issues with low obstacles a CVT that struggles with uphill driving. The RAV4 was nice, but cost at least 30-50% more expensive than every other car with few discernable advantages. Plus, several other cars I looked at were CVT with dual clutch, which can burn up and overheat just going uphill.

In the end, it actually was down to the Hyundai and the Kia Sportage.

I bought the Sportage because it was all around balanced, still had an ICE engine, AWD, and Kia Finance had a good deal I qualified for. I got the previous year's model new from remaining stock with a zero interest rate. Sweet deal, total cost was like $24k. It's been a good car. Some minor issues and a bit of recall work with the dealerships, but I haven't had any major problems with it, and I barely have to do any sort of maintenance, just like the old Hyundai.