Before I commit, is there a similar movie that would help decide if it's my thing? The reason I'm asking:
Evolution received mixed-to-negative reviews from film critics with criticism for its storyline, screenplay and pacing; however, the performances of the cast received minor praise.
IMO the header should stay at the top as part of the page. I know where it is, I'll scroll up to it if I need to.
Like you, I find a header appearing and hiding quite difficult in specific circumstances.
Honestly? It's mostly fun stuff (for people that like data).
But it's also mostly links. A link to the shopping list (a to do list in HA). I link to the climate control dashboard. A link to the solar info, a link to the security camera dashboard.
The key actions I have on the dashboard are to lock/unlock the door, and to mute/unmute the HA Voice Preview (when the kids are messing around but they are supposed to be doing something).
I also have a bunch that are hidden by default but have visibility conditions. When the garage door is open, it shows on the dashboard, but if it's shut it doesn't show at all. For devices that provide their own battery level, I have them show when they are nearly flat but otherwise they don't show at all.
Otherwise it's just info, the current and daily total solar generation, the temperature and humidity outside, the temp of the hot water heater. Buttons to dashboards that show other things.
They only credit for months you do no searches at all, if you do one you pay for the full month, but it's a nice touch. Personally I can't think of a situation where I'd do no searches in a month!
For something as important as search, paying $5 or $10 a month seems entirely reasonable to me. I've been a Kagi user ever since their unlimited plan dropped to $10 a month when they reached enough users that they could do that.
You are paying for these services one way or another. But no one says you have to pay $10 for each service.
Yes, it shouldn't be needed
My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I'd much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.
You mentioned not being able to find a good alternative not tied to a subscription. Seems like if you find a good alternative tied to a subscription she could use it!
But yes I understand that change is hard. I spent years working in Excel, hate the thing, but it's so very hard to change to LibreOffice Calc.
So this morning I had to go to my mother's house for IT support as one of her monitors wasn't working. I plugged the power cable back in to the back of the monitor and the problem was solved.
I'm not sure the level of IT support I provide is high enough to get blamed for anything 😆
I've used Linux for years at this point, but I never really learnt much about running Windows programs except games, and they make that too easy.
But there's a windows laptop right there 😆
I'm asking as a learning exercise rather than because I desperately need to get it working on my machine.
You can do something similar in Home Assistant.
Add an integration to a weather service (there might even be one out of the box).
Create an automation trigged by saying a sentence to your voice assistant.
Set the automation action to be a conversation response, and set that to whatever entity contains the part of the weather you want it to say (or a template if you want it to say multiple or other fancy things)
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I also don't understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.
This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to "Turn off the computers in this house".
I heard it, thought well that's a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.
Me a little while later, "why is shit broken? What's happening!"
Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.
I've since revoked that access.
I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.
I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.
One place I worked issued work from home kits, and asked you to please never ever ever return your keyboard and mouse, it's yours forever, keep it when you quit, because no one else will want it once it's been WFHed for a while.