investors in twitter are made whole.

Is breaking even after several years of brand damage really the goal of investment

You can sit this one out. There are many other opportunities to make money in the market. Ai build out is currently in play, and many names are rising accordinglym

If you're invested in any index funds or most mutual funds (including through your retirement account) then you can't really sit this one out. We're all going along for the ride, hold on tight.

You're invested as much as you are in tesla already, palantir or any other unsavoury S&P500 company, you can't really pick political sides in a "all the top companies"

I have a poe reolink camera doorbell that I am yet to install...

I've got the Reolink PoE doorbell and it works great!

Me too.

You can put it on a separate VLAN with no internet access and watch it via your own app eg Home Assistant, Frigate, Zoneminder or whatever.

I have a Reolink but haven't got to Home Assistant yet. I'm happy switching to that, but for less technical (though still digital savvy) spouses - how would you say the switch would be for them?

I'd say it depends on what you are trying to do. If it is simple device control and media playing and other stuff, then all you need is to update [dashboards](https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/) when you add/move devices and the users will find it pretty easy and straightforward. My parents are not extremely tech savvy but they find Home Assistant easy to use when I make the dashboards thoughtfully.

Making automations and scripts is getting easier every update, but it has a small learning curve as the logic can get complex and you sometimes need to know details like entity IDs or raw states. And there are some simple missing features that some people are very used to. Home Assistant is improving that sort of thing constantly, but sometimes the device APIs do not allow all functionality without the OEM apps.

For example, the two biggest camera-related things that are missing in my opinion is that the camera viewer does not allow zoom or two way talk. It uses the native browser media player, and on both a Samsung tablet and all iOS devices, this means that you cannot zoom and pan around the image. This is obviously not an issue if you embed a dashboard such as Frigate into the HA UI, which IIRC supports both two way talk and zoom. But YMMV.

Thank you! I will have to give it a try.

Basically what they said but you can do two way talk too! For me Frigate is the way to do cameras and there is a HA addin which does take a bit of configuring but there are loads of decent docs.

Home Assistant is quite a beast but start off simple and work on. It will repay you every step of the way. The first hurdle is to get it on the internet and usable via the app. Get that sorted and you are well on your way.

Make use of dynamic DNS to register a name to IP address and Lets Encrypt to sort out a SSL cert. There are add ins for both of those.

You can also subscribe to Nabu Casa and external access and a few other things will be taken care for you. 31 day trial and https://www.nabucasa.com/pricing/

I use cloudflare tunnel to expose local services to internet. Works out decently, and CF takes care of the SSL bits.

Impressive. I hope you find success!

I used similar ipxe setup for robotic cluster - every robot booted from the same thing, then kubernetes managed the containe orchestration. it was fun.

There are interesting uses for sqlite, like this one: https://sqlite.org/sqlar.html

Sir, it's 2026. It's 8 years old.

Not if the GP was written 2 years ago :)

Corrected; thanks.

"Good morning, am i speaking with Mr. xxx" is how most formal stuff happens with me in the US.

it's a huge red flag for me if I hear that without an origin.

"Am I speaking with X? This is Y from Z Corp." is okay.

"Am I speaking with X?..." is a spammer, a complaint, or someone trying to serve me papers.

(in the US)

The second one is almost always used by Healthcare companies in my experience, in a backwards attempt at HIPPA compliance.

They want to make sure they called the right person. Except they know everyone hates getting called like this, so they take "who is this?" as affirmation and then proceed to tell you their company and the call.

Correct.

Nearly all calls i get go to voicemail by default, it's been a great filter with its voice transcription!

it all depends on their training. And with the churn i imagine they are getting, or the cost measures, it's usually not quite the same.

And yes, cultural difference matters. Americans often have more agency to take initiative, on average. Knowing there's an American on the other side puts me at ease, mentally.

expensive but not prohibitively so? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807859212052.html https://www.servethehome.com/finally-a-cheap-8-port-10gbase-...

You can also get enterprise C3850 with 10G ports for ~100$, but they will be loud and power hungry.