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I deactivated all relays and my media storage is settling into the 50GB range of my masto.host plan. It doesn't seem to affect the posts of the people I follow.
That post can be found here: https://www.theverge.com/23744526/smart-home-assistant-how-to-automation
There are many add-ons for Home Assistant that do better with more storage. Grafana is a great example. You can expose your HA entities to Grafana and understand trends over time, but you'll need the storage to support it.
Ditto for something like MotionEye that stores your security video.
I've just contributed to LemmyNet. Consider supporting them too β every little helps! https://opencollective.com/lemmy
I plan to use it to write my nightly backups to my local file server, but yeah, it's probably more for media-focused setups.
Iβve persistently used Alexa - but only because I received a bunch Echo devices from a friend and it was easy to set up.
Iβm planning to move to a locally controlled voice assistant as soon as I have time to figure it out.
Alexa (and Amazon) is f***ing invasive. Iβm tired of it. Plus, I use it only for home assistant control and timers. I donβt need her to tell me jokes. π
My daily driver is a MacBook but I have other machines running Windows and Pop! OS (System 76)
Mlem on iOS, for now. Would like to see Jerboa come to iOS.
I'm prepping a custom resume for this role. (Something I never do.) It seems interesting.
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iPhone 12 Pro.
I don't own it because it's a great experience, I own it for the ecosystem. I use a Mac as my daily driver and an iPad as a reader/tablet. Then I bought AirPods, because they switch easily between all my devices. Then I subscribed to the Apple Music Family Plan where they support spatial audio on said AirPods. The list goes on.
The best phone I ever owned was a OnePlus 7 Pro, but as a Mac user, it was just too much of a hassle.
I have a Motorola Moto G Power 2021 that I use for software testing that I LOVE, but it will never be my primary phone.