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Trends
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A writer argues that smart home devices should keep functioning locally even when internet access is lost, criticising products that become useless during outages or after cloud services shut down. The argument has struck a chord with technologists who prefer local control, offline reliability and longer device lifespans, and who are questioning how dependent home automation has become on company servers.
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A homelab enthusiast has published a write-up detailing the software and services they run on an OpenStick, a tiny Qualcomm-based ARM computer costing roughly $10. The post walks through turning the low-cost stick into a functional home server, and readers are discussing how capable such cheap hardware can be for lightweight self-hosting projects.
Repos
- homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp Configure and automate Home Assistant with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants.