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I know nothing of the full conversation, but I read the"meltdown". I sort of sided with the melt down guy. Everything he said there was reasonable, albeit slightly verbose.

IDGAF about the whole thing so it might just be that the final post was fine, but the rest was not :shrug:

tru dat

I’m getting fomo on that 3rd reality device. Kicking myself for buying 2 pine speakers now.

I am not affected on my Ubuntu installation

I use Sonos speakers to play music, so the device is not a speaker for music output. It’s just for commands received and response. I read that it doesn’t support playing music yet. The speaker is clear for voice though.

I just set two of these up. I’m not a HA guy so my HA server only has these assistants, my Sonos system, and Music Assistant set up.

I’m still fussing through setting up tasks, but it’s slowly turning into Alexa Jarvis.

I have it set up to play, pause/stop music from music assistant with a really hacky yaml script.

It can tell me the weather forecast.

That’s all local processing with Whispr(stt) and Piper (tts).

For those who want the “tell me the tallest mountain in the world” type of support, the answer is cloud llms. I tried ollama on my PC, but it’s just too slow. I have an opencode go subscription and that works pretty well with deepseek-v4-flash. You can also use a standard open ai api key with one of the nano or micro models.

It works, not quite as good as Alexa, but it’s not bad.

Great question! You use the Tailscale clients which are fully open source. Headscale is compatible with them, and if TS gets sketchy (which, very well may happen), those clients would need a fork.

Tailscale’s network is with paying for it you need enterprise features and they do have a free tier. I’m not going to lock myself in there though and prefer a full FOSS option.

Fun fact none of you probably care about: I finally set this up last weekend.

I really like it so far for keeping my phone sync’d up with my self hosted services. In the past I needed to flip between public and internal address if I wanted to bypass routing traffic up to my vps while laying in a bed 20ft from my server. Now, tail/headscale handles that for me.

Glorious.

Dumped it last year. It was a good run.

Onn boxes from Walmart are hands down the best deal out there. $45-50 for the pro is solid.

It has boat, but you can get custom launchers or place it in app only mode to cut down on that.

I just picked up a Reolink, great privacy so far. I haven’t set up Home Assistant yet, but I’ve read it’s not great.

Look into zen.ai which is opencode’s sister company that provides llm access. “At cost”

You can see just how cheap they are. I use Augment Code at work and they have kimi 2.6. It’s really solid. Opus/GPT are still better, but for many tasks, kimi works great and doesn’t make me cringe at the price.

Qwen 3.6 is supposed to be really good too. I haven’t used it that much.

Sort of my point, actually. Most software now I’d argue is AI assisted.

This is most definitely AI assisted. I won’t say vibe coded, but this has the hallmarks.

I think it might have been related to being on Linux. I’m not using flatpack or snap, but it was just something that wasn’t supported. I wish I remember what it was.

I was unable to use Chromium. I forget why, but I snagged real Chrome after hitting errors and my Google search telling me the issue.

I then immediately removed real Chrome.

I understand why some would do this. It’s definitely a more secure setup, but I highly doubt “most”. I like having passwords on my work laptop. I couldn’t sync there with a VPN, for example. My wife, kids and parents aren’t going to run VPNs on their phones, etc.

Isn’t that there point though? Remote synchronizing?

This. This is the way. It solves this problem completely, but utilities somehow refuse it. It’s almost like their argument is not in good faith …

What are you using for a reverse proxy? There’s some nginx websocket settings I had to do before things worked properly. I use cloudflare, but just for the DNS/cdn stuff, not their zero trust things.

server {
  server_name my.domain.com;
  client_max_body_size 2048M;

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
    proxy_pass http://10.10.10.30:13378/;  # My Wireguard Tunnel up to the VPS
    # proxy_cache_bypass  $http_upgrade; # This was added by Certbot
    # WebSocket support
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
  }

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}
server {
    if ($host = my.domain.com) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;

  server_name my.domain.com;
    return 404; # managed by Certbot
}