The soot from a building fire will absolutely give you cancer. Most deaths from a building fire are caused by the contaminants in the air and not the fire itself. It’s very nasty, and I wouldn’t shrug it off. At the very least, it will taste nasty. At most, it will give you health complications.

I’d wash sealed containers first, then go for it.

It’s more or less a consumer version of their RA2 system, which is its own protocol. The gateway interacts with the whole system using commands issued over telnet though, so you actually have a command line for operating and configuring it. It integrates with a bunch of closed systems, and it integrates right into Home Assistant with a first-party HA integration.

It’s not like you can inspect the source code for their firmware push up pull requests on GitHub, so I’m this aspect, yes, it is proprietary. However, with tools like Home Assistant, which is something you probably should be using, this becomes much less of a concern, in my opinion. It’s robust, high-quality, and is commonplace, so you can get bits and pieces at Home Depot.

If you’re interested in something that will work with mesh networks and you aren’t interested in running software like Home Assistant, you should look for Z-Wave or Zigbee hardware. Read reviews though; I’ve had a lot of mixed experiences with hardware, even from “trusted” vendors.

Why not find a partner that enjoys what you like, or likes that you enjoy those things? Anything else would be working uphill, imo.

Try a Lutron Caseta dimmer with a Pico remote. They work together as-is without a gateway, and the Gateway Pro will join it to something like Home Assistant in the future. Or you can simply use the Caseta app.

Vim handles remote files over SCP natively:

vim scp://192.168.1.2//data/editme.txt

More like, try to get you to pay money and pretend that you don’t own your client side software.

Ignore all votes on your comments and do what you want. Don’t let a bunch of anonymous folks on the Internet change the way you communicate.

I would just use a USB dongle, personally

Yep, you’re asking everyone except the right person, here. Ask your partner. If you’re afraid to ask your partner, then assume it’s cheating until you do.

Reddit is doing great, actually

One of these will immediately tell you with a free app

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225421804153

A good, bright head lamp. See everything!

They know the services, and they’re easy to use. Being the product means that there are SRE teams keeping the services up, and it funds development.

You can’t host your own services and expect everyone else to do the same. You’d be asking the “I hate technology” crowd to learn what to do from the very ground up. As in, a lifetime of experience that they didn’t invest in.

No, it’s just a screenshot program

Even better, try Flameshot. Open source, cross platform, and lets you do very useful simple edits, like add arrows, shapes, text, and censoring.

https://flameshot.org/

Why do you suppose most people don’t substitute phones as laptops?

A phone replaces a laptop?

Paying isn’t a bad idea if you want to do that.

Google creeping on your privacy and your right to view HTML the way you choose to is gross and violating.

These two ideologies don’t have much overlap, and definitely can coexist separately.

The older Kindles are basically this. Most of their software it runs on are shell scripts under the hood.