I’m on the bandwagon of no “smart home” devices that connect to the cloud. I build a lot my own little controllers with the ESP8266/ESP32 using MQTT to communicate with OpenHAB.

OpenHAB has served me well, but I started using it so long ago that I have not tried out some of the newer options like HomeAssistant.

Here is one of the devices I developed a long tome ago. It used an old chimera of a board, the Arduino Yùn. https://www.instructables.com/Introducing-Climaduino-The-Arduino-Based-Thermosta/

The code referenced in the Instructable is much older code. I don’t think I have my current and much simpler code on Github for the ESP8266. If there is any interest, I can push it.

My new code just turns things on or off and monitors temperature and humidity.

I’ve also been using Duck Duck go. I hadn’t heard about Startpage before.

For me it’s the Kirkland Organic Marinara, rotisserie chicken, and paper goods.

I think you need to search for it on lemmy.world and then subscribe and post from there. I’ve had luck copying the urls and pasting them into the lemmy.world search.

I think they mean that work has a filter that blocks *.ml (anything that ends in .ml)

I am using the app and it has been a great experience. Thanks @darknavi and team!

I think Bitcoin is more of a gamble than it is an investment. You can do well with it, sure, but it can be very volatile.

Bitcoin does not, for that reason, feel like an appropriate investment vehicle for a state government.

I am having the same issue. I’m in with Mlem, but I can not log in on the site. I even tried it with content blockers off in case there was a captcha or something being blocked.

(Safari on iOS)

I use the ones from CloudFree because I have no interest in having any of my IOT things connect to a cloud service. I guess I’m more into LOT (LAN of Things).

https://cloudfree.shop/product/cloudfree-smart-plug-runs-tasmota/