I skim read the changelogs for breaking changes but mostly just YOLO it whenever I'm in the mood to update or a new monthly release drops.
That said, the VM that runs HAOS and the Z2M addon is snapshotted every night with two week's worth of retention, and I let HA do its own scheduled backups in case a snapshot restore doesn't work for whatever reason. So far I've never had a need for either but I rest easy knowing the options are there.
This isn't a Valve thing, its a USA thing
Good point. I was going to say that Valve could voluntarily offer a better warranty but isn't the standard in the US something like 90 days? Insanity.
Still, they could choose to match globally what they have to offer here, which is 2 years.
I'm sorry that you're getting less than sympathetic replies here. I don't know what the original was since you've edited the post and I don't have anything constructive to add as I assume you're in the US, but in the EU/UK goods have to last "a reasonable amount of time" regardless of the warranty term.
Some cheap plastic tat might reasonably be expected to last a few months, a washing machine maybe 10 years provided it's not misused. The further out you get from the warranty period, the more the onus is on the customer to prove it's a manufacturing defect, and the less you can expect in monetary compensation.
For a high value item like a computer, TV, or the Steam Deck no reasonable person would consider it a good run, shrug their shoulders, and rush out to buy a new one when it unceremoniously died 4 months outside of the warranty period. If that happened to me in the UK I'd be throwing the consumer rights book at them.
Sorry, I know none of that helps if you're not in the EU/UK, but contrary to what other are saying I don't think you're being unreasonable in complaining at all.
Right? I swear I see more brand new Teslas driving around my mid-sized town every day. Boils my piss.
I have that Beelink and while I don't run Home Assistant on it (I run that from a VM on my NAS) , it does run a whole bunch of stuff, including Plex, and it's more than capable.
I think you have a couple of options here:
Run HAOS on the bare metal and use Home Assistant addons to add the other functionality you want. Addons are HA managed Docker containers and there's lots of them out there, including Plex. What I don't know is whether you can access hardware acceleration this way, which you can do via regular Docker (see below).
Install something like Unraid, Proxmox or whatever flavour of Linux you prefer - literally anything that supports full blown VMs and Docker at the same time. Install HAOS in a VM and use Docker for everything else. Passthrough /dev/dri to any Docker containers that use hardware acceleration (Plex) and you're golden.
It's a great little box. Enjoy!
Right? The ~~next~~ first time we see this it better have those eyes!
If you own a domain, which you do, you can get wildcard certs from Let's Encrypt using a DNS challenge. Most (all?) popular reverse proxies can do this either natively or via an addon/module, you just need to use a supported DNS provider.
Everybody ITT talking about dashboards when the real killer feature is global variables within automations.
This is the tune that got me into both drum & bass and edm as a whole. Such a beautiful journey.
Had to scroll way too far to find this. For Karl!
Yes? It's not uncommon to see discounts stick for the life of the sub. It locks people in because they don't want to lose that sweet deal, sometimes even if there's a cheaper/more appropriate package elsewhere.
Ha, I've only ever watched one episode of Always Sunny and it just happened to be this one. How convenient for me!