Huge portions of the auto industry use them as such, including rental companies and insurance carriers.

I think I’ll take the actions of the people who actually pay money based on those consequences rather than a rando on the internet.

A dumb one, as in not connected. You can get an OBD add-on for $100 US that will connect to home assistant.

https://youtu.be/3JW3J4_Ukrs

Add the device from a desktop browser. Use a bluetooth dongle on your home assistant device. Make sure the matter add-on is the only thing using that Bluetooth device.

Someome else asked a similar question a well or two ago about adding matter devices in the fdroid version of the app and this is the conclusion we game to.

https://lemmy.world/post/51058794

Edit: OP even mentions they got it working with Bluetooth proxies and that it was easy.

How many repeaters does the mesh have? Is it possible one vital repeater is having issues which is causing systemic issues?

Slackware is becoming a bit long in the tooth. Updates are slow, which means security fixes are slow.

Wholeheartedly support this and am looking forward to it. But part of me is sad to lose Slackware. Entirely for nostalgia reasons. It was the first Linux distro I really dug in on and used regularly. First distro I set a server up on so very long ago. It was kind of nice always having there in the background on Unraid.

The price increased 4 times over the previous price.

That’s not a break even. That’s an increase in profit. 20% less users means the revenue is the same and their costs are down.

Of all the streaming services, they are the closest to actually earning it.

Nobody said it was an F-Droid restriction.

Possibly. There’s also the consideration that the Companion app dev is a paid employee. Does enough of the community demand this feature to be googless to justify the development of building a new system from scratch instead of using the drop in service module?

I would love a fully function play services free version of the app. But is there enough demand for their limited resources to be applied?

Maybe someday Google will push enough people too far. But here on Lemmy we are definitely not the majority, even in the home automation hobby.

I’m not sure how how the hardware works with the matter software. It’s possible that they are even already working on someday for the Bluetooth proxies to work which would be a good compromise even if the phone Bluetooth is impossible to use without play services.

It looks like you can use a a Bluetooth adapter plugged into your server as long as the normal Bluetooth integration is disabled, the matter integration needs sole access. Then you’ll just use the browser interface to provision something.

Much less convenient to provision things but worth it if you can avoid Google lock in.

Honestly this has completely set back my opinion of matter. I was already really hesitant to jump on board but was still optimistic about it. Now I’m very unlikely to ever embrace it.

Edit: Apparently you can use a dedicated Bluetooth adapter for provisioning if it’s installed on your server. It can’t be used for the Bluetooth integration at the same time.

Its likely because it uses some Google service to complete the transaction with the device. I believe this is a known limitation of the f-droid version, not sure if it’s something the are able to work around or not.

Edit: yes under the android instructions it states the Google Matter UI takes over the process. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/matter/

Add the MCU collection, and it to monitored.

I’m the mod of YouShouldKnow and someone made a post about Rimus behavior. He reported it as doxxing because it used his name even though he has himself linked his real name with his online accounts and piefed himself. I refused to remove the post.

There’s a screw loose with this guy. Can we get any version of Lemmy, piefed, etc… Without a problematic Dev?

Thank you for this. I will make the extra effort to steer new accounts here that get posts removed from where I moderate.

This is a much better idea than not removing posts.

Mods have enough to deal with. If getting a single post removed turns someone away from the platform because they couldn’t be arsed to read the rules or search again for the right community, that’s probably a net benefit for the entire Lemmy community.

That post is just setting off all kinds of alarm bells.

What are the odds that something could impersonate them in a way that gets their account banned? And if that really did happen, why on earth would they not be able to talk about it?

Shady AF.

Off topic is off topic. Removing a post for violating rules isn’t mean, it’s maintaining the integrity of the communities people come here for.