If an employee did this and there was this much backlash that said employee would be promptly fired....

Man I really really hate the state of gaming right now....pay to win, in game currency, DLCs, half ass games made... I liked this game but this is by far stupid and makes no sense for me to continue playing. I honestly shouldn't have to worry about "account linking" when buying a game on steam.

This feels like a bait and switch, why wasnt this mandatory and upfront from the beginning? They knew that would hurt sales.....

This ^^ I thought this whole controversy was because they don't support the HA nix package BUT when people use it and their HA instance breaks.....they go to homeassistant support... Doesn't sound like a dictator but just saying they don't support that nix package etc. ?

The real problem for me is the fact this could have been implemented at launch....no reason not to except it would just hurt sales. How many people actually read the fine print of all the games they buy? I would never expect to create a PSN account if I'm playing on PC. Just sneaky dirty tactics not to mention the whole point of this is not to ban players easily its so Sony can suck up that data..

I've been uaing my own selfhosted searxng instance. Absolutely love it.

So I'm just not going to update mg firmware then? I'm already using lan only mkde, and if I have to start using an SD card I guess I can do that.

My A1 mini is 3 weeks old and I love it but this sucks.... It always starts with "security" and i can totally see them going subscription model and locking you into their ecosystem. I guess that's why it was so cheap and on sale haha. Sucks to see such an amazing product and success to go downhill so quickly...

Exactly why every game now is online required and is half passed/half finished.

I would second reolink. I have all POE cameras including the doorbell. Love them, the HA integration is fantastic and they have no internet at all. Separate vlan with only access to HA, no DNS, nothing else. No need for an account, just plug it in and connect it to WiFi.

Yeah this sucks, I just bought an a1 mini with AMS, I love it. I do have it in LAN Mode with no internet and I still use bambustudio since I believe that is open source no? Lets hope they reverse this but I don't see them doing that. Hope I can still use the printer without upgrading the firmware or somebody is able to make open source firmware for the a1 mini...

Man I hate tech space right now, every company grinding out as much money as possible anyway they can because "security"...

You can simplify the process by just using the reolink doorbell directly with HA. Reolink is an integration in HA. Works completely local and I have all my cameras in a clan with no internet access. You don't need any app to setup the camera either.

If you really want to use frigate there is that option too.

Remind me what he has actually done?

If you try to browse to the tailscale website does it work?

If it does you could setup tailscale with an exit node at your house and tunnel your connection that way? Everything would then be coming from your home internet. I have had good success with tailscale being able to punch a hole through some pretty filtered firewalls.

I've just setup headscale in docker and it worked right away. It's even faster than when I was using tailscale. It was very easy to setup and I've been using it for about a month with no issues. Doesn't really help but I haven't used gluetun myself.

I just picked up a banglejs 2 and I love it. I was using a galaxy smart watch 5 but didn't work without gapps on my lineage phone. Its obviously not as good as the Samsung smart watch but I've been super happy with it. No creating accounts, getting tokens etc. Just pair it via Bluetooth and gadget bridge and you are good to go. Its a little pricey but for open source watch its awesome, I've heard good things about pinetime as well.

This is why I specifically pick phones that have custom ROM support. Then I don't need to install gapps and I just use fdroid

I don't really get the rub here, JM all for separating work devices and personal devices but the 2fa apps don't leak any info and the company can't "do" anything to your phone remotely. The apps work in air plane mode. I also want to bet more than half the users that complain about this use the companies free WiFi.

Get a flip phone and say you can't install it, however SMS 2fa is very insecure.

Start off small, get an old PC that has an i5or better that's got vt-d support. start off with 8gb of RAM or more. Then throw proxmox on it and you are off to the races. It will save you a lot of money since you can run multiple virtual machines or lxc containers. This is how I started out, my proxmox host now has 26gb of RAM and its running very smoothly . i like opnsense as a router and firewall but its a little advanced but amazing, also get an access point and a switch and you can start building your network. You could also even run opnsense in a VM but that gets a little confusing but its an option.

Use the jellyfin kodi addon works very smoothly. I've been using it for two years and love it. I replaced all my chromecasts with kodi. It even has the approval of my wife.

AW man this is sad news, thanks to the dev for all their hard work!

Any recommendations on a browser similar to mull on android?

How will this affect vaultwarden? I've been using it for 5 years and absolutely love it. I'm worried that I'll need to switch to something else though?