But if I comment then I'll break my 9 year record of being a lurker on social media!

The front fell off! That's not very typical.

Definitely Zigbee or Z-wave instead of wifi. Once you start to build out more devices you will be glad to not have gone down the wifi route.

I went with Zigbee and have Sonoff SNZB-02 temperature and humidity sensors in each room that have been absolutely flawless since the day I installed them, and they last about two years on a single battery!

I would obviously recommend them but I don't have any experience of other thermostats or of Z-wave.

I did also install smart Zigbee TRVs on each radiator but I don't rely on the internal thermostats of them as they don't accurately represents the overall room temperature.

I tried almost all of the Reddit apps over the years but ended up with BR as I found it was the most polished. Thank you to the devs who put so much effort in, sorry to see it go.

Check out WALT

It's still in development but is being built specifically with GrapheneOS in mind. Hopefully we should have a privacy focused tap-to-pay within a year.

I use Syncthing for files/photos/videos and Nextcloud for calendar and contacts.

I do run ProtonVPN on all of my devices, daily drive Linux on my PC and laptop, and have GrapheneOS as my ROM. So device privacy is not really the issue. This is more about not wanting to have accounts with the likes of Meta who have time and time again shown that they are completely against user privacy, but I feel it is more and more difficult to live without as most people don't know/don't care about personal privacy.

Its been a tough few years as a McLaren fan but finally back at the top. So glad to have Piastri on board. Really hope Lando stays with the team.

As others have mentioned the Philips bulbs are about as good as you can get but they are also the most expensive. And that you can save money by going with the IKEA lineup but the quality isn't as good. But your third option is Innr bulbs which sit perfectly in between Philips and IKEA for quality and price.

TLDR

Philips - best quality / most expensive

Innr - medium quality / middle pricing

IKEA - lowest quality / least expensive

Note: when I say the IKEA is the lowest quality, I just mean between these three. They are still miles ahead of any of the no-name brand crap you can get on Amazon.

I'd recommend checking out Gadgetbridge. It is an open source app, with no network permission requirements, that replaces the OEM app for a large number of watches. I'm running an Amazfit GTS 4 with it and it has been almost flawless.

You can install it directly from their GitHub repo or through Obtanium.

I switched over to Liftoff from Jebora a few days ago and am extremely happy. There are a few tweaks that I'm going to suggest over on their Github but it is amazing to see the effort and speed of development that they are putting in.

Thank you to the devs and maybe I'll get round to contributing to the code myself as well.

There is the possibility that he could overtake both Alonso and Sainz for 4th in the drivers championship before the end of the season as well!

I've tried quite a few after leaving Nova a few years ago and have settled on Lawnchair. It seems to be the most stable and is under active development.

You need to install the Assist Pipeline.

It is fairly straight forward if you can use the add-on manager, but is a little different in docker and there is very little official documentation. If you are using docker just let me know and I'll share my setup.

In the UK the max for contactless payments is £100 and contactless is now the norm, so a shielded wallet would be highly recommended.

This looks like a great tool, thank you. One question, does it only allow manual transfers or could it be set up to sync a folder between two devices?

I'm staying sceptical about these rumours for now until something more substantial comes to light, as currently it is just the Telegram CEO throwing shade at Signal, and the Signal CEO throwing shade back at Telegram

Since the article title doesn't mention it, for those wondering, this is isolated to the USA.

It would be great if you could credit the OC when you post these.