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Any good alternatives to Home Assistant?

Hey, I like YAML config just as much as the next guy, but I understand the decision to go the GUI way.

With large Home Assistant installs YAML gets really messy, and most changes require a reboot to show up (well, both issues could be fixed by the devs, but they chose otherwise). I really thought that I'd miss YAML, but so far it's working just fine for me. Migration or restoring is a bit more tricky, as I prefer the start from scratch approach instead of the restore a 10 year old backup one.

Home Assistant's (docker install) backup is just a zip file of the config folder. This makes it easier to fix things if needed, but isn't as nice as editing YAML directly. I'd love to have option to use YAML if I want to and GUI otherwise.

As for developers being a bunch of assholes? Well, you're right. Luckily the community is much better and much more helpful.

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I don't know. I'm running 16gb with 8gb of swap just fine.

Couple dozen tabs open in librewolf (across multiple windows), android studio with an emulator and some other utils. All under KDE Plasma on nixos unstable and it's fine. It could be better, but it's good enough.

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Rooted Phone + Galaxy Watch?

Next time you can save yourself a reset by using adb.

  1. connect to watch over adb (usb or wireless)
  2. run adb shell "pm clear com.google.android.gms && reboot"
  3. wait a few minutes (might not be necessary, but I found it increases success rate)
  4. run adb shell "am start -a android.bluetooth.adapter.action.REQUEST_DISCOVERABLE"
  5. pair new device in companion app (I reset the app for good measure, don't know if it's needed)

Also on my device (oppo watch), play integrity doesn't seem to matter. Some of the time I'm only passing basic and watch works perfectly.

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What's the best way to get unlimited skips on Spotify web?

From my experience uBlock Origin worked well, but that was some time ago.

If you don't mind installing a client there are: