Well I was born around a hospital in 1:28pm

My understanding is that that is because Google and Apple want to onboard it to their own home automation platforms, and HomeAssistant just piggybacked on that because it was easier, and it hasn’t been a priority to rewrite it. But this is based on a few old threads I just looked up, I’m not exactly an expert.
I think there was some talk about Bluetooth onboarding, but that’d require the devices to have a Bluetooth radio, which is more expensive that a QR code sticker. Idk if anyone uses it.
Having something like a WEP button would certainly be nice though.

Well that leaves me with mixed feelings.

Thread itself doesn’t need Internet connectivity, but thread seems to almost always be paired with matter, which does (during provisioning).

I like that matter provisioning requires verification of their certificate, but I don’t like that certificates can expire or the certificate authority can shut down. Although maybe that’s all taken care of by the DCL? In which case that’d be fine.

It seems similar in purpose to pangolin, how do they differ?

Can you explain a bit more about the setup?

Like would just using a VPS with pangolin secure tunnel work? Or does it have to be a vpn for some other reason?

Asking because maybe the question really boils down to the VPS provider with the best data transfer rates

If you’re just starting to build out, what about using thread instead of zigbee or zwave?

If you’re getting a VPS I’d generally recommend getting pangolin. It’s basically like cloudflared tunnels, but self hosted (on the vps). It works the same, you use it to map your subdomains to IPs on the other end of the secure tunnel.

It has things like user access controls for each of the subdomains, the ability connect it to an identity provider, rules governing which paths need authentication and which don’t, etc.

It can optionally come preconfigured with crowedsec, but I had problems with it falsely classifying my normal traffic as an attack and banning my IPs.

Just be aware that even if your service has a login page, you first need to log into pangolin to be granted access to the service, and although that’s fine on the web (especially if you’re using an sso), some native apps don’t like the extra login. Homeassistant handles it better now, but I haven’t gotten jellyfin native android app working yet.

I agree except crowedsec. The apps I use were frequently phoning home, causing all my devices to get banned by crowedsec. Setting up rules around it was just too painful so I got rid of it.
Gonna look into if I can set up fail2ban with it instead

Thank you, I’ve always wondered how their sizes compare, this is a great visual representation. So clear.

Are you 5?

You’re clearly not supposed to answer OP’s question honestly. No context is needed.

Linoceros

Isn’t that just because they use non-magnetic metals for implants?

I don’t like this.

Plz delete

Is it for downloading illegal content? i can’t tell

I assume some of it is related to torrenting, but I can’t tell which ones and how much. They can’t all be for torrenting, right???

Store a lot of things you never access

Hope that helps 😌

That’s a lot of dragons. You sure they’re not wyverns?

I need to do more to help the poor people around me.

Ikr like… Give me a docker compose file and tell me what env vars need to be set to what. Why is it so complicated?

Toad isn’t a mushroom, it’s an example of convergent evolution 😌

Step aside butthole surfers, here come the butthole sniffers!