I’ve been running Unraid on top of Proxmox for over 3 years. No problems whatsoever. I initially bought a RAID controller to directly pass the drives to the UnRAID VM. Another option is to passthrough the SATA controller of your motherboard (only possible if you don’t use them on the host).
I documented the process on my blog (it’s quite straightforward): https://simplyexplained.com/blog/howto-virtualize-unraid-on-proxmox-host/
I agree that kids shouldn’t spend a lot of time behind screens. But I disagree with the fact that 30 mins is too much.
Our oldest son watches TV while drinking milk. That’s either first thing in the morning (while still being a bit sleepy and while we get his younger brother ready) or it’s just before bed (when physically exhausted from playing all day).
I see some benefits to watching movies instead of TV shows. Watching a movie for 30min at a time, trains his ability to focus for longer periods of time. A skill that I highly value in this era of TikTok and 30 second attention spans. He also learns to follow a story, to have empathy with the characters, to see situations in which he hasn’t found himself in yet, and so forth…
And yes, it’s also convenient for us. During those 30min we can get his brother ready and dressed, make lunch, get ready ourselves, etc.
Ultimately, it’s up to each parent to decide for themselves. What is an acceptable amount of screen time, and how do you spend times away from screens. For us, that’s a little bit of TV in the mornings and evenings, and no screens in between.
It depends. Children are naturally curious. I think it comes down to how you deal with that as a parent. Our son is interested in pretty much everything we do. As much as possible, we take the time to involve him. Tell him what’s happening, why we’re doing things a certain way, etc…
I assembled the NFC reader together with him, and he did question what it was for. Obviously he doesn’t understand the technical details behind it, but he understand that the box recognizes the cards he put on top of it. That’s enough for now. Maybe in the future I can dive a little bit deeper into it.
Love these ideas! Might make a V2!
The Plex deep links will automatically resume. TV shows are tricky. For that, I use the Plex integration of Home Assistant to play a random episode. It’s supposed to be super powerful, but I haven’t got it to work reliably yet (which is why I didn’t focus on TV Shows in the blog post).
service: media_player.play_media
data:
media_content_type: EPISODE
media_content_id: |-
{
"library_name" : "TV shows",
"show_name": "SHOW NAME HERE",
"shuffle": 1,
"maxresults": 1
}
enqueue: replace
target:
entity_id: media_player.plex_plex_for_apple_tv_apple_tv
It’s definitely level. Guess it’s the perspective + the fact that it’s a curved TV.
Exactly this!
Yes, 30min in the mornings, 30min in the evening.
Hypothetically, how much would you pay for an NFT of someone else’s kids? I might get crypto rich after all!
Go for it! If you have some experience with Home Assistant and ESPHome, then this is a simple project. I might do in the future for music as well. I love the physical aspect of browsing the cards and deciding what to watch/listen.
Thank you for the nice message! I don’t have any plans to sell these though. Have enough on my hands with 2 kids ;)
You can buy pre-made readers from Adenno: https://adonno.com/tagreader/ He uses the smaller NFC reader that I want to use in the future.
Hadn’t considered using NFC tags to have my kids control other things in the house. Interesting idea!
Oops, posted too quickly. Here it is: https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-library-for-my-kids/
Woops, yes! Link to the blog post with how-to: https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-library-for-my-kids/ Updated now.
These posts are really useful to get a grasp of ActivityPub (if you have a programming background): https://rknight.me/building-an-activitypub-server/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
And of course the official spec (although its less useful): https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
And a followup question: wouldn’t it be more efficient for big instances to use WebSockets to federate? Making a HTTP request for every action your users take seems unnecessarily wasteful.
Amazing blog post! Been reading the ActivityPub spec and found it rather lacking. It’s only when you add WebFinger and signed messages that things start to make sense.
Shoutout to @roofuskit@kbin.social for a very detailed and helpful answer. For some reason I can’t reply to your message, so I’m creating a new comment instead. Hope you see it ;)
Wow, thanks a lot for your detailed answer and suggestions. You kind of convinced me to go for Roborock!
The fact that local control works (after cloud setup) is great. I read somewhere that the robot will reboot if it’s been disconnected from the cloud for a long time, but that’s fine for now. Good to know that there’s a backup solution in the rare case my internet connection goes down.
I hope one day someone will make a great vacuum robot with an open-source firmware. Imagine having something like ESPHome for vacuum robots. Wet dream!
I’m a bit concerned by that as well. Especially for robots with integrated cameras. I don’t mind LIDAR sensors as much. Sure, they might leak my floor plan, but I would accept that risk. Unfortunately, it seems like most robot vacuums these days are Chinese. Especially if you want vacuum+mop combo with some nice features. (Whichever one I buy, I’ll also be adding it to IoT VLAN. Separate them from the rest of my network).
Yep! The only requirement is that your NVMe controller is in a separate IOMMU group than the SATA controller. But that should be the case.