Man I’ve considered all of those options but… they just take so much commitment lol. My first grill was a cheap one that rusted out in a few years and my second was given to me that’s just died. Now I need to buy a big-boy grill and stick with it and can’t figure out what to decide haha.

How fiddly is the natural gas? Do you have to worry about line length or special cleanings or anything like that?

Lmao, I love that it’s called the “Murica” but no, I hadn’t seen that option before.

I’ve had charcoal before and never really tasted the difference, though that probably says more about my grilling skills than anything lol. And some things (like burgers) make a lot of smoke and just need to be cooked outside, preferably over an open flame. Either way I never really found charcoal to be worth the setup/teardown hassle.

Smoking I feel like it would be one of those things that I’d be stoked about having but never really do that often, so I don’t want to buy something just for that capability.

They don’t use the same kind :(

Gonna tell my kids this app is Apollo and pour one out for those that didn’t make it.

IMO people will come around. Not quickly and not without a bunch of good things about the internet dying off… but eventually an equilibrium will be reached.

It got monetized. Read up on a Google published white paper “Attention is all you Need” from 2017 and you’ll understand how it all went to shit so quickly.

The Holocaust. Khmer Rouge. The Rape of Nanjing. Global Warming.

See? Words are easy.

It isn’t that people don’t care enough, it’s that they only have so much to go around and there is no cause so important that you get to dictate someone else’s state of mind 24/7 just because you say tragic words. Keep the fire burning but don’t think you get to sneer at others just because they’re burned out at the moment.

Switching operating system is cheaper…

They’re consolidating their marketshare and decreasing cost through every method available to increase revenue. All the avenues of piracy have just become the lowest hanging fruit now that these companies aren’t growing anymore.

I’m with you, just pointing out the barriers.

There’s no free bandwidth just sitting around and waiting to be exploited, Internet 2.0 will have to be discreet or expensive.

Then you’re just going to have the FCC regulating the high-throughput bandwidths until you’re left with the unregulated ones for consumers… like LoRa… and Meshtastic lol.

Going to be hard since the hardware sitting between all those wires cost money to run and… that’s pretty much what ISPs get paid do. They’re assholes who shouldn’t have a say in what goes through those connections but their job isn’t redundant, someone has to do it to maintain those connections.

Meshtastic? LoRa?

Or do you mean something like VPN tunneling?

Same, but don’t buy Xero, they’re trash. Basically flip-flops with a fabric covering imo. And the ones that have survived 2yrs had their rubber harden up like decades old tires.

I’ve been trying “Rutsu” out based on an ad recommendation (yeah yeah, sue me). Time will tell for sure but they’re definitely made better at least.

That’s giving them way too much credit tbh, these guys are too far down (technically “up”) the totem pole. They’ve offloaded their critical thinking and public responsibilities to the first company that said the right keywords. And now that they’re entrenched, they defend them because their ego says they must.

It’s fascism via the convenience-stupidity pipeline.

Sounds like you’ve gone down all the paths I can help with lol. Mine streams just fine using Frigate in HAOS and using RTSP. The two way audio doesn’t work quite yet but I also haven’t tried too hard to diagnose since the audio otherwise functions, so I’m assuming it’s just a configuration issue.

I also 3D printed a mount I found on Thingiverse since the ones it came with didn’t angle it far enough for my needs.

I guess I should’ve said “on its own dedicated hardware” too but, still.

I think I remember reading somewhere about a firmware update that was pretty recent (8/2025) specifically for latency issues, you might want to check that out if you’ve had it awhile.

It’s probably just scrolling speed or debounce or something silly like that lol. Like moving from Android to iOS. I’d bet if you used FF for a couple days you wouldn’t even notice it anymore without something to compare it to.

Have you thought about moving your HA off your server and onto a miniPC? I know you weren’t really looking for advice but that seems like the move to me tbh, doesn’t take long to migrate and it might clear up a lot of headaches.