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| | Back when I setup my home automation I ended up with one piece that used an external service: Amazon Alexa. I'd rather not have done this, but voice control is extremely convenient, both for us, and guests. Since then Home Assistant has done a lot of work in developing the capability of a local voice assistant - 2023 was their Year of Voice. I've had brief looks at this in the past, but never quite had the time to dig into setting it up, and was put off by the fact a lot of the setup instructions were just "Download our prebuilt components". While I admire the efforts to get Home Assistant fully packaged for Debian I accept that's a tricky proposition, and settle for running it in a venv on a Debian stable container. Voice requires a lot more binary componen...
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| | Almost 4 years later, I started using AVR microcontrollers again. However, today it is difficult to find a computer that has a _parallel port_, and thus I needed to revisit this topic of AVR programmers. And I end up building (and buying) the USBasp programmer.
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| On recent weeks I've had some time to scratch my own itch on matters related to tools I use daily on my computer, namely the desktop / window manager and my text editor of choice. This post is a summary of what I tried, how it worked out and my short and medium-term plans related to them. Desktop / WMOn the desktop / window manager front I've been using Cinnamon on Debian and Ubuntu systems since Gnome 3 was published (I never liked version 3, so I decided to move to something similar to Gnome 2, including the keyboard shortcuts). In fact I've never been a fan of Desktop environments, before Gnome I used OpenBox and IceWM because they where a lot faster than desktop systems on my hardware at the time and I was using them only to place one or two windows on m...