aaron

@aaronk6
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Interested in home automation, Apple, web development, programming, network engineering, retro computing, hiking, and electronic music.

#HomeAssistant #KNX #ESPHome #macOS #iOS #MikroTik #Unifi #WebDev #HomeLab #Podman #ZFS #NixOS #systemd #OpenStreetMap

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Bloghttps://aaron.cc
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Oh, another nice thing I just saw: iOS Live Activities are finally coming to #HomeAssistant!

Roadmap entry: https://github.com/OpenHomeFoundation/roadmap/issues/52 (pull requests linked in a comment)

Can't wait, this has been missing for quite a while.

"Live activities" for mobile apps · Issue #52 · OpenHomeFoundation/roadmap

Problem statement Some activities happening in Home Assistant, like a ongoing timer or dishwasher routine, could be better represented to the user through a live activity (in iOS, and similar appro...

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When you need advanced features, it’s not cheap. Still, I’m glad it’s a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Also, Family Sharing is supported.

The official WireGuard UI for Apple platforms is essentially unmaintained. I just discovered Passepartout, a modern VPN client for Apple platforms with support for OpenVPN and WireGuard.

The best thing is: there’s Split DNS in the current beta! Now I can send requests for my local domain through the tunnel and use another DNS server for everything else. I really don’t want to lose mobile connectivity just because my landline is down.

https://passepartoutvpn.app #WireGuard #iOS #Networking #VPN

Passepartout is your go-to app for VPN and privacy.

Passepartout is your go-to app for VPN and privacy. Tailored for Apple platforms, Passepartout is open-source and fully available on GitHub.

Passepartout
TIL that Photoshop files (.psd) have a maximum file size of 2 GB. So there’s .psb now, which, surprise, stands for “Photoshop Big”. 🤡 It supports up to 4 EB (yes, exabytes).

Running Podman  in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.

I just published a deep dive on managing OCI containers the Unix way: daemonless, rootless, and natively integrated with systemd via Quadlets.

I cover:
- Real secrets management
- Auto-updates via systemd timers
- The Docker compatibility layer

This is the guide I wish I had when making the switch.

Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/podman-in-production-quadlets-secrets-auto-updates-and-docker-compatibility/

#Podman #Linux #DevOps #Systemd #Homelab #Sysadmin #Containers

Podman in Production: Quadlets, Secrets, Auto-Updates, and Docker Compatibility

An opinionated production-ops guide to Podman on Linux servers - why I prefer it over Docker, how Quadlets replace Compose files, and practical patterns from real deployments including secrets mana...

Larvitz Blog

@aaronk6 Music Assistant is the one Add-On I don't update when I have no time to test everything.

Too many times I had to debug it when my child had bedtime and no music played out of the sudden.

@ivory Why is searching in my own posts only finding the most recent posts? When I manually search for "from:aaronk6 search query", I will find much older posts, but not the recent ones. Is this a Mastodon quirk?

Clint from LGR also answered a question I had in an earlier post: SimCity didn’t have in-game music (in fact, SimCity 2000 was the first version to include it).

https://mastodon.social/@aaronk6/113619289881054899

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #simcity

Nice, LGR covered “SimCity Enhanced CD”, which is exactly the version I played in the 90s (except I had the German version). I agree that those video sequences are extremely cheesy and annoying, still I have some nostalgia for them.

I disagree with him on the 256-color graphics, though: to me, they look much nicer than in the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfpuaHuzDY #retrogaming #retrocomputing #simcity

SimCity Enhanced CD: 1990s Full Motion Video Cheese

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My wife complained that the radio stream in the bathrooms had stopped working. Turns out Music Assistant 2.8 introduced breaking changes to the Home Assistant integration and I was using the `latest` tag on the Docker container instead of pinning a specific version.

#HomeAssistant #MusicAssistant #SmartHome