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[372.02 --> 386.26] And I think one of the things we can do to kind of help the environment in that respect from, you know, pointless e-waste is, I suppose, on the one hand is consume less, right? |
[386.38 --> 387.76] Buy less stuff that we don't need. |
[387.84 --> 395.18] I mean, our doorbells have functioned fine for 30 years as just a little switch with a wire going to a little bell in the hallway. |
[395.18 --> 404.92] Anyway, the fact that we're sat here talking about them having a camera in them and all sorts of circuitry and stuff when there's a global chip crisis is very much a first world problem. |
[405.60 --> 414.12] But on the other hand, I think these companies can do a lot more to help us, help them, really, in having open devices and open firmwares. |
[414.12 --> 420.94] And I saw some news today come out of the UK about this right to repair bill that they've passed. |
[420.94 --> 433.88] And how it's unbelievable, the right to repair bill they've passed doesn't include laptops and phones, which are two of the most important devices that people upgrade regularly. |
[434.06 --> 446.32] I mean, fridges and washing machines and all that kind of stuff are important, of course, because they're very bulky and, you know, refrigerant and all that kind of stuff is, it's not endless to manufacture this stuff. |
[446.32 --> 457.26] But yeah, I think there's some kind of ethical responsibility that these manufacturers have to start playing, you know, playing the game. |
[457.64 --> 460.38] But it's all about where's the incentive? |
[460.58 --> 466.36] Like if, let's take Samsung, for example, if they make a smartphone and it lasts three years, |
[466.36 --> 474.38] they foot exactly 0% of the bill to recycle, to, you know, dispose of that item. |
[475.00 --> 478.60] They sell me the phone, I use it for a little bit and I throw it in the bin. |
[479.50 --> 483.50] The transaction so far as Samsung is concerned is I've bought the phone. |
[483.80 --> 490.70] There's no consequence for them if I throw it in the bin after a day or after three years. |
[490.70 --> 502.74] And I think until we have a way of getting companies attached to their environmental footprint, if that's even the right word, |
[502.88 --> 508.88] that, you know, the waste that their products generate by failing prematurely, this cycle is just going to perpetuate. |
[509.42 --> 509.84] That's a good point. |
[509.84 --> 520.72] The other thing you're taking consideration is you have CEOs of major car manufacturers who are guilt tripping cryptocurrency miners for wasting electricity |
[520.72 --> 527.66] without taking into consideration of how does the electricity get produced that then powers the very car he sells. |
[528.34 --> 530.32] I wonder who you could be talking about there. |
[530.40 --> 532.92] I think his name begins with E and ends with Lon, right? |
[533.42 --> 534.02] Possibly. |
[534.18 --> 535.90] But that's another topic for another day. |
[536.24 --> 539.68] And I don't want to get attacked on a Twitter account I don't have. |
[539.84 --> 547.68] Well, speaking of Twitter, Home Assistant announced this week that they're going to be working on an official two-year integration. |
[548.18 --> 548.90] This is pretty cool. |
[549.00 --> 556.02] So two-year, the manufacturer, are going to be actually writing software that is compatible out of the box with Home Assistant. |
[556.60 --> 559.04] I've struggled to deploy Home Assistant. |
[559.60 --> 561.30] And it's not because I don't want to use it. |
[561.78 --> 566.32] It's because I just can't make up my mind what product to go with. |
[566.32 --> 575.00] And I think the biggest issue that I'm having is I want to host my own solutions, but I don't want to get vendor lock-in. |
[575.48 --> 580.40] I don't want to go with something that requires me to do a hack install. |
[580.40 --> 583.00] I want something that's just going to be easy. |
[583.16 --> 584.30] I can take it out of the box. |
[584.46 --> 585.86] I can connect it to my Wi-Fi. |
[586.20 --> 587.98] I can wire it into my device. |
[588.20 --> 589.68] And then I can go into Home Assistant. |
[589.92 --> 591.18] I click a wizard and it's done. |
[591.84 --> 595.02] And I've talked to a lot of other people who are in the same situation. |
[595.38 --> 599.92] We have a lot of really intelligent people who are out there that are very tech savvy, |
[599.92 --> 608.12] but they don't want the hassle of having to configure XML files or JSON or installing firmware, etc., etc. |
[608.38 --> 609.48] It is a pain. |
[609.72 --> 616.12] And it's the biggest roadblock that I see to get people to adapt. |
[616.46 --> 621.34] So to hear that somebody is going to come out and design something that is going to work directly with Home Assistant |
[621.34 --> 625.04] and is integrated into their firmware is phenomenal. |
[625.04 --> 632.96] What's really exciting about this piece of news is that they say that they're going to do the cloud API first with a local API to follow. |
[633.40 --> 638.84] Now, I love me a good local API because I don't see why, if I have a light bulb next to me on my desk, |
[639.16 --> 645.38] why does it need to go all the way to a data center in outer Mongolia and then come back to my desk again? |
[645.54 --> 647.74] I mean, it's got to travel six feet. |
[647.92 --> 649.96] So why don't we just do that? |
[650.28 --> 651.54] Why do we need to go out and in again? |
[652.10 --> 653.82] So that's very exciting to me, too. |
[653.82 --> 655.12] Yeah, I totally agree. |
[655.38 --> 657.52] And it's interesting what you're saying about a local API. |
[658.18 --> 664.22] When you got me hooked on Shelleys and I wired a couple of Shelleys in to control some lights around the house, |
[664.68 --> 667.04] the first thing I did is I timed it. |
[667.36 --> 674.68] How long does it take to tell Alexa to turn off the light compared to how long does it take to open the app? |
[674.74 --> 677.82] And I click the lights off and they turn off. |
[678.42 --> 681.72] And these are seconds that we're talking about. |
[681.72 --> 685.92] But just the idea that it's instantaneous, right? |
[685.96 --> 687.88] We're not having to transverse the internet. |
[688.22 --> 694.32] I have no idea who's looking at my packets, what Amazon is trying to do with what I just said. |
[694.78 --> 698.48] But the idea that it's local, it's in your house. |
[698.72 --> 702.68] If you lose internet, you can still control your lights. |
[702.94 --> 704.50] Can't do that when you're cloud connected. |
[704.50 --> 708.28] We've probably got some people listening that are going, yeah, what was wrong with a light switch? |
[708.36 --> 710.90] I mean, you could control your lights without the internet with a light switch. |
[711.52 --> 714.88] But, you know, you can't automate a light switch particularly well. |
[715.06 --> 717.76] I suppose you could have a child and get them to walk over and flick the switch. |
[717.88 --> 720.38] But that's quite an expensive solution, really, isn't it? |
[720.38 --> 726.80] Yeah, and I have six lights that are embedded in the ceiling where I watch our movies. |
[727.26 --> 731.24] And sometimes I want four of them on or I want the two behind me on. |
[731.58 --> 734.62] And previously, they were all wired to an on and off switch. |
[734.94 --> 740.26] And I really don't want to be in a situation where I need to run six, eight switches to get what I want. |
[740.72 --> 744.08] But I spent a day, ran some wires, installed some Shelleys. |
[744.08 --> 749.86] When I say turn off one, two, three, and four, they turn off. |
[750.32 --> 751.16] Bada bing, bada boom. |
[751.84 --> 759.40] A couple months ago, I finally decided that I was going to pull out the wallet and make some purchases and build a home server. |
[759.82 --> 763.74] Now, I had a home lab that I previously talked about before, but it was just that. |
[763.82 --> 764.42] It was a lab. |
[764.64 --> 766.80] I tore it up, broke it a lot. |
[767.10 --> 768.06] It broke a lot. |
[768.06 --> 777.54] So it wasn't something that I could reliably count on to host services that my kids need every day. |
[777.88 --> 783.36] To watch movies, TV, to listen to music, all that good stuff. |
[783.64 --> 785.02] Really important stuff, right? |
[785.46 --> 787.90] The things that keep them from driving me insane. |
[788.92 --> 794.88] So, Alex, you had a UNAZ that you had bought and you didn't need it anymore. |
[794.88 --> 798.86] So I graciously, for a decent price, took that off your hands. |
[799.76 --> 807.14] And, you know, I set it up, got it all built, slapped in a bunch of spinning disks, set up MergerFS. |
[807.68 --> 812.62] Well, I didn't go to perfectmediaserver.com and I didn't read the directions. |
[813.02 --> 815.46] So I totally didn't set up MergerFS properly. |
[815.72 --> 822.54] And I found out that we really couldn't stream two or three movies at a time because they just weren't handling the bandwidth. |
[822.70 --> 824.02] And I was like, what did I do wrong? |
[824.02 --> 826.74] And then I realized, ah, genius. |
[827.48 --> 828.76] Everything's going to one disk. |
[828.90 --> 831.40] You're trying to stream a bunch of movies at one time. |
[831.58 --> 833.12] People are trying to listen to music. |
[833.24 --> 834.14] It's just not going to work. |
[834.44 --> 839.46] So I had to find something that would let me properly rebalance, right? |
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