Huge oil and gas reserves also help out.

Btw, letting plaintext data touch the drive is very 2013.

There is little performance overhead from running a VM. However there’s a substantial administrative overhead for keeping a virtualization system running just for home assistant.

If this a hobby to you, sure, you do you. Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted. But it’s way less effort to just run everything you need in a container stack - especially if are you already running containers for other things.

Yeah, just set them up in another container.

Addons are just software.

I only run mosquitto right now, but it’s not exactly hard or complicated or time consuming to set up.

There is no compelling reason to run home assistant in a vm instead of in a container.

I’d get rid of the virtualization layer in your specific case and save yourself a lot of hassle, especially on smaller systems.

Mike judge is a great man. His fans are among the worst humanity has to offer.

Sort of like Jesus.

Pliny is the one that’s supposed to travel, and then send you letters which range from “I saw a mountain just explode, yo” to “did you know aqueducts are like freakishly expensive” depending on whether he’s the older or the younger one.

Windows is just the micro kernel running the actual operating system: Firefox.

Bluesky is my default social network when I don’t feel like having slap fights with nerds.

When I do feel like having slap fights with nerds, I come here. Or mastodon.