I don’t see anything in that article that says that Google store the contents of the notification. It just says that they link push tokens to emails, which is true - they have to know who to send the push notification to.

In any case, if you don’t want Home Assistant notifications being relayed through Google, you can use a persistent connection so that the app connects directly to your Home Assistant server.

There’s a few comments like this in this thread, from people that I guess didn’t actually read the post :)

They weren’t asking how to do it; they were asking why it works out-of-the-box with the standard Home Assistant notifications.

You don’t need ntfy; the standard Home Assistant app notifications work anywhere since they route via Google Firebase.

That’s what I was thinking of! It’s not in the settings section I’d expect it to be in (notifications) so I thought it wasn’t doable any more.

On Linux, input-remapper usually works pretty well to remap the extra buttons. I wonder if it’d work on this AI button.

Notifications go through Google Firebase servers. This is documented here: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-details/. Your HA server sends the notification to Google, which then sends it to your phone. They don’t store the notification they just relay it.

Most mobile apps do something like this. One reason is to improve battery life - your phone can have a single connection to a Google server instead of every app needing its own separate connection.

There used to be a way to use local notifications (meaning you have to be on the same network, either locally or via a VPN), but I can’t find the setting any more so maybe it’s gone now. (edit: this is still possible)

They changed systemd-tmpfiles to create stuff other than tempfiles a while back, but for whatever reason they never renamed it to better describe what it does.

I’m not going to hunt down people who are infringing on projects like this:

It’s more that people won’t use the code at all if there’s no license attached. For someone that’s looking for a snippet of code to reuse, it’s much easier to instead find a permissively licensed piece of code that performs a similar function, instead of contacting the author of the unlicensed code and trying to figure out what to do.

Also, that’s sort of presumptuous to believe you know what I want better than myself

Sorry - I meant to address it to readers of your comment rather than you. I edited the comment to make it clearer.

Doesn’t bother licensing

That’s usually not what someone would want to do. The default if you don’t provide a license is essentially “all rights reserved”, and you’re not granting anyone else permission to use it in any way. Everyone that wants to use it has to get explicit permission.

If you really want “no license” then you probably actually want to release it as public domain.

The Windows store is also a sandboxed, heavily restricted pile of trash you can’t even get at for most of its apps.

They changed that around the tine Windows 11 was released. Regular Win32 apps can be listed in there.

NTFS permissions are just needlessly complicated and convoluted and create more problems than they solve for desktop use.

What’s an example of a problem they create?

If Windows would just use simple permissions like Linux does

I don’t think using an antiquated permission system from the 1970s is the solution to anything. Being able to set permissions for only a single user and single group is very limiting, especially when there’s background processes that run as other users. There’s a reason later revisions of POSIX added ACLs.

The excuses for using obsolete Windows continues by its paid shills and brainwashed users.

lol I’m not a paid shill nor a brainwashed user; I just see pros and cons for all operating systems. Linux-based OSes do some things better, and Windows-based OSes do other things better. Even MacOS has its pros.

executable as a filesystem attribute

This already exists. It’s labeled as “Traverse folder / execute file” in the UI.

NTFS permissions are also more powerful than the default Linux permission system. Instead of just being able to define permissions for a single user and single group, you can define them for an arbitrary number of users and groups.

I say “default Linux permission system” because you can actually use ACLs on Linux (getfacl and setfacl commands), they’re just not used by default. They used to be common in businesses and schools, but these days everyone seems to store their files “in the cloud” and the permissions are managed there instead.

curated app repos

This is what the Windows store is supposed to be. There’s also WinGet, but I’m not sure if it’s curated.

That’s probably the presenter’s fault for not updating it earlier. Keep on top of your updates so they don’t force you to do it at an unfortunate time.

Years ago there was a screensaver that showed a fake “upgrading to Vista, please wait” screen. Just wait for someone to leave their computer unattended, download and set it as the screensaver, and wait for their reaction when they’re back :)

I think people just don’t care about startup times. They do it maybe once per day (if they don’t sleep and resume), and they probably get a coffee or something while it’s starting up.

“please contact your email provider”

Good luck - a lot of Discord users use freemail accounts (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc) where it’s practically impossible to contact the provider or recover a lost account.

I self-host mine using Mailcow, but I use an outbound SMTP relay for sending email so I don’t have to deal with IP reputation. L

I solved this by installing solar panels. They produce more electricity than I need (enough to cover charging an EV in when I get one in the future), and I should break even (in terms of cost) within 5-6 years of installation. Had them installed last year under NEM 2.0.

I know PG&E want to introduce a fixed monthly fee at some point, which throws off my break-even calculations a bit.

Some VPS providers have good deals and you can often find systems with 16GB RAM and NVMe drives for around $70-100/year during LowEndTalk Black Friday sales, so it’s definitely worth considering if your use cases can be better handled by a VPS. I have both - a home server for things like photos, music, and security camera footage, and VPSes for things that need to be reliable and up 100% of the time (websites, email, etc)

I think it’s so people here can give themselves a pat on the pack for self hosting lol.

Like how the Linux Lemmy community has so many “Windows is bad, Linux is good” posts. Practically everyone in there already knows that Linux is good.

This post comes a bit late - Microsoft announced this four years ago. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/

I love this! Thanks for the link.

Samsung have gotten better with updates. In 2021, they promised all new models would receive four years of updates (which helped the industry because other brands started matching them), and they bumped it to seven years with this year’s S24 series.

Samsung and LG appliances are interesting things. Some are horrible like their fridges (which are some of the worst available today), but some are fantastic like LG’s washing machines (which rank #2 in reliability behind Speed Queen).