Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I’ll install it 😆, it’s actually a little surprising conversions aren’t supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.

Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you’ve already passed my ability haha so I can’t tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.

It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.

Linux’s problem is that it’s not an OS, and so suggesting people use Linux doesn’t give them much advice.

The next problem is that linux based OSs are generally open source, which means it can be forked any number of times at any point in time.

There’s this super awesome and super confusing think in open software where you don’t have to use the thing you are given. Want to use facebook? Must use their app. Want to use reddit? Pretty much must use their app, etc.

But if you want to use Lemmy or Piefed, there are a dozen good choices, none are the wrong answer. Want to use Jellyfin? Well I connect with Kodi on my TV, Swiftfin on my mother’s, the Android Jellyfin app on my in-laws’ TV, Findroid (movies/TV) or Finamp (music) on my phone, etc. You don’t like an app you can still use the service just try another app or make your own. This is awesome, but super confusing to non-technical people.

Linux distros are the same. There are dozens of popular ones, many of which are based on others, the variety of choices is awesome but for non-technical people they have no idea where to start.

Worth noting you need both the speaker part and the server part. Home assistant sells both as out of the box ready to go but you do need both parts.

It’s also worth noting it’s a Preview Edition, as in not yet consumer ready.

It works but you will find quirks, and will find things it can’t do that you’d expect it to, and things it can do that others can’t.

It’s also very customisable, if you’re a bit technical (honestly you don’t need to be that technical these days, it has come a long way).

Do you have a plan? I have a Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition and it’s great but I don’t think it can do unit conversions without connecting it to an LLM. Timers work locally.

I guess if it’s an equation you could add automation to pick up on the phrase and reply with the conversion, but that would need each unit to be manually done and wouldn’t work for things like currency conversion that needs live data.

Also arbitrary things would be challenging, like converting tablespoons of butter into grams or grams of rice into cups.

As someone with a public facing website, there are significant volumes of scraping still happening. But largely this appears to come out of South East Asia and South America and they take steps to hide who they are so it’s not clear who is doing it or why, but like you say it doesn’t appear to be OpenAI, Google, etc.

It doesn’t appear to be web search indexing, the scraping is aggressive and the volume will bring down a Lemmy server no matter how powerful the hardware.

I don’t know the answer but does tab to autocomplete work in other contexts? E.g. you type ‘cd ca’ and it fills it to ‘cd catpics’?

I’m not at a PC right now but from memory you’d have to be in bash or similar, it won’t work in sh.

What’s your solution to this problem for the rest of your digital life?

I think I tried this when troubleshooting and didn’t notice a difference. Nevermind, I pretty easily taught her how to bring up the menu and switch audio streams so she can solve it herself now.

Thanks, I didn’t manage to find many options in swiftfin, you don’t know if I can enforce it for a user from the server side?

I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law’s TV, it’s just push play.

My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.

Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.

How so? I have HTTPS on internal sites, I just use DNS validation to get the certificate.

What is the security risk of adding HTTPS to a site going via VPN?

I highly recommend spinning up a Nextcloud AIO instance. It’s the recommended and supported method, and it will likely run a lot nicer because all the database, redis, etc tweaking are done for you in a known good setup.

If you try that and it’s still no good, then OCIS might be worth trying depending on exactly what you are trying to achieve.

I’m also here on AIO with a great experience. It’s snappy and the website loads faster than Onedrive ever did.

I had a docker install prior to AIO being available, and there was a lot of tweaking to get it running nicely (though it did run nicely). AIO takes care of it all for you.

Others might have suggestions. I run everyhting in docker. I then use Traefik as the reverse proxy in docker, where you add labels to the containers you want it to handle and it works things out on it’s own. I have also configured it to do certificates automatically, including automatic domain validation using a Cloudflare API.

Caddy and Nginx Proxy Manager are other popular ones that can configure HTTPS certificates for you.

You don’t have to overthink it. Choose a reverse proxy you like. If it does automatic certificates, that’s great. If not, Let’s Encypt (which most of these services use for the free certificates) have a certbot program you install and run on a cronjob to renew certificates.

Owncloud Infinite Scale was a rewrite of the codebase to get away from PHP. In theory this should be better able to run on lower end hardware. People tend to say they use it if they are only wanting the file part and not all the apps. Personally I use Nextcloud because I want the apps.

Automatic certificate renewal is built into many reverse proxies, and can be done for free, so I don’t see a reason not to do it.

Nextcloud has federation of some features so I’d guess that would be a key reason you can’t change the domain (you also can’t change a Lemmy domain once set up). However, you’re using it for file sync for yourself, right? Regardless of what you pick (even Nextcloud), you could surely just set up a new instance under the new domain then move all your files over.

I don’t think it’s really true these days that it needs a lot of config. Maybe reverse proxies will do it for you automatically without much setup.

I am curious what the security risks are for HTTPS for a service that will already be accessible remotely?

OwnCloud Infinite Scale might be the option you missed?

Nextcloud was forked from the PHP Owncloud some years back, and they added all the apps and things. But Owncloud is like Nextcloud but focused only on the files.

I am a bit concerned that you’re talking about not wanting HTTPS and see it as a bad thing that something requires it. Given you can get free certificates these days, why would you not want a secure connection? Even if you’re accessing via a VPN to server tunnel, I see no reason not to have it.

Not only that, but they said they tried really hard but weren’t able to make it work reliably (though they don’t go into the reasons why).