Essentially, musicians in an orchestra play the instruments, while the conductor plays the musicians. In both contexts they guide the instrument to make a specific note at a specific time, intensity and timbre, for a specific duration.

As for how the musicians interpret the movements, not sure. Perhaps it’s unique to every orchestra and relies on the familiarity between musician and conductor.

Oh yeah. One of my probably unprovable theories is that the data they collected on me will always be floating around, I can just do my best to stop new data being harvested and, potentially, old data might be unsellable. Like when Daniel Radcliffe didn’t update his outfit for several months and paparazzi couldn’t sell the photos they took of him to magazines because they all looked outdated and therefore inaccurate

I used to be the same, but I eventually got sick of seeing these constant requests to spend my money on whoever’s product. If I see a problem that can be solved with a product, I know tlwhere to find stores, and I’ll go look for it. I don’t need 45,000 attempts at my money in case one is what I need. So I block all ads, pointedly avoid sponsored results, and use my own brain to decide what I want, when I want it.

Plus it improves my experience on all services when the UI isn’t wasted on banners and games don’t play a video every thirty seconds.

This. I thoroughly checked all of my account’s settings and toggled off about 15 switches related to history or data access. Not only that, Google can occasionally add new ones or toggle them back on, either through deceptive user prompts or underhanded updates.

I highly recommend a Navidrome/Slskd/beets[lyrics]/Symfonium setup!

I have a Navidrome server that serves music in a Library Folder (B), a Slskd server that serves a Soulseek web UI and downloads to a Download Folder (A), and beetbox beets program with the lyrics plugin installed via pipx that has config parameters set so that I can manually run it, it’ll detect and allow me to identify songs downloaded to Folder A, inject synced lyrics, and move them to an organised folder structure in Folder B.

• Navidrome doesn’t need organisation, I just do it to be neat.
• beets uses MusicBrainz and another I believe for song/album ID, and lrclib for synced lyrics
• I also have Lidarr set up to download from Soulseek with the Tubifarry plugin, get lyrics via lrclib and move to Folder B with the same structure as beets, but its metadata is heavily lacking and many images and artist song data is just nonexistent after about two months of “populating” (see below)
• You can use any Subsonic client but I find Symfonium to be incredible. Paying these devs is worth it!

I work the other way. If I need or want it, but it’s on <insert (physically, mentally, financially, environmentally, or privacy-wise) harmful corporation here>, I don’t need or want it. There’s always an alternative elsewhere.

Code here :)

I used to use Has Agent, now I have LNXlink, which had quick buttons for lock, log out, ctrl-F4 and alt-F4, and power controls. I also have media player functions for watching stuff and controlling from the couch. I tried to share yaml but I think it bypassed a comment limit

But sorry, did you mean the whole dashboard?

Sorry, that would help wouldn’t it aha In templatesensors.yaml:

  - switch:
      unique_id: pc_admin_controls
      name: Admin Controls
      icon: mdi:shield-crown-outline
      turn_on: []
      turn_off: []

I believe it could also be made in helpers UI now

For me I’ve experimented with restricted cards. For example, I have essentially a collapsed menu of controls for my PC, accessible only when a switch is toggled on, and the card with the switch is only visible to me.

    - type: conditional
      conditions:
        - condition: user
          users:
            - 9ecc550a1dc14e0a98071750a1673abc
      card:
        type: entities
        entities:
          - entity: switch.pc_admin_controls
            toggle: true
    - type: conditional
      conditions:
        - entity: switch.pc_admin_controls
          state_not: "off"
      card:
        type: grid
        columns: 4

(Ignore that I haven’t fixed the yellow warning entities yet lol)

Ty ty. I was hoping to have dashboards restricted for other users, like child users. That’s a good idea, I see a few awesome all-in-one dashboards online

To conclude my other comment: I’ve decided to backup and downgrade to v2025.8.3 by entering the console and using:

core stop
login
rm /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant/home-assistant_v2.db
core update --version 2025.8.3

Having to delete the database meant losing sensor history but so many broken UI elements have been restored, and the dashboards and automation menus are back to being less cluttered.

I’m on 2025.12 and am considering rolling back to remove some features, mainly the added pointless dashboards. And I might be weird but I preferred when the automation page didn’t spoonfeed you and give a popup with every tap. And my gauge cards are broken. Basically I agree, don’t upgrade -_-

I think the restricted user dashboard thing was always screwed though, as some were specialised and didn’t have support for user visibility. “Here’s a wonderful home control system where we take away your control every few months”

You can follow uploaders, but since the mass removal of 85% of their videos I doubt the website has ever gotten better. I had a few favourites noted down but none of them exist now.

If we’re talking USA, I believe the separation of church and state was tantamount to its foundational laws.

Well, these aren’t real in my country. We have Individual, Student, Duo and Family

it can still function by connecting to nearby open networks, or perhaps even someone just walking by with a phone that it can piggyback off of.

I was worried some corporation would create a product that does this. The best option then would be to trash it.

Best thing to do is vote with your wallet - don’t buy Amazon e-commerce if you don’t support them. It’s worth noting that the vast majority of their value comes from AWS, but there’s little we can do about that.

It can’t phone home if it isn’t powered, that’s for sure.

You can always set up a PiHole or AdGuard Home instance and route traffic from the doorbell to keep an eye on it, and block any domains it tries to access that you don’t need. Or disable its WAN access entirely. Custom DNS settings in the router would be ideal, just set it to the IP of the instance, but as I’ve discovered some ISPs like to remove that setting as part of their enshittification.

The general knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and sentence structure of the language families/subgroups, in order to better grasp a basic understanding of a common language when I encounter it, and be more respective - for example knowing when to use -kun, Fraulein, señora, and courteous actions native to the locale