Yes, vaccination primarily reduces odds of infection. No infection = no transmission. Secondarily, vaccination reduces the symptoms of an active infection if you get one anyways.

Thread is great too. Z-wave and thread are quite similar in terms of power consumption.

I literally just bought a satellite 1.1. I bought an atom echo to POC whether I could get reasonable wake word + stt + LLM running locally with good latency with the intention of building my own speaker afterwards.

I went with the satellite 1.1 because:

1. I haven’t done a good audio driver circuit since university
2. Getting 2-3 PCBs printed and SMD soldered sounds like a PITA
3. I didn’t want to design an acoustic cavity
4. Satellite 1.1 w/ xmos is just really hard to compete with, and the on-board humidity and temperature and stuff removes the need for me to have a distinct sensor for those in that room

It’s a bit more expensive but I’m really optimistic. It hasn’t arrived yet, I’ll lyk how I like it when it is delivered!

I saw a project (echomuse) that converts an EchoDot gen 2 into an HA speaker that I thought about doing as well but I didn’t really wanna spend $100+time when I could spend $200 and no time for a better product and support a cool company.

Jesus, that’s bad. I just installed an Ultraloq Bolt SE and it’s still reporting 100% charge after 2 weeks of daily use. I bought mine explicitly for battery life, I hope I don’t have the same thing happen…

Most of this continent was built by racists who owned car companies. Turns out racists that own car companies really wanna make sure that everyone has to drive and black kids stay away from white kids, and then they build cities to make those things happen.