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There will be no end of the term. Fascism doesn't just step aside when it's term ends.

I think the existing telecoms tied them up in mountains of legal bullshit.

Unless you're redlining your systems 24/7, the load really shouldn't be that bad.

My first gen i7 would still be going strong if the mobo hadn't started dying. Especially running Linux.

Nintendo doesn't sell their hardware at a loss.

You can do that without giving money to Nintendo.

Why would you give money to Nintendo?

A hand towel that a dog with an enlarged prostate pissed on.

There is a hat for the raspberry pi that does local voice recognition that you can use with Rhasspy or another setup.

But, I haven't really messed with it since they started rolling out voice recognition within HA. My plans for a HAL9000 system are on pause until I finish my microchip pet feeding enclosures project.

Yeah, ODROID partnered with them to create an off the shelf product. It's pretty pricy, though, but honestly you could run it on a pi 3b+ for pretty cheap.

Sounds like you should check out Homeassistant.

Gotta give props to Keating too. It's refreshing to see a Democrat actually push back.