I think the point they’re making is you can effectively have a self hosted non federated option with Matrix. Just disable federation as a whole (which I’m pretty sure is completely possible. Given companies use matrix for comms, and might not want federation, for similar reasons to what is being discussed here)

Why would it make sense? Currently on Android, RCS isn’t a system level thing like SMS is. So Signal won’t easily be able to pull it in. Unless they implement their own implementation of RCS and the Universal Profile.

Tbf, I am not a grey beard chief engineer, and I strongly prefer VHDL for design. For verification I actually really like SystemVerilog.

VHDL is strongly types, which prevents a lot of issues with types that I’ve hit with [System]Verilog.

Also, having learned VHDL first, I think it is easier to go from VHDL to Verilog, as opposed to vice versa. And this is mainly because VHDL is stricter.

Lol, so much of the FPGA industry 🤣. Especially East coast of the US

GrapheneOS

When I search for it on stock android on my P7, it says it’s in Google Play Services. So my guess is it isn’t part of AOSP, therefore GrapheneOS wouldn’t have it, unless they make their own implementation

Same here.

VHDL represent. Although it’s arguably not a “programming language”

My bad. I thought I saw that they ship with them now. I haven’t really looked at the configurator since I got mine in 2021.

All of the models ship with various options for OS:

• None
• Fedora, Mint, or a couple other Linux distros
• W11

So given they all list a few different distros as an official option, and each product page has a Linux tab, I think it’s a safe bet

Tbf, my building also uses an app for laundry. However they also have a machine in the laundry rooms where you can purchase an NFC payment card and put money on it. So you can use it without the app. Is that not the case with yours? If not, that’s 100% fucked

Off topic: how do you like simplex. I have heard of it, but you’re the first I’ve encountered who used it.

Matrix is a new-ish decentralized, private, E2EE encryption protocol. It’s pretty neat. It still has some issues (at least that I experience. Mainly the Android app is constantly being super slow to receive messages), but it’s super promising.

They also have some goals to improve email infrastructure by integrating the matrix protocol, but not sure if that will go anywhere. I remember reading this off hand remark on their blog. Can’t find the source.

As the original comment said, there’s the concept ifa “bridge” which allows you to bridge other services to a matrix chat. So you could have a discord channel and matrix room bridged, as an example. A ready to go option with bridges is Beeper. But you can also setup your own stuff, as they said.

It’s Dr Toilet! Finally!

Thanks for the link. That one wouldn’t work for me as I am in the US, so the Z-Wave freq for that is wrong.

I think that I settled on something like the relay and a manual override switch, if I do anything at all.

They’re great. I already have one, and they also make a double one. They also have energy monitoring as well, which is nice. I use it for control my Christmas tree around Xmas time. I have it wired together which a foot switch thing, which is great.

Yeah, this was my thought (the fact that it’s just a relay), and I figured I could connect it’s output to the load to the switch pin on a relay instead. I am gonna look into this possibility, since it would allow for some sort of local control if things go down. My thought is I could set the temp on the physical therm to way below the target temp (in the heating months, above the target temp in the cooling). This way it kinda also acts as a fail safe. And if HA is down and we need to override it, we can. Might need to put more thought into this though.

Also, here is a Z-Wave relay I use for another project and it works well, just FYI Zooz ZEN51

Yeah, this is something I’m also toying with. Just get a relay and temp sensor and fake it out.

However this is not my first choice, as I prefer to still have control of things if HA is down or something. So I wonder if I could wire it in with the existing therm to provide the ability to override. Like when adding a real to a switch.

I don’t have control of the water temp, but I have pseudo control of the heating cooling by just turning it on or off. Which is pretty much the same premise as “normal” HVAC.