To be honest, even when going to the original Pizzeria Uno (or Due) I’ll probably still call it “Uno’s” ‘cause it’s a weird part of the Chicago dialect. We do the same thing for the grocery store Jewel-Osco, calling it “da Jewels”
Fellow Chicagoan here. It's funny you say that. My wife calls Jewel-Osco "Jewels" lol. I am just starting to realize that not everyone talks this way haha.
Check out the Shelly products. They use local control of a relay using standard switching hardware, so if your network is broken the lights still work as normal. Technically the switch isn't actually switching the power so there's _some_ element of electronics between you and mains power, but it's close enough for me.
Amusingly enough the failed Best Buy product line still work great with Apple HomeKit (and manually) - even though they discontinued the cloud service and refunded all purchases as gift cards.
I (shamefully) re-registered for VMUG just to get another year before I have to move my lab stuff off of their stack.
I really wish Proxmox was as fully baked as ESXi is, at least from an automated deployment perspective. I have a stupid goal to fully black-start my network from as few scripts/files as possible, and a migration to Proxmox is making that mildly more annoying.
After spending weeks struggling with the nonsense involved in getting Infineon/Cypress/Broadcom hardware working on a custom IoT device thanks to some fun SDIO incompatibilities (and spec violations?) I'm glad to see I'm not the only one fed up with this nonsense.
I really wish these WiFi chips weren't locked up behind layer after layer of NDA and FAE-interaction-required support.
