ArmoredCavalry

I definitely thought about trying something physical like that too, but mostly as a fallback plan!

As others stated, you can run and access the interface locally (or setup your own reverse proxy) for free. Their Cloud dashboard is also free for up to 5 nodes. They recently added a flat-rate "Homelab" plan as well, if you want to remove the limit. It's all quite usable for $0 otherwise though!

I'm a huge fan of Netdata, very configurable and monitors just about anything you could want. Great interface and alerts too - https://www.netdata.cloud/

It's an installable PWA, click the ... Menu in Chrome browser and choose "install". Hope this helps!

I use this installable web app for cleaning extra parameters from links - https://linkcleaner.app/

Adds a share target to Android once you install it as well, makes it easy to send links to. Open source too!

I picked up a 4070 and have been really happy with the low power draw (and therefore heat) after undervolting it.

Not the OP, but commenting on the Atoms. They are good for testing, but not sure I'd want to use them for a full setup.

For one, speakers are pretty rough in them 😂 That's kinda to be expected though, it's intended as a cheap dev device.

However, the bigger thing for me is to wait and see what hardware HA will support when they implement on-device wake-word processing. I'd definitely prefer no continuous audio streaming over the network, until after I have said the wake word.

I picked up an Atom for testing as well. I do get a delay, but definitely not 28 seconds... Maybe more like 4-5?

It's totally dependent on the speed of the hardware you are running HA on though. Since the microphone is just streaming sound to the server, which then processes it. I'm running on fairly beefy server.

Just for a test, you could also try toggling off the wake word in the Atom Device settings in HA. Then you can send a command by pushing the physical button. Could at least narrow the delay down to wake word processing vs normal speech processing that way?

Agreed, I think the first game I saw this in was Tunic. It was a great addition!

Right? When I was a kid I would specifically enjoy the "challenge" of trying to beat something over and over. Nowadays though... I just like playing a game for the experience. I still like feeling "progression", so things go from difficult to easy as my character advances. But having to repeat something multiple times? Eh... just not my jam anymore.

That's actually what I tend to do, but would be nice (for laziness) to have two different settings. Or for cases where games don't allow adjustment after starting.

Funny you bring up Kena, because that is actually probably a prime example for me too. Loved the rest of the game, but the boss fights were a bit too difficult imo!

I played a ton of StarCraft back in the day! I was never too serious about joining a clan (just dabbled), but I now remember some of the things you mentioned with the chat rooms, and clan "tags". I might be imagining it, but wasn't there also some way to set colors on letters in names too (holding down alt and pressing numbers or something...) That might have honestly been my first experience with "bots" for things adjacent to games.

Good memories, thanks very much for sharing!