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  • Google pulls plug on first and second gen Nest thermostats

    It’s almost like the posts write themselves. I don’t even need to generate them. Once again we have a device that a large number of people bought and paid for, and very soon it will be a brick. https://www.techspot.com/news/110075-google-pulls-plug-first-second-gen-nest-thermostats.html Sure, most technology stops working at some point in time. The amount of CD’s still laying…

  • AWS Down again

    Once again AWS was down for a number of hours. And the posts started to fly. ‘Amazon’s massive AWS outage points to a key weakness in modern Internet’ and ‘Inside the Amazon AWS Outage; How one failure rippled across the global economy’. These have become rather common place now, and it seems that not many…

  • Greetings!

    Obviously this is a new web site, and it’s our first posting! This web site will be all about the well equipped smart home. And, one that is cloud free. Typically we will focus on the Open Source project ‘Home Assistant’ but there will be plenty of other entries as well. Soon enough……..