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.

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.

We have a very active king snake, and they’re super interesting to watch move around