I have a few backup lights that are dumb led lights on a smart wall switch. But my HA is pretty much never down unless I am manually restarting it for updates. And my Zigbee network works even when the internet or wifi is down.

Bulbs are mains-powered and should be zigbee routers. The way to prevent that is to take out the switch, wire it closed, and stick a smart button over it.

Which of these is better for Aqara? I recently switched from Conbee to Zigbee2mqtt but I don't have any aqara devices (yet...)

You can use an ESP32 to ring the mechanical bells via HA when someone presses the doorbell

What do you mean that Reolink is not available? You can get them easily and they work great with HA and Frigate.

I agree. I had a laptop with a clit mouse around 1999/2000 or so. After some practice I could play Quake 2 with that thing. It was awesome!

I just finished SOMA. If you're into scary games, just get it in the next sale and go in blind. Don't read anything about it. It's great!

Curious as to why this happens. My bet is on Ubisoft tampering in windows kernel space. Probably some copy protection or anti-cheat BS

Secure from what exactly? You need to have a threat model here. For most personal use cases I'd argue that protection from adtech tracking is more important than e.g. sandboxing. Most people run into adtech continuously, but few people browse shady exploit-ridden sites.

In that case, Firefox us the clear winner. It supports manifest v2 for better adblocking, and it is the only mobile browser with extension support allowing you to use adblocking on mobile as well.

Yes, but the kids buying the modded devices may not be

Why wait? Migrate now. There's even Firefox for mobile with ublock

What is it with far right nutters trying to destroy the grid? What are they getting out of it?