Btw, letting plaintext data touch the drive is very 2013.

I don’t get it. Can someone explain this to me?

There is little performance overhead from running a VM. However there’s a substantial administrative overhead for keeping a virtualization system running just for home assistant.

If this a hobby to you, sure, you do you. Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted. But it’s way less effort to just run everything you need in a container stack - especially if are you already running containers for other things.

Yeah, just set them up in another container.

Addons are just software.

I only run mosquitto right now, but it’s not exactly hard or complicated or time consuming to set up.

There is no compelling reason to run home assistant in a vm instead of in a container.

I’d get rid of the virtualization layer in your specific case and save yourself a lot of hassle, especially on smaller systems.

What the actual fuck.

It’s gonna be a double whammy. Global oil demand is going to go down, and dollar payments will be a diminishing share of that.

But it won’t happen overnight. Unless of course something really big happens in the next 4 years that makes holding dollars a liability.

The sky looking better is just one thing. No more blackouts when there’s winds or thunderstorms or just stray branches is the real perk.

Interestingly, underground lines aren’t feasible in my hometown because of how close the water table is to the surface.

I’m 4 meters below sea level. We don’t have basements because the buoyancy of the empty space would cause the houses to literally float on ground water. But we do have buried power lines.

You are being lied to.

Overhead transmission lines are so 1950s.

Invest in your country.