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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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It even has a demo right there on the phone. Also nice to see the version of the latest release at the top. This is the home page at https://www.home-assistant.io/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is a CVS receipt layout? Why do you hate it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Not sure if "CVS receipt layout" is a common term or not, but I've used it over the last 10 years or so.

It describes websites that have massive margins with the content displayed as a thin strip down the middle; everything on the side is just wasted space (or crammed with ads).

Receipts from the retailer CVS are a known joke where the smallest, single-item purchase will generate a receipt that's 6 foot long because of all the ads, coupons, and other junk tacked on.

In the old days, it was a lazy way to make websites work on desktop and mobile. Now, it's a lazy excuse for not doing responsive design and/or allocating massive amounts of space for ads. I hate it. lol.

CVS receipt, left, is several feet long and shown next to a tape measure and other, normally-sized receipts.