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Definitely not as big as it used to be. Lineage, Graphene, and Pixel Experience are just about the only players left. Graphene doesn't officially support anything other than pixels actively supported by Google though.

I just moved into a house with my friend and he gave me full reign to smart home the house. Every light has an Innr Zigbee bulb, which are great for having colors during parties and color temperature throughout the day (Adaptive Lighting in HACS), as well as motion controls in the hallway (which has a broken 2 way switch) and kitchen. The front porch light turns on when I come home if I'm on foot, and the back porch light comes on if I'm driving. The lights in the living room turn down if something's playing and it pauses if I leave the room. We've got an old android tablet I stole from the trash on the kitchen wall for a shopping list as well as an overview of the house. They washer and dryer have vibration sensors so we get an alert on our Google homes when our load is finished (we're both forgetful as fuck). I had an extra contact sensor left over from the doors that I put on the mailbox, so we get a nice AOL "you've got mail" when the mailman comes.

Frankly I don't know how I survived without automation. I forget things so much less now.

Mythbusters: Driving Drunk Vs Mobile Phone

Edit: Episode Part 1/3 Part 3/3 (I couldn't find 2/3 anywhere annoyingly enough)

TL:DW: They found driving while using a cell phone is potentially as dangerous as driving drunk. They scored lower in their crash course while on the phone

Important to note:

• They didn't mention how much alcohol was consumed (or they did in the episode and not in this clip, give me a break I found this in 2 minutes on the shitter)
• ~~They show them taking a breathalyzer test. Im going to assume they were testing to be over the limit to get a DUI (.08% in the US), though it's not shown or mentioned~~ A clip of part 3/3 says that they stayed below the legal limit (@ .065%) so they would NOT be legally intoxicated
• The sample size is like, 2. Not very statistically accurate, as mythbusters is entertainment and not a real scientific study
• Theyre on a closed course. No pedestrians, no stop lights, no other drivers, no "unpredictable" variables in which you would need your reaction time, which would be impaired if you were drunk
• Theyre using flip phones held up to their ears, on a phone call. Results probably vary (though are probably worse) texting vs a phone call and on modern devices vs old ones

No real claim either way to one being worse. Moral of the story being get off your fucking phone and don't drive drunk and you dont need to worry. [email protected]'s claims aren't necessary wrong, but they're not necessary right either

Google is now “discontinuing the VPN feature as [they] found people simply weren’t using it.”

Yeah because why would I let the fox into the hen house?

Glad it's working! For the future, you might want to put ventoy on your singular USB. You can then put different ISOs on it, so you can have windows and Linux recovery on one keychain. Has saved my ass a number of times!

As far as I'm aware they can only be used on Android. I did a search for APK on Roku and I all found were some articles erroneously calling custom channels APKs. Roku does let you side load custom channels in developer mode, but you can remove software like you can on an android box, so you're always stuck with Roku's ad riddled home page and whatever injects ads into HDMI

Roku is not android based, and doesn't have an accessible ADB interface or similar

Your Linux install may be using the same EFI partition as your Windows disk, even though the filesystem is on another drive. Most installers prefer existing EFI partitions. You may have to modify your fstab file to use an EFI partition on your Linux drive instead, in which case they should remain separate and not mess with each other again.

In that case, these steps should work, but you can safely ignore the grub steps at the end. (I totally misread the NOT wanting to use grub part lol)

Can you still boot into Windows without GRUB? Like through your bios menu. I've had it where a Linux installer will eat the EFI files for Windows.

If you need to fix your Windows EFI partition, and have a Windows install disk, boot it up and press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt (you may need Fn as well if youre on a laptop)

Run diskpart and list volume

You should have your Windows drive (should be labeled C, but can be mounted elsewhere in recovery. Keep in mind the letter it's mounted on) You're also going to want to look for a fat32 partition. Since windows is on a different drive, there should be two, one for Linux and one for Windows.

Pick one with select volume x where x is the volume number, and ensure you've selected the right one with list disk. There should be an asterisk next to the disk containing the selected volume.

Still in diskpart, you're going to want to mount that to a letter, I always choose N with assign letter n

Type exit to get out of diskpart

Next you're going to want to remove existing EFI files. Type N: to change to the N disk, and rmdir EFI\ /s (I'm doing this from memory, I believe this is the correct command to do so)

To regenerate the files, you're going to want to run bcdboot C:\Windows /s N: /f ALL where C:\Windows is your Windows folder, N: is your efi partition, and ALL is the boot type (this installs both legacy and EFI files, you can set this to just EFI and be fine)

Windows should be good to boot, I'd boot it once to test. Then go into Linux & grub-install and update-grub. It should be able to find it on any installed drive, even unmounted. Check the output and you should see if it found it.

HTPC or Google TV. With Google TV you can at least ADB the shit away