Ya I got a cheapie one off Amazon so I could leave the house with it :)
I bought a cheap Amazon case off Amazon because nobody local had one for under $40 so I could carry it out of the house while waiting on my PD case. It wasn't scheduled to get here til Thursday but got here today! $13 down the drain.
Only used phone I ever bought was for my son, via Swappa and the transaction went smooth. No issues. (Pixel 4a)
I've been around since YT red, and while Google Play Music was a better app, I am OK with YT music and primarily watch YT over the other sites and yt music is all I listen to in the house or car. So, while not cheap $22/mo for premium family fits my needs.
I'd be OK if yt allowed me to skip/blocked sponsored ads too. At least on PC sponsor block works well. For my TV its a few more hoops to get that there, which I haven't done. Not terrible to ffw across them
Like charging a fee?
Check out sailrite on YouTube. They've got a ton of videos. They're very outdoor/Marine centric but have tons of great how to videos.
I bought one of their kits to build a huge 28' long zippered cover for my sailboats front sail and with very little experience was able to successfully make it.
Conbee Ii for zigbee and Aeotech z-stick for zwave.
As for weather, I use ecowitt devices that run through their GW1000 (gateway 1000). This is integrated with a weewx install (also on an rpi) that has an mqtt module installed. So once that's all setup I configured the sensors on comfig in HA to look at the ones I wanted access to.
I migrated from Samsung Smartthings when they did their big change I guess late last year. I am using zwave and Zigbee2mqtt as I had both zwave and zigbee devices already installed all over.
I went with z2mqtt because I wanted to integrate a few other things into HA like my weather station, and Blue Iris. It's been working great for me.
I run HA on a Rpi, and the only 'problems' I had were because of radio interference from USB 3.0. I bought a cheap usb 2.0 port (HUB) and extension cables to move it away from the pi, and it's been pretty solid since.
Mork calling Orson, come in Orson
Boy did I love this show!
Same, I settled on liftoff. Had Jeroba, Connect and Liftoff when I first migrated over but like Liftoff the best.
Hardest thing about having cats/dogs... so much joy packed in a short amount of time.
Haha seems we're all babies about our phones :) I wasn't gonna leave the house w/o a case !