Very nicely written

I hope that wasn’t written by AI (btw)

Interpuppyesting

I prefer htop, but the point is the same - these tools will point to what’s using the RAM

Ok, yes, thanks for the additional info… I don’t have an Alexa, but assumed it would need some developer API key or something… if it’s easier with a Nabu Casa subscription… I’ll go that way. Thanks!

Ah, thanks for the link to the article - I’d not looked there.

… and yes, I think a subscription would be good for all the reasons… thanks

Well, there is a Waze addon in Home Assistant which can show the time from your GPS location to fixed points, does that help?

I have it for “when will they be home?”

Yeah, really I’m just wanting to tie Alexa into HA’s ability to control relays, etc and turn things on & off… but I still want it to work when Amazon pulls the plug on Alexa’s APIs (not heard anything, just my guess at future enshitification) - she listens to the “radio” on Alexa a lot, so - at the moment - it’s not the smart speaker part I’m too worried about - unless of course the Pine Speaker could host HA too :)

I don’t need to ask HA what the weight of a cow is, or any other LLM stuff, I just want to control the home

So, I’ve been faffng around with a Pi Zero and voice assistant and it works fine - with HA doing all the processing in a VM elsewhere.

I agree these 3 devices look much nicer, so which do I go for?

I guess it’s this one?

Voice and Music Assistant Dev Edition

Considering it - appears - to also need Google Play services then I don’t know how that will affect degoogled phones.

I’ve disabled all the Google services on my phone, and I’m able to restart them if necessary, but I don’t have a google account (which has to be tied to a physical phone number?), so it’s all waaay to sketchy for me.

And the API that connects to? Is that auditing anything else of mine? Capturing yet more data?

Not happy, me.

I think this has all the info:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

And their open letter: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

That’s exactly why I moved to Arch too…

I don’t recall what it was, but the fixed upstream version had been around for months, so I just moved.

I’ve even helped report / triage bugs, and they’ve been fixed and appeared in updates, which gives a good feeling

Wow. Thanks for the detailed breakdown, that’ll take me a while to work through!

I was looking into this recently and un-convinced myself that rsync was handling all the symlinks and permissions correctly.

What’s your command options? I was using -Prvtz for ages, then thought I needed an Aa too (from memory)

And, to be fair, you’ll know more about your setup when you don’t use the defaults as you have to learn more…

Govt. bans public use of APIs, but keeps them available for their own use…?

I didn’t see anything about fining the manufacturers and securing the APIs…

Electronic signatures 100% US hosted?

Damn.

But, thanks for doing this

Yeah, I don’t disagree, I just wanted to keep it focused on their partitions.

Personally, I have everything I need on a persistent bootable Arch stick - that basically has everything to fix & rebuild any device I’m working on.

And I could remove it and reinstall another one if I wanted…

Kinda already covered by others here, but my summary:

You won’t have partitions nicely numbered from 1~3 unless you start again.

1 - Backup

2 - Check the backup

3 - Boot from GParted Live (feel free to use another live distro with gparted on)

4- Delete sda1, sda2, sda3 & sda4

5- Move sda5 to the beginning of the drive and resize down to 512MB

6- Slide sda6 & sda7 down next to sda5. I like to have 1MB gap between all partitions to deal with future issues (sometimes restoring a partition might nip the next one)

7- resize /home to fill the rest of the drive

8- redo another backup

If you wanted, you can apply each of those steps and then reboot to check it’s all working, then you’ll gain confidence in what’s happening for the future.

I also advise doing a health scan of your drive to check it’s SMART parameters. Something like smartmontools (with gsmartcontrol if you like a GUI). Then you’ll know if the drive’s going to die during all that data moving…