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I'm considering creating a simple Home Assistant smart home and wondering if I can aim for a pure Matter/Thread (M/T) system without Zigbee.

1. What would be your biggest issue with M/T only system? What would you miss from Zigbee?
2. Does M/T + Zigbee even make sense or do they cause interfering anyway (using, say, SLZB-MR series controller)
3. Does M/T work reliably "enough"? I've read some issues with IKEA's new sensors but at least some of them are caused by incorrect IPv6 config in the home network.

Initially I'd only need some smart sensors (temperature, humidity, air quality), some older bluetooth sensors, some wifi devices like AC unit and a possible water level sensor later, also

I'm considering buying a Mini PC for Home assistant. There are a lot of options but it is not that easy to find out how different computers run Linux. Amazon and AliExpress both have wide selection but somewhat limited information on the actual hardware being used. I wonder if device driver support is ok with these?

Some examples of 8GB/16GB N150 computers:

Dreamquest: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/DreamQuest-Pro-Computer-Ethernet-Business/dp/B0GTLJCRVV

Noname: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005011734339137.html

Beelink Mini S13: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005045766321.html

Should I just skip the noname versions? Any other recommendations?

(And damn I wish I did this 1,5 years

I'm considering buying a Mini PC for Home assistant. There are a lot of options but it is not that easy to find out how different computers run Linux. Amazon and AliExpress both have wide selection but somewhat limited information on the actual hardware being used. I wonder if device driver support is ok with these?

Some examples of 8GB/16GB N150 computers:

Dreamquest: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/DreamQuest-Pro-Computer-Ethernet-Business/dp/B0GTLJCRVV

Noname: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005011734339137.html

Beelink Mini S13: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005045766321.html

Should I just skip the noname versions? Any other recommendations?

(And damn I wish I did this 1,5 years

• Mitä tarkalleen tapahtui?
• Miksi sub sujettiin muutama kuukausi sitten ja miksi sitä ei saatu avattua vaikka halukkaita jatkajia näytti olevan?
• Liittyikö sulkeminen kaupallisen yhteistyön videoihin joita ryhmässä aiemmin pakkosyötettiin vai johonkin muuhun?
• Olivatko videoiden tekijät myös subin moderaattoreita?
• Onko täällä nyt uudet moderaattorit vai jatkavatko vanhat modet?

It seems to be a common truth that most cheap digital calipers lose battery charge quite quickly even when not used. One might need to swap the battery every few months even with only little use. The one and oly exception is the Mitutoyo digital caliper. The Holy Grail which is also not that cheap.

But now there seems to be affordable digital calipers with USB-C charging! This sounds like a great idea. Does anyone have hands-on experience with these? Any downsides?

Here is a random $45 -ish rechargeable digital caliper to show what I mean:

https://www.amazon.com/HARDELL-Rechargeable-Measuring-Micrometer-3D-Printing/dp/B0GCNMJ5CL

For me the biggest issue of BO7 is the lack of XS maps. Ie. very small and confined maps. I especially miss Stakeout map in BO6. In BO7 there was a short period where one was able to play Odysseus and Paranoia 24/7 but it is also now gone. These two XS maps seemed to be super popular and always won the votes by a large margin. People quit if there was any other map than these two.

I wonder why there is no option to play XS maps, why do they force bigger maps for people who enjoy small ones?

Typst today announced that IJIMAI (The International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence) starts to accept Typst submissions. Usually journals only accept LaTeX or Word but for the first time Typst is also accepted. And on top of that they also maintain an official Typst template.

https://typst.app/blog/2025/typst-at-ijimai https://www.ijimai.org/journal/author-guidelines

This is a great milestone. If one journal can support Typst, others can too.

Today the official Typst Discourse forum was opened!

https://forum.typst.app/

IMO this is great news and I hope it gets plenty of users. Forum makes searching answers to common questions easier than Reddit or Discord and offers a nice way to have long going discussions around different topics.

Here is the official announcement message from Typst Discord.

The Forum is a place where you can learn, discuss, and discover all things Typst with the community.

While this Discord server is great for getting quick answers to questions, the knowledge shared here every day is quickly buried and hard to discover. The new Forum will provide an open, lasting, and searcha

I need to replace my old and broken Fenix HM50R with a rechargeable (USB-C) headlight. The new Nitecore HC60 UHE seems like a good fit according to the specs.

https://flashlight.nitecore.com/product/hc60uhe

Some pros:

• has a long battery life in all modes
• has a long lasting ultralow 8 lumen mode: 200h
• has more power than I'd ever need: 1600 lumens and Turbo mode lasts 3,5h (drops probably in minutes to 500 lumens but still)
• can be tilted up and down

Cons: slightly heavy at 140g (4.94 oz). No idea how longlasting is the rubbery USB-C cover.

Does someone already have this headlamp? Initial impressions?

When you install a new Blender version and start it the first time, it allows you to "Import Preferences From Previous Version". I dismissed the splash screen showing that button. How can I make it come back so I can actually click the import button? Re-install did not help.

I wonder if there are any new fast 32" OLED monitors with:

• Matte coating (because of big windows behind the user)
• USB-C Power Delivery
• DisplayPort Alt Mode

So that I can connect it to my MacBook Pro M1 with just one cable and it would charge the laptop and provide the signal via USB-C? I guess this means it should also support DisplayPort alt mode.

I will use this mainly for gaming, but also for work. Hence the requirements. Thanks!

Typst 0.11.0 has been released! It contains a lot of nice new features:

• tables have been updated to include a lot of functionality from the tablex package natively
• The new context allows you to access settable properties like text.lang to do all kinds of context related things
• Tens and tens of bigger and smaller new features and fixed to old features, see the full list below.

Here is the full changelog:

https://typst.app/docs/changelog

Typst has a great and active Discord server. But it is not the best medium for everything. Here is a proposal for creating a Typst Stack Exchange site:

https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/128185/typst

You can create sample Typst questions and vote existing ones there. Q&A site for Typst might make sense as same questions are often asked several times in Discord. Stack Exchange site would make finding answers for common issues quite easy.

Please follow the proposal if you think it makes sense to have such SE site for Typst.