I had a similar problem with having to deal with an ISP provided modem, and solved it in the stupidest way possible: xmas light timer to reboot it in the middle of the night. It's set to go off for 30 min then come back on. Sadly, I've had this up and running for years...

I have been running Huginn on an Ubuntu VM since Yahoo Pipes shut down almost 10 years ago.

I've tried out NodeRed and n8n over the years but they've been a huge let down in ease of manipulating multiple RSS feeds and web scraping -- my primary use case for Huginn. I tried Zapier and IFTTT as well, but the free tier didn't allow for what I wanted to do. Since I could do it just as well with Huginn, I decided to stick the more complex flows there also.

Once you figure out the workflow (setting up agents, and which agents suit which task), then it's fairly straightforward.

I'd never heard of it until I just Googled it... Is it a better experience compared to DuckDuckGo with bang operators?

Would recommend to just try their 100 free searches. Their results are good, but it’s hard to have an objective measure. For me, it’s the little features that make it worth it (and that they have a forum for feature requests, and a proper changelog).

Yes, it's great. I use it for about two years already and never had any problem. I went to search for something on Google like twice during that time.

I've been disappointed with pretty much all recent SEs (DDG being among the very worst). Having been an early Scroogle user, ixquick (startpage) and a few other ones I dearly miss, I've been using https://freespoke.com/ lately and find it tolerable.

I was using searx instances with reasonable results but many of them started failing recently.

Anyway, I hope everyone finds a good one. I fear things will only get worse though.

The safer option is to build your own install media using an unattend file. Here's an unattend file generator https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

wow, I had no idea this exists. thank you very much

I didn't realize I would have to say the answers over the phone when choosing the answers (and thought it would only ever be me filling them in online)

CSR: "What is your mother's maiden name?"

Me: "do you really want me to say it?"

CSR: chuckling. "Yes, I need you to say it"

Me: "Diarrhea"

Do you have any links for ones they'd recommend?

Which company, and which product did you see this with?

Chamberlain and Liftmaster do this. They’re both owned by Chamberlain group and I believe they are the two most popular brands.

It’s caused tons of headache for people doing home automation stuff, especially since Chamberlain has cut off API access to home assistant. Then the home assistant people figure they’ll just rig a raspberry pi or something to short two wires, but then they hit this encryption nonsense.

That's nuts!

For what it's worth, I bought this for my old chamberlain. https://gotailwind.com

I was looking into replacing the old unit with a new one with myq but then read about all the problems and decided to give this a shot. 3 years in and it's been a good decision.

Heh, bet you can just short the contacts the button usually closes. Really hard to DRM a button.

Chamberlain devices do this. Genie devices do not.

Genie is nice; you can add Homekit with any of Meross's garage door doodads for $50ish

Unless you're getting them for older hardware that only plays mp3 like my car stereo...

I did similar -- not to the level of Youtube videos -- but have that list for spouse in case something happens to me.