Home Assistant is very flexible. It's kind of like a common meeting ground where all the things come together in one spot, and they can thereafter be programmatically automated.
Cameras? NVRs? A sea of IoT light bulbs, switches, and sensors that all variously speak Zigbee or Matter or Thread or Wifi or Z-Wave or Bluetooth or some clown connection or whatever? Almost all of it works fine with HA. It's very flexible.
If anything, it may be too flexible. It can be rough getting started with it.
(I use it in "Home Assistant OS" form in a VM on a light-weight x86 box that only cost me $50, wherein: Performance is quite lovely, and updates haven't hosed anything up [yet] that required me to go poking at it to keep it going. It's also right at home on bare-metal x86, or an ARM SBC like a Raspberry Pi, or in containers, or [...]. Did I mention that it's flexible?)
If you’re not on the corporate managed version of Windows 11, Microsoft frequently resets the default apps related to browsing, svg, pdf etc. I had it done twice in a week recently. That’s what flipped the trigger for me and I finally abandoned Microsoft.
If you’re measuring “Windows isn’t annoying” from the corporate perch, that’s not a fair comparison to what consumers and home users put up with.
Not to mention the forced upgrade and reboots that can’t easily be disabled for same.
I don't agree with the OP, but you gotta admit.. it used to feel like Apple was more dedicated to this market when they could keep interesting Pro desktop kit evolving on an acceptable pace.
I don't know... I agree that they're no longer innovative in terms of UI and original categories of devices. But the M1 chips have been enormously innovative in terms of performance per watt. One reason essentially every 'creative' (bar 3d designers) uses Macs is that unplugged they run as fast as plugged in. There's literally no PC laptop you can build or buy with integrated graphics powerful enough to compete - while on the move and away from power. Perhaps the new AMD Strix Halo devices will change this, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Their Pro desktop/laptop hardware is the best it's ever been as long as it fits your use case (ie not adding a bunch of PCI-E cards or third party GPUs).
I pay for both Feedly and Inoreader. I can't seem to break away from Feedly's multi-inner-tab reading features, but I like Inoreader's tagging/sorting.
It feels like there's nothing really new to say about what's proposed in this report that hasn't already been said about the Humane, Friend, and R1 except "except Sam & Jony".
I've turned the GPS audio prompts off. And I've never understood why there isn't a "fewer interruptions" slider for GPS directions, or "last mile only" mode for GPS audio. Or why I have to go into settings to turn GPS audio off and on. If GPS audio is going to be annoying and un-customizable, it should at least be a quick flip of a switch so I can make those choices myself. As it is, it's a global.
