Home Assistant is nice! Have it integrated with some smart lights and smart plugs. Makes it easy to monitor and control everything locally.
We have it set up in our room so that one widget controls the lights, one controls the fans, one controls the monitors, then there's a master button that we use to turn off everything that doesn't need to be always on whenever we leave the room.
Want to play with some fancier stuff with it too, but that alone is incredibly convenient.
Yup, I remember the absolute outrage when Ellen Pao became CEO of reddit, though it is nice at least to finally see her vindicated on there now. I hadn't heard of the glass cliff until long after she left, but people have been referencing it left and right on reddit recently. Turns out, Ellen Pao wasn't the problem...
Love, Death, Robots; Black Mirror; and The Good Place.
Each of those is comfort media for me in their own way.
Edit: Oh! And Star Trek, particularly TNG
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Honestly? I just grabbed the cheapest stuff I could find online, hah. Everything I use is basically a mishmash of whatever was on sale at the time. Home Assistant has worked with every device I've hooked up so far, and even when they're different brands I've been able to group them up nicely in Home Assistant's interface.
Can't speak to security, unfortunately. While it's certainly an important concern, my budget has been pretty limited to whatever I can find in multipacks for under $30 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"I'm going to grab a Hot n Ready pizza, you want some?"
"Is it good?"
"It's HOT and it's READY"
Gotta have someone to push off the glass cliff