Raspberry pi/small NUC with a screen, in a digital kiosk mode. Just load a static html file with some js to update the clock. No keyboard, no touch input, no way to break it. Connect to it via ssh over tailscale or wireguard VPN to update the HTML with the notes you’d like to display. This way if internet goes down, the clock still works and whatever was displayed wrt messages stays displayed, and you don’t have to worry about the increased overhead of home assistant changes or updates breaking things. It will remain consistent since it’s just HTML and js. If you want less technical family members to be able to update the display…idk, seems like a headache.

Blame users for not understanding semantic versioning and just wanting a bigger number.

Cool! Any interesting things in the tech stack, OP? I’ve been meaning to set something like this up for my family, local only.

If you’re into minimalism, I quite like mLauncher from f-droid.

I host my own feed aggregator/reader using Fresh RSS. Easy install with docker, pretty good feature set. I don’t like the mental overhead of going to an app to get things so I use my browser to view the feeds on mobile and desktop.

Indeed. Everything is stored in plain markdown files you can move around and edit elsewhere. I’d like to use a FOSS alternative when I can, but second best is something I can easily jump ship from and not lose data.

you’re on windows, get sharex. It’s miles ahead of anything else. It’s the only thing I miss from daily driving windows.

Same here. Professor was an absolute clown too, his example HTML boilerplate for some project we had to do had © 1996 professor dipshit This was early 2010s. He also took points off my midterm one semester for not surrounding my JS with comment tags since, otherwise it wouldn’t run on Netscape"

Those servers have teams of trained individuals whose job is to secure them and keep them bulletproof. It’s a bit different from grandma downloading random crap on her Linux mint desktop to be fair.

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