>What about upkeep? Sure, installing PopOS is pretty easy if you follow the tutorial, but what happens if you try to install Steam one day and it breaks your desktop environment?
Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about here.
>Or maybe your sd card accumulates too much writes and corrupts your OS, and you have to diagnose the root cause?
Get a new sd card and reload from the last backup.
I'm not sure if you realize it, but you're demonstrating exactly the thing described in the blog post.
Why the hell do I need a backup for my light switch?
The first time I installed HomeAssistant (on a Raspberry Pi), it worked great for a couple of months, then it bricked itself because it ran out of log space. I re-installed it. A couple of months later, it auto-updated itself and decided to lock me out because apparently it now required that you log in where it previously didn't. At around the same time, Apple locked out their HomeKit HA integration so I could no longer tell Siri to flip the lights. At that point I just gave up.
Recently I tried reinstalling it again, and let's just say I don't recommend it if you value your sanity.
Every time I look into HA, I face this kind of cognitive dissonance between my experience and people condescendingly telling me that I'm obviously doing something wrong.
I just want a zwave hub for my light switches. I don't want any of this crap.
>Get a new sd card and reload from the last backup.
1. How do you do backups? Is it built into home assistant? Do you think the average person knows or will remember to make backups?
2. "restore from backups" works if the sdcard just dies. If it's silently corrupting your install and causing weird behavior you won't even know it's sd card's fault unless you go through troubleshooting.
Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about here.
>Or maybe your sd card accumulates too much writes and corrupts your OS, and you have to diagnose the root cause?
Get a new sd card and reload from the last backup.