Some have tried working on this. Authentik even developed a hack to make it work with HomeAssistant. Unfortunately the core devs of HomeAssistant have historically viewed external auth as a niche feature that users don’t care about.^[1] Not sure if that is still the case, but until that mentality changes we are stuck with native auth because PRs are just going to get denied.

I think this post pretty much sums it up:

In 2024, Home Assistant sticks out like a sore thumb among FOSS projects for its lack of modern authentication and authorization.

Knew I’d seen this somewhere. Top Gear season 12 episode 3. I guess Toyota was ahead of their time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_i-REAL

This guy was commuting three hours per day?! Yeah, no wonder his quality of life improved after he stopped doing that. Unfortunately, I don’t think his experience is going to be very generalizable because most people don’t have a commute length that extreme.

The survey title seems to indicate they are targeting urban men with these surveys. I would think that would exclude agricultural workers, wouldn’t it?

Not possible with first past the post. Pointless to even talk about.

Interest rates represent the opportunity cost of investing that money elsewhere, of which lending risk is only one component. Also, the point is moot because lenders can still lose money if borrowers default, even if borrowers cannot legally discharge the debt in bankruptcy, so the lender does hold risk.

Through a faraday cage? I mean, maybe… but have you checked if you can just turn the wifi functionality off on the ISP device? Most will let you do this and it would be way easier/cleaner.