I think the existing telecoms tied them up in mountains of legal bullshit.

Especially if the banks force Musk to dump billions of dollars in shares to pay his debt.

Unless you’re redlining your systems 24/7, the load really shouldn’t be that bad.

My first gen i7 would still be going strong if the mobo hadn’t started dying. Especially running Linux.

There is a hat for the raspberry pi that does local voice recognition that you can use with Rhasspy or another setup.

But, I haven’t really messed with it since they started rolling out voice recognition within HA. My plans for a HAL9000 system are on pause until I finish my microchip pet feeding enclosures project.

Yeah, ODROID partnered with them to create an off the shelf product. It’s pretty pricy, though, but honestly you could run it on a pi 3b+ for pretty cheap.

Sounds like you should check out Homeassistant.

I hope it is for their sake. Some guy just got 10 years for a script he left that caused an outage.