57: Alex Deletes it All

Troubleshooting goes very wrong for Alex, and he puts his backups to the ultimate test.

Plus, monitoring your freezer in Home Assistant, building a self-hosted Notion alternative, and more.

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• SONOFF CC2531 USB Zigbee Dongle — The CC2531 USB dongle is a fully operational USB device which provides a PC interface to IEEE802.15.4 / ZigBee application
• Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker
• Alex Kretzschmar on Twitter — Let the drive burn in commence!
• Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
• MkDocs — MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file. Start by reading the introductory tutorial, then check the User Guide for more information.
• Drone CI — Drone is a self-service Continuous Integration platform for busy development teams.
• 2021.11: Icon picker, device links and entity categories
• Home Assistant 2021.11 Release Party
• Home Assistant on Twitter — We encountered a daylight savings bug last weekend when Europe transitioned last weekend. A restart will resolve the issue. If you are yet to transition to a new summer/winter time, update to 2021.10.7.
• tuya-home-assistant