This week, Eric Hendricks, a Red Hat technical marketer and host of the Fedora Podcast, brings his expertise to the discussion. He shares insights on the RHEL 10 beta, urging listeners not to install it in production yet. The conversation touches on cleaning up orphaned entities in Home Assistant, and the challenges of using Threema as a privacy-focused messaging app. They also explore the exciting developments in Linux distributions like CentOS Stream 10 and the significance of special interest groups in the open-source community.
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Orphaned Entities in Home Assistant
Home Assistant entities represent device attributes, like a sensor's temperature or battery level.
Removing a device might leave orphaned entities, impacting performance.
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Spook for Home Assistant Cleanup
Steve Evans had over 1000 orphaned entities, slowing down Home Assistant.
He used the Spook plugin to delete them, improving performance and uncovering hidden issues.
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Firefox and Authenticated Proxy Issues
Set proxy settings in Network Manager, BashRC, and dconf on Ubuntu.
Firefox may have issues with authenticated proxies; Chrome often works seamlessly.
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