To be honest, even when going to the original Pizzeria Uno (or Due) I’ll probably still call it “Uno’s” ‘cause it’s a weird part of the Chicago dialect. We do the same thing for the grocery store Jewel-Osco, calling it “da Jewels”
Check out the Shelly products. They use local control of a relay using standard switching hardware, so if your network is broken the lights still work as normal. Technically the switch isn't actually switching the power so there's _some_ element of electronics between you and mains power, but it's close enough for me.
I (shamefully) re-registered for VMUG just to get another year before I have to move my lab stuff off of their stack.
I really wish Proxmox was as fully baked as ESXi is, at least from an automated deployment perspective. I have a stupid goal to fully black-start my network from as few scripts/files as possible, and a migration to Proxmox is making that mildly more annoying.
After spending weeks struggling with the nonsense involved in getting Infineon/Cypress/Broadcom hardware working on a custom IoT device thanks to some fun SDIO incompatibilities (and spec violations?) I'm glad to see I'm not the only one fed up with this nonsense.
I really wish these WiFi chips weren't locked up behind layer after layer of NDA and FAE-interaction-required support.