Smart Home, Dumb Luck, Episode 1: Firing SmartThings and Booting Proxmox With No USB Drive in the House
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Kicking off a series on replacing a Samsung SmartThings hub with a self-hosted Home Assistant box. Episode 1: picking the hardware, fighting a Lenovo BIOS setting hidden behind a decoy, and the increasingly absurd path to actually getting an OS onto the machine when there wasn’t a single working USB drive anywhere in reach.