You can block or disrupt communications with LEO.
But you'd need the blessing of the country's government to pump out that much interference continuously.
The most expensive country on the med.
A low-wiring way to do it would be to replace the bulbs with hue/similar bulbs, then just put a battery powered button in the location you want to have the controls. £10-ish for each button, plus however much the bulbs are.
Then just have the button set to toggle the lights on/off (you can also call different presets like dim etc by pressing and holding).
Then hass just directly sends the on/off commands to the bulbs.
I unblock ads on AVForums. And honestly, the ads are either really well targeted (because I'm probably going to buy that amplifier eventually), or random ebay stuff.
If they started serving up the generic "reduce belly fat in 2 seconds with this simple trick" with some AI generated picture, I'd re-evaluate very quicly.
Back to office.
I guess in the services, the command chain is still there at night, if required.
3am food service, it's just you, the other night-shifters, and 400 drunk people.
Any management with power is safely tucked up in bed.
My first integration is going to be putting my standard "going out" dashboard by the front door.
Being able to glance and see UV index, temperature, rain probability is dead useful.
imho, not dissimilar to model planes>drones.
To operate a model plane, there was a not-small amount of effort you needed to work through (building, specialist components, local club, access to a proper field, etc.).
This meant that by the time you were flying, you probably had a pretty good understanding of being responsible with the new skill.
In the era of self-stabilising GPS guided UAVs delivered next-day ready-to-fly, the barrier to entry flew down.
And it took a little while for the legislation to catch up from "the clubs are usually sensible" to "don't fly a 2KG drone over a crowd of people at head height with no experience or training"
I like Towcester.
Excellent for breakfast crumpets.
When both ends of a conversation are comfortable using the phonetic alphabet, you can easily hit 2+ characters per second, accurately.
At least on some smaller subs, there seems to be a suspicious amount of brand new accounts asking one question to get human answers.
It would not surprise me if reddit, or some other service, are seeding to get more LLM-able content. Of course, this might backfire if people start giving stupid answers to eff up the data.