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That's spot on but misses the point of why I generally prefer Supervised in the first place!

An "elderly" laptop has a battery (built in UPS), a few USB interfaces and is generally capable of being optimised for a bit of power sippin'. You don't have to fire up the GPU unless you want to. With a SSD, you've got a pretty decent platform that can be powerful if needed but also quite modest, powerwise too.

OK that is still valid for HAOS. However HAOS is a cut down distro with no frills so you can't run anything else that is not already covered with a blessed HA container: "addon".

I run quite a few out of band things such as SMS daemons which are so uncool but so useful to my customers and me too.

It's all very well trying to reduce the support load but I don't need any guarantees. I'd just like some understanding. The last deprecation effort shoved a middle finger to Debian derivatives (Ubuntu) OK, I got it and rolled with it. Fairly major re-installations efforts done.

Now you are telling me I have to do all that again. Well, thank you very much. Is this the last one? It won't even be classed as a breaking change for the project but it will fuck over quite a few implementations.

I will roll with it all again because I have to but it isn't a good look and I don't see why it is necessary this time.