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  There are two things in my house I don’t “play” with: internet connectivity and core home functions (lights, locks, garage doors, etc). That doesn’t mean I don’t self host anything or then, but I always start from a mindset of “must work”. I run HA on a Yellow (functionally an RPi 5 with radios and storage interface built in). My lights are either Hue running as plain Zigbee devices, or Zigbee switches. I don’t necessarily want more customization with home automation, I want stable, extensible...

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  There is, I think, a few things that contribute here. 1. The US has a very stupid “bigger is better” mentality. So if you go out you expect a large portion because that translates to better (and more value). This is of course not true, but culturally it’s very embedded. 2. almost everyone I know takes home some portion of their meal from a restaurant. So that single portion is really two, or maybe three. 3. IME people don’t usually have giant portions at home, they sometimes do of course, but...