FWIW, you can run all the services simultaneously, so that you can gradually move.

It’s what I’m doing. I use echo, home, and HA all at the same time.

Are they grooving with several species of small furry animals in a cave?

Perhaps for now. In the future, libraries that read hardware info may change, and then it will stop working.

Either way, it’ll be removed from the main tree.

It’s scheduled for removal from the tree. Not being maintained upstream iirc.

If you sync and emerge pretend, you’ll likely see the message. It provides some alternatives.

Read your news! neofetch is out!

Very pretty desktop though.

I’m using zoneminder. It might be a high bar to entry, but once set up, it’s great.