The website of Sythsaz and Kiki_Sparks.
We stream Guild Wars 1 over on Twitch. We are each other’s spouses and have been together for 11 years now. We’ve owned a dog, Sir Flop, since 2021, when he was about one year old, and he is a rescue with us being his fourth family.
Here we’ll blog our interesting days with Sir Flop, as well as updates to all the things that Sythsaz is using.
Feel free to browse the site at the top, and or let us know what you think!
Sythsaz’s uncle has cancer and is looking for some help funding that, as he has to travel to the other side of the world to get treatment for that. Any help, even just sharing, is greatly appreciated!
Take a look at all of our latest blog posts! You can view different categories on the menu bar at the top of the page!
Ho Ho Hoarding Karma for Wintersday
Pre-Festival Karma Guide — Wintersday Prep With Wintersday approaching, it’s time to start ho-ho-hoarding karma — it’s used at the Wintersday charity vendor for wrapped gifts and for buying event items.Here we will go over some quick ways to gain karma and items that can be used to boost karma gathering. Wintersday charity gifts —
Home Assistant 2025.11.2 Update
The are no backward-incompatible changes! Here’s the normal changelog as well as the full changelog Send me a message if you need any help, or join the Home Assistant Community if you are not already a part of it! If you missed the patch notes for the major release this month, you can read them
Home Assistant Companion App Android 2025.11.1
In this release, there are a whole bunch of bug fixes as well as a few improvements, Android 5.0 & 5.1 Support and Configurable Gestures There are quite a few additions and a whole bunch of bug fixes in this release! @dshokouhi set the default server AA favourites in #5750 @silamon made their first contribution with a
HA 2025.11.1 Update
Well, there’s not much this time around other than a few changes and some bug fixes. The notable changes are: Remember to at least glance through the breaking changes in case one of your automations or scripts relies on one of them. Send me a message or comment here if you need any help! View
Install Home Assistant Docker/Portainer
Since Home Assistant now requires you to swap from Supervised to Docker or OS i figured i’d make a quick tutorial on creating a quick Docker tutorial on reinstalling it. Backing Up/Downloading Encryption Key First, we go to your Settings Then Backups Before you continue, make sure you have a new backup and download it