The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

Sonos speakers. They work well for streaming except not from YouTube, I don’t have Spotify premium, most of my music is local and Sonos and Linux is not a good combination. I’m not a fan of the Windows application either, but at least that works.

My cat is less scared of the robot vacuum than regular vacuums. Possibly because it is small and moves in a predictable pattern?