good news everybody!
barkingspiders
joined 2 years ago
your ancestors would be proud, I feel like everyone should bake at least one loaf in their lives just as a connection to our past (and one of our favorite foods)
may your dough always rise and your loaves taste great!
that's beautiful and so sad, wow, not ready for that on a Tuesday 😞
this is great but I just can't see how they're going to get around the state constitution ban on income tax, we'll lose in the courts and waste a bunch of time, need a fucking amendment to fix this shit
not to mention that however they're going to measure "personal income over $1M" won't actually catch all that many rich fucks, buy-borrow-die continues to shield the wealthy from tax responsibility
zulip is great, not really a discord replacement, they don't have built-in streaming/video/voice but it's a great chat server and seems like a very ethical open-source project with a backing business, I've got nothing but praise for them
having lived in Boston this is not terribly surprising, street parking is straight up hunger games when there's snow on the ground
that looks promising, I think I can see a path forward there, I still need to dig into the new calendar functionality, thanks for sharing!
Forgot to add, something I really want to figure out is how to do reminders with it. I'm stuck using Gemini on my phone for that and I'd really love to find a way to do that in HA if anyone has any tips.
We've been using the previews since they shipped. The Mycroft wake word has worked well enough for the whole family. Tried the chatbot fallback but the syntax of the intent parser is strict enough we were getting routed to the llm way more than we wanted. For example asking it to turn on a light and Claude telling us it couldn't do that. It fails faster and more reliably with just the intent parser.
Our favorite use case is shopping lists. "Hey Mycroft add greens to groceries list" is great and won me some WAF. I also regularly use timers, some custom commands (hey Mycroft I fed the dog), and managing lights with scenes (hey Mycroft turn on Daytime).
I'm hoping to one day transition to a local llm that's fine tuned for homeassistant specific tasks and it looks like some good ones will arrive soon. The existing implementations haven't won me over yet.
Dunno, I'm a big fan and the wife doesn't hate them, I'm really optimistic about the future of these. I think HA is going about them the right way and we'll see good things in the future. It's a little rough right now if you're not willing to put up with the quirks probably but I think it's just going to keep getting better.
My body is ready!
Also Swamp Thing!
the PSP was so far ahead of it's time
I remember my friends just getting their new Razor flip phones and I'd be sitting next to them switching between a triple A game, retro emulators, homebrew, browsing the web, running custom software (hacked psp), listening to music and even making calls and sending texts with the skype app. Needed wifi but it felt like I had a whole laptop in my pocket in an era of still mostly dumb phones.