Arby-tration

There’s a fast food restaurant called Arby’s that serves those sandwiches.

A person who no longer asks that question.

Do you have any kerosene? Lighter?

How much do you love the cat?

Someone with deep pockets needs to buy the super charging network.

Rebrand and keep building.

I’m pretty sure there’s a path to wealth in that idea. I have neither the means nor the skill. But some does. Just not Musk.

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Nuh uh.

I watched the Truman Show, too. What they don’t show is when he leaves one sim, he exits into the adjacent flat surface.

Cities Skylines 2 went the opposite direction.

Here’s hoping lessons are learned. Entire generations have learned to be deeply skeptical even with trusted brands.

And, yes, I hope that skepticism and relationship based, authentic(?) word of mouth brings sanity for a while.

Until businesses try to optimize that into oblivion too. We gotta put guard rails in place.

I’ve seen a LOT of strawman attacks. It usually seems to be honest miscommunication, but underneath that… It looks like predisposition to combative and somewhat-dismissive hot takes.

And it works. Certain members have swung entire conversations and down votes by implying a person said something they didn’t.

It’s not unique to online fora, but the concentration seems off here.

Some of this just looks like people feeling like big fish in this small pond and finding a degree of confidence or even righteousness from the voting patterns.

Why would they need us except as consumers? At a certain point automation and AI actually do get far enough.

That may take longer than people think.

S3XZY?

Thank you. This whole thing was toxic days ago.

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Home Assistant is open source, privacy oriented and working to make local non-cloud, non-Spyware) the norm.

It’s getting easier and easier to adopt and matter devices avoid cloud silliness.

I’ve ordered gizmos that will work with Home Assistant to replace my minis. I’m working my way off Gmail…

I’m seriously de-googling. Apartment uses a nest thermostat, but… I may be able to get that far.

Matter devices help in many ways. De-clouding is one.

My recommendation is to buy an RPi, SD card, and Mater devices as much as possible.

Voice is possible on Home Assistant and it will only get better. The devs, like many of us, prefer privacy and local control/storage.

There’s a way, it’s just not the path the author chose. The better path has only come about in the last year or so, tho.

Fwiw: you can tie the voice stuff into OpenAI and ask questions. It’s no longer local and each query costa fraction of a cent… But if you feel like you need that, it’s there.