NarrativeBear
@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
- Comment on He saved the world. 16 hours ago:
Skynet forgot to push that OTA update before sending the robot
- Comment on Put in the back window of your car for tailgaters 1 week ago:
Looks real close to a check engine light
- Comment on It's not ripe 1 week ago:
A mind mellon, if you will
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I am in the same boat as you, Google broke Assistant very slowly over the last year or more. I mainly used it for navigation when in the car, or on a bike, and when at home to control various “smart switchs” and other IoT devices.
Its been a pain TBH, but its kind of helped with my slow de-googleing of products and services I use. Though like you said this could essentially become a hobby as there is no one fit-all alternatives.
I have yet thought to find a way to replace voice Navigation in any of my alternative Map apps, but most of everything else has been replaced slowly.
Where I would suggest starting is looking at this video as a example of what’s possible with Local Assistants and models.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxjuEHTKXMw
(You don’t need the fancy “robot” shown in the video but you do need mic’s and speakers for voice controls around a house. You can also use your phone though)
If you do “smart home stuff” look into HomeAssistant and the various integrations for voice controls. Home Assistant also has something called Music Assistant where you can integrate your Spotify and local music library, then with voice commands you can request certain tracks ve played.
HomeAssistant basically becomes your “unified environment of services” where everything becomes “integrated together”. Things like smart switches, your calanders, notes, weather forecasts, music, presence detection, so now you can ask your voice assistant questions and get responses like the weather is sunny, or the kid is home.
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- Comment on What's your opinion on Alan Ritchson 2 weeks ago:
Man that site is cancer, even with all my ad blockers it’s still unbearable.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
Understandably you won’t be running meta level Machine models, but running olama and downloading a open LLM model can get users started for simple things they might have already been doing.
I am running a fully local model for my smart home needs, since Google’s killed of Assistant and is now pushing Gemini down my throat, I figured I would just do it my self.
For anyone interested take a look at NetworkChuck on YouTube. His videos are a little to sensational for me, but he does have some interesting topics covered from time to time.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
Prices will definitely rise to cover operating costs and to recoup all the investment costs.
I honestly hope the whole thing crashes once people realize they can run their own LLM on their own hardware.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The Machine
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s machine washable
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Compression cock socks?
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
Realistically what do people plan to do crossing the ocean. Everything we need is right hear on this side of the Atlantic
- Comment on Can also ask your mom 4 weeks ago:
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up HD
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Merch is a strong term, it look more mediocre low-quality trash.
- Comment on He's right, you know 4 weeks ago:
All word of mouth back then, you would have a friend of a friend tell you about a website they visited. Then as soon as you got home you would pray you remembered the address as text-messaging was not a thing yet.
People were always asking, do you got any good websites when?
- Comment on He's right, you know 4 weeks ago:
Images loading pixel by pixel, line by line, took ages. I don’t think I ever saw one full full-size photo for the first few years I was online.
Porn sites were a experience. I would load the first 1/6th of the image and be done. The rest was up to the imagination.
I was basically a crude LLM where I had to generate the rest of the image with minimal input.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Pay to reject tracking, but by next week your payment history is dumped online because of some website vulnerability…
Pay to be tracked is more like it.
- Comment on Today at Tour of Britain 🫣 1 month ago:
If crossing a indycar race is shameful why would this be considered any less shameful or less dangerous?
Hell, this was probably more dangerous because a cyclist flying off their bike would be more exposed to broken bones and death then a driver in a indycar.
The pedestrian could have seriously killed one or more cyclists if they crossed a few seconds late.
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 1 month ago:
I agree using something like Cloudflare or Quad9 is better then not using it at all, and making sure to turn on DNS over HTTPS is massive benefit. But as shown in my previous linked video even with this turned on a ISP can see DNS queries.
DNS over HTTPS helps with security but not privacy from your ISP.
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 1 month ago:
DNS over HTTPS is for security and not privacy. Your ISP can still see what websites you visit.
- Comment on In November 2024, Missouri voters approved a ballot initiative to mandate paid sick leave across the state. A few weeks later, the state legislature overturned the measure 1 month ago:
Believe it or not, they vote themselves back in.
- Comment on Can I do something with this? 1 month ago:
As someone else said, you can more then likely use this as a Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
If you have a Home Assistant installation you can use a app like rtl_433 which would allow your smart home to receive local 433 MHz, 868 MHz, or 915 MHz signals from weather stations, temperature sensors, tire pressure monitors, and utility meters via an RTL-SDR USB dongle.
I have my rtl_433 picking up some neighborhood outdoor weather sensor in my area.
- Comment on You have to pay for those Mr.Flock 2 months ago:
“Where wearables cannot reach”, sounds like they are just not trying hard enough.
- Comment on You have to pay for those Mr.Flock 2 months ago:
Probably based on all the AI training data collected on sphincter captcha images.
- Comment on Frackin' Chat Gippity!! 2 months ago:
- Comment on Frackin' Chat Gippity!! 2 months ago:
- Comment on Just Think About It 2 months ago:
Never get out of your car, just drive right into your home and park in your bedroom.
Need to go to the bathroom at night? Belive it or not, you drive into the bathroom.
- Comment on Just Think About It 2 months ago:
Holy fuck…
