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.

Also Swamp Thing!

To the moon!

I had never heard of this and I thought it was really interesting! Thanks for sharing

I don’t know if I believe this anymore ☹️

Quality bestof post, thanks for sharing!

Mmm, cheap compute, one of the best parts of the hobby is always having something to do with any computers lying around.

Better watch out, my first taste of the kernel was a dual boot Ubuntu installation in 2006, 20 years later and I administer hundreds of servers now. It escalates quicker than you think.

Cool cool cool

😂

I do not understand what is happening here at all, am I getting old lemmy?

Love this thread so much, so many good recommendations. Thanks everyone for sharing!

I used to load this map up with low grav and bots and sit in the tower with sniper rifle blowing off steam and heads, so many good memories.

I read my first Ted Chiang this year! I think my favorite was his short story “Tower of Babylon”. It dragged a bit for me but “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” gave me a lot of food for thought with the current LLM mania. I’m looking forward to more.

My favorite “book” this year was Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Omnibus which is a collection of a couple of his books. The world building, physics, vast timelines and very human characters really did it for me. I still love Ian Bank’s Culture Series more but the Xeelee Sequence has been a lot of fun, highly recommend (if you’re into sci-fi).

Honorable mention goes to Charles Stross, I finally read his Accelerando and while it didn’t trip my trigger as much I felt like it really captured something of our current zeitgeist and had a lot of great moments that will stick in my head for a while.

I just want to say I enjoy all the comments here