Bonehead

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.

You'll either creep them out so they leave you alone, or you find a new friend with benefits.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But if you quit then you can leave them a few clues as to why you’re leaving and how they might avoid losing more staff.

The reason I'm quitting is because they didn't pick up the clues that I was looking to leave, and I don't want to help them avoid losing more staff because of it. The people I left behind should take the hint if they were smart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Honestly, nothing yet. I've only been playing with it for a few weeks. I just use the web interface on my phone to test the voice control. I've been looking at the esp32 devices that people have been building, but a lot of them admit that they can't come anywhere close to the reliability of the microphone array used in the Alexa.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (9 children)

And this is exact the reason I'm building a Home Assistant instance with local voice processing. Right now it takes a few seconds to process a request and take action on my crappy 1.8ghz laptop with only 4gb of RAM, but it basically does everything I use Alexa for. This announcement is just encouraging me to build a better server with an esp32 satellite.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Obligatory "Real users use Hannah Montana Linux" post.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And everyone will still call it Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Wanted to play some games, didn't have money but I did know someone that knew someone that knew someone that ran a BBS that had some pirated games.

Yes, I'm that old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

For Toronto, you have Metro Toronto which is the original city. The Greater Toronto Area includes all the cities that were amalgamated into Toronto in 1998, plus Mississauga and Brampton. It just denotes an area that's generally included with the major city when referring to the entire region.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Build her a server, install it at her house, set up some sort of automated DVD ripping mechanism so that she can digitize her own collection, wait for the inevitable tech support call, then go spend a Sunday afternoon fixing her server and digitizing her collection for her while she makes you dinner. You get to call it "quality time", and you get fed while keeping her happy and her collection as far away from yours as possible. Win/win, everyone is happy.

[–] [email protected] 177 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Always remember...layoffs come in 2 waves. The first wave is involuntary. The second wave is voluntary, as the people with talent see the handwriting on the wall and jump ship.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry, this law doesn't affect luggage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I could do that...but then I lose easy access to the assistant. I could set up the tap on back function, but that doesn't work when it's in a holder in the car. There are no options that I can find that would let me assign the assistant to open on power + vol up. Unfortunately these phones aren't as customizable as as I'd like them to be. Or at least not by default, but I don't want to go through the trouble of flashing a new OS yet.

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