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.
It’s not that anything would eat an alligator that’s the problem. Plenty of things will eat an alligator, as long as it’s dead. It’s taking down a live alligator and swallowing it whole that’s concerning.
Obligatory “Real users use Hannah Montana Linux” post.
And everyone will still call it Twitter.
Yeah, but then they moved all the factories to other countries. The public is now just a burden to them for wanting corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.
Of course. He’s in rich people’s prison. They get all the perks.
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.
Don’t worry, this law doesn’t affect luggage.
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.
On my 8, that just activates the Google assistant. To get to the power menu, you have to press power (oddly named button, to be honest) and vol up at the same time. But these are active acts that you have to think about and verify to make sure they did what they are supposed to. Mashing the power button 5 times is succinct. I don’t have to guess how many seconds I’ve waited. I don’t have to feel to make sure I’m hitting the vol up instead of vol down accidentally. I count 5 times, 6 to make sure, and I can drop it while being certain that it’s going to call 911. That’s what I want in an emergency. A quick distinct action that requires no guessing to make sure it works. It makes sense once you stop and think. Nothing else about the power button makes sense, but at least that part does.
Except it doesn’t activate by mashing the power button 5 times. On my Pixel 8, that activates the emergency dialer that will automatically call 911 if you don’t cancel the prompt in 5 seconds. I did not know that before. Probably a better use for that feature. It also points out the different ideologies of Apple vs Android.
Look at all those big empty fields gathering lots of sunshine.
Hint…you can plant trees and shrubs at the edges of a solar panel field as long as you keep the south open.
Its like you’re going out of your way to be obtuse.
Yes. I did say that. Which they do. I feel that you’re not really paying attention here.
You’re complaining about a very easily solved problem. You can just put up another type of barrier at the ends of the rows. This is not the gamestopper that you think it is.
Seriously, just complaining helps no one. Stop looking for problems that don’t exist…
The wind picked up the sand the solar power company laid on the property after leveling it.
Which ends immediately after they finish leveling it.
So please explain to me how solar panels act as windbreaks.
Big wide solid panels in rows. Like really, is this that hard to understand?
The same thing we’ve been talking about this whole time…solar panels.
What do windmills have anything to do with solar panels? Don’t try to change the subject…
At first I was watching to find out why people hate Asus now. But then I was watching to see how many times he changes the way he says Asus.
Because it produces usable electricity for the farmer.
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.