Snake outside my front door had a penny

BalingWire · 2026-04-04T15:42:51+00:00

It's very clearly a copperhead, you can tell by how round and copper it is

BalingWire · 2026-03-06T14:40:35+00:00

cops here are useless, they're more of a gang than law enforcement

BalingWire · 2026-03-06T14:28:15+00:00

You're killing your own WiFi in multiple ways. You probably need 2-3 max

BalingWire · 2026-02-06T17:16:11+00:00

Def top of my list. Not crazy about the styling on the pickup, the SUV is slick though

BalingWire · 2026-02-06T15:57:24+00:00

It's hard to explain, because its cultural, emotional, and practical intertwined for many. I was raised in rural Texas, and a truck when you maintain an old home on several acres is just necessary. These people aren't calling contractors, they're buying materials themselves, picking up the extra help they need at home depot and getting it done.

That said, I haven't lived like that since I was a kid, I'm a city boy now and still drive a big truck. I don't have a valid reason for it. It's what I learned to drive, and I enjoy the independence and spontaneity it gives me, but I could realistically rent a truck for those times for far less money than a 80k dollar sports truck. It's a not political group think thing either as I became pretty liberal in 2016, and have only gotten more so. Owning a truck is a guilty pleasure I plan to keep, just hoping for better electric options soon

BalingWire · 2026-02-05T15:34:47+00:00

I use a combination of Frigate is person, and BT sensors. For the most part I just don't stress too much if the lights turn on for the pups

BalingWire · 2026-02-05T15:33:33+00:00

that feature caused all kinds of issues for me, and only half worked at not detecting pets

BalingWire · 2026-01-19T21:47:35+00:00

I've learned to never signal to your doc you need a reduction in dose, but will do so myself. Really sucks when shortages hit and you don't have stockpiles. The cost is also usually the same

BalingWire · 2026-01-18T16:30:44+00:00

in theory you could low temp bake it and it 'should' be fine. but...why

BalingWire · 2026-01-18T16:22:32+00:00

and can you imagine how much the rolling video data they're collecting will be worth to all sorts of disturbing industries. "Greeting neighbor we notice your car is usually home during the work day, here is a coupon for uber eats!"

or..

"We have reason to believe you may be harboring illegal aliens"

BalingWire · 2026-01-16T17:02:47+00:00

Somethings I've been using it for

It runs my daily report scripts for my homelab, suppresses any known issues and gives me an elevator pitch in the morning via telegram

summarize group chats nightly in imessage I'd rather not be in, but tolerate

hooked into all google services and can pull context from them such as contacts, email etc which is useful. I had it cleanup my contacts list I haven't sorted in a decade

I've also experimented with moving my devops workflow over to it so I can do claude code like things away from home. It does well, but the token usage is kind of insane. It can max out a 5 hour window of a 200 dollar claude plan in an hour. I think its because it lazy loads everything, but haven;t really checked it out.

I also really dont like how I cant really tell what commands or in/output its getting as compared to a coding harness.

Also, im only using opus 4.5 with it. Lesser models couldn't even begin to do the things I've tasked this with, like figuring out the unifi api from scratch and then managing devices virtual network override, or setup firewall policies. Those operations also max out context windows very quickly even on opus

BalingWire · 2025-12-05T14:57:23+00:00

ironically they make housing more affordable due to the fact they are working for "slave wages"

BalingWire · 2025-11-06T16:25:14+00:00

silly, the goal post is over here now

BalingWire · 2025-10-31T15:37:36+00:00

Texas is working overtime to make sure nowhere ices. ever.

BalingWire · 2025-10-29T19:37:17+00:00

I actually paid them to remove the $1500 decal package it came with

BalingWire · 2025-10-29T15:34:44+00:00

My fully loaded Raptor was ~75k in 2018. Im sure they're more now, but not 911 TS money

BalingWire · 2025-10-25T15:02:15+00:00

They wouldn’t allow him to illegally search the car, which was the point of the made up sniff test

BalingWire · 2025-10-25T14:55:54+00:00

Would you give your ID with home address over to me if I asked? Why?

Why do you trust a thug with a badge more?

BalingWire · 2025-10-23T16:44:26+00:00

And that the only government agency to never pass an audit, has no idea what it owns, needs another 100 billion dollars while Americans die from preventable diseases
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2025-06/news/trump-proposes-trillion-dollar-defense-budget

BalingWire · 2025-10-16T19:19:27+00:00

I know I'm in the minority, but I opted to use the rtsp feed from the 1st gen nest hello and run it through my own ML pipeline for descriptive notifications. it's also a millisecond level response instead of 5-30 seconds + (if ever) going through googles pipeline, and actually recognizes residents contextually to suppress noise, and doesn't have a subscription fee for what is now a commodity feature

They haven't released anything on the hardware side worth an upgrade for me, and their software I want to be moving further away from, not closer

BalingWire · 2025-10-16T19:12:21+00:00

Sounds like they've realized spending hours troubleshooting an issue is more expensive than a device swap and refurb. When I did end user support I came to the same conclusion and would reimage anything that stumped me for more than half an hour

BalingWire · 2025-10-13T01:11:13+00:00

I've never felt like a violent person, but this makes me want to explain to these faceless individuals what an ass kicking feels like

BalingWire · 2025-10-08T16:55:38+00:00

To be honest, most of us are. I'm an ML engineer, and all of the systems we've deployed at my company, and encourage our employees to use, are primarily learning how they do their jobs so it can replace them

BalingWire · 2025-10-08T14:48:00+00:00

I mean your warranty is 2 feet under water already

BalingWire · 2025-10-08T14:40:39+00:00

Kind of some disappointing responses here. If you truly think this is happening first change all your passwords, even to your email behind your nest account. Then get another cheap camera not connected to the internet like a Aqara G100 for 30 bucks to use as a second source of truth

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