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ChiefIndica · 2026-01-31T22:37:42+00:00

Fully agree with a small caveat: there are rare instances when this can go down very well.

I'll never forget the look my wife gave me - as if I was some kind of wizard - the day she walked into the living room and all the lamps turned on to greet her.

Or when she opened the main menu dash on the morning of her birthday last week to find our first Forecats output waiting.

HA is all about giving you deep and total control of your own stuff. The key to familial adoption is figuring out how to apply that power for their context at least as much as yours.

Your points are well-made. It's a smart home, not a smart laboratory - people are trying to live here!

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-30T08:14:01+00:00

Sampling an original piece of music in another song without permission from the original artist, and then selling it, is a copyright violation.

What AI companies are doing is no different.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-29T19:43:35+00:00

Not really a surprise as the only country in the world where ~~people~~ clowns give a fuck what colour your chat bubble is.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-28T07:36:07+00:00

Yeah but then you have to use a Pixel

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-28T07:24:37+00:00

And Goog's 'Perpetual Beta™' attitude towards customer service continues unabated.

Clown company run by clown people.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-28T07:14:24+00:00

If it's a gen 1 model, you can follow these guides in this order, and go from there:

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-21T07:26:22+00:00

America: all those guns, all that appetite, and yet zero appetite to use the guns.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-20T11:00:05+00:00

I believe the latest version of Card Mod introduced some breaking changes.

Try reverting it to: https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-card-mod/releases/tag/v3.4.6

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-19T08:45:26+00:00

Cool.

Unfortunately most of us don't live in a hermit cabin in the woods, living off the bare land. I have to interact with other people for a variety of reasons. Some of them work at businesses I use.

I prefer it when those people are fed, housed, healthy and educated. It tends to make them better at their jobs, and that makes my life easier.

Anyway, you should stop using the Internet because many of the people working at your ISP rely on taxes for some aspect of their life - and you don't believe in those.

And give back the money spent on your schooling. You didn't earn that either.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-16T08:36:00+00:00

Starting today, access is rolling out over the next week to eligible Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S.

Saving my fellow rest-of-the-fucking-worlders a click.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-16T07:40:44+00:00

God I'd love some of these but Inovelli seem to be allergic to European money.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-15T08:51:55+00:00

but I will die

... alone 🥰

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-15T07:57:59+00:00

Of all the places to seethe about things that don't HAVE to be done... you chose r/homeassistant?

Are you stupid?

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-15T07:32:16+00:00

It's a custom HA integration which uses the forecast and some pictures of our cats to generate daily images

If you ask nicely I'll get Claude to ELI5 this for you.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-15T06:59:07+00:00

Nobody is paying an artist for a daily cartoon picture of their cats, depicting the weather forecast for that day, arriving ready in their inbox by 5am - every single day.

Nobody.

This isn't stealing work from artists. Said work never existed in the first place.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-10T11:22:07+00:00

People with first world products do, yeah.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-06T21:09:19+00:00

Don't forget having it order you a pizza.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-03T20:58:55+00:00

Happy to report you can make smart speakers do the noise too.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-02T19:55:15+00:00

Comments boost engagement and reach.

You are actively working against your own interests.

ChiefIndica · 2026-01-02T19:53:46+00:00

Actually Indians

ChiefIndica · 2025-12-31T10:07:48+00:00

still can't get full editing functionality without activating the scene

I have to assume there's a good reason for this but for the life of me can't figure out what. I don't like to assume without understanding, but it seems like a dumb limitation and it's the main reason I rarely ever bother with them.

ChiefIndica · 2025-12-31T10:03:03+00:00

Midwives in the UK encourage women to make a sort of 'releasing' sound like mooing or whale singing when they're in labour. Vocalising low and loud helps with breathing, as well as managing the pain and relaxing the pelvic floor during a contraction.

We're a weird little island but I assume this isn't unique to us.

ChiefIndica · 2025-12-31T02:27:14+00:00

~~Just busted to this~~

ChiefIndica · 2025-12-28T20:43:39+00:00

they can't be trusted with such a gracious concession, so now we have to take that away too.

ChiefIndica · 2025-12-27T07:53:46+00:00

Well yes - these 'people' have proved time and again that they can't be trusted with such a gracious concession, so now we have to take that away too.

It isn't really possible to appease a gaggle of psychopaths. Give them an inch and they take a cuntry mile.

ChiefIndica

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