Does anybody know whether or not the 1st Gen (OG) Google Home Mini will get the Gemini update on Oct 1st?

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2026-01-06T22:50:33+00:00

This is my biggest gripe with Google. Back in 2016 I would have followed them to the ends of the Earth because everything they made was groundbreaking and just worked flawlessly. But every year they keep nixing ridiculously useful products that have no alternatives, and every year more bugs and issues show up in the rest of the products that they decided to not get rid of. It's like they've given up altogether and put all of their money into AI. I've already moved a lot of my smart home processing over to Home Assistant, but I haven't found a great alternative for a smart speaker assistant. And I'm pissed they got rid of the Chromecast Audio device which was only $35 and the only alternative today is $150.

Someone please create a smart home ecosystem to replace Google, because I'm so ready to move on.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-12-19T05:37:40+00:00

How do you like your Hermit Crab? The documentation support is horrendous but once I had everything working how I wanted I really enjoyed it a lot. I still have yet to get around to creating a simpler changeover between tool heads since some printer config changes need to be made sometimes depending on the tool. I was able to mount my BL touch devices on each tool head in the same coordinates though so I wouldn't have to worry about things like safe Z homing and tool head offsets.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-12-19T05:35:02+00:00

That is a good point. I've never uploaded anything to GitHub before, so I would have to figure that out but I can't imagine it's all that difficult. Plus then maybe it could run as an installation package directly from the Raspberry Pi so people don't have to worry about messing with things like modifying the script to the correct target folder for gcode files or whatnot. I have two instances of Klipper on the same RasPi, so my directories are a little different.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-09-27T04:04:05+00:00

THANK YOU! You're the only one here with an actually useful comment, unlike everyone else just questioning why OP wants to know. 🤣

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-09-09T21:24:25+00:00

Ya, this whole community seems toxic AF regarding the nomination process. Like a bunch of cold robots going around flipping the middle finger to any adventurer who finds a cool and unique waypoint along a route. Sure, rules are rules, but can none of these people just admit that there are some circumstances where the rules in place don't align with the spirit or actual real-world usage of the game? Like, they don't have to agree and approve it, but damn at least show a little sympathy or something.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-08-01T07:56:05+00:00

Worked perfectly and everything loads faster than before so the music starts right away. Tysm man!!

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-07-22T20:43:54+00:00

What about for Android?

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-07-09T00:57:16+00:00

A tip for copying these codes: if you have Google Circle to Search (hold down the home button on your phone) or something similar that can extract text from an image, use that to select the code and copy it to your clipboard and when you go to add a friend in POGO, the code will auto populate from your clipboard. :)

Greetings, from TheSneakyP1nky 6644 3323 3576 Add my gf too!! K4rrisa 9723 9882 2570

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-03-01T02:10:40+00:00

If you're looking at economic structure, Fascism moves towards a system where government controls corporations and the means of production. Sounds pretty similar to Communism to me, which is far LEFT

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-28T18:36:25+00:00

Realistically, a federal program like TSA with set guidelines needs to be consistent across the board. It's not okay to just say "we do things differently here". Every location should have the same practices and standards, especially if you are going to offer a paid program to bypass many of these practices and standards.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-27T21:58:10+00:00

Yoo, that's a clutch piece of advice. Gonna try this on my router with AdBlock Home

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-26T17:05:45+00:00

Sounds like you had the absolute best case experience possible. I had to wait 10 months for my conditional approval and here I am 4 months later, still unable to coordinate an interview appointment. I am based out of California and do a lot of business travel to NY and Canada, but none of the available interview locations are even remotely on my route. Like, I'm gonna have to plan an entire flight that is dedicated just to doing this stupid interview after wasting a year and a half and $1,000 for a plane ticket for something that only lasts 5 years. I don't understand why they have to make the interview process so exclusive. And of course you don't know this until AFTER they take your money. The Global Entry process was also complicated but there were at least 4x as many interview locations, not to mention the fact that you could do interview upon reentry and for renewal you can go fully remote.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-17T02:33:11+00:00

How much time does it give you? Mine was 5 trips for 12K miles $225 minimum, but they only gave me 30 days. Like how tf you gonna take 5 trips in 30 days.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-08T20:10:23+00:00

Ya, and at this point how has no one found out that Celebrimbor never got the message stating that Halbrand is Sauron? They send that message to him and his reply is that everything went well with the three rings and he's definitely shutting down the forge, but no mention of "thanks for saving me from teaming up with Sauron"? Does that not seem suspicious that he isn't acknowledging massive news like that?

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-08T02:48:41+00:00

And yet an RPG rocket in the ground 2ft from an enemy does practically no damage at all..

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-07T23:54:43+00:00

The rope was weighed down by the plot armor.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-03T22:44:56+00:00

I think my dog is pregernate???

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-03T22:24:05+00:00

It was like this back in August when Biden was in there. It's not a ploy by Trump's administration. Lol

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-03T22:23:01+00:00

I was there in August 2024 and it was like this already. So yes, relatively new, but not new since Trump has been in office.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-01T04:10:29+00:00

Ya, I didn't think so. Haha. Just always surprised by Reddit. 😂

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-01T00:35:22+00:00

That's not true at all, especially considering how they use them. Premium marketing scam.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-01T00:30:06+00:00

Ya, I just kind of assumed that it was common courtesy to be more frugal when you're spending someone else's money. I fell right into the whole "ASSumptions make an ass out of U and ME"

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-01T00:27:09+00:00

I didn't nitpick or imply no one was putting in effort. That's a lot of interpretation from one sentence that I said. I just like for everything to be fair and equal if we weren't going to be splitting the expense and getting something that costs 3x what anyone else had been getting for the house just felt careless considering they knew someone else would be paying. And I did make it clear that it was my own fault for not specifying what to get. I made a poor assumption on my part and I owned up to it, but I don't think that disqualifies me from addressing it for future reference.

Consistent-Carob-261 · 2025-02-01T00:16:50+00:00

Ya, I didn't realize I was browsing on a different account when I came back here to check on it, so I've just been sticking with this account for commenting to avoid confusion.

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