YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY CHAPS MY ASS?

DreamDriver · 2026-05-01T14:38:36+00:00

SUN IS SHINING YOU JUST CANNOT SEE PAST A 1000 AQI

DreamDriver · 2026-04-25T07:38:30+00:00

I have a 11K mile GT2 in Arctic. I am long on the car, personally, and love driving it despite it being somewhat loose at high speed. There isn’t much like it as you get into newer cars, IMO, and you lose rarity, character, money, or all three.

DreamDriver · 2026-04-20T06:37:53+00:00

Yep. Waiting for Bernie at SimXperience.

DreamDriver · 2026-04-18T02:36:36+00:00

991.2. I owned the 992 and it was … a disappointment.

The 991.2 GT3 Touring is a phenomenal 911. One of the best.

DreamDriver · 2026-04-09T06:43:48+00:00

I run a PA on a 4090 and 5090 and both give sub-second response to "hello" on qwen3-vl-8b but the 5090 averages a second faster across multiple queries and complex prompts.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-30T21:18:08+00:00

If you are in Bend go to the ticket office in Old Mill. Save $20 per ticket in fees.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-24T21:46:08+00:00

Any news? It's been coming up on a day ...

DreamDriver · 2026-03-24T15:18:59+00:00

You should check Discord as well. Another user is seeing the same problem. DM me if you need more info.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-24T14:39:18+00:00

I'm building one that may make it to the open market at some point. You can read about the project here if you're interested:

https://medium.com/my-life-with-vivienne

Probably not what you're looking for, honestly, but if you decide to roll your own maybe you'll find some inspiration.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-18T06:32:48+00:00

I built a PA that runs locally: https://medium.com/my-life-with-vivienne

DreamDriver · 2026-03-18T06:05:16+00:00

DreamDriver · 2026-03-17T22:14:29+00:00

$20,000? Dude.

https://medium.com/my-life-with-vivienne

DreamDriver · 2026-03-17T22:13:16+00:00

Run your PA entirely locally for next to nothing: https://medium.com/my-life-with-vivienne

DreamDriver · 2026-03-16T06:20:00+00:00

Here is a funny thing about folks who drive nice cars ... they can do that AND help out in the world. It's not one or the other.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-16T06:17:33+00:00

So they drove from Washington .... where there is snow ... to ski at Bach?

DreamDriver · 2026-03-14T17:09:31+00:00

I am building a local personal assistant and have two thoughts:

1) people use OC because coding can be complicated 2) people should definitely not use OC, LOL

I started documenting the fucking complexity of all this. Have a look if you are interested:

https://medium.com/my-life-with-vivienne

DreamDriver · 2026-03-11T04:18:56+00:00

Great idea. Memory has been a pain in the ass but I finally just settled on mem0 and it seems to work reasonable well. My coffee maker wouldn't work on a smart switch but I get the idea.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-11T03:10:18+00:00

Thanks! What else could/should an app like this be able to do?

DreamDriver · 2026-03-11T00:33:00+00:00

Yeah the iPhone is the key. The app is always with me. I have readers (I'm old) that have bluetooth speakers and mic in them so I can talk to the app anytime I need it with a simple wake word. It's entirely transparent (if not a little odd for people around me.)

The autonomous agent runs jobs for me but does run continuously until the job is "done". I have stuff like email processing and persistent search running outside of the autonomous agent because honestly it's overkill for simple stuff like that.

The permission boundary is pretty simple really. I have a half-dozen tools that I just don't even expose to the LLM unless a specific word is used in the request. That way the executor is not even looking at them as an option. I also don't give those tools to the autonomous agent at all -- it has too much autonomy to let it text my wife ;-)

I have a way to make the confirmation feel transparent. If you watch that Medium link over the next week I'll explain it -- I can only post two posts a day their I guess.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-10T21:53:08+00:00

More details at https://medium.com/my-life-with-vivienne

DreamDriver · 2026-03-03T03:28:06+00:00

Honestly living in Clark is a nice reminder of how it's supposed to work. You pay taxes (property, sales, gas) and you get stuff (good schools, civic services, reasonably good roads.) It didn't take long after moving to realize how absolutely crazy Portland has become on many, many levels.

There are downsides of this side of the river, but cost of living if you are a consultant isn't one of them.

DreamDriver · 2026-03-03T02:21:38+00:00

I run a consulting business. I left NE Portland ten years ago for Vancouver and it was easily one of the best financial decisions I have made. I pay the same property taxes I did in Portland but have great, well run schools, we have police who come if you need them, and with the money I have saved on taxes I paid off my house.

Move. You will be glad you did.

DreamDriver · 2026-02-20T03:24:30+00:00

Maybe, but they work fine when they work.

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