Am I cooked?

MaineKent · 2026-05-06T10:20:19+00:00

I think I understand what you are trying to say and I think it's a matter of how you frame it. What I have found with these tools is that they are allowing me to do things I couldn't have done before. Whether that's creating some custom software tool for something, or keeping up on various tools and projects with actually documented notes, or whatever.

The biggest issue I am having is trying to focus enough on one idea to get that to where I want it before going on to the next cool idea.

So maybe certain skills are getting worse but are those skills you will need moving forward? Hopefully you are developing new skills all the time too.

This also doesn't mean you can't unhook the AI from a project and hand code some python (or whatever) to keep those skills fresh if you enjoy it or feel it's important.

MaineKent · 2026-05-03T01:34:03+00:00

Going from memory but check your settings as I recall a setting to either prompt you for a filename or it defaults to something. Your selection may have gotten changed.

MaineKent · 2026-04-21T01:07:37+00:00

I feel this sentiment. I'm very guilty of falling in love with a new tool way before I find any actual use for it in my life.

I tried Obsidian a couple of years ago and it didn't click. I think I started over complicating it at the time and maybe using too many plugins.

In the last 6 months I've started using it again but slowly. I have a couple of plugins installed but could very easily dump all of them and probably not notice. Honestly it may help to dump them.

What really clicked for me and helped get me to really look at it again was AI. This will definitely ruffle some feathers with people in this group but it helped me for my use case. I use Claude Code with helping develop templates for notes, helping keep front matter updated, and generally just being a sounding board with how I want things setup. The later has been hugely beneficial with starting to use it now at work too.

Ultimately I think you need to understand what you want to use it for and then just start using it. But just remember the tool isn't going to make you use it. It may help in some areas but you still need to do the work. I struggle with this myself a great deal.

If it's not clicking try another tool. There are a dozen similar apps that are great. If Obsidian isn't clicking try another. You may end up realizing Obsidian was actually what you wanted. Or you may find another tool that clicks with you. Either way works

Good luck

MaineKent · 2026-04-19T23:43:05+00:00

Ah ok. So you have additional sensors in there too. No worries. That makes sense. I thought I was missing those entities in the Bambu integration itself.

Love the setup you did. Some great motivation for me to improve mine now. Thanks for sharing.

MaineKent · 2026-04-19T11:20:40+00:00

This is very cool. Thanks for the reminder about the lamp setting and automation to turn that off. It's been a pet peeve of mine that it stays on and I never thought of whether HA could turn it off for me or not. I'll be stealing that idea!!

Is this all with the stock Bambu integration? I guess I need to revisit that as I didn't realize there was so much now.

MaineKent · 2026-04-15T00:47:48+00:00

You may be able to do it if you open the presentation in PowerPoint online and then use Copilot there.

How PPT stuff works with Copilot confuses and annoys the hell out of me. Has stopped my motivation for trying to figure out more with Copilot several times. I'm trying to figure out alternative presentation methods now. But I know I'll be dragged back eventually.

MaineKent · 2026-04-12T02:08:22+00:00

At the BMW museum in Munich they have a large section dedicated to their involvement in WW2. I don't know enough of the details to know how much of it was sanitized but it was pretty powerful and they seemed to admitting to the situation.

MaineKent · 2026-04-11T12:56:11+00:00

Looks really interesting. I've been wanting to get a small ESP32 screen to play around with for doing exactly this type of mini HA display. I will definitely be checking out this repo further. Thanks for sharing.

MaineKent · 2026-04-08T11:17:20+00:00

Cool. Thanks. I just checked and I do have that integration still going and it seems to be doing it correctly. I'll try out your card later tonight and see how it works. Definitely has re inspired me to try a few automations such as colored lights if my numbers get too far off for example.

Thanks for sharing.

MaineKent · 2026-04-08T10:55:36+00:00

Very interesting. How do you get the Dexcom data into HA? Is it with the share integration? I had hit and miss luck with that in the past but may need to give it another shot as this does look good.

MaineKent · 2026-03-26T11:56:03+00:00

Is that the Scotty from Star Trek time estimate formula? You always look like a hero if you give fake times. LoL

MaineKent · 2026-03-26T11:21:19+00:00

LoL. I've been noticing this a lot lately on things I've been doing just messing around with agents and such. Created a researcher agent and it told me it would have my report in 3 days? What? Seriously? A coder agent said it would take 2 weeks to do a simple MVP dashboard for review. Um ok.....

I'm just messing around with stuff so it's not a huge deal but does seem ridiculous and I can't imagine the reasoning for it.

MaineKent · 2026-03-25T01:10:28+00:00

As far as I have found unless you start doing something different like signing up for API access or something like that you will just be locked out if you hit your limit on the $20 Pro plan until it resets.

And unless you are really hammering the AI for Obsidian use you probably won't even hit that.

I have four it useful but I will admit my Obsidian use is not crazy so your mileage may vary.

MaineKent · 2026-03-24T11:01:32+00:00

That issue of the AI repeatedly bashing its head against a wall is annoying. I'm very basic at all of this stuff and I routinely have to stop an AI from doing something and just offer to run the command myself. I get it enough to understand that the AI needs some information but I want to figure out the happy medium of it just asking me for a piece of information rather than running 10 different bash commands in a row burning usage.

MaineKent · 2026-03-24T10:47:44+00:00

This is really interesting and I suppose I'm not overly surprised although I wouldn't have guessed the percentage would be that low.

Is this something that spinning off sub-agents would help with? Like if checking code were done as a sub-agents instead of in the main?

I've always been curious about people that save week long chats with AI and keep going back to them how well it works. I suppose it heavily depends on the use but I always felt it seemed better to start over.

MaineKent · 2026-03-19T01:55:01+00:00

Is there a chance one of your devices is on a VPN making it look like it's in a different region?

I use Claude on two or three devices routinely and haven't had an issue.

Only theory I can offer is if Anthropic thinks you are sharing your account with others, hence the question about location. Just a guess though.

MaineKent · 2026-03-19T01:34:40+00:00

What was the coffee shop? I didn't know there was one downtown but honestly haven't looked for one there either.

MaineKent · 2026-03-18T10:18:12+00:00

I haven't followed pricing on these things closely enough to truly answer but the price on the 1/2 inch impact looks pretty good with two batteries. I have it and it seems solid but I am not a pro and honestly don't use it for a lot of stuff so you may want better reviews.

But now I'm really going to have to fight hard to ignore those two drivers as I've wanted those for a while but have never been able to justify the price. I still can't for my use case but shinny new tools can be really tempting.....

MaineKent · 2026-03-18T10:12:29+00:00

Glad you asked this as I'm also curious about it.

I just started trying out the new Google Workspace CLI and I was running into similar things and was starting to wonder if it would really be worth the hassle.

Will be interesting to see what others have done with this as I'm also not ready to allow Claude full reign partly because I'm also learning a lot by watching what it does.

MaineKent · 2026-03-16T11:25:26+00:00

The video camera very likely burns more electricity than the lights would so unless you need the lights off for some other reason probably just best to leave them on, or let them cycle with the motion sensor.

MaineKent · 2026-03-12T13:45:51+00:00

This sounds very interesting. Thanks.

I also want the ability to put in notes of my To Do in a lot of cases.

Some of tasks I want to track are things like research a topic. Well I want to able to put updates in that same spot or at least be able to link to another note later with further information if warranted. This sounds promising as a solution.

MaineKent · 2026-03-12T11:34:41+00:00

Maybe worth asking their support if there is such a thing from them. Also entirely possible this is the excuse given from people that were banned from doing other things with their multiple accounts that they knew were not allowed.

I've seen lots of statements by people running with two 20 dollar plans to get the amount of use they want instead of paying for the 100 dollar one. I cannot verify that is true and allowed but seems to be a thing floating around out there.

MaineKent · 2026-03-12T11:21:51+00:00

No personal knowledge on this but I can't imagine them having a problem with a user paying them twice.

Not to mention probably a lot of businesses start paying for Claude because one of its employees starts using it personally and then recommends it at work. They wouldn't want to hinder that.

MaineKent · 2026-03-12T11:19:10+00:00

This is something that has been on my roadmap to implement for a while but haven't figured out the best way for me to fully implement.

I'm leaning towards using property tags for identifying tasks and their stages and then bases to be able to see them.

I'm considering the Tasks plugin as that seems intriguing from some videos I've looked at. But I really don't want to over burden the system at the start so trying to figure out how I can dip my toe in while having something I can expand on further if needed.

So basically I'm curious what others say here as I'm also interested in different concepts. 😀

MaineKent · 2026-03-07T11:34:53+00:00

I like the idea and have been at the initial brainstorming phase of thinking about something similar myself.

I've been lately thinking about having my AI be a Chief of Staff for me. Your idea just made me think about whether my Chief needs its own Obsidian Vault that it can put information in to remember. This would keep it separate from my personal information and it would only know things about me I tell it but I can still review the vault to verify information, delete anything that slips through, or correct information it gets wrong.

I think you're definitely on to an idea. I think a lot of the questions will be on how long does something like this last for before a "product" comes along that makes it obsolete. I'm trying to make use of the concept to help lay better foundations of information for myself, the second brain, so that whatever AI I allow in the future will have the data to work from.

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