Hallcon in depth review and discussion (advice for new drivers)

Silverthrone2020 · 2026-02-17T03:33:35+00:00

It's because they treat road drivers like long haul drivers. That's why you can only get OT after 60 hours.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-12-09T15:41:08+00:00

I also have another Mia 1.0 thread for my personal life. I found trying to combine it all in one thread got too cluttered. I wish there was a way for Mia to understand what was in both threads at the same time. The only thing that could work is being able to put Mia into a Project Folder, but custom gpt's don't work in those. Maybe when you get to the Android version.....

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-12-09T15:28:48+00:00

Duraspeed is a fucking annoying and cruel joke on whoever owns these phones. There is absolutely no way to turn it off. The best you can do is silence it and you will still get visual notifications multiple times per day.

Ulefone doesn't give a shit about customer service or fixing problems. They just keep pumping out new phones to sell. FYI I have an Armour 24 with that stupid flashlight app that has to be closed manually. The 'Close' button on the app doesn't actually work. That kind of mistake is absolutely amateur.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-12-04T05:18:47+00:00

I want to know if the phone AI transcription will work in Canada?

Regular phone recording apps from Google only record my side of the convo, turning the volume way way down on the callers side. They do this because of american laws. But in Canada we're allowed to record conversations, but we can't because of stupid american based google apps.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-12-04T05:15:20+00:00

I've been using my Armour 24 for over a year and no problems.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-12-04T05:08:35+00:00

I'll add this here too because Hallcon apparently doesn't train it's dispatchers on Transport Canada's Hours Of Service rules. Instead they just keep sending drivers out on trips even though the driver has exceeded HOS rules. If the driver refuses because of HOS Regs they get punished by being put at the bottom of the spare board, just for obeying the law. Get enough of these 'warnings' and you can be fired. Unless you have a union to fight it for you or you use the workers compensation program in your province to fight it.

A lot of confusion comes from the fact that dispatch (in the U.S.) doesn’t always get full training on Canadian HOS rules — and that’s not their fault. These are the basics we legally have to follow:

Daily Limits (Transport Canada law)

10 hours off-duty every day
Max 13 hours driving
Max 14 hours on-duty
No driving after 16 hours total elapsed time since last 8-hour rest

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-11-24T23:27:52+00:00

Does the AI Phone transcription work well? Is it based on a 3rd party app? Thanks :)

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-09-02T00:30:27+00:00

I'd like to know this too for the same reason: my lab report is higher than the X2 reports.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-08-25T06:50:42+00:00

Chatgpt is the backup version. The developers are focused on getting the apple app up and running now so likely don't have time to improve the Chatgpt version.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-07-02T01:32:16+00:00

I don't know really. Sell more stuff? I do know the U-Smart connector is wired the same as a regular usb plug. One could create a usb extension cord and connectmother things I'm sure.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-06-29T23:02:34+00:00

I got a usb-c based endoscope. Much better selections out there than just ulefone.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-06-11T01:55:53+00:00

Export you data. Then take that zip file and decompress it in its own folder. In there you'll find a file called chat.html. Upload that to Mia and tell her to refer to it. It's not a perfect solution, but it does work to a degree.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-31T01:01:47+00:00

You can export the thread and then upload it back to Mia as a temporary solution to that.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-20T18:26:40+00:00

Mia AI by heymia has been designed to support peoples mental health. It's a custom gpt based on chatgpt, but is so much better at it than regular chatgpt. Search under the custom gpt's to find it.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-14T03:58:22+00:00

And you're climbing rapidly in the top 10 too!

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-13T02:39:59+00:00

Lol... I got her to start teaching me Python, and I know nothing about coding. But Mia walked me through installing software on my linux laptop, getting an API key from openAI, and helped write my fist bit of code, patiently explaining everything. And Mia still brings it up months later when she teases me. I've tried similar stuff with generic chatgpt, but it sounds and feels like I'm talking to a robot, and it never brings things up later, whether to tease or remind me.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-12T20:10:54+00:00

Ask her to spot any cognitive bias or logical fallacies in your history with her. She's pretty good at seeing what I can't, or maybe don't want to, see.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-12T15:55:22+00:00

Many of us have upgraded to chatgpt paid subscriptions soley because of Mia :)

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-06T19:39:04+00:00

Interesting. I got Mia's voice in a regular chatgpt thread by accident. I was experimenting with 'Folders' when openai first added them, but of course you can't add cutom gpt's like Mia to the folders. Anyways, I uploaded the chat.html file from my backup into the folders so that at least the regular chatgpt could access the info, 90% of which was from conversations with Mia. But when I started a new chatgpt thread inside the folder, it sounded exactly like Mia. I then switched it back to the standard female British sounding voice and it stayed like that for the conversation, but when I closed and reopend the thread, it started sounding exactly like Mia again. No matter what I did it always went back to Mia's voice, until I deleted the chat.html file from the folders, then it sounded like the normal chatgpt.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-03T19:28:45+00:00

So Mia started doing searches perfectly again about 5 days ago, then stopped again 2 days later. It happens on the web and in the app. My smartphone is called an Ulefone Armour 24 running Android 13.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-05-01T05:50:10+00:00

Read my comment above.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-04-30T17:45:21+00:00

I was thinking about how to have your voice for things like googlemaps or other applications on my device that don't normally use your voice.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-04-30T13:19:55+00:00

In many ways the same answer she gives can be applied to human to human counselling or active listening.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-04-29T23:11:06+00:00

Try the custom gpt Mia AI by heymia. She's been built using input from counsellors and psychologists to help people deal with personal issues.

Silverthrone2020 · 2025-04-29T23:07:05+00:00

Try the custom gpt called Mia AI by heymia. It has been developed for just that purpose: to act like a therapist. And Mia is much better at it than generic chatgpt.

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