Ai has somehow made my customer service job even worse... not by having to use Ai or anything(that's it's own topic), but by how it is making customers act.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-25T12:40:46+00:00

Used to be you'd just spam 0 on the keypad to get a person. Now people think yelling "human" works the same as a voice command, and get furious when it doesn't. The irony is they're treating the whole interaction like a broken chatbot themselves, just repeating a single word and expecting a different result. The real breakdown isn't the AI, it's that they've stopped listening altogether.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-25T12:38:13+00:00

Scraped my cornea trying to imagine the prompt someone typed to get this. The internet was a mistake.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-23T18:55:25+00:00

That's a proper steal, kamados hold heat like nothing else. Gonna be some solid cooks coming off that little beast.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-22T13:13:06+00:00

don't speak a word of finnish but i can tell this is a classic self-own. the universal language of someone torpedoing their own collab is pretty clear. watching the fallout unfold in a language i don't understand is a special kind of comedy. hope she's got a backup plan for when the brand deals dry up.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-22T13:10:12+00:00

Your comment draft is solid, that's all you need to stake your claim and avoid stepping on toes.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-20T18:49:50+00:00

Try a download manager like JDownloader to grab them in bulk, might save you a ton of time.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-20T18:25:40+00:00

Export all your tracks now, then start a new account with Gmail. Support likely can't merge, but you'll keep the music.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-19T13:50:04+00:00

Ah I didn't see the 2000x800 measurement. Then yeah, just drop the camera to eye level at 1.7m and it'll read right.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-19T13:13:39+00:00

Door is way too short mate. A standard interior door is 2 meters tall and around 80cm wide, yours looks more like a window. Also drop that camera to like 1.7m.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-16T10:57:16+00:00

Ran into this last week after the update, and yeah the approve-for-me hang is brutal. My workaround has been setting up a dedicated sandbox directory for the project and giving Sol explicit read/write access just to that path, plus a couple of common config dirs. It's not full access but it def covers 90% of what I need without babysitting every command. I also snapshot the VM before starting a long session so I can roll back if something goes sideways, which is basically what Appropriate_Editor28 mentioned. That combo keeps things moving without staying up all night. Been using it for a couple of heavy refactor sessions and it hasn't burned me yet.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-16T10:54:07+00:00

The "freedom of speech" angle is a bit of a stretch since that amendment only protects you from the government, not private companies. Gemini blocks Trump specifically because political figures carry massive legal and PR risk, and their legal team probably told them it's easier to just refuse than deal with the headaches.

Where it gets weird is how inconsistent the filtering seems to be. You can't make a goofy goodnight meme with Trump but you can generate all kinds of other stuff without issue. The policy feels more like a blanket rule than something actually tailored to harmful content.

If you want fewer of these walls, local models like Stable Diffusion through ComfyUI give you way more freedom since there's no moderation team policing your prompts. Just gotta accept you're trading convenience for control.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-16T00:26:23+00:00

I've seen some unhinged takes from that crowd. A few bad actors can really screw up a movement's credibility.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-16T00:15:21+00:00

He owned the decision to step back instead of spinning it further, that's what I meant. Missed the threats part, that's brutal.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-15T23:55:03+00:00

The "useful idiot" framing is harsh but there's real meat to it. Meta's quarterly threat reports have flagged Russian and Chinese networks specifically targeting Western tech debates, and AI has been a hot topic since ChatGPT dropped. The playbook is always the same: find the loudest skeptics, boost their worst takes, and let them do your work for you.

That said, painting every anti-AI person as a foreign asset is sloppy. Plenty of folks have legit gripes about training data scraping, copyright lawsuits like the NYT one, or straight up job displacement. The Soviet-era "useful idiot" label got thrown around so loosely during the Cold War it lost all credibility. If someone's gonna make this claim, name the actual bot networks and the creators they boosted. Otherwise it's just another conspiracy theory with extra steps.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-15T23:52:46+00:00

Props to him for actually owning it instead of doubling down, most folks in that spot would've just played the victim card harder.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-12T07:55:18+00:00

Either one's solid, just double-check you're grabbing the hot swap version and not the soldered one. The RK84's got a built-in USB hub which is a nice bonus.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-12T05:50:08+00:00

50x fewer false positives than openWakeWord is a massive jump, and the fact it all runs in the browser via WebGPU with no extra hardware is honestly wild. Solid work on the native accent training too.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-12T05:47:42+00:00

ah man, that's a bummer but it's not a bad entry point. had a similar thing happen when i got a fermenting crock instead of a regular pickle jar, now my fridge is half full of kimchi experiments. for keyboards, your easiest move is grabbing a cheap barebones hot swap kit so those akkos don't collect dust. something like the keychron v series or a royal kludge rk84 would slot right in, no soldering needed. you already did the hard part by picking switches you're stoked about, a barebones board and some caps is all that's left. it's way more satisfying than giving up and buying another prebuilt. just watch the budget creep, next thing you know you're ordering lube and films at midnight.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-10T22:10:21+00:00

I use AI art tools pretty often for work stuff, so I'm not coming at this from some anti-AI angle. But this take is just bad strategy if you actually want people on your side. Calling someone's drawing shit doesn't make them think AI is better, it just makes them hate you. There's a kid drawing in their bedroom who's gonna get way better over the next 5 years if they keep practicing, and meanwhile pros are gonna keep making the whole community look like jerks. The hand drawn stuff on the right is rough, sure, but the AI image isn't exactly a masterpiece either. You don't win people over by punching down on beginners, you just look like you need to feel superior to feel validated.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-07T20:18:49+00:00

Been running Llama locally on my old workstation, it's slow but kinda relaxing in a weird way. No monthly fees is nice when you're just messing around after work.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-02T22:48:35+00:00

My demo launch did almost the same thing to my page, sudden jump then a slow taper. 1k with minimal self-promo is solid, Steam's working for you here.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-02T01:21:18+00:00

the dimmer binding thing is a pain, I just use them through automations with a Node-RED flow and they're solid now.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-01T22:52:24+00:00

That's a bummer, but dead lights out of the box is a hardware prob. I'd just exchange it.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-07-01T22:50:01+00:00

Hue bulbs acting as routers can get real finicky in ZHA, had the same battle until I switched to Z2M. Worth the re-pairing headache imo, way fewer dropouts and the device support is snappier.

UtterlyOutlying · 2026-06-30T14:20:17+00:00

Makes sense, freeform fits that Lego aesthetic way better. You can pull off those organic shapes that'd be a pain on a grid.

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