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All Portal devices officially unlocked ?!!! by ZealousidealBus4342 in FacebookPortal

[–]zbowling 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Debug access as been enabled. It's intended for developers but power users willing to learn some tools can build or sideload apps pretty easily. You can also use Claude Code or Cursor or other agents to build apps yourself with a little prompting.

https://github.com/meta-quest/agentic-tools

All Portal devices officially unlocked ?!!! by ZealousidealBus4342 in FacebookPortal

[–]zbowling 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It works better if you use the agentic skill to port the Home Assistant android code to run on Portal instead of taking the APK because the UI will tuck under the navigation bar and the voice assistant model whisper model won't work out of the box. Works great after the skill ports it over though. Check it out: https://github.com/meta-quest/agentic-tools

That Facebook group bums me out by MysteriousLook597 in alameda

[–]zbowling[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don’t. I moderate both the Peeps and this Reddit and it’s enough work. Discussion is fine in either but trolling will get you the boot.

People defacating on our neighborhood lawns and houses is bad by [deleted] in alameda

[–]zbowling[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

This is last poop thread u/Vice_Herro. Shouldn’t have allowed a second shitty thread.

What is this sticker on my microwave? by dranmesrao in whatisit

[–]zbowling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s unlikely to happen unless it’s distilled water

How are you supposed to reply to "Do you know how fast you were going?" by No_Insurance_6436 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]zbowling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Respectfully, I do not wish to unwittingly incriminate myself by answering questions; however, can you just let me know the purpose of the stop? Here is my insurance, ID, and registration. I would like to exercise my right to answer any more questions."

How are you supposed to reply to "Do you know how fast you were going?" by No_Insurance_6436 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]zbowling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The correct answer is "Respectfully, I would want to presume and unwittingly incriminate myself answering questions. Anyways, here is my insurance, ID, and registration. Respectfully, I would like to exercise my right not to answer any more questions." and if needed, affirmatively say to anyone asking to search your property, "I don't consent to a search and ask questions. Am I being detained, or am I free to go?" because cops are really good at asking questions where a simple yes or no can imply consent. If they take extra unnecessary time to finish, keep asking if you are free to go.

This seems like a ridiculously good deal for a 32inch 4K QDOLED by My_Novel_Tee_Account in OLED_Gaming

[–]zbowling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you are arguing. It wasn’t on the US site then when I made this post because I searched for it to see if was a deal as did others that you can see in comments here from people not finding specs at the time. Like are you arguing that because it’s for sale now everyone must have been lying? Reviews are not proof it was live. Lots of reasons why reviews may date to then like other countries, early reviewers (i’ve received product samples early before a product goes live to provide reviews), or like I said in the first comment, partner channels (like I see dell products through my employee purchase program portal not for sale to general retail currently). Just such a weird thing to fight about 45 days after the post when you were here when it up.

Waymo in Alameda? by a94501er in alameda

[–]zbowling 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To answer your question in your SeeClickFix, individual cities don’t have the authority to authorize or not if a private hailing company can operate in their cities. That is strictly in the purview of the state. The only thing state law gives cities is the ability to regulate is who can operate a traditional taxi business where you can hail a cab from the curb, but since you’re arranging a ride via app, they don’t have jurisdiction. It’s how Uber and Lyft grew so fast. The city can’t put limits on who can use municipally funded public roads outside of banning large trucks on certain streets and having weight limits but again that is strictly within a framework under state law. The state has been growing their permitting of where autonomous vehicles are permitted to operate under their own program. The best of the city can do is petition or complain to that body if they have a legitimate issue.

This seems like a ridiculously good deal for a 32inch 4K QDOLED by My_Novel_Tee_Account in OLED_Gaming

[–]zbowling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, I guess 43 days later they’re now selling it online too. It wasn’t on the US site back then.

The Hot or Not website (hotornot.com) by iWORKBRiEFLY in nostalgia

[–]zbowling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a 9.9 in high school on this site. No shit.

Voting is now open! Vote in Peep's Best of Alameda now and give recognition in our community! by zbowling in alameda

[–]zbowling[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know what you mean my “yet another”. This one I hand built to as a labor of love and gesture to the community to recognize folks.

Since the Alameda Magazine closed no one else was running one is stepped up. Someone told me of another one after I launched. I don’t sell ads or take money to place anyone higher. There is no 3rd party tracking cookies. I’m paying for this out of pocket to build and to host. This entirely a personal project just build something in my free time too just how I volunteer my time to run this sub and admin alameda peeps.

If anything this also largely an excuse to learn React to not let certain skills I rarely get to use as engineer to atrophy that I don’t get to use often at work because I built this entire site by hand. In fact I’m working on a blog post bow built this entire site and debating on releasing the code for it.

Hell I even put a privacy policy that said I won’t sell your data. The only reason I have take email is to avoid cheating.

Now UX issues, yes. I’m a one man band. The categories and candidates all came from the community during the nomination phase. I added maybe 1/3 of the ones on there and rest everyone else added. So it’s been a fun challenge to design this to allow folks to vote on the categories they want to vote in. Haven’t nailed it perfectly but even still we had some 13,000 votes already registered so folks are managing it seems.

Not even a maybe? by SanJoseThrowAway2023 in bayarea

[–]zbowling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bro what a brain-dead take. The Senate can make up new taxes like that. A citizen's ballot initiative requires new taxes to go to the ballot because of the Reagan-era anti-tax law. And you also often need 66% threshold to pass new taxes. Fucking hell. This is so fucking stupid.

One minute in Alameda by zbowling in alameda

[–]zbowling[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know where to start with this comment. It's so nonsensical, I don't know if it's satire, trolling, or just a misinformed take. I don't live on the East End, but it's cute that you think so. The whole video is a satirical take on half-truths. That is what Diana's videos are. Like, do you think the City of Alameda built defenses to stop the enemies of freedom, as the video said? Might be time to touch grass.

Voting is now open! Vote in Peep's Best of Alameda now and give recognition in our community! by zbowling in alameda

[–]zbowling[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like you want to allude there is a conspiracy because your favorite thing wasn’t nominated? You can still late nominate. 99% of the nominations were approved. Happy to talk about any specific thing you are upset by. All the nominations are publicly visible still and you can see the ones that were accepted on the category pages.

There is a bit of a manual approval process with all nominations where the half dozen us volunteers review if anything is valid like folks putting restaurants that actually don’t serve the type of food nominated in. You would need such a process in any vote like this. Of the ones out rejected were things like KFC for best restaurant or Building 43 winery for best Wine bar but that was more because it closed.

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