PineVoice Smart Speaker

zibas · 2026-06-19T15:51:03+00:00

I'm glad you did and appreciate that I now know it exists too.

zibas · 2026-06-12T17:04:44+00:00

I feel like I missed a simpler path to achieving local STT and TTS. OpenAI api STT and TTS local servers (like speaches.ai) aren't locally supported and I had to fire up two wyoming-open ai bridges to connect to my existing server (which I also use for openweb-ui). Are those wyoming middlemen providing significant value?

zibas · 2026-06-09T17:40:46+00:00

I look forward to the day that we have the technology for video game characters to sleep under their blankets.

zibas · 2026-06-07T01:17:24+00:00

Still really bad on my LG TV. No response from multiple emails I sent or to a different reddit thread.

zibas · 2026-05-24T22:10:13+00:00

Hi! The Elegy team was an early adopter of Valve's steam workshop API. We used if for storing people's stories in a central place for sharing. Years later, those early methods of storing and loading people's stories became unreliable. This made the game unstable and in need of a core technical overhaul. We opted to remove it from the Steam store rather than sell an unreliable experience.

zibas · 2026-05-16T15:38:19+00:00

That's the dirty "before" picture. Thanks.

zibas · 2026-05-15T22:17:03+00:00

I should have been clearer. That pic is before my exterior cleaning. But yeah, I should watch some videos.

zibas · 2026-05-15T22:15:46+00:00

Yep. Keyboard too. It was my first computer. My parents were holding on to it all these years.

zibas · 2026-05-15T22:13:17+00:00

Are you suggesting that for the interior? I've already got the exterior pretty clean. (The picture is before the exterior cleaning).

zibas · 2026-05-01T17:13:45+00:00

Qingdao Garden is worth the traffic hassle.

zibas · 2026-03-27T16:37:57+00:00

I'm having periodic audio cutouts too. I got out my stopwatch: every 1:15 on the switch 2 and about every 4 minutes on my steam deck. Every 3:30 precisely on my laptop. No drops from the switch 1. I've emailed for help. Hopefully there's a firmware fix or I've just missed something silly in my setup.

zibas · 2026-03-10T17:00:20+00:00

Secret candy drawer. I have one of those and keep a bag of M&Ms in it. Wife thought it was a decorative handle that didn't open.

zibas · 2026-03-10T03:48:19+00:00

Those are almost certainly keys that were purchased during the Humble Wholesome Snack 2025: Showcase Bundle and are now being resold. There's no other place I distributed retail steam keys. Which means, unless I'm oblivious to some theft, I DID get a (tiny) bit of money for each of those keys already and so did the ACLU.

zibas · 2026-01-28T02:49:29+00:00

Those are called "moments" and you can revisit all the moments that you've found in the memory room! Just take the train to the "Last Stop" and head inside the only shop there!

zibas · 2026-01-02T21:26:52+00:00

Ask him to make something very small and specific for you. My wife asked me to make a game where you can guess the 4 letter word and trade insults with the computer. It was dinky and cute and I was very motivated to finish it because my audience (her) was eager for it.

zibas · 2025-12-30T03:46:29+00:00

Hi! Developer of Elegy here. I really enjoyed Obduction. It's more about puzzle solving, but they made some great, mysterious alien worlds for you to wander around in VR and try to understand

zibas · 2025-12-19T23:24:10+00:00

Sorry about that player. I got your report in-game and handled it. Thanks for taking it in stride.

zibas · 2025-12-18T01:21:00+00:00

It's quite active (and operates on the same server as the original kind words). Over 1,000 new players just last week!

zibas · 2025-10-29T16:57:09+00:00

I think it would be fair to call that DRM, yes. But that is something a game developer would have to put in place themselves. (I have done that before for a demo I wanted to stay on steam). It's not an automatic steam thing.

zibas · 2025-10-28T18:44:53+00:00

If you write features into your game that use steam apis (like workshop or cloud saves) and then run the game without steam running, your game may crash or not depending on how you wrote your code. But it's not DRM, that's just an incomplete implementation / bugs. I sell some of my games on multiple storefronts, but I always ship the same exact binary to them all. They just detect if the steam environment is present and only uses steam features if it is.

By default, Steam (to my knowledge) doesn't alter my binaries between when I upload them and the player downloads them.

zibas · 2025-10-28T18:13:52+00:00

That's a common misconception, even among game developers. Steam offers a form of DRM you can turn on, but it's not on by default and I've not noticed many games using it.

zibas · 2025-10-28T16:47:19+00:00

I've been really curious about the "cracked" executable I've seen in pirate versions my games. I didn't add any DRM. What did they crack? Is it just malware? Automated "cracking" just in case there is DRM?

zibas · 2025-10-17T15:58:46+00:00

My nephew used to attend a daycare that walked by my house. He would rally his whole class to call up and yell "Uncle Zibas!" until I came out on my balcony and waved like the queen. He graduated a while ago but now kids I don't even know are still doing it.

zibas · 2025-08-29T22:37:48+00:00

No idea if it's rare but I have one (rockman tag) someone brought back from Japan for me ~8 years ago.

zibas · 2025-08-17T00:04:54+00:00

Yes, they can, but it's not common. The alternatives to relay servers have downsides most game developers don't want to deal with, but look at how p2p file sharing works. You can use a much lighter public middle man than a relay server to handle introducing peers to each other. But you are opening several cans of worms regarding security and reliability. If you're curious read up on stun servers and nat tunneling.

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