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I am not on it. My son started driving recently and I evaluated it, but rejected it due to their customer hostile approach to api access and privacy. i found Dawarich when searching for alternatives a few months ago. I’ve installed it, contributed a couple of PRs, and am excited for it.

The missing feature is for “anxious moms” wanting an up to date alert for announcing movement for their kids. e.g. “Bobby has left the library”

It’s getting closer with every release, but the turn key approach without managing every poi for announcements is missing.

Now, all that said. I’m not mom and I have feelings over teen privacy and helicopter parenting, but I recognize the desire for that type of information sharing – as long as it’s my family’s data only.

I want to to replace life 360, but it’s not there yet. When it is, I’m all in.

The handiman who works for my family quite often is not super technical. He was troubleshooting a mini split for me and I walked out to see him vocally chatting with chat gpt going through error codes, handless.

He found a use, and you’d be wrong to assume “trades” are safe from the chatbot. That doesn’t mean his job is going away, but maybe he can do more solo jobs and doesn’t need a helper all the time. Or maybe he does his jobs faster. Who knows!

People don’t need to know model names to find a use.

I’ve run this experiment on myself a great number of times.

Your story is correct, sometimes. It’s not correct all of the time. Sometimes AI is slower and the output is better (think: pair programming). Sometimes AI gets me the first draft and the cognitive understanding takes time (overall, for me, usually faster, but sometimes slower I will readily admit). I’m really good at reading code, I guess? And still other times it will one shot near perfection (in true slot machine fashion). It’ll also produce absolute shit, as well, frequently.

My firm point to you is it’s not a blanket truth.

Listen, I’m a VERY healthy skeptic of AI on a number of fronts, but saying it can’t speed things up is just not true.

I feel like I understand where you’re trying to come from with the argument about skill degradation, but the flat statement you say here is undeniably false.

I finally found it, it’s like 300 pages of individual rejections you need to go. Hard pass.

You world be very surprised. It’s not what I directly work on, but there are entire programs dedicated to tracking and lowering the cost of password and account resets (and doing it securely). That last part is the hard thing. Large organizations can save millions of dollars if they can get people to not lose/forget their credentials -or- self service those resets (but even then, having that person do it is now losing their time and energy).

It’s not just indirect opportunity costs either, it’s direct costs to the IT organization. Smaller teams can absorb this stuff as a rounding error on their time, but the second you’re counting in the thousands, you need to deal with this type of thing. (And I’ll repeat: securely)

Now imagine doing it as a B2C+B2B organization like Google or Microsoft. The costs are staggering.

Not the commenter, but they’re not taking about CPU costs.

I prefer the term “Meat Proxy”, but I get that it’s more of an ad hominem. I use both terms.

This guy stole my brain and dumped out all the thoughts I have.

All these comments are great, but the real mystery is:

Why did someone overlay a different font on top of the original graphic rather than just make a whole new graphic? Like, the work is exactly the same, and the rest of us can view sane font placement.

I bounced around a bit after Storj decided to hate consumers and institute massive minimums.

I’ve landed on Backblaze B2, S3 compatible. Add others have mentioned, doing a shared NAS 2 NAS hookup with a friend or family member is a nice ideal way to do it without monthly fees.

I use Borg backup from my PCs to a NAS (QNAP), and from there using the built in backup software to go off-site. My self hosted PCs will mount NAS drives directly (like immich and audiobookshelf) and those are also in the NAS off-site job.

Reolink stores to a SD card with the option to upload to FTP backups.

I suspect a big 128 gb card would be good enough without off-site storage.

Mix tapes were the primary thing for me, and later burning custom CDs in the mid 90s.

I was the only one with a CD burner and I’d charge people $1 song to make them (I provided the CDs)

And that is why I still support Firefox!

I know a good way to *nix it!

I know nothing of the full conversation, but I read the"meltdown". I sort of sided with the melt down guy. Everything he said there was reasonable, albeit slightly verbose.

IDGAF about the whole thing so it might just be that the final post was fine, but the rest was not :shrug:

I am not affected on my Ubuntu installation

Dumped it last year. It was a good run.

Onn boxes from Walmart are hands down the best deal out there. $45-50 for the pro is solid.

It has boat, but you can get custom launchers or place it in app only mode to cut down on that.