Yup, the whole generation grew up having been too distant from the horrors of WW2.

Most of them don’t even know what happened the day after the British protectorate ended in Israel.

Hell most of them don’t even know when, how, or why Israel was created.

History repeats itself because people forget.

I’d argue home assistant with some smart LEDs and a few sensors would be great.

Having a bulb that let’s you know the outside temperature/weather when you’re getting dressed in the morning is neat. Having a dimming pattern for sleeping time. Tons of other really simple stuff available too.

I mean, the text on a website isn’t the problem for not being able to use 56k.

It’s only images and video that take up space, the libraries used on websites are all cached at this point so that’s hardly relevant to ongoing usage of a website.

I hear theres a few neo Mennonite colonies starting up that only use tech before the turn of the millenia. Maybe you could look into them.

And the vast majority of my automations don’t use it because it isn’t required.

I will stand by what I said, the tool is great even if you don’t touch AI at all with it.

The comment was wrong. It’s an automation tool. It can use ai, but its not the primary focus.

Hard disagree, those types of stereotypes are established in youth long before the kids start reading articles.

Pretending special classes of people don’t exist is just stupidity.

They definitely do exist.

It really just helps in cases where you get hacked, but the hacker doesn’t have continued access. Say someone physically penetrates into your building, grabs the key through an unlocked station, and leaves.

That being said, like you mentioned, if someone is going through this effort, 45 days vs 90 days likely won’t matter. They’ll probably have the data they need after a week anyways.

Encryption key theft really requires a secondary attack afterwards to get the encrypted data by getting into the middle and either decrypting or redirecting traffic. It’s very much a state level/high-corporate attack, not some random group trying to make a few bucks.

Money…

No country can last forever, renewal is just as important for governments as forest fires are to restoring the balance in nature.

Is it painful? Yes.

Is it necessary eventually? Also yes.

No.

But there’s plenty of historical precedent for countries splintering.

That’s not all of it.

So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.

The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.

The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.

It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.

Agent voice response

It’s even mostly open source.

They’re now using that word to mean… What exactly?

He’s going to mess up and try to nuke bikiki bottom isn’t he?

Poor patrick.

Delusional people having trouble accepting reality, again.

British Columbia, $0.12 canadian dollars for Tier1 rates

The simple answer is most desktop PCs will not come even close to that at idle. Even just having a few case fans may draw more than that, without involving the CPU at all.

Laptop devices can do that in some cases with their extra power management features.

That being said, do the math to see if it matters. The difference between 10w and 40w is 0.7kwh per day, at least where I live that’s about 7 cents or about $25 per year.

In my case it would be more expensive to purchase a dedicated low power device than it will save me in 4-5 years compared to just using something I already have laying around.