You can find out - set up a local DNS (pihole, blocky et. al.) and check which domains the vacuum connects to.

Then block those and see what happens! Interesting experiment for a weekend.

To be fair, many roombas have a mini DIN connector somewhere, which opens up the possibility for external control - what I plan to do when mine stops working due to server shutdown. However, getting replacement parts will get more and more tricky as time goes by.

I just had to through out a mostly functional airfryer because the drawer rail disintegrated and the replacement part is no longer manufactured. The oldest one I could get was a “new” version with more plastic and a slightly bigger size, so it didn’t fit by about 5%.

It really should be illegal, there is no logical reason for 500 slightly different models and inoperability of basic functions (drawers, APIs, …) aside from malignant greed and planet destruction.

Have one (Fairphone with E/OS) and tbh, I really enjoy not dealing with googles shenanigans and straight up malware practices. I did not take kindly to one morning them telling me they removed a “dangerous” app. Mind you, it was a work phone and NFC debugging app from our own institute, costing my employer my lost time on it. Extra bonus for remotely installing and executing unwanted services that reduce battery life by 75%.

With that level of interference, I wonder about the legal implications? “Someone torrented shrek from that phone?” Or even “Device was used as part of a malicious DDoS op?” Must’ve been some intern/intelligence agent at google, I don’t control the device after all." seems like a legitimate defense/claim. Well, as long as the rule of law exists in some way. But if that goes away, then it doesn’t matter really. At that point you need guns and combat drones, not phones.

Every night at ~ 12-1am

unattended updates / transactional-update are awesome.

Stuff has been running for years, and it’s still up to date.

Hmm. I had pretty much the same experience, and wondered about having multiple conversation agents for specific tasks - but didn’t get around to trying that out. Currently, I am using it without LLM, albeit with GPU accelerated whisper (and other custom CV tasks for camera feeds). This gives me fairly accurate STT, and I have defined a plethora of variable sentences for hassil (intent matcher), so I often get the correct match. There is the option for optional words and or-alternatives, for instance:

sentences:
 - (start|begin|fire) [the] [one] vaccum clean(er|ing) [robot] [session]

So this would match “start vacuum”, but also “fire one vacuum cleaning session”

Of course, this is substantial effort initially, but once configured and debugged (punctuation is poison!) works pretty well. As an aside, using the atom echo satellites gave me a lot of errors, simply because the microphones are bad. With a better quality satellite device (the voice preview) the success rate is much higher, almost flawless.

That all said, if you find a better intent matcher or another solution, please do report back as I am very interested in an easier solution that does not require me to think of all possible sentence ahead of time.

With this new driver, system LEDs, audio LEDs, extra keyboard keys, keyboard backlight, and other features are working.

And this over a year after this was released. Our whole office skipped this gen for new hardware because Linux support wasn’t ready. Additionally, reports were that performance on Linux was/is abysmal for the capabilities. Generally, I feel it was a mistake to prioritize all new ARM and AI CPUs for windows, with lagging and shit linux support until now, as mostly enthusiastic would-be customers are AI devs/researchers, and they often prefer some Linux variant as it “just works” with most tooling. The ‘normie’ office windows user does not give ²shits about locally accelerated inference. Why chipmakers fumbeled the ball so badly with the new AI accelerator / NPU CPUs is beyond me.

Whatever, many things found on reddit are stale and most tech-related info is deprecated. Always super useless when it shows up as a search hit.

Uh… yeah, kinda the point.

Bootloader is easily unlocked, and it runs ubuntu touch at least… Although I run with /e/os for practical reasons.

Yeah. Nah. Not the bitchboy.

Ah yes, a fellow quadlet enjoyer. Cheers!

Did

$ /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/podman-system-generator --user --dryrun

Also prove to be really valuable, too?

Alright, might have to do some deeper investigation for why it’s messing up. Anyhow glad to hear it does work in principle and it may be something I’m doing - thanks!

Was trying this, but I’ve had issues with the app not properly synchronizing with the server. Does that work for you and if so, what’s your setup?

Was supposed to replace “Bring” and due to the issues, currently using grocy, where sync works, but is otherwise very tedious to manage inventory.

Nope, FAQ says it’s only PDServers they host. The Relay and AppView, DMs stays in bsky control.

Is that thumbnail supposed to be, like, super “maga dork” lmfao

Bubbles tend to pop sometimes.

[…] ready enough to convince your boss that it’s ready to replace you at your job."

That’s great though. Then said boss can rehire the people they fired for a noicely risk-adjusted premium.

Stupidity traditionally hurts (the wallet)