You KNOW I want that OpenAI Codex Micro unit to turn into a Home Assistant control unit.

A small, cool unit with buttons and LEDs? Take my money.

Responsible for more deaths than genocide, war, natural disasters, [insert many other things here] combined, through his actions.

Animal.

This is what I use: https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-7-5-ePaper-Panel-p-6416.html

Using ESP Home Builder in Home Assistant I can push updates to it.

It works, but for me its far too much work for what it is. Updates are a pain in the hole, and come fairly frequently.

I’ve just ditched it now to be honest.

I was using it to display the weather where my wife worked each morning so she could dress accordingly. It did what it was supposed to do but was too much work. Wireless firmware updates seldom worked and it needed to be connected to a computer to reliably update.

For me personally the convenience isn’t there. Compare it to a similar sized tablet that I can run Fully Kiosk in to display a Home Assistant dashboard that updates effortlessly, and its a non-runner.

May be absolutely fine for other use cases but for me it was prohibitive. Battery life is a few months based on waking up each morning to refresh and going back to sleep until the next morning, but, you can’t monitor the battery level, a known issue with these. That simply is bananas!

This person just needs to manage their notifications and phone control better.

Also, while streaming (in my case Spotify) subs may seem expensive, it would be horrendously expensive to use an iPod and buy the amount of music I listen to (and three family members for that matter) instead. Considering the monthly sub, its fantastic value.

Personally, and without having made much effort, the issues mentioned in the article are a non-issue for me. And did I read that the HD and battery need to be modded?

Seems like a classic case of finding a problem for a solution.

Big deal. I did something like that once with no AI whatsoever.

That’s the most devastatingly effective description of the shitshow that I’ve ever heard.

Well worded and thanks. ✌🏼

1tn is plenty to go round surely!!!

Yet they still are knocking on the door of a 1tn valuation. 😖

Alanis could write an extra line in a particular song about this.

Or she could write a new song about NIMBYism, hypocrisy etc.

It’s not FOSS though I think? Free and paid tier. Website doesn’t say much about privacy etc. I actually have Lawnchair running silently and almost configured to mirror my Nova home screen but there doesn’t seem to be folders in the app drawer which is a pain, unless I have totally missed it.

Edit: Indeed, I totally missed it, in the settings. FFS.

Excellent. Lawnchair it is then.

Libretube, smarttube and the like. You realise the amount of bloated shit there is on YT when you use one of those. They are like a front end on the infra I suppose. Not familiar with Loops, must go digging!

Yet the FOSS alts are still free. Hot damn.

eYou, you are simply too late to the party. As the piece highlights in the early paragraphs, its already being done by Mastodon and the Feds (the good Feds).

I just discovered Mastodon and the Feds (that should be the name of a band) and I’m utterly thrilled to have control of what I see. Its a breath of fresh air. I look forward to my feed every day. I know its not going to be full of bollocks about Trump and other toxic stuff. Its a game changer for me.

The future is FOSS and data sovereignty and I feel a little bit closer to it today that I ever have.

🙏🏼