Got Home Assistant Green and a home assistant voice. My one big Black Friday purchase was two more home assistant voice modules and an eink screen/sensor for black Friday and I am excited to play with those lol

If you added in the Eagles and tweaked the CR accordingly it'd become higher stakes tho.

You got to have faith in the party

100%

Like...I've been getting into a lot of weird indie tech(handheld emulators and home assistant), and if you told even 2015 me that there'd be a handheld the size of a big candy bar that can play PS2 games, or a box the size of my hand I can understand my voice offline, I would have been amazed

Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!

"this thing that makes 50 billion a year is gonna have to make 650 billion a year to justify investment" seems like a fucking absurd number to shoot for.

That stuffing looks *structural*. Like if you were doing demo on some 60s house and it came out the wall you were tearing down you wouldn't be surprised

We're for realistic not idealistic though. If your golden timeline is one where every pig is able to be tutored by Michigan J. Frog so they can do dance routines, you'll never find that timeline. If it's one where pigs are a common pet? You might! That one is plausible if a couple things change.

Obviously! But if you at 1 ezmac/day for 2 months you'd implode. Or explode. Some plode.

It would be bad is the point

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I've had my qol measurably improved by smarthome/wearable stuff but now I'm thankful that I've got the resources and time to swap over to home assistant and a new Pebble and it fucking sucks to have to be thankful to have that option instead of just having fun messing around with a new tool

That to. It's much harder for a smartwatch to cut off a finger, but it also gets useful info(as long as it's a version with good privacy)

I know *so* many fantastic diners where the menu pictures are all basically "Facebook page where the owner is paying some waitstaff to take pics with an old iPhone" and it's always great.
If you don't even have 1 college student who posts the daily specials, you can't be trusted to run a restaurant

Trying to balance "wearables and smarthome stuff is actually truly useful for me" with "how do I get it without letting Big Tech from knowing shit bout me" has been so fucking vexing lol.

Somehow big tech made "oh shit! It's possible to get a new Pebble!?" into something vexing stead of joyful

That's so much mac n cheese that you'd have to look at the expiration date for something that should not be able to expire

Oh, 100%

If he had *told* people before the election, he'd have been a hero. Now tho? It's tawdry asshole behavior where he's drip dropping revenge porn for petty cash.