AvocadoSandwich

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It works reasonably well. Not any better or worse then Google Assistant did. Setup:

  • Raspberry Pi 5 to run home assistant and Piper
  • voice assistant preview
  • standard "Mycroft" wake word
  • Whisper small on proxmox server running 2 cores
  • Using English
  • LLM running granite4.1:3b on a laptop with gtx1050 mobile (a bit slow, but works) Intent first, LLM as fallback

I use it to control the TV, play music, control vacuum and control lights. I have a script for the TV functions and a script that controls different scenes in my house which are both exposed. This works really well as I have commands setup to trigger automations or I can just ask it to do something via the LLM. This last one takes a bit longer (up to 45 seconds or so) but it is workable as things rarely have to happen immediately. I'm upgrading the laptop to a desktop with gtx1660S soon though which will be a huge improvement.

I also have automations setup that automatically lowers music when the wake word triggers and goes back to volume when it is done listening which helps tremendously as the Voice assistant preview does have trouble understanding in a noisy room. The LLM also partially solved this though

China is not a Russian ally though. China is an opportunistic state. They make agreements and trade with anyone who they think will further their goals. Thus they trade with Russia because by doing so they gain influence in a diminishing state that controls a lot of resources (Russia's far east is increasingly becoming Chinese by population and companies for a reason)

China doesn't make friends, they make deals with anyone and everyone as long as they think it is positive for China.

To be fair, it is not gonna be very usefull to remap it to any other button as the other button is also already on your controller. It would just be a duplicate function.

Not entirely useless, but also not far off. It might eventually become useful as a homebrew menu button if someone ever figures out how to hack it

No I can't because for spoken language I don't need a camera, just a mic and I also wouldn't want to be constantly bombarded with a translation of every foreign language. If I want to translate something I can't read I can get my phone to either type it or use the camera function on that thing. These glasses will not replace my phone and that already has a camera with better privacy option than these glasses will ever have. So no. I do not see a need for a camera that videos everything I see all the time except for some very niece scenarios. If you think you need something like this, then great, but don't expect people taking it kindly that you are filming their every move.

But "perfect white teeth" aka veneers are often a cosmetic procedure and are thus generally not covered by universal healthcare (there are exceptions ofcourse).

I'd argue a rootcanal treatment is very necessary so I don't think they are comparable situations. That is ofcourse just the opinion of a random internet person.

I think China would have pursued it regardless, they just might have relied more heavily on European tech then they do now and thus would have delayed their home grown tech. Or if Europe played their cards right would have resulted in a better trade alliance with China and have benefitted both economic areas by exchanging tech advances sidelining the US. This last one might be a bit to much of a utopia though

And yet not everyone can become a nuclear engineer or rocket scientist, programm architect, lawyer and so on, so your "experience can be taught, leadership has to be learned" falls apart pretty quickly.

Leadership is not in anyway less then any other job that you can become an expert in. It is just focused on social sciences instead of engineering for example and both can be taught. It's dumb to say that leadership is something special, its just that it is the more accessible of fields that have a high skill ceiling as it is present in pretty much every work environment.

Tldr, I think your end point is dumb, but I do agree that people management is hard and is definitely a skill. The best leaders are experts in their own right and it is just a matter of contextualising leadership as a skill you can become an expert in.