I took my travel guitar on my latest flight. Not as small as a Traveler-brand one, but I was able to put it behind 2 other roller-bag carry-ons that were rotated length-wise instead of depth-wise along with my partner's CPAP. Still meant 4 bags in the overhead slot like normal. I just put my CPAP bag under the seat in front of me and didn't bring a backpack, instead. Same net result.
But that's with a travel guitar, specifically the Enya Nova GO SP1 which is much smaller than my mini-jumbo Washburn (EA15). I don't know how on earth I'd fly with that short of making arrangements to put it in a special location besides the luggage compartment. I'd be too worried about it being damaged even in a hard case, especially from the atmospheric changes.
I have the X4, and I adore it. I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not but got it on sale, and I've been thrilled with it and encouraging folks interested in something more portable than a typical larger e-reader. I just turn it on and read, no need to set a do-not-disturb mode, I just get to focus on that.
"Smaller screen" also sounds bad unless you have flavors of ADHD that cause you to restart the page regularly, and this actually helped me in that regard.
Like, I still have to strip DRM from books I buy if they aren't DRM-free, but I don't buy on the Kindle shop anymore, and most others use Adobe Digital Editions, which is fairly easy to rip using plugins for Calibre.
I think of it less as "combine", and more "separate" on purpose. There's the images pointing out how much stuff one had to carry before that a smartphone replaces as one slab but... it doesn't do most of those things as well.
I really like my X4 from that standpoint. It's much longer battery than my phone screen grants, and I don't have to open any menus to toggle anything to say "go away, notifications", or anything like that. I'm separated from everything else on my phone while I read on it.
But it's also quick and cheap to make absurdly-delicious roasted veg.
My favorite: take a bag of frozen broccoli florets, mist it with some oil (it'll harden on them), sprinkle with some salt and pepper and toss in it at 400 degrees F for like, 15 minutes. Halfway through I pull the basket and drain the accumulated water in the bottom to increase browning.
Delicious, crispy, I can devour an entire pound of broccoli that way in like 5 minutes.
Most toaster ovens, even ones with strong convection for "air frying", are not quite consistent enough in their heating. You have to pay far more than you would for an air fryer to get even heat coil distribution and a good door seal for that. The specific kind of rapid cooking that dessicates and browns the surface you get out of air fryer devices is just kind of hard to replicate outside of them.
If you ever look inside an air fryer you can kind of immediately see why -- the heater-to-volume ratio is absurdly close. You have the equivalent of the biggest coiltop stove burner directly above a few quarts of air volume with a fan forcing air from it to circulate. It's just kind of unfair of a comparison for both toaster ovens and even full-size ones that advertise an "air fryer" mode by comparison for that reason.
My only wishlist for Navidrome is SSO support besides reverse-proxy/forward-auth headers. I've got that setup with Authentik and Nginx Proxy Manager, but having to make specific path exceptions or duplicates with rewrites for apps/API, rather than just being able to generate an app password/token in Navidrome for an app to use, definitely is annoying. I don't think I saw a write-up anywhere but I figured out what was needed.
If I recall, in the US, anything in a food advert photo that is meant to come with the product -- IE, the toppings of the burger -- must be real food, and cannot be paint or such or that's false advertising. The milk in cereal is provided by the consumer, so they can use the glue there. And while the ketchup is applied via syringe, it is, in fact, ketchup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIEhDSWXeF4
What they get away with is the arrangement of the ingredients, things like splitting and spreading a pattie to make it appear larger, fluffing the choice lettuce pieces and tomato slices, using hidden toothpicks to arrange things.
It's possible the Japanese ad you presented isn't food at all, and just model food, like presented in shop storefronts -- looking like the real thing. That steam is definitely added after the fact. It also has a bit of a sheen in spots on the bread that makes me think it's just plastic, but I don't think the same "false advertising" laws apply in Japan.
I'm trying to figure out what leads someone to look at this and say "yes this is good" and then fucking print it, or pay to have it printed. Like, why would you just... print without even fucking looking?
Not an article, but as others have pointed out with Google, what's more likely is that Apple hasn't added an explicit processing exception to the US GIS data published at the federal level.
Most map providers ingest this data and process it, along with adjustments or additions of their own, and that includes the names of features like Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico. Google appear to update their GIS data very frequently, hence it appearing the same day it was published by the USGS.
Apple must take longer. In addition, the zoom level thing is probably from it just prioritizing the Canadian GIS data at that zoom level for that feature body, which still has the correct name. Meanwhile, MapQuest would've outright added a processing rule to rewrite that name so they can continue to use the USGS GIS data but have "Lake Ontario" show up properly. Same thing for both Google and Apple on "Gulf of America" showing up, because Google processes daily and Apple less often and neither added a rule to keep the canonical name the same.
So I don't know if I'd say "capitulation", in terms of what that generally means, taking specific actions to give into something, but maybe it does, since this is effectively Apple's inaction passively leading to it. Maybe it's more complicity through inaction.
If you mean "on my network, never going to the cloud, install whisper and piper apps (in default repos at that) in Home Assistant OS: you have a fully local voice stack that multiple assistants can use. If you might have multiple speakers, why duplicate resources for processing speech?
HA basically compartmentalizes voice into into its parts: speech to text, intent processing, and text to speech. It's fully local if you want, or cloud, or both, entirely up to you.
If you mean "this software processes voice itself from the attached microphone, interprets the command, sends the command to HA, and then creates a TTS response or chime", there are software for that but they certainly aren't running on an inexpensive ESP32-S3 chip, and are generally gonna be pretty limited as well, and I don't see active projects using it anymore. Everything that was just...tended to work poorly.
I believe I've seen some self-contained software packages that can connect to HA's Assist over an API, feeding it the transcribed text directly, but again, a central source of processing speech on more-powerful hardware that is only ever going to be used like, one user/speaker at a time makes way more sense than duplicating efforts on worse hardware.
Home Assistant itself is what provides the voice "stack" in the form of "Assistant" definitions. You can have multiple, which require defining a speech-to-text provider, a text-to-speech provider, and a langauge processing provider (agent).
By default for that last one it's Home Assistant, but LLMs can be selected too. The STT and TTS providers can be Home Assistant Cloud, which uses Azure Speech for both services. You can also install (Faster-)Whisper and Piper add-ons/apps for STT and TTS, respectively, in HA OS. (Or run them on a separate system, like in my case I use the GPU in my server since HA runs on its own micro PC).
This allows defining multiple voice "stacks" at once, so you could, for instance, have one wake word on a given device be for one pipeline for home commands, and another that just talks to an LLM.
Crucially, these do not replace the voice stacks for a Google Home/Nest or Echo device (without the hardware replacements mentioned). Those still go to their respective cloud servers for processing, not locally.
The Voice PE device is largely referred to as a "voice satellite", which is apt -- it is an extension of sorts to your existing stack. It is a device you can put somewhere convenient, like a bedside or coffee table, that is like a voice connection, sending your voice to Home Assistant for Home Assistant to process using the selected means for the pipeline active, and respond in TTS the same. It's a microphone and speaker with wifi, effectively, and that's all, as others have said.
I'm not sure I follow what you mean by "premium" though. The Voice PE device, and similar, are ~$50-60 smart speakers just like Nest/Echo (which again also rely on external processing). If you mean having Home Assistant Cloud as a subscription service, then yes sort-of -- that would give you a TTS and STT provider.
I always struggle with this idea that it's ADHD, but maybe there's more than just the ADHD going on.
I have severe ADHD, combined type (inattentive + 'hyperactive'), but running around the airport or mall away from parents was never an issue. The worst I did was climb into clothing racks at Stein Mart because I was bored out of my skull when my mom shopped there.
The main thing I think is I also got taught to let her or my dad know if I wanted to go look at a thing, so they knew where I was if they couldn't come with, and to let them know again if I wanted to look at another thing.
I don't know if there's something specific I was taught or guided on that caused neither me nor my sister to need that kind of supervision, or if there's a different neurological condition that leads to the bolting, but it ain't ADHD on its own, even severe.
Huh, kinda cool. I mean it makes sense too since it's got that "copying someone's homework" benefit for updates too.
I see we're continuing with conditional fat shaming again.
I took my travel guitar on my latest flight. Not as small as a Traveler-brand one, but I was able to put it behind 2 other roller-bag carry-ons that were rotated length-wise instead of depth-wise along with my partner's CPAP. Still meant 4 bags in the overhead slot like normal. I just put my CPAP bag under the seat in front of me and didn't bring a backpack, instead. Same net result.
But that's with a travel guitar, specifically the Enya Nova GO SP1 which is much smaller than my mini-jumbo Washburn (EA15). I don't know how on earth I'd fly with that short of making arrangements to put it in a special location besides the luggage compartment. I'd be too worried about it being damaged even in a hard case, especially from the atmospheric changes.
I have the X4, and I adore it. I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not but got it on sale, and I've been thrilled with it and encouraging folks interested in something more portable than a typical larger e-reader. I just turn it on and read, no need to set a do-not-disturb mode, I just get to focus on that.
"Smaller screen" also sounds bad unless you have flavors of ADHD that cause you to restart the page regularly, and this actually helped me in that regard.
Like, I still have to strip DRM from books I buy if they aren't DRM-free, but I don't buy on the Kindle shop anymore, and most others use Adobe Digital Editions, which is fairly easy to rip using plugins for Calibre.
I think of it less as "combine", and more "separate" on purpose. There's the images pointing out how much stuff one had to carry before that a smartphone replaces as one slab but... it doesn't do most of those things as well.
I really like my X4 from that standpoint. It's much longer battery than my phone screen grants, and I don't have to open any menus to toggle anything to say "go away, notifications", or anything like that. I'm separated from everything else on my phone while I read on it.
But it's also quick and cheap to make absurdly-delicious roasted veg.
My favorite: take a bag of frozen broccoli florets, mist it with some oil (it'll harden on them), sprinkle with some salt and pepper and toss in it at 400 degrees F for like, 15 minutes. Halfway through I pull the basket and drain the accumulated water in the bottom to increase browning.
Delicious, crispy, I can devour an entire pound of broccoli that way in like 5 minutes.
Most toaster ovens, even ones with strong convection for "air frying", are not quite consistent enough in their heating. You have to pay far more than you would for an air fryer to get even heat coil distribution and a good door seal for that. The specific kind of rapid cooking that dessicates and browns the surface you get out of air fryer devices is just kind of hard to replicate outside of them.
If you ever look inside an air fryer you can kind of immediately see why -- the heater-to-volume ratio is absurdly close. You have the equivalent of the biggest coiltop stove burner directly above a few quarts of air volume with a fan forcing air from it to circulate. It's just kind of unfair of a comparison for both toaster ovens and even full-size ones that advertise an "air fryer" mode by comparison for that reason.
Alabama Power already does this, fuck Southern Company. They charge a fee if you add solar panels, even if it's not connected to their grid.
My only wishlist for Navidrome is SSO support besides reverse-proxy/forward-auth headers. I've got that setup with Authentik and Nginx Proxy Manager, but having to make specific path exceptions or duplicates with rewrites for apps/API, rather than just being able to generate an app password/token in Navidrome for an app to use, definitely is annoying. I don't think I saw a write-up anywhere but I figured out what was needed.
If I recall, in the US, anything in a food advert photo that is meant to come with the product -- IE, the toppings of the burger -- must be real food, and cannot be paint or such or that's false advertising. The milk in cereal is provided by the consumer, so they can use the glue there. And while the ketchup is applied via syringe, it is, in fact, ketchup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIEhDSWXeF4
What they get away with is the arrangement of the ingredients, things like splitting and spreading a pattie to make it appear larger, fluffing the choice lettuce pieces and tomato slices, using hidden toothpicks to arrange things.
It's possible the Japanese ad you presented isn't food at all, and just model food, like presented in shop storefronts -- looking like the real thing. That steam is definitely added after the fact. It also has a bit of a sheen in spots on the bread that makes me think it's just plastic, but I don't think the same "false advertising" laws apply in Japan.
I'm trying to figure out what leads someone to look at this and say "yes this is good" and then fucking print it, or pay to have it printed. Like, why would you just... print without even fucking looking?
Not an article, but as others have pointed out with Google, what's more likely is that Apple hasn't added an explicit processing exception to the US GIS data published at the federal level.
Most map providers ingest this data and process it, along with adjustments or additions of their own, and that includes the names of features like Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico. Google appear to update their GIS data very frequently, hence it appearing the same day it was published by the USGS.
Apple must take longer. In addition, the zoom level thing is probably from it just prioritizing the Canadian GIS data at that zoom level for that feature body, which still has the correct name. Meanwhile, MapQuest would've outright added a processing rule to rewrite that name so they can continue to use the USGS GIS data but have "Lake Ontario" show up properly. Same thing for both Google and Apple on "Gulf of America" showing up, because Google processes daily and Apple less often and neither added a rule to keep the canonical name the same.
So I don't know if I'd say "capitulation", in terms of what that generally means, taking specific actions to give into something, but maybe it does, since this is effectively Apple's inaction passively leading to it. Maybe it's more complicity through inaction.
My partner and I refer to the remote on that thing as "the bean"
What do you mean by "local"?
If you mean "on my network, never going to the cloud, install whisper and piper apps (in default repos at that) in Home Assistant OS: you have a fully local voice stack that multiple assistants can use. If you might have multiple speakers, why duplicate resources for processing speech?
HA basically compartmentalizes voice into into its parts: speech to text, intent processing, and text to speech. It's fully local if you want, or cloud, or both, entirely up to you.
If you mean "this software processes voice itself from the attached microphone, interprets the command, sends the command to HA, and then creates a TTS response or chime", there are software for that but they certainly aren't running on an inexpensive ESP32-S3 chip, and are generally gonna be pretty limited as well, and I don't see active projects using it anymore. Everything that was just...tended to work poorly.
I believe I've seen some self-contained software packages that can connect to HA's Assist over an API, feeding it the transcribed text directly, but again, a central source of processing speech on more-powerful hardware that is only ever going to be used like, one user/speaker at a time makes way more sense than duplicating efforts on worse hardware.
I don't feel like I fully saw this explained yet:
Home Assistant itself is what provides the voice "stack" in the form of "Assistant" definitions. You can have multiple, which require defining a speech-to-text provider, a text-to-speech provider, and a langauge processing provider (agent).
By default for that last one it's Home Assistant, but LLMs can be selected too. The STT and TTS providers can be Home Assistant Cloud, which uses Azure Speech for both services. You can also install (Faster-)Whisper and Piper add-ons/apps for STT and TTS, respectively, in HA OS. (Or run them on a separate system, like in my case I use the GPU in my server since HA runs on its own micro PC).
This allows defining multiple voice "stacks" at once, so you could, for instance, have one wake word on a given device be for one pipeline for home commands, and another that just talks to an LLM.
Crucially, these do not replace the voice stacks for a Google Home/Nest or Echo device (without the hardware replacements mentioned). Those still go to their respective cloud servers for processing, not locally.
The Voice PE device is largely referred to as a "voice satellite", which is apt -- it is an extension of sorts to your existing stack. It is a device you can put somewhere convenient, like a bedside or coffee table, that is like a voice connection, sending your voice to Home Assistant for Home Assistant to process using the selected means for the pipeline active, and respond in TTS the same. It's a microphone and speaker with wifi, effectively, and that's all, as others have said.
I'm not sure I follow what you mean by "premium" though. The Voice PE device, and similar, are ~$50-60 smart speakers just like Nest/Echo (which again also rely on external processing). If you mean having Home Assistant Cloud as a subscription service, then yes sort-of -- that would give you a TTS and STT provider.
I always struggle with this idea that it's ADHD, but maybe there's more than just the ADHD going on.
I have severe ADHD, combined type (inattentive + 'hyperactive'), but running around the airport or mall away from parents was never an issue. The worst I did was climb into clothing racks at Stein Mart because I was bored out of my skull when my mom shopped there.
The main thing I think is I also got taught to let her or my dad know if I wanted to go look at a thing, so they knew where I was if they couldn't come with, and to let them know again if I wanted to look at another thing.
I don't know if there's something specific I was taught or guided on that caused neither me nor my sister to need that kind of supervision, or if there's a different neurological condition that leads to the bolting, but it ain't ADHD on its own, even severe.
Ah thank you, that's true, I feel silly missing that.
That is what "top surgery" tends to mean, yes.
ITT people who don't quite get the post
Know1ng: that's not how you spell it
It Follows: idk I might be fukt I read pet sematary
Splice: just tie a knot instead
It's also literally rules of the subreddit.