I think of it more as ExpertSexchange.

Is there a question here? Your sentence makes no sense.

I personally know 4 teen girls like this and have known them their whole lives. They seem to be going through the “figuring out who I am” phase. At first it was “I’m trans!” then went to “I’m non binary” but there’s still a lot of makeup and other typically female gender behaviors. They complain about how the boys their age are stupid and gross.

Male attention can be difficult to navigate for young girls. This seems like a pretty good defense from that unwanted attention.

Most people are shallow and artless. They’re not even well informed or educated enough to be apathetic. Apathy implies knowing the pot is boiling and deciding not to get out of it. They don’t even know the pot is boiling.

I work with a lot of Indians. They have been shocked recently by the arrest of some of their American born children by ICE. The children were thankfully returned but after talking to them I discovered they had no clue that the US is currently engaged in ethnic cleansing of non whites. And these are all people with masters degrees at least.

And every generation considers this the most dramatic change ever.

And they’ve all been right. Technology improves exponentially, not linearly and we’re now in the curve of that exponential change.

So for each generation, more advances happen and more quickly than in previous generations.

It had the added benefit of creating an “accidental” wet t-shirt contest.

I’m convinced that a lot of teen girls who are now identifying as trans or non binary are really just trying to get the stupid boys to leave them alone.

Oh yeah, I’ve got a box of esp32s and mmwave sensors waiting for me to get my soldering iron out. I’m with you, they’re great. I suppose I could somehow figure out out how to do SDR with an ESP32, but I’ve got plenty of unfinished projects waiting for me as it is. ESPHOME makes edge devices so easy to create. And it gives me an excuse to do a little soldering and 3d printing.

The ESP32s are also really good for making old devices smart. One project in my queue is turning a bunch of air purifiers into smart devices that HA controls. They were super cheap and there’s nothing to them but a fan, and a filter but they’re loud. I’m going to make it so they only run when no one is in the room.

I was thinking the same thing. My path was self hosting on old desktops for the longest time then the pi came out and I ended up doing a birdnet project, then home assistant and now I’ve got about a half dozen data collectors on pi zero 2 w machines. They are pretty much set and forget. I use an orange pi for my instance of Solar Assistant because I wanted something that was not affected by anything but the network and the inverter and I know how rock solid these little machines are.

But in the last few years I’ve started embracing docker and NUCs and have pulled apps off Synology, making it just a file server at this point.

So technically I have more raspberry pis than anything else but they are really just edge devices, except for Home Assistant. And it will probably stay that way until there is a good reason to switch. I don’t see that happening for years.

AI Pioneer 🤖

• Fleet: 6–10 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
• My MVPs: Portainer, Open WebUI, Ollama, Nginx Proxy Manager, arr stack

Don’t make the assumption of thinking all cops are equally evil.

You are right. They are on a spectrum of evil.

Yes, I was referencing that video.

And it’s not even just the homeless who are affect by shit like this. I can’t tell you how many park benches I slept on in my twenties when I lived in Europe and I’d stay out too late and have to chill out somewhere until morning.

In America you can’t take a nap in your car or even read a book in your car without having the cops hassle you.

I wonder what the cops are going to do when all vehicles are driverless.

I’ve been running birdnetpi on a raspberry pi 3 for years. It runs very well on this modest hardware. I also run birdnet-go in a docker container and use my reolink security cameras for the RSTP audio feed to that instance.

There are all sorts of AI/ML models available that can run on smaller hardware. But they are usually very specific and not general purpose, like the LLMs.

Have you checked out the slate truck?

https://slate.auto/

What’s a good way to store dried goods like rice, beans and pasta so you have a substantial supply that you routinely top off, while eating the oldest you have in stock?

Duckweed and algae are much easier to grow and grow a hell of a lot faster. They can also be used to clean your water.

I hope I didn’t come off as complaining about degoog. I’m definitely not. degoog is awesome.

Thanks for the advice about the proxies. I’ll be looking into that as I continue to work on keeping prying eyes off our internet usage. I suspect this will be a never ending struggle for the rest of my life.

It seems that both google and reddit block requests coming from my VPN provider(PIA). I may have to set up my own VPN server using Azure or AWS if things keep going this way.

Thanks for this! I included degoog in my arr stack and it works great! I was surprised by the language support when I pointed my gluetun container to an an Italian exit node. But it’s very well documented and the language environment variable was easy to set. Nice!

Getting this working within minutes of reading this post felt like opening an unexpected present. I love it.