I am deeply upset every time the HomePod in another room decides to attempt to answer my query instead of the phone that’s in my hands, which then has to ask who is speaking, and has a 50:50 chance of ultimately failing to do the task.
With how magical handoff / continuity / whatever it’s called is, it is baffling to me why Apple allows the HomePod to so aggressively take over requests when it sucks so, so much at it.
Noticed this too. Siri on iPhone is almost useful now, but HomePods steals the show and says "I found some results on the web, do you wanna check them on your iPhone?"
It's somewhat obvious they want to sell the updated model, perhaps the new home device thats coming out next week.
Google isn't much better. I have them all over the house. Ask a question to the living room speaker, skips that, skips the one in the kitchen, answers from the one in the bathroom upstairs or one in the basement. Then you get a notification later asking "was this the right device?" which is doubly infuriating since responding to that never actually improves anything.
A B300 has 8 gpus, 2? xeon processors, and 2 fancy nics. Assuming all of those computer chips are equal value cause averages, that's ~ $4k per chip which fits the 'thousands per chip' pretty well.
This is great! I especially enjoyed the live chat feature, that was surprising. Should definitely allow HN to go through on the browser, though, that would be awesome. It would only take... ~90 seconds to load. Damn, it's heavier than I thought.
I also experienced this, albeit deliberately. I saw that it was possible, and out of morbid curiosity, enqueued a song to play through it. I immediately questioned why anyone would want it, stopped play, and disabled it. There are settings on the thermostat you can change such that it isn't used for playback or recording.
Sorry, I was unclear / misunderstood your statement. I haven’t tested this with Spotify, but disabling the thermostat’s mic (Settings / Device Microphone) disables Alexa and Siri implicitly, and also seems to remove it as an AirPlay target, which is primarily how we stream music to Sonos.
The Bosch 800 series dishwashers are god-tier, or at least they were as of 5 years ago, when I last bought one. I've had one in the last 3 houses, and went so far recently as to swap my new house's dishwasher (I think a Whirlpool something-or-other) with my old house's Bosch 800, because it was a cross-town move, and I could.
If a company said "you must support DES," I would expect that their cybersecurity insurance provider would start asking them some questions, and if they became indignant that no one would do so, I would expect them to be publicly mocked.
There is one valid excuse for why you must have support for an outdated protocol: embedded / air-gapped systems. For anything else, just admit that you don't want to make the change. That's a business decision, nothing else.
Agreed. It was the first time I installed a new iOS version I can remember in a long time where it felt faster. My only complaint is that it also seems to have changed WebKit rendering somehow such that the HomeAssistant companion app is incredibly slow, but that also seems to at least partially my fault due to dashboard design. Still tinkering with that.
I mean, yeah. I don’t even use flatpak. I’m really arguing against flatpak on these grounds; that I don’t believe it to be the package manager’s job to police which packages I’m allowed to see on some arbitrary ideological grounds.
Have you read maintainer guidelines for a major distro, like Debian's [0]? I would wager there is between 0 - 1% chance that a vibecoder would be willing or able to meet these.
You don't open the LLM app specifically to run git push, you're already in the LLM app, using it to generate code, and having that app operate git as well.
With how magical handoff / continuity / whatever it’s called is, it is baffling to me why Apple allows the HomePod to so aggressively take over requests when it sucks so, so much at it.
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