Interesting. Thanks for the extra effort to help out an internet stranger!

I’ll dig some more into these little buggers!

Awesome, thanks!

This little thing looks very interesting. What is the battery life like? Is the handwriting-to-text stuff only viable in specific apps, or can it be used in place of keyboard input?

I would probably use it just like my Kindle, keeping it in airplane mode until I actually need to download something (or in this case, upload notes).

Seconding this. Frigate is great, and I’ve been running it on an ancient Debian box with a coral tpu for a few years. The only dedicated camera I’ve had has been at the front door, but cams I’ve used for testing and “goofing off” have been great at motion detection and object recognition.

This is a pretty apt analogy, I think.

We’ve been using copilot at work, and it’s really surprised me with some slick suggestions that “mostly work”. But I don’t think it could have written anything beyond the boilerplate my team has done.

(I also spend way too much time watching Copilot and Intellisense fight, and it pisses me off to no end.)

This is actually a great theory. I’ve fixed several monitors and TVs that were just bad capacitors. It’s a logical conclusion with these, too.

I have my old Athlon fx lying around. Needs a case, psu, and the nic… Hmmmm

Yeah, those little micro units are what I had seen recommended. $300-400 is definitely pushing it for me. Especially when I would also want a bigger switch to accompany it.

Guess I need to stop eating avocado toast.

Edit: how is the stability/uptime for those little machines? Historically, I’ve always had problems with my routers needing to be rebooted at least once a month after they’ve been in service for 18-24 months. Even my current “business class” cisco router is crapping out on me every month.

I’m already using my own modem, none of that locked-down rental nonsense from my isp.

What hardware do you use for pf/opnSense? All of the recommended stuff I’ve seen is almost prohibitively expensive for my home networking budget.

I feel like it’s just me, but all of my devices with Open/DDWRT crap out after a couple years. Even well-reviewed prosumer-grade gear ends up becoming wildly unreliable in an unacceptably short amount of time. I had to double-check, and my order history puts me at a new router every 2-3 years. This “business class” RV260 will be hitting 2 years in the fall, and I’m already experiencing wonky behavior where it needs to be rebooted regularly. Maybe it’s just an unspoken truth that anything below true “enterprise tier” kit requires a weekly reboot. I should just put it on an outlet to cycle the power every Sunday at 2am or something…

That said, I do love DDWRT!

100%. I have some function nodes to do things in JS, especially for date checking. And I think you can even get it to call shell scripts? I’m sure there’s an add-on that would do it.

Agreed that it really is a pleasant experience.

I’m intending to upgrade to a pfSense router and some other switch in the future. This is just supposed to be a temporary-ish investigation into the potential fuckery coming from my ISP.

I’ve been using nodered with homeassistant for a few years, and have also used it to add minor integrations for some external apps to send push notifications through HA.

On the surface, nodered looks like “programming for non-programmers”, and I’ve seen it get knocked for that. It’s really not that at all. Yes, it’s a node-based system and you’re not “writing code” but it’s very robust and can do a heck of a lot. I highly recommend folks check it out, it’s a pretty powerful little system, and I’ve been running it on my ancient amd fx-6300 server (along side a bunch of other docker containers) without any noticeable system slowdown.

Ah. Good to know! I’m starting to dive down this rabbit hole, and we’ll see where it takes me. Thanks :)