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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • You should probably get a louder smoke decetor if you can barely hear it upstairs.

    I’m going to go with the DIY approach;

    For the water sensor, I’d look into the possibility of linking the basement alarm to a speaker upstairs. I’ve no idea what kind of alarm you’re looking at or what the electronics are like. Theoreticaly, you can jump off the audio signal just before it reaches the speaker. Send the audio signal through an amp (located close* to the alarm, preferably where it won’t get wet) and connect it to a speaker upstairs.

    I would never try to mess with a smoke detector I rely on, but a water sensor…buy two and have fun.

    *the amp is to overcome voltage drop in the new cable, I doubt that the sensor electronics will be capable of driving a seperate speaker with at least 30 ft of cable between it.






  • I’m going to copy paste a reply I left somewhere else. This was for iOS AI, I’m unsure what the implemention for macOS is. If they are scanning everything then I do not support it.


    From what I saw,

    MS Recall is a 24/7 AI monitor system that captures everything you look at and saves it for later. They didn’t even do the bare minimum for protecting the data, it was just dumped in an unencytped folder where anyone get wholesale access to the data. All trust has been lost.

    Apple is using AI as a tool to improve specific tasks/features that a user invokes. Things like assistant queries and the new calculator. They have said some promising things in regards to privacy, specificly with the use of ChatGPT - any inquiry sent to ChatGPT will ask the user permission first and obscure their IP. This shows they care enough to try, they have not lost our trust - but we remain skeptical.


    If apple tries the same thing by scanning everything wholesale, then that’s getting over shadowed by the promises made by the implentaion on the much more popular iOS.







  • If I can rent it out for the night so its just me and my buddies it’d be great! Of course it’ll need a completntary extra tall dude who sits in front of me, a crying baby, an old lady with a nasty caugh, and the dude with an obnonxious laugh who seen the movie 6 times and spoils everything.




  • Me: when you’re ready let’s do the thing we’d agreed we wanted to do around now.

    Them: okay. (drops everything)

    Me: okay…I knew you’re in the middle of something, I can wait 5 minutes.

    Them: ugg, no, its fine let’s just go now.

    (Later with someone else)

    Them: Ugg, I always feel rushed to do things with [me].

    Other: you know he’ll will wait for you right, its not a big deal.

    Them: I know, but I feel bad. I dont like wasting his time…(he doesn’t have a lot of it left).