I do wish there was a smaller LongCat model available. My current AI node has a hard 16GB VRAM limit (yay AMD UMA limitations), so 27B can't really fit. An 8B dynamically loaded model would fit, and run much better.
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The HA Voice Preview is a pretty solid device, but you're right, there isn't really any ready made Echo/Google Home Mini replacement device - primarily because all those devices are generally sold at a loss, or at cost at best, and subsidised by your data being sold.
You won't be able to make a Google Home Mini contender for below $50, and at that price most people will opt for the former. Good quality speakers, microphones, local processing (like the XMOS chip in the Voice Preview) all cost money, and there's no subsidy to be made. Some older Echo devices are rootable, but the hardware tends to be somewhat exotic (meaning no open source support for specialised components), and there's little ongoing third party support (focus has been on the display-equipped models, and to run Android on them).
All in all, "cheap" and "fully local open source voice assistant" don't really coexist.
There were like, about two years between OpenHAB and HA being released. Former debuted in 2011, HA saw first release in 2013.
I'm sorry, what?
Googling "home assistant Spotify" results in the very link you've provided.
And you can hardly expect a project like Home Assistant, with THOUSANDS of first party integrations, to cater to your specific needs, or to provide preferential treatment to companies like Spotify, who provide absolutely no support to the project.
It also doesn't require a "techie setup", but following a quite straightforward guide, that culminates in clicking about maybe a dozen buttons (most of them being "I accept" to various terms and policies), then copying a handful of readily provided strings into the right fields. It's simple enough that even my tech illiterate father can do it.
Home Assistant at the end of the day is NOT an Alexa (or other voice assistant) replacement, but a smarthome control hub OS. That it provides a voice assistant interface is quite secondary to its main mission.
He's behind it because he's desperate to control the narrative. Watch it shift down the line in a few weeks to "Trump always wanted the files released but it was the dirty Biden-era DoJ/FBI/[insert random alphabet org here] people who blocked it".
Also do make note of the Epstein file tracker site that's been floating around, before the release. Trump, last I checked (and they're still going through the 20k dump from last week) was at 59 mentions. I'll bet good money that tons of Trump mentions will be struck out, redacted, or plain simple held back from release, while others - especially Democrats - will be represented at an overwhelmingly increased rate compared to previous releases.
Remember, Trump had months to doctor these files, and while most of the Grand Ole Paedos in the House and Senate might be trying to save their own arses now, the orange shitsack did pick a bunch of hardcore loyalists to lead key departments/organisations where they would have direct access to doctor the files... at this point, they will twist the release into something beneficial to them.
Haha, I'm glad you feel intrigued.
Feel free to drop me a PM/chat/whatever your fedi platform supports, I check every few hours so should be able to respond with relative ease.
My vote goes for a generally tall and slender species.
I think he'd play the hell out of a Kelpien for example. Say, Saru's long lost brother they don't talk about, at all?
It may be cute at first but I hope she gets the help she needs down the road, as this kind of self-doubt will ruin her relationship(s). It ain't healthy to constantly question your worth and the actions of your partner.
I'm fully in support of putting said lobbyists in stockades and providing rotten produce to the rest of the attendees to throw at these fuckers. At least it reduces food waste a little.
There really isn't a favourite, I'd recommend you experiment yourself until you find the sweet spot for you.
Again, use the Cube Cola recipe as a basis for getting the amounts right, and try the various "leaked Coca Cola" recipes that utilise oils to get the right ratios.
For example, the ratios of the Cube Cola recipe are:
- 62 unit orange
- 50 unit lime
- 16 unit lemon
- 12 unit nutmeg
- 7 unit cassia
- 2 unit coriander
- 2 unit lavender
- 2 unit neroli
With unit being 0.01ml.
In contrast the ratios of the Pemberton recipe are:
- 40 unit orange
- 60 unit lemon
- 20 unit cinnamon
- 20 unit nutmeg
- 20 unit neroli
- 10 unit coriander
This will give you almost the same amount of oil (0.154ml vs 0.170ml), but a wildly different flavour result.
Playing with the ratios of the orange-lime-lemon will shift the base cola flavour. I personally found that mixing different orange oils instead of straight up "orange oil" (in my mix I used tangerine, clementine, blood orange, bitter orange, sweet orange, neroli, bergamot) provides a much deeper, richer cola base (think like the difference between a cheap store brand vs Pepsi). This is where you can do most of the experimenting, first try to shift around the internal ratios (e.g. Cube-Cola has it at 130 units total for the citrus oils, so keep it 130 units but feel free to go e.g. 70-46-12 on the orange-lime-lemon, or swap the lemon and lime, etc.), then the orange-to-all ratios can be tuned too (just, again, go in small steps).
Nutmeg, cassia and coriander define how "spicy" the cola tastes. They add a different kind of richness (more of a warmth really), and I can't emphasise just how careful you have to be with these as even just a fraction more can seriously change (mostly ruin) the flavours. Especially cassia. Even in the Cube-Cola recipe I had to reduce it from 0.07ml to 0.025ml for it to not be overpowering - the Pemberton recipe on the other hand emphasises it to the point where it ISN'T overpowering (which is surprising, I know).
Neroli is optional but I found that like my previously mentioned orange base mix, it can add a subtle yet noticeable richness. Just like the spice oils, I recommend caution, move in VERY small increments when you change things.
I'd recommend you use the Cube Cola measures for unit base, as that wastes little to no oil if an experiment turns out bad.
Well, as I mentioned in my previous comment, some flavour profiles definitely go better with whiskey than with just themselves. I'm yet to try the Jameson's raw cola combo yet, so can't say if that would be the case for it too. It doesn't seem to be available in the UK sadly.
Have you tried Meetups?
As in, the literal platform/website. Facebook etc. might only have a few niche groups, but in my experience Meetup does tend to have at least a handful of more generic hobby oriented ones that aren't so DnD/MTG focused.