Clearly, some people beyond that

Wcyd ¯\(ツ)/¯

Yeah, except I didn't use Ai or a prompt as I've now said 3 times which you seem to be unable to comprehend

I used a LLM and TTS to verbally type

Did you manage to read all that Buddy? or we going to keep playing merry go round?

Yes.

You and those like you can kindly learn to read, and websearch what acronomys mean before responding condescendingly while being completely incorrect. That would be quite helpful :)

... You think TTS is Ai slop?

Lmfao

It's talking to your phone and it translates audio to words and words to audio

To be completely honest, I don't expect many people will.

Increasingly, people are completely incapable of reading on these platforms... you know, these ones designed to communicate via…reading and writing,…But what can you do?

Whoever you are if you made it this far, if your attention span has managed to remain unharmed in today's world, read or dont. Your choice, and your responsibility to deal with the fallout of either wasted time or losses in personal capability either way not mine

I didnt write it 🙃

VTT with a bit of editing removing punctuation and breaking up blocks of text

LLMs are useful for some things

I'd like to preface all of the following with something: a vehicle should account for no more than 10% of a household user's budget, some say up to 15% but most of the literature I've seen puts it at or under 10% to maintain fiscal responsibility. That's monthly ofc, and puts the total budget somewhere around $1,200-1,400 on most of these cars

So how many people do you know who make between $120,000-140,000 per driver?

Some of us do, most of us don't

I know plenty of people who cannot and or will not for various reasons ever make that much in their lifetimes

Let's say a 19 year old getting their first car without support. You think they can afford a 60k car? Hell even a 40k? At +6% apr? They still need a car and not all of us have or had parents to help us foot that bill

How about even a used one ran into the dirt at 20-25k to "establish credit"? Think that's a good idea either for someone like that? Its a terrible one

Further, if literally anything goes wrong with the battery before it's paid off but out of warranty... Then what? File bankruptcy at 20-25? Take the credit hit and be unable to buy another vehicle or, or get student loans, or be able to get a mortgage because your credit is shot?

No matter if the payback even makes sense we have prime examples that the economy is down right hostile to EV owners with the EV tax road hike increases forcing EV users to pay up to 10x road "gas" tax equivalents of what petrol does in the US regardless if they drive 1,000 miles in a year or 40,000

Plain and simple, all commuter/work vehicles are not worth $40,000-60,000. They are grossly overpriced and have been since at least 2020

The $70,000 GMC EV work truck trim with 450 miles of range? That's worth $45,000 max. The Tesla model 3 dual motor (which I paid $60,000 for new in 2023 btw) are worth $35,000 max brand new top trim model and has never been worth more than that despite the insane market gauntlet we've been run through

The person you are responding to is not even slightly wrong

Vehicles are grossly overpriced.

Front loading potential savings is not an acceptable practice in an economy where people do not have the option to go without a vehicle to function. Prices needs to crater. Companies need to be making any profits they do make off the back of quantity sold, and off government subsidies and cutting out middle men not massive margins per lesser quantities of vehicles at our expense, because as things stand they're making their margins off of government bailouts anyways and consumers are perpetually the ones getting bent since taxes are our money and these incompetents are increasingly demanding more and more of it

I have had a bad experience with HA + reolink

First one, audio stopped after a winter storm, only static playing constantly

You can set them up with 2 way audio with HA, but it's an endeavor, not a one click it works thing

I highly recommend you look up ubiquity, get a ubiquity protect router and bite the bullet cost wise because they work flawlessly

Or better, just get home cameras and keep a dumb doorbell

Oor... Hear me out... not everything needs to connect to the fucking internet

For example?

My Ecobee thermostat, absolutely wonderful device for just under two years

They change their TOS because they're starting to push their "security" camera side of the business. I disagree with the TOS and won't agree to them. It includes grossly invasive private data sharing including data collected from the microphone on the Ecobee

Oh what? You don't agree? (There's no disagree button) Guess you can't log in and use the device any more

No problem right? Just use the homekit stuff from it and boom you can control it locally right?... Except I have an entry level heatpump... and heatpump have to have a thermometer to tell it when it can't use the heatpump due to low temps (mine is 40°for) which Ecobee sources local weather to determine that point and if you don't have it connected, you could damage a +$15,000 piece of equipment... So connect to the internet and agree to the new tos or buggar off

And that's a +$450 thermostat when all sensors are included

Can follow this line of bullcrap with cars, lawn equipment, farm equipment, you name it

Just full blown middle finger to internet connected tech from me, as well as any software updating tech is my current position. Fully standalone, zero OTA updates, zero wifi, zero bluetooth. These days no bullshit is a premium feature apparently

Here's why it does matter

Most server hardware thats out there right now doesn't support av1 encoding, so all of those, literally tens of thousands of them in thousands of spread out data centers have to be replaced with brand new +$1,500 a pop cards that do support it before they can use it

So all of the easement agreements got pushed through by google, and are being taken over by entities who wouldn't have been able to get those easements due to commujity distrust of their company

I'd sue to have the easement revoked as a community, and for punitive damages hefty enough as a punch to Google's nose to prevent that type of bad behavior from happening in the future

Not chump change, not cost of operations. Actual punitive damages enough to cut out any profits from the transaction and then some

This paired with the bedrock gdk release and changes to the file path so that we don't need to use iobit unlocker to mod rtx files is some hella good vibes