It works with wildcards, but only if they’re pre-defined in some yaml. It’s great for i.e. defining areas a robot vacuum should clean or days of the week for a weather forcast, but might be a bit of a pain for shopping list items unless you only ever use your voice for a select few.

As for what I’m using, it’s just called speech-to-phrase and I believe it’s now the default when setting up a new Voice PE (although that might just be on lower powered hardware). If it wasn’t set up for you, it can be installed as an add-on and then configured as a Wyoming protocol service.

This is why I started using speech to phrase instead of speech to text. Sure it’s technically less flexible, but I only need a couple of voice commands for occasional tasks that are impractical to automate with sensors and it’s blazing fast

Take another minute to think about just how many stars are in the solar system…

Last time I checked it only runs well on M1 devices, with M2 being somewhat usable. M3 though M5 are a complete no-go unfortunately :(

I have almost 50 containers running on a £75 used mini pc from Ebay, chucked in the bottom of a cupboard. Anyone that tells you you need a giant server rack to self host is a gatekeeping moron

Does anyone know of an RSS feed for the newsletter? I’ve been trying to use RSS for more stuff recently

So the “amazing tool of the future” that’s “going to make software developers obsolete” is also going to need to buy software licenses?

Which one is it Microslop?

The best way I found to combat spam was to change my email address. Was it a pain? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely yes.

Suddenly I can just give my email address out to services I trust, and I set up a temporary alias for anything I don’t (although I tend to avoid those these days anyway).

Why would I want to dig through folders of bookmarks when I can type 3 characters in the url and have my browser suggest the right page for me?

I’m using Voyager, it’s open source and is the best client I’ve used (I’ve also tried Jerboa, Blorp and Interstellar).

Upvote tracking is a feature you have to enable in settings, it doesn’t do it by default. Also make sure to regularly take backups if that’s data you care about because it doesn’t sync anywhere.

While I didn’t recognise your name immediately, my client app tells me I’ve upvoted you 7 (now 8) times, so I think that proves your point!

Or sold to advertisers…

Or your insurance company…

Or law enforcement…

How does this compare to Jellyseer?

I disagree that Nix is a solution in search of a problem, in fact it solves arguably the two biggest problems in software deployment: dependency hell and reproducibility (i.e. the “It works on my machine” problem)

Every package gets access to the exact version of all the dependencies it needs (without needless replication like Flatpaks would have) and sharing a flake to another machine means you can replicate that exact setup and guarantee it will be exactly the same

Containers try to solve the same problems, and succeed to a somewhat decent extent, although with some overhead of course.

I’m not trying to criticize you or your setup at all, if Debian alone works for you, that’s fine. The beauty of open source and self hosting is that we can use whatever tools we want, however we want. I do though think it’s good practice to be aware of what alternatives are out there should our needs change, or should our tools change to no longer align with our needs.

Small setups can very easily turn into large setups without you noticing.

The only bare-metal setup I’d trust to be scaleable is Nix flakes (which I’m actually very interested in migrating to at some point)

It’s a little bulkier than a Chromecast but for my TV at home I use a Raspberry Pi 5 with Konstakang’s Android TV LineageOS images installed. It works pretty well and I could see it being fairly portable.

Thank you for your work on this! I switched from Tempo to Tempus after seeing one of these updates a few weeks ago. It’s great to this is being maintained!

Pretty sure Wikipedia has a single button that changes all present tense to past sense. Someone who’s more familiar with it correct me if I’m wrong though.