To be fair, many roombas have a mini DIN connector somewhere, which opens up the possibility for external control - what I plan to do when mine stops working due to server shutdown. However, getting replacement parts will get more and more tricky as time goes by.
I just had to through out a mostly functional airfryer because the drawer rail disintegrated and the replacement part is no longer manufactured. The oldest one I could get was a "new" version with more plastic and a slightly bigger size, so it didn't fit by about 5%.
It really should be illegal, there is no logical reason for 500 slightly different models and inoperability of basic functions (drawers, APIs, ...) aside from malignant greed and planet destruction.
Hmm. I had pretty much the same experience, and wondered about having multiple conversation agents for specific tasks - but didn't get around to trying that out. Currently, I am using it without LLM, albeit with GPU accelerated whisper (and other custom CV tasks for camera feeds). This gives me fairly accurate STT, and I have defined a plethora of variable sentences for hassil (intent matcher), so I often get the correct match. There is the option for optional words and or-alternatives, for instance:
So this would match "start vacuum", but also "fire one vacuum cleaning session"
Of course, this is substantial effort initially, but once configured and debugged (punctuation is poison!) works pretty well. As an aside, using the atom echo satellites gave me a lot of errors, simply because the microphones are bad. With a better quality satellite device (the voice preview) the success rate is much higher, almost flawless.
That all said, if you find a better intent matcher or another solution, please do report back as I am very interested in an easier solution that does not require me to think of all possible sentence ahead of time.
The implication here is, if they implement this, is that they volunteer to assume liability, should e.g., your bank account be drained despite undergoing their forced strict lockdown on paid and owned devices.
Fat chance, because laws are meaningless to crime syndicates
With this new driver, system LEDs, audio LEDs, extra keyboard keys, keyboard backlight, and other features are working.
And this over a year after this was released. Our whole office skipped this gen for new hardware because Linux support wasn't ready. Additionally, reports were that performance on Linux was/is abysmal for the capabilities. Generally, I feel it was a mistake to prioritize all new ARM and AI CPUs for windows, with lagging and shit linux support until now, as mostly enthusiastic would-be customers are AI devs/researchers, and they often prefer some Linux variant as it "just works" with most tooling. The 'normie' office windows user does not give 2shits about locally accelerated inference. Why chipmakers fumbeled the ball so badly with the new AI accelerator / NPU CPUs is beyond me.
Well, it's a bit better than that, simply because you can train AI with solar power. Probably nobody does that currently, as it's easier, faster-to-market and probably (for whatever corrupt reason) cheaper for business to let it run on burning fossils/nuclear. Currently there's an insane amount of waste, often 1000s of models are trained and only the best performing one is deployed - and then it's just a fancy autocomplete. The better use is for prediction of material failure, new medicine and protein folding, generally improved processes.
With asbestos you get some convenience, but it'll be for eternity a pain to find a waste management facility that will accept it.
Yeah, but the astroturfing botfarms are only activated to foment "oohh aahh yeah gotta be responsible with our children's debt" opinions when it's the other way around. And of course all big "news" entertainment papers and shows are in on it because of access and money. I mean, they're all doing what they're paid for and the general public can't be arsed to be smart about it, call bullshit and cut off the value extraction because of perceived inconveniences (data harvesting = ability to manipulate/steer public opinion = value to sell to those seeking power & control). the populace is the commodity being sold here.
Alright, might have to do some deeper investigation for why it's messing up. Anyhow glad to hear it does work in principle and it may be something I'm doing - thanks!
To be fair, many roombas have a mini DIN connector somewhere, which opens up the possibility for external control - what I plan to do when mine stops working due to server shutdown. However, getting replacement parts will get more and more tricky as time goes by.
I just had to through out a mostly functional airfryer because the drawer rail disintegrated and the replacement part is no longer manufactured. The oldest one I could get was a "new" version with more plastic and a slightly bigger size, so it didn't fit by about 5%.
It really should be illegal, there is no logical reason for 500 slightly different models and inoperability of basic functions (drawers, APIs, ...) aside from malignant greed and planet destruction.