Moral implications of LLM aside, this is an always-online, subscription-based toy that will eventually turn into a brick (unless the parent is an HN-er).
I find it really sad that this kind of toy is sold in stores.
This is up there with "Easy-Bake Oven" among plastic doodads that will be used for ~40 minutes and then added to a pile of plastic garbage many adults keep in their basement.
I don't oppose to the open backend of the device (it should be table-stakes for this kinda thing), but the concept seems really zero-sum and disposable. It relies on a form-factor that most kids don't use and depends on the novelty of AI which will wear off pretty fast. As much as I hate to say it, this should have been an app or a website.
I haven't set up a custom ringtone in years since I don't receive that many calls nowadays, but I having been setting up the "Hey!" notification sound from the Google Nexus phone on all my newer, non-Google phones that followed it.
Honestly, on an iPhone, I wish I could completely mute/disable the Phone app, so when it calls it doesn't overtake whatever you are doing, or just delete it.
Yes, the linked sample pages are just randomly taken pages from the book PDF, as I put it together quickly for the Show HN. Apologies. I will make a better example when I rework the landing page.
I haven't thought about trying to earn from OSS myself, but I'm curious to see how Jimmy Bogard - who recently announced this intention - is going to handle it.
I use the Continue extension in both IntelliJ and VSCode and it's great.
Although, I'm just connecting it to my own providers and not using your hub.
So I'm more of a free-loader of the extension than a Continue customer. Anyway, thank you!
I wouldn't say that's free-loader behavior :) It's exactly what we want to make possible—if you have strong reason to use your own models (price, convenience, security, remaining local, or other) then Continue is built for that
The Bambu Labs A1 series as others have mentioned is ridiculously good, from all the reporting I've seen. I ended up getting the P1S with the multi-filament printing on sale on Father's Day and I've used the heck out of it. It replaced an older Ender 3 Pro that I loved, but was always having to mess around with. I don't know the hours, but it's been printing the vast majority of the time since I got it, last Father's Day, and it's been super reliable.
This weekend I designed and printed out a routing template for routing out door hinges onto door jambs. I had bought a tool for doing it on doors then realized it wouldn't help me on the other side.
If you want something that ‘just works’, it’s hard to go past the entry level options from Bambu Lab despite their march towards Cloud and ecosystem lock in. If that kind of thing bothers you, the new Creality ‘Hi’ series is probably where I’d start if I was starting today. For other useful things to print, check out Gridfinity as well!
I walked into my company hardware labs at the right time and was gifted a bambu labs a1 mini with 350 printing hours on it. I've since added another 300 hours over the last month and a half. It's a fantastic machine, and only costs $200-$240 (MSRP is 240 but I've seen it as low as 200 new).
Stick to some matte pla to begin with and with the a1/a1 mini it's as close as you can get to plug and play.
Also check out grifinity if this project appeals to you.
Thirding on Bambu lab although they are supposed to be announcing their newest model any day now. You may want to wait a few weeks to see if you could pick up someone’s p1p or p1s for cheap if they are upgrading
> using yt-dlp to download my subscriptions, convert them to mp3 and host the podcast feeds inside my local network
Hey! I've just had the thought of doing this myself the other day.
Do you mind sharing what tools you're using, besides yt-dlp?
For example, what are you using to host and generate the rss feed (if that's what you're doing)?
One tool you might like is MeTube. While it can't schedule anything, I have it running it on a headless Beelink computer. So if I want to grab a video or channel, I can open a browser on any device, go to the server, and tell it to fetch whatever I want. The download location is set to a NAS so I can view the media with any device as well. It even supports extended yt-dlp options, so you can even tell it to use things like SponsorBlock. It's pretty great overall
I use https://github.com/amsehili/genRSS to create the rss feeds. I host them by running a Docker container that serves the folder on my nas that contains the media and generated xml files.
I personally switched to using 2FAS[0]. My favorite feature is that it comes with a browser extension that can automatically fill in the OTP on web forms, after approving the request on the phone app.
