I'm still waiting on their pizza oven to be fixed and the refrigerator where they store their salads to be repaired.

Looks like you haven't left the store yet.

I predict that during the next televised conference from the oval office, we'll see that the Nobel Prize will be liberated from the frame and be prominently featured on the president's desk.

Shouldn't the NFL/NFLPA make reasonable accommodations for Kittle to compete with his service deer?

If you're interested in future updates, I will try to post my TrueNAS, NextCloud, Home Assistant, ... journey on BlueSky. I'm putting together a NAS/AI solution now. Waiting on some back ordered memory. Maybe mid-2026 I'll get a GPU (for the right price).

100 makes my blood boil

Finding alts is on my to-do list for the new year. My outdoor gear will probably survive one more MN winter. I'm in the middle of local compute/storage upgrades - which might open up some local LLM options. At quick glance, Home Assistant can interface w/ local LLMs like Ollama/LocalAI.

To dovetail on that: the Gemini that replaced Google Assistant is becoming less smart.

Conspiracy brain wonders if this is how AI companies drive users to paid tiers: decent free model, then resource-starve it until people upgrade.

Degraded quality is why I dropped Alexa. Google Home may be next.

"ZenThrone: Join the peace movement"

canta and wonta

Great article Ian! I was excited when Bun 1.0 was released and I'm really looking forward to seeing what Anthropic continues to do with it.

It's only a matter of time before the Internet becomes the Intranet. It will run on an unassuming beige tower under a desk in Reston, VA which is accidentally unplugged nightly by a cleaning crew.

If AWS, Azure, and Google end up building out a single, shared data center, expect plenty of "Cloudless computing" marketing soon.

Dynamic/Surge pricing: Final tickets jumped another 17% between Phase 1 & 2 (2 more to go)

Parking ($75-$175) costs more than Qatar 2022 match tickets ($69)

30% resale tax (15% buyer + 15% seller = FIFA pockets $300 on every $1K resale)

No resident discount (Qatar had $11 tickets)

I'm imagining Johnson getting ready to summon his inner McConnell: "The house will not reopen until the Tennessee special election concludes. It's so important that the American people can have their voice in the direction of the government. This is about a principle, and not a person" 🥴

Nothing pays the bills quite like dedication and patriotism - banks and landlords accept payments in both.