AI isn’t the enemy, though, and we aren’t the ones being grifted—that would be companies who think they can make tons of money replacing people with AI. It’s a reasonable useful tool/fun toy/interesting curiosity in certain circumstances. And for an end user it doesn’t use any more power than a video game. But it’s a tool for craftsmen and folks who understand the limitations, not a replacement for workers. And it sure as hell isn’t a production feature. Anyone looking to make money baking AI into consumer products is an idiot and going to lose their hat.

That’s not the monster model, though. But yes, I run AI locally (barely on my 1660). What I can run locally is pretty decent in limited ways, but I want to see the o1 competitor.

Cheaper AI isn’t the pop we want. We want companies to stop trying to use AI for every god damn thing it is terrible at. We don’t want cheaper AI that’s just going to be baked into more stuff.

I went to go install it this morning to check it out, but I had to decline when I read the privacy policy. I might check it out on my desktop where I have a lot more tools to ensure my anonymity, but I’m not installing it on my phone. There is not one scrap of data you generate that they aren’t going to hoover up, combine with data they get from anyone who will sell it to them, and then turn around and resell it.

I’m sure other apps are just as egregious, which is one reason I’ve been deliberately moving away from native apps to WPAs. Yes, everything you can possibly do on the internet is a travesty for privacy, but I’m not going to be on the leading edge of giving myself to be sold.

Leaving this afternoon to a stay in a nice hotel, leaving the tweens with relatives. Spending the weekend in the big city with our adult kids and going to the Harry Potter Concert Series dressed up as our favorite house.

My wife and older daughter love Harry Potter. I’m just happy to get the hell out of the house—I work from home and outside of doctor appointments and trips to the store I never leave these walls. Probably get a chance to have a cigar and talk Star Wars with my son-in-law. Some nice meals. Some drinks. And generally feel like my own person for a bit.

I’m sure the concert will be fun, too. Dressing up as movie characters for a musical theater experience? Sounds like millennial Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Um… my dude… I’m going to need a lot more water pressure than that…

That being said, I wonder if you could make an adapter for a battery powered paint sprayer… or just give zero fucks and leave a pressure washer in the stall. Obviously not full power, but pressure wouldn’t be an issue then.

Now, instead is reaching out to have conversations with folks, you’re expected to just read up on what they’re doing and thinking for yourself. That’s not interaction. It doesn’t make for a fulfilling friendship and honestly most of us aren’t really interesting enough to study up on.

So he was a Democrat?

I used to use Pocket for things I meant to read later, instead of bookmarks. But I never read them there either so I just gave up.

I think it would be fun to be able to read back to the day to get some perspective on how things have changed. What I was right about, what I had wrong.

I’ve never written a journal that lasted more than a week or two. But what I sort of wish I had done was write like to a close friend who is far away, telling them about my life. “Dear Diary,” is how they traditionally begin right?

It doesn’t have to be super formal or in a particular format. Years later it will trigger a bunch of memories that you will have forgotten. That’s the fun part.

What??? But… I posted a disclaimer and license! How can they slap???

Nothing I enjoy more than asking a good ol’ boy his pronouns.