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Some other thoughts might be a Wi-Fi 6 powerline adapter. Anyone ever used this?

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The tech may have improved recently but I would not recommend these. Solid networking is about eliminating interference and variables. Powerline adapters add to those.

If you plan to stay put 5+ years, have some cables run and get some real APs. Very much worth it and pays for itself in saved headaches.

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Keep in mind that if you have an outdoor speaker that is accessible to Google or Alexa then so do your neighbors.

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What? Theyre not Bluetooth. Most are securely mounted to a subnet and possibly a user account.
Not sure what you’re insinuating but by that measure anything outside is your neighbor’s.

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I could be wrong but I think that poster means that anything you can do by voice then your neighbors could as well. Control stuff, order stuff, access your data, etc.

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One of the problems is that this stuff is all fairly new and there aren't a lot of sources for learning.

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Not only that, but just as soon as you learn something the models improve so that your new skill is useless. Right now people are "vibe coding" and drag-dropping automations and building applications extremely quickly, but soon enough the big players will be full agentic and they'll be able to do all that stuff even faster. It'll just be "here are my sources and endpoints, here are my credentials, I need to do *this*" and it will just be done.

The singularity is near.

Best of luck.

I think I will press on to see if ChatGPT can write an MVP for me mostly on its own. If that proves my premise is viable then I will dogfood it while I keep developing. I feel like I need an "everything app" to manage life in general. I'm tired of my data being scattered across dozens of apps and owned by others. I think if it was all in the same data store it would unlock a lot of power.

I've seen glimpses of that power with obsidian in merging my tasks with their context. I just need a system to combine everything else in the same way.

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If I had to get rid of all my various subscriptions, ChatGPT would be the last.

It's the assistant I always wanted. Once they can get the agentic functionality correct, to the point where it can help me manage my nine different inboxes and related calendars, I might consider writing it into my will.

I used it to totally restructure my Obsidian vault into a more usable tool. I'm currently trying to set up a Notion-based version of my Obsidian vault because I can use N8N AI Agents to monitor my inboxes/calendars and automatically create notes, transcripts, attachments, in Notion.

N8N + ChatGPT is a powerful combination. You can even use open market Vector Databases with N8N to put all of your notes into a Vector Database for Gen AI usage. Powerful stuff, but complex.

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I just started a chat today trying to flesh out a project I want to do. I'm not sure that I can manage it, but ChatGPT sure thinks we can get it done together. :lol:

I guess it will be sort of a combination of Obsidian and Notion (and others probably). I really love Obsidian for its flat file md+frontmatter as that makes my data mine and it also lends itself to git versioning, portability, etc. But as it's designed for PKM the interface does not lend itself to task/project management or user friendly interfaces for common tasks. And trying to morph it into something via plugins is a nightmare. I haven't tried Notion, but I think I'm shooting for a lot of its functionality just with an open architecture and data storage layer. Self-hostable.

I want user-defined object types with relations and methods and user-defined views to handle it all. Like a no-code/low-code app builder. It sounds absurdly complex the more I think about it, but then chatgpt lays it down for me how it's absolutely do-able complete with code samples of course. It even helped me work out how to, for example, have a yaml file full of timesheet entries with each entry digitally signed by its author. And of course we talked through the server and middleware layers to handle the shared file tree in a multi-user setup. I had it estimate the performance impact of using flat files instead of a database for this type of workload (it's negligible as a self-hosted app with a couple dozen users and ~100k files) and architected it to be easily loaded into a db if necessary.

I instructed it to follow the unix philosophy as closely as possible, where each part of the system is focused, tight in scope, replaceable, and the workflow is a composition of the parts. So far it seems to be doing that.

Really solid work here. How much of it did ChatGPT write? :lol:


Have you explored custom GPTs at all?

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Anyone find they have issues with Starlink during storms and such?

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Bumping to report my first experience with a significant Starlink outage. A storm came through this morning that was *very* intense and we lost connection for about 15 minutes.

My post you replied to specifically references Ubiquiti cameras.

If you're asking in general, personally Ubiquiti has long been my top pick for residential and small business. The ease of use blows everything else away. And lately they have been adding features at a high rate, features that have Protect competing with enterprise-grade systems that cost thousands for the software alone.

They seem to be addressing every shortcoming and criticism that users throw at them. They've added support for ONVIF cameras. They've greatly expanded the camera selection. They've offered a cheaper PTZ and cheaper 4K cams. Their new alarm manager which replaces the old notification system was kind of shite at first, but it has evolved rapidly into IMO the best notification system I've used. I have extremely fine-grained control over exactly what type of events (or combination of events) trigger an alarm, and whether each alarm triggers a standard notification, or hits a webhook (and from there I can integrate Protect with anything else), or both.

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How is starlink with multiple ethernet hardwired devices? (i.e. smart TV's, game consoles, etc.) Does it affect speed or wifi? I intend to buy but was wondering if there were any bandwidth problem or what I can purchase to strengthen the load I will be having?

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We have the Residential plan at the office and it has been perfect for roughly a year now with 8 wired PCs and 8 wired VoIP phones and roughly a dozen wifi devices during working hours. We are using a 3rd party router so the starlink router is in bypass mode but I don't think you'd have a problem either way.

The only issue might be gaming as the latency on Starlink tends to fluctuate between 25-45ms whereas for gaming you'd rather a more steady ~20ms. But I've seen plenty of reports of people playing FPS on Starlink without much issue. Make sure you have 0% obstructions though.