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Dave @lemmy.nz

Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 23/5/2025

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

1 comments

  • This week's dumb thing I did: I thought I would like to experiment with local voice control for home assistant, instead of the current cloud one. I thought "I wonder what the best text-to-speech voice sounds like", so I selected the most intensive Whisper model. I have Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, and it pretty much immediately locked up. I couldn't get into Home Assistant to disable it. I restarted it, but it automatically re-loaded it and proceeded to lock up.

    I was worried I'd have to restore from a backup, but luckily I worked out there was a 30 second window between startup and lockup and so I plugged it into a monitor and used the command line to edit the addons config to remove Whisper. It ruined an evening but otherwise no harm done.