I’m David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.

You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!

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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Have you played around with hosting your own LLM? I’ve just started running oobabooga, it lets you download various LLMs and host them. I’ve been working on getting it set up so the AI can provide text for Piper, and take input from Whisper. It requires ideally an nvidia card, but will work with AMD and CPU. That would let you use the API to get text for piper to read. It’s a lot more privacy oriented than sending your queries off to ChatGPT. The larger models do take more CPU/RAM/VRAM to run, but perhaps a smaller tuned model would suit your needs.


  • ABSOLUTELY.

    Never use one source for critical data! One backup is no backups! No backups is playing with the entropic forces of the universe!

    1. Have at least three copies of your data - primary, backup, and offsite backup.
    2. Store the copies on at least two different media types.
    3. Keep at least one of those copies offsite - what if your house or datacenter burned down?

    If you don’t care about recovering your photos, by all means use an actively changing project as your sole means of data storage!


  • I like the concept, here’s a few questions!

    • What’s the form factor of your project?
    • Will it be waterproof or just a housing for the electronics?
    • Is it wall powered or battery?

    I’ve been looking at setting up soil monitors for my garden, although I’m wanting them to report to Home Assistant. I’d prefer a Zigbee or Z-Wave monitor, but it seems bluetooth or rolling your own seems to be the way to go right now.