It is the dot com bubble all over again, we all know the internet completely transformed the world but during that hyperphase anything with .com was getting money tossed at it.

We are in the same phase with AI. It will likely completely transform tech and medicine and a number of other fields. However 90% of what is being pushed right now is not good uses for it. They are masking the real costs for it. We are likely going to end up with an oversupply of datacenters just like all the unused dark fibre we had in the .com age. It will eventually transform into more useful things but "most" not "all" of it is hype right now.

Bitcoin mining by nature does not produce anything of value.. It literally is the most in efficient way to process transactions by design to try and avoid anyone from taking over the the whole chain. Due to built in scarcity mechanism it doesn't even really produce new bitcoins with much frequency anymore

At least AI has "some" practical use

To be honest it would be a far less terrible use of power than blowing it on hash cycles for bitcoin.

Scrape any solids off, the rest is the actual job of the dish washer.

However from observation the next problem is people being completely oblivious to how to load it correctly.

Also modern kitchen energy efficient units detect how dirty the water is and will cut the cleaning cycle short if the initial cycle is too clean.

StS 2 is still early access will likely be Steam only for close to a year as it isn’t complete yet

Not gravel but I seem to recall the north south stretch between Revelstoke and Castlegar quite nice taking the number 6 or 31, there is a little ferry ride at Shelter Bay. IE you switch between hwy1/hw3 using this route in ether direction.

Alberta already has expensive power and rolling outages

Tuya makes zigbee devices that are cheap. It is the only tuya stuff I tend to use.

I highly dislike wifi dependant devices unless they are larger more complex devices that get stable updates.

There seem to be some 3rd party music capable devices in the works but nothing ready made in production.

I am waiting for a better overall speaker and I need a new server that can at least run a small lllm to run the assistant as intents are too ridged

I have some gen 1 devices but at this point the hardware probably is worth replacing I think the mics are going bad on a few I have.

There are 3rd parties that appear to be working on the LACK of music quality speaker with alternatives to the voice only PE.

As I said the PE has a bad speaker.. My existing devices are in 5 different rooms and mostly used for casual music listening. I have no intent on purchasing PEs + external speakers for every room. Particularly to clutter night stands.

I am waiting for something more like this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yNEhcAjWU

Or something like a amazon dot or google mini with an OK music speaker

I have refused to purchase one, hoping a better speaker comes out as I have several rooms to replace google devices in.

I have seen cheap external computer speakers suggested several times, you can often find them dirt cheap at second hand and surplus stores.