Jackie Craven defined a “smart house” for an article she wrote for ThoughtCo. as “a home that has highly advanced, automated systems to control and monitor any function of a house; lighting, temperature control, multi-media, security, window and door operations, air quality, or any other task of necessity or comfort performed by a home's resident.”
This definition seems to be pretty widely accepted, but I’m going to say that if this is what a smart house is, very few actually exist.
I've been using Linux for a long time. I know some very brilliant people on Fosstodon and in real life that weren't born when I started using Linux. For as long as I remember, Linux has been vacillating between 1% and 3% of the desktop market, so when I see numbers that show me a rapid change in the market, I take it with a grain of salt.
Text editors are a funny thing. Something so simple can inspire such loyalty and even vitriol. Which editor you use can be as polarizing as talking about religion or politics at Thanksgiving dinner. So why not jump right in with both feet?
My #Mycroft Mark I hasn’t been working lately. Yesterday I had a few minutes tonight to plug in an external monitor and start it back up and see what I could see, and it wasn’t good. RIP Mycroft. Until today. Here’s my process for bringing Mycroft back to life!
My #Mycroft Mark I hasn’t been working lately. The little eye lights have just been going round and round and the device never goes into a ready state. I had a few minutes tonight to plug in an external monitor and start it back up to see what I could see.
I’m not going to go into the nitty gritty details of the system. Everybody has already read a lot of articles that have gone into more detail than I’m willing to go into. I'm going to try to give you my impressions of my actual use.
People can be passionate about their tools, myself included. I have two, maybe three tools that are absolutely essential to my day. My browser, and my shell (and if forced, my work email client). For years I used bash simply because it was the default and it did everything I needed it to do. Then, I switched to xonsh.
I’m old. Let’s just get that out of the way first thing. I can’t remember the kind of typewriter I learned to type on, but the fact that I learned on a typewriter is probably all the information you need. When I learned to type, my teacher was adamant about one particular fact. One space between words, two spaces after a period. Now, it appears Microsoft would beg to differ.
Today was the first day of the Red Hat Virtual Summit (#RHSummit), and one of the more interesting sessions I attended was on a product called ROS. ROS is the Robot Operating System, and it’s a collection of software frameworks for robot software development.