Web Browser? I hardly Know 'er!

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Yes. That's right.
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Dotrocks.
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Andrews, how was your week? Is it .rocked?
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Have you had a wellness week? Oh. Ah. No. No. Are you pondering a wellness week? Well, so my work is doing a wellness week next week. Oh. And that's what gave me the idea. Does that mean, like, everybody gets to be low key for the week on work? No.
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It means each day there is a webinar that you can join that discusses
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some aspect of That's gotta be supporting your health. Absolute opposite of wellness week for a guy like me. Right. Right. Yes. I mean, like Right. And then they sneak in, what our,
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Cigna plan's gonna look like. Oh, good. You know? Because open enrollment is in a month. Right. Well, they got you. Might as well cover it. Yeah. Yeah. But there's also some challenges and rewards. Okay. Alright. Some fun. So it got me to think, like, for me, the top three
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things
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that I would do in a wellness week is
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not work.
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Boom. I agree. Then
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try a new routine.
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Oh, interesting. You know, with specifically related to health things. Like,
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drink a glass of water first thing in the morning. That way,
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I at least drink water at some point in the day.
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And then this is really weird,
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I think, for most people because
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a lot I think a lot of people think,
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I just wanna, you know, relax.
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Sure. Stay in bed all day or Watch Netflix.
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Or yeah. Like, do something like that. But to me, wellness is accomplishing things. I agree. Getting some done. Getting stacking dubs. Yeah. Dubs. That's that's it. Yeah. That's what I call it. I call Okay. You know? And sometimes you gotta you gotta you gotta start small and stack a small dub, like make the bed or something, and then you just stack the dubs. Something yeah. Something small. Because the thing is is work is a hindrance to a con you know, I'm not even gonna start something
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You gotta work. Yeah. I've gotta work. Yeah. You're gonna get interrupted. But if I'm not working,
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sometimes I don't do anything still. But
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but I think about it, and I give myself My my very unrealistic version of this is I
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fantasize about taking a two year sabbatical and learning a new trade. Oh, yes. Like, how how you would even afford something like that, but, like, learning to work with wood or weld. One of those two would be so handy or, you know, electricity.
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Right. Yeah. I actually started, watching more training content on Tableau today. I'm thinking I might go for a Tableau cert certificate.
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Yeah. You you did something you could You could do it like that. So that's, like, an interesting idea is what is a wellness week look like. Yeah. Because it's different for everybody. Yeah. I
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feel like one version of it is if I could have anything in the world, I would love to be able to just drink like crazy and have no repercussions. Oh, yeah. And just you see what that's like because I had one drink. Of course, it was a double, but I had one drink, and I'm just wrecked today. Yeah. So it's like that's out the window. So now I'm like, oh, what would that be like? Because then I see people I know people that they can just pound them down and then nothing. Yeah. Every week, I see these people. I know. It's it is crazy. People that can drink during the day and then not need to take a nap. Yeah.
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How does that work? Welcome to your forties. I she was in my thirties too. I think it's just so bad.
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But I do think I'm I'm with you on the dubs. I think that's the direction I would go. I think there's a lot of little projects around the farm that kinda nag at me Right. That I would just and it's simple things. Stack up. Like, timers for these lights or, you know, cleaning this this up or replacing just a washer on this pressure washer. We have our pressure washer working again. Right. These little things I just never get to would be really nice. Mhmm. I also like to move the rig and go camping. We didn't do any camping this summer. Well, you did car camping Yeah. A couple times. That's true. We didn't do any RV camping. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'd like to do that too. I think
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car camping is also another nice thing to do. It's a good question. It's like, perhaps the fact that I don't have a great answer is a bad sign. Right. Well, yeah. And if not now, when?
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When when will you have a wellness week? You know, like When you're in the hospital. Yeah. Yeah. That's my last one. Once you have symptoms of something bigger. That was my last day off was when I was in the hospital with my appendix. That was it.
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Alright. Eight years ago.
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I wanna know what the audience would do. What is a wellness week look like? You can call or you can boost the show. It's your time to shine.
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or freedom sets.
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Yeah. Let us know. I wanna know what a wellness week looks like, and maybe I'll maybe I'll take a few tips. Mhmm.
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I got some I got some announcements to make. Okay. I got some exciting stuff to talk about. K.
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So let's get into it.
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We're gonna start with some good news.
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Alright. Allow me to set the scene for just a moment.
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Personal agents are all the rage yet again. We started the year with OpenClaw and then Hermes,
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and then the hype kinda died down. And now we're rounding out the year with Grokbot,
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Muse,
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and now from OpenAI as of an hour ago,
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DOTS. And all of these are persistent, always on
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agents that they want to be your personal assistant. So they make it really easy to connect to your email and your calendar and your messages, and then it can for example, like, I experimented yesterday with Muse,
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and I had it connect to my Gmail,
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which is always a little dicey.
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But
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the first thing I had to do is go through and find reoccurring receipts,
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monthly receipts that land in my inbox,
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and let's find let's find a service we can cancel.
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And it found Nintendo online, which I just really haven't been using very much. Yeah. And it renewed in six days, and I had two days to cancel it. Oh,
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wow. Yeah. So I went in and canceled it. It was like a, you know, it's like a $100 renewal because it's like an annual. Yeah. Yeah. So low cost overall, but really Yeah. Not using it. So why? Right.
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And that was I was like, oh, and that was perfect timing. So there's there's and you can, you know, you imagine a business do that or there's other things. I just didn't play with it too much because I already have agents. But
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they all have a superpower, these ones that come from the commercial hosted companies
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that our self hosted agents don't actually have generally out of the box. So I'm gonna talk about that and how to fix that in a little bit. But
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first, I wanna make the news announcement.
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So we've been talking about agents and automation and self hosting and AI workflows for months in various shows,
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and we have been needing to do another clanker therapy session for a while. So we have it down on the books this Friday, October 2 at 12PM Pacific,
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3PM eastern. We are doing clanker therapy
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session two.
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What
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we've been building.
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So lots of stuff. We'll look at what has actually gone into production,
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what survived,
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when we like, a few things had to go,
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A couple of things had to break.
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When was the original clanker therapy? It was in June. Was is it is it available? Yeah. Upon the two. Should they watch it? No. I don't think they need to. They can, though, if they want to. Because we did cover some basics in there that I think still still hold. And we have a Telegram channel? Yes. We do. We have Goes with it? We have the agent ops guild and a matrix room and agent ops guild matrix room, so I'll link to those. It'll be this Friday. It's coming up really soon. I also made a meetup page at meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting.
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Of course, we'll be streaming it over at jblive.tv.
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Mhmm. Like clanker therapy one, we will likely release
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a portion of it to the public, and then we'll release the entire stream to our members. So that, I think, is the point.
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Wes and I are already cooking on some good stuff for it, and there is so much to cover. I wanna give you a little example. So I mentioned that these hosted agents from X and and Muse and and now OpenAI,
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they they can do things that if you installed OpenClaw or Hermes today yourself on your own hardware, it would not necessarily be able to do. And probably one of the most important things about that in that would be
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actually able to browse the web. So agents are really good at using APIs, MCPs, and tools like command line tools.
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They really kinda suck at the web because the web is a bunch of images and and a bunch of links and stuff that are designed for humans to interact with and be presented. You think about most modern websites now, they usually have, like, a banner image, and then you scroll down and more information comes up, and you scroll down and more information comes up. Ad break. Yeah. I really like an ad and then then yeah. And it's just not really great
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for an agent. It's great for a human. Mhmm. And these agents, at least we host ourselves, generally don't come with a browser,
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quote unquote. And they don't they wouldn't be able to really fully use a regular browser
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to the same level that we can. They can use them, but it's still like it takes a lot of screenshots and reading the screen and doing OCR and finding stuff when you have them operate a a regular desktop browser.
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So Microsoft,
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of all companies, has an open source browser automation framework called Playwright,
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and it gives your agents direct control
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over a real browser. In fact, it doesn't even have to be an agent. It can be software test suite, whatever. It lets them click, type, navigate, download files, fill out forms, inspect pages,
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take screenshots.
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It's one API, the Playwright API, and you can control Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit too, which is really cool. And it's very simple to set up. It's been around since 2020,
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and they've kind of, like, you know, initially presented it and packed it up as this is a great way to just automate browser testing. And now in the in the era of agents,
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Playwright stands out because it has a lot of things that make working with agents a little bit easier.
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Despite what you've heard, these things suck. It's spread it's spreading out over the Internet because they need structured information to work with. They need to know what they're seeing. They need to know the context around that. And
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most web browsers don't do a great job at that. And what Playwright does is it gives an API, a command line interface, and an MCP where the agents can go through and they can talk and they can get structured information about the web pages they're viewing using some accessibility snapshots and things like that. So the agent, instead of getting back a bunch of pictures, gets back structured data and structured screenshots when it needs it with metadata around it.
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And so it doesn't have to constantly be taking giant screenshots of web pages and then OCR ing them and then reading. Think about all the tokens you're burning if it could just get the information directly.
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And so it knows, oh, this is a page, and it's got a button, a text box, a link, and a menu on here, and a checkbox, and it knows what they are labeled, and it can check those for you. So it gets a real browser environment where it gets logged in sessions that stay authenticated
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with persistent cookies and browser state and existing accounts,
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which is very great. And then on top of all of that, it supports durable configuration so you can actually manage a lot of it with something like NICS or Ansible or something like that.
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It's containerized. It's reproducible. You can manage it with NICS and exposes to your agents through MCPs.
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And what this gives them is essentially eyes to view and browse the web.
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And these are the type this is just one of many of the things that these commercial bot platforms
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are just taking care of for users. Mhmm.
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But if you wanna do it yourself and you don't want Muse sucking up your data and you don't wanna pay the outrageous prices for Grok or whatever,
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you can get yourself set up with Hermes or OpenClaw,
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and then you can set up Playwright in a container, and you can use the MCP, and then your agent can go out and browse the web and take care of things for you.
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The where I used this recently
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is I'm trying to find a TV mount that can be mounted to the bottom of a cupboard that folds up. Yes. And so the TV folds up, right, and then it folds down. And then once it's down, the TV can swivel and pivot a little bit. Yep.
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And
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this, obviously, is not an uncommon product, but there's a lot of options out there that a lot of different price points. Mhmm. So I tasked my agent, Dax, to go out there and find these and just give me an overall summary of the ones that would work best.
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And
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by using a web browser like this for sites that might block her otherwise,
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she can get past that. So that's one thing. But it gives it it it moves faster. Right? It's because it's not sitting there in screenshotting and screenshotting and reading. She can go boom, boom, boom. So the results come back faster, and I use less tokens. Right. That's great. Right. No. And it's it's pretty crazy, like, how quick we get an answer. Just Yeah. I just used so you're not supposed to use AI for medical advice, which I wasn't. No. Of course not. But I ran across a reel that suggested that inflammation can increase hepcidin.
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And hepcidin blocks iron absorption. Right? Okay. I already knew that naturally iron or I'm sorry, hepcidin increases throughout the day. It's the lowest in the morning, so that's when I take my iron supplement. Right? That's logical. But my hive condition
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is a massive inflammation event. Sure. So if I break out in hives getting out of the shower, which does happen And it blocks. Then I shouldn't take my morning iron. Right? So I went to
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Gemini
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and said, here's everything I'm taking right now. I just found out about this. Here's my conditions.
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Am I overlooking anything else? Uh-huh. And you know what it flagged?
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Taking a large dose of iron increases hepcidin.
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Oh. Which makes sense. Yeah. Right? Hepcidin is there to make sure that you're not absorbing too much of something of of iron, specifically in this case. So,
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my eight AM dose and my ten AM dose of iron needs to be further apart, first of all. Then it also pointed out that the nighttime magnesium that I'm taking Mhmm. Is attaching to my thyroid medication,
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that I need to have four hours between those. Right? My thyroid medication just says not with iron, zinc, or calcium.
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Magnesium is not those things. So I thought I was good. Okay. Yeah. Turns out. So now I'm taking the magnesium, the nighttime magnesium at six, and I'm getting so tired. I was wondering. Yeah. So tired. Yeah. But and then taking my thyroid medication at ten. Because it has to be later. But what's interesting because you're so you're taking the MEGs at six Yes. And you're staying up till ten? Yeah. I try. I'm trying. Yeah.
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So
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I know because I take magnesium in the evening too. And yeah. Yeah. The thing is too is that I just had my annual labs,
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and so I'm on a higher dose of my thyroid medication. I don't think I'm supposed to be on this high. Yeah. It's it's because I was taking the magnesium.
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And see So that's just a minimal, and the answer was immediate. It's it's such a nuanced question because there's so many nuances to that Yeah. That it it's like a Google search wouldn't do. Mm-mm. No. I started with Google, but then was like, you know what? Mean open up 15 tabs and then, like, correlate, like, what five different people say?
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Well, no. The AI. Yeah. Well, the AI has been AI. No. I know. But but, like, before AI But it was it was more involved than that. I Oh, yeah. I'm not gonna in the Google search field type of story. Right? That's a Gemini chat. Yeah. And now it's there. I can go to it in the future when I introduce the b one, which I can't take right continue the thread. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. I have a I have a pinned thread about boss, you know, because as he gets as he has different behaviors.
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And sure enough, if it actually doesn't work great, it it remembers all the previous incidences and all of that Yes. And all the chicken names. Right. It's pretty funny. Right. There's so much value to it. There really is. If you if you if you know how to use it and you're creative enough and how to use it. And I think adding little tools on top of this is really what takes these things, making them able to browse the web or generate images or whatever it might be. Right? And it's fascinating to see
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so I experimented both yesterday
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with Grock Bot and Muse. So Grock Bot is from x AI, and Muse is from Meta.
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Yeah. I was gonna say, I've seen Muse on Facebook. Yeah. It's getting a lot of attention. Yeah. And they have a hit on their hands. Is
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it the equivalent of
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Siri?
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It's it's more like yeah. It's more like it's more like ChatGPT and and and Gemini.
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But with a I didn't bring my phone down. But with a
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persistent agent that learns about you and your specific, you know, tastes, and then they have a Linux VM. So if you have anything complicated or persistent,
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you need to do, like, do something in the background for you, like put together data or something. It can do that in a Linux VM. So Muse on Facebook though,
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is it does it already know all my information? Has it looked at all my posts? Is it there to help me find relevant groups or whatever? Default, it was connected to Facebook, but I think there is a connector to connect it to your Facebook. Well, no. It's in Facebook. Yeah. Like, I'm seeing in the app, it says Muse is here to help you. Oh, really? Yeah.
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I'll I'll look into it and report back. It's not horrible,
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but it is owned by Meta. Right? Right. Grockbot
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has a little bit more it's a little bit further along, and it has a little bit more stuff,
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but it's expensive.
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And then Meta today announced Muse for Business.
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And yeah. So
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And this is with, like, special partners
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where they're gonna link in and, like, they're gonna be able to do the different APIs that you need to run business workflows and stuff like that. But they're gonna be pushing on this really hard because what my general takeaway was is these things are still very one dot o products. Like, there's a lot of hype around Grockbot and Muse.
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But having coming from I've been using, you know, since January, February, OpenClaw and Hermes,
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they
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are so much more infinitely capable than what either Muse or Grockbot can do today,
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but they're just gonna keep adding features over and over and over again to them. But, like so with the example of Playwright, once you add something like Playwright to a local agent, to your own agent that you manage, its capabilities
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But we are living in an age of personal assistance, and they're getting better. They're they're still overselling them in my opinion, but I think they're getting better. Now's the time. It's the song of the week. Remember, you can boost the track.
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They sure like that. Yeah. They do. And this week, it's Homegrown Funk take two by Jon Petersen.
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And we got some calls. Yes.
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Looks like our first call this week is from Jaques coming in from the past to give us a little
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go ahead. Where is Jaques? Hey, launch crew. This is JQ.
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Listed a little bit about Blast.
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character would you be from a television show. And I believe, Chris, you mentioned
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Quantum Leap.
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the end. He never made it home. It's very sad. He chose to
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helping people. So that's a noble sentiment, but it's sad
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and family.
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Anyway, cheers. Love the show. Keep doing it. In his own lifetime,
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doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator
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and vanished.
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facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.
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who appears in the form of a See, he was driven. Al Yeah. Which looks like AI. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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He was. He was a he was a computer AI hologram thing,
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Yeah. That hit. That hit. Yeah. You know, I hadn't really thought about the ending because I haven't seen it in so long. There is sort of a, like, he's kind of in perpetual leap. That's true. That's a good point. I'll have to rethink that. Mhmm. Dang it.
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I was gonna say Captain Picard, but no, that's hell too. So Mhmm. Gonna have to think about that. I think our next call here is Kevin from Raleigh.
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It's quite special being the host. Kevin and Raleigh,
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and some thoughts after just listening to episode
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This morning, I sat Which one? On a corporate town hall
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had I been playing the AI say AI and they and you drink, I would be dead
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by not by 08:45,
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my goodness. Corporate mania.
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It's a good tool, but, you know.
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City of Raleigh, there was company wanting to put one in, and my pushback is
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really screwed by Duke Energy and the rates going up. We wanna make sure that Mhmm. You know, these guys don't
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If they do that, and the direct neighbors concerns are addressed,
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the tools embedded in larger tools. We've got one we use, we got an allotment of tokens,
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Two of us burned through our allotment of tokens in about an hour the other day for the month.
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highly ineffective.
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I do think there is a doomark
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the end goal properly,
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then you really can't design an AI system to operate whatever it is you're trying to get to. Yeah. And the truth is a lot of these corporate types, especially at that level, are pretty disconnected from the day to day realities of the business, and you need people. They're more in the works of things that actually know all the little problems and have the context around stuff. And, like, that's the people that should be building the systems. But these top these top down driven initiatives, I think, are gonna be real bumpy.
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You're gonna have companies just burn tons of money and time on this stuff. Yeah. And then, like, also, like, know, burning through your tokens for the month in a couple of hours, like, part of that is you need more time to learn how to use these tools. Like, what model and what variant was it in?
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Because there's a big difference between Optimization. You really need to, match the model to the task. So if you're doing a simple development task or a simple system configuration thing or you're you're you're you're editing some Ansible files,
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you don't need
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the latest model from from OpenAI or Claude at all. You could go several models back, or you could go with one of their models in in light mode. So that's just something you you you have to learn. Yeah. But also, if that is not the the situation here, then well, no. Then your workplace might have set a low bar Yeah. So that they don't have a sudden in increase. So
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at least in my case, I can request more tokens.
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and they have a proxy, essentially. I'm I'm simplifying. But they have a machine that sits in the middle and says, alright. This is a complicated request. We're gonna forward it off to the high and expensive model. Okay. This is a simple request, and we already know about this because it's something involving our own company. We're gonna run this on the model that runs locally on our land, and it's unlimited. Mhmm.
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And that's gonna be Internal LM. And Red Hat Red Hat already they have a whole suite around all that. Yep. That makes sense. Alright. Our next call, I think Bearded Zero is coming in with some data center talk. Hey, Chris and Angela. This is Bearded Zero from Southeast New Mexico.
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So I went down a weird rabbit hole. One of our gas stations now the d 15.
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$4 and 70 something cents is what Claude came up with. And I was like, that's odd. Okay. And then I went down a whole rabbit hole about water usage and
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our crops we use for ethanol with solar panels and how much water we would save from that. The amount of water used by data centers is nowhere near as much water as it takes to water all those crops. And then more Yeah. How much water do we waste in downhole drilling for oil and stuff? And it turns out roughly about one well for an oil rig is gonna be about day's worth of water for a
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data center, roughly. Like, all these numbers are I don't have them on hand. Ask for hack into that.
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amount of watering. Mhmm. I had
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we'll do, like, four or five corn now, and that'll be the most we'll Like, four or five stocks? Stocks. And that'll be the most we'll ever do again because
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and if you don't properly water them, they look sickly and sad and you feel bad. And and then the other thing that starts happening, which is obvious, is because you're watering,
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Deer Zero from Southeast New Mexico. Sam,
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diesel to run the machinery and stuff, like all that stuff eats into like the use of that corn. Of course, corn is used for cattle
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but then looking at that whole situation like the cost is the disparity between like oh man we're going to dilute the oil the fuel that way we the fuel can last longer.
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I just go to the other place. I fill up, and it's like, oh, I get 34 miles a gallon, which I'm like, yeah. That sounds good. And then my use the other stuff is 28, 27, 26 sometimes. I had wondered about that. Jeez. So, yeah, that's
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wasting on that. I'm sure there's tons of other things that we're wasting water on too,
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Grass situation is stupid too. Anyways, y'all have a good one. Bye.
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Oh, man. You are you are right on my like, I I do like a nice looking yard. Don't get me wrong. Yeah. But we do use a lot of water to get there. Right. I am I am watering the grass daily right now. Got to. You want something like that. It's a buggy. Mhmm. It's just a barber. So the tribal gas, which is the absolute cheapest gas around
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And I love a good corn on the cob. Don't get me wrong. Alright. Mark from Northern Michigan, and I think he's talking about chickens. Take it away, Mark. Hey, Chris and Andrews. This was mainly for Chris. Sorry, Andrews. I'm gonna find a phone call for you.
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This one from Northern Michigan. Should've started with that, shouldn't I? Wasn't really gonna call back in this week. I was gonna just kinda let other people call in, but you brought
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something up on Lupt, and it really sung to me, and it has to do with the open code and Hermes and that whole interaction,
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hanging your head against the wall because you keep gotta keep pushing it forward and it wants to fight you against what you want to do with this stroking aside. I've been fighting that and it's been annoying. I'm currently
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in the process of going back through and trying to rebuild it and going to send out a request again. I know we had that during the
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clanker therapy, but for our expert programmers and more program minded folks, not me, if you have any great examples of some generic scripts or wrappers or something that
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some of us less our minds could use to help
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guide our thoughts, that would be amazing.
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chickens, but we got about 23 of them that are getting ready to start popping out eggs,
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Talk to you guys maybe in a couple weeks and join the ride home. Listening to y'all.
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Well, thank you, Mark. We have we've had a little respiratory stuff on and off ourselves with our chickens, and I think we tracked it down actually to a coop conditioner we were putting
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in Oh. In like the bedding of their Oh. And they were inhaling it and it was causing It a just sort of, you know, dust up and I think it was making it make their noses run. It's Oh. A sneezing chicken is cute. Yeah. It's a high pitched sneeze. Yeah. And then they gotta wipe their nose, but they don't have hands. Oh my gosh. That's funny. It's pretty adorable, actually.
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But every time I let them out now, they're getting braver and raver and going further and further and further. Well, farm's the big enough To get it. That I lose them. Like, I lost them for a while and Oh. I could not find them anywhere. I well, I I found all of them except for two. And I'm like, oh, no. Is this it? Oh my gosh. Okay. So you know the hands that you can put on your chickens? Yeah. Yeah. Get one of those, but it's an an arrow pointing down so you could see the arrows like Yeah. Floating
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Like chicken here. Little RC flag on it. So
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I looked down across the hill and down over a field, and I can't really express the distance of this. But I saw these two little dots
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moving, and then I saw I saw Mel's fluffy white butt. And I'm just standing there. Oh my god.
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I cannot believe We should far away there. Go get Thankfully,
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Abby helped me. Yeah. But we had to learn you know, we had so so we brought bread. Yeah. And then we did the thing where, like, we put it out and we brought a little closer and then brought a little closer and then brought and grab them. Right? And then they're, oh, what are you doing? What are you doing? And then they and but then we had to walk back all the way, which is, half a mile. And I walked back half a mile Oh my gosh. Holding the chickens.
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It was pretty funny. So well, I'm glad you called, Mark. Thank you very much. Alright. Tech geek from Orlando is one of our last calls this week.
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Hey, launch crew. It's Tech geek from Orlando.
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Just listening to episode 85,
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and I've got a couple milestones.
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I'm pretty happy, events in my life, recently.
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I have become
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civil servant. I was a contractor. I've been a contractor for the past eight years out there.
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That's And they have hired me on direct as a civil servant employee for NASA,
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along with well, you know, they actually went through an insourcing phase and and and hired a whole bunch of other people too and sourced a bunch of other people. So that's one major milestone, so I'm kind of happy about that.
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I completed my first
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session ever as a game master
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for Cyberpunk
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Red.
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Just well Nice. Not specifically for that game, but just in general. First ever game master session
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was pretty pretty stressful,
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but it's oh, I got over that hump. Hopefully, there aren't gonna be any more humps,
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but I consider that a pretty decent
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milestone
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there. Alright. Thanks for the show. You guys are awesome. Bye.
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Oh, but then he called back. Hey, Launch crew. This is the tech geek from Orlando again. Hey, tech geek. Man. I still on episode 85.
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I'm on my my way into work now, but, you know, I didn't mind the VR content.
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I mean, that's kinda I
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I actually was very interested in that because I love the idea of being able to put up some goggles and have, like, three or four virtual displays that I can have three or four virtual terminals up and hacking away at my remote machines. You know? And but, you know, I guess my limitation is is I have to look at the keyboard too. Right? I I have to look at my own keyboard as I type. I'm not a very good typer.
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So that's that was just, you know, my my
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you know, wanting to know more how you would actually see your keyboard at the same time she would see a virtual display inside that VR headset. But, yeah, I like that content.
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Appreciate that, and thanks for for doing that. I'm gonna try. I promise you at some point, I'm gonna send a boost. I want to send you guys some boost. There's been some challenges lately, but I I do appreciate your content. Keep up the good work later.
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Thank you, Tech Geek, and good question. So Yeah.
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You're willing to use a really there's, like, there's, like, three or four keyboards that the Oculus Quest just automatically recognizes.
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And how many Apple Bluetooth keyboards
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have we had over the years? Right? Yeah. I've got I've got one or two laying around. So I grabbed one of those, and the Oculus automatically detects it, and then it just turns the it turns it opens up like a portal around it, and you and it it you can see the keyboard because it opens up like a box around it. But what I realized since I did that episode
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is well, they just they demonstrated this for their new VR glasses as well. But if I take my two little hands and I place them down flat in front of me on a TV, like, like, on a table.
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This is so cool. No. It gives you a virtual keyboard. Yes. No way. And it works it works better than the iPad keyboard. Like, when you're typing sideways
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on an iPad, it's and it even has a trackpad.
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It has which supports multi touch and swipe and scroll. Things. Yeah. Jeez. It looks it it's projected in white, so it looks like it's being projected to me.
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But to anybody watching me, I'm just sitting here typing on the table. That's funny. And I could do, like, a 100 words per minute or a second or no minute. Yeah. Minute. I don't know how it works. Yeah. But I can do a lot. I can do a lot. Almost, you know, almost
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enough. It's still too slow for me. So I still prefer the physical Bluetooth keyboard,
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but I couldn't believe it. I couldn't I mean, I just so you put your hands down. And they also they do this cool thing where, like, they put down a box grid and they scan. And they have, like, the sound effect they do So for
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you put your hands down, and it's like, oh, they want a virtual keyboard. So then it shows a virtual keyboard. You start typing on it. How do you get rid of it? When does it go away? When does it go away?
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Probably Is there a big x in the upper left hand corner? Yeah. I I can Or something like that? There is like a little floating x that if you hover over, it'll show up. Yeah. I remember. I don't think I turned it off. Yeah.
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And you walk away and come back and it's still there? Yeah. Yeah. If I move and come back. Crazy. Yeah. It's really neat. So I can look over and I can see it. It's just it's the craziest thing. There it is over there. It's so cool. Virtual hardware.
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The only trick is, like, you gotta make sure the cameras can see your hands, but they do have cameras pointing down, so it's not so bad. But yeah. Alright. Sounds like we missed Magnolia Mayhem's voice mail. He might have called in before or, I mean, after I did the voice mail. Pulso, that'll probably make Mayhem our first caller of next week. Mhmm. Thank you everybody who gave us a ring. You know we want those calls, and we have the phone number in the show notes just in case you forgot it. But now let's do some boosts. It's your time to shine.
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Hello, Chris and Angela. I've been crazy busy in September with three conferences in one week. Wow. I'm happy to say that I reconnect with my fellow j b j b member named Kyle at the big post it conference in Houston.
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That's great. Yeah.
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He'll be at Texas Linux Fest. I'll try to find a way to be there because it would be amazing. Oh, yes. Eric, you should.
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Love to say hi, grab you a beer. Thank you for that boost. Yes. Wow. Now commence.
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I liked the VR episode, so I don't think it was a stinker. But I'm pretty lazy about boosting because fountain is awful. Oh my gosh. Did
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you you didn't preread that, did you? No, don't usually. Every now and then, I I preread them because I have them come in live. If I don't see them live Yeah.
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I, for one, love to hear about how people are using VR for things other than gaming. Even if my primary use will be gaming when I get my frame,
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I have a prediction that just like the Steam Deck, Flat Hub will be loaded with VR specific applications for the frame, and I can't wait. I hope so. Yeah. I have seen a few videos now, Jeff, of people using the frame with the Plasma desktop up, and it's like just another app. You just launch, and you can just have any Linux app in there. It's getting there.
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Oh, I'm very excited. Jeff also, he received the upgraded camera.
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So Valve included an accessory
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port at the, like, sort of the crest of the nose, and you can snap stuff in there. And so there's a third party camera already you can snap on that improves the optics and the pass through optics. Oh, that would bother me so much. Jeff has gotten the camera, but he hasn't gotten the Steam Deck.
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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It'd be interesting. I'd like to see you try it and see what you think when it does come out because it's very much a comfort thing. And then if you have prescription lenses, that has to fit. And it's, you know, it's gonna be very much a
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per face kind of thing. Thank you, PJ.
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Shorts and Converse comes in with 21,000 sets. 21
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You were talking about needing some good scare movies about AI destroying humanity. What we need is to have AI come up with a script Uh-huh. Of what AI destroying humanity would look like. Interesting. Yeah. Of course, having AI come up with ideas on how it can destroy us, might give it ideas. Right. Maybe not the best idea. Scrap that.
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I beg your shirts. You know, this is not totally related, but I am willing to admit that
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Star Trek hasn't really been my thing recently with the new Treks.
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And it's it's ground me down to the point of I'm actually looking forward to AI Slob Trek.
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Like, somebody's gonna come along, and they're just gonna make more Star Trek the original series, and they're gonna make more Star Trek the next generation. Mhmm. And I'm gonna watch it. Yep. And enjoy it better than the current stuff. I think I am. Some of it's gonna be rough. Yeah. Some of it I'm gonna enjoy.
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as in Tuesday, on a Sunday, as in Tuesday meant. But it's all part of the charm. Also, it's a nice reference to the jb2.o
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to 3.o Tuesday shenanigans. Yep. Feels so long ago. Yeah. One of the reasons we could do Tuesdays because everybody worked full time for us. Yeah. Well, for Librians Academy. Right. Which meant we could do it anytime we wanted. We had unlimited power.
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Right. I love the reference to JB two point o and three point o. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Woodland Geeks also brought in a row of ducks.
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Alright. The how do you think you say it? The Kubota and Okami?
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Yeah. Wow. Thanks for that. I am gonna I'm gonna definitely put that on the list. Appreciate that, Mark. Magnolia Mayhem. Got a boost in right before the show, and it's for 2,000.
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It's a boobst. It's we don't have a sound bite for boobs, but There
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Good episode. I like the clips giving insights into AI companies. Thanks. Well, thank you, Unicorn, for being a member. Okay. This is the fun part, especially thanks to our baller boosters. I just wanna say again thank you to our podcast aka Eric, Devitor, and PJ coming in with just some great, great baller boost for this episode. This is one of our better ones for the year. So let's bring it all together. We had one person's Dreamsats, and that one person
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Now I'm not saying I'm an architect, but I'm gonna say I have some standing in the dome home category. Right. I was gonna say, are you gonna give some background context here? Lived in a dome home for a few years. Love it. Just visited it recently. Beautiful home. Very unique, and they have their own challenges.
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So getting a geodesic
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dome house right is harder than it seems on the surface. So we're gonna go through a few
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that didn't quite get it right. Okay. We're gonna start with what I'm labeling the prototype dome home.
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This sucker is $399,000,
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so it's not too bad. One bedroom, two bath, not a lot of room. 1,994
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square feet in Florida,
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built in 1978
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with a 10 acre lot.
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I don't know how to describe this one, Ants. You know what's funny? Is I was gonna say, aren't you gonna say that the dome home was on a lake? Because that's an important concept. And then this one is on a pool. Yeah. There's there's a pool. Is it a dome home when you attach a box house to it?
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It's
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like a and it's like the worst implementation
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of a dome home. It it is not great. The kitchen isn't good.
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And then there's these weird off jetting things. The pool's in rough shape. I mean, I would take it though. Would you? Mean, if you fixed it up. I do like that fireplace. Yeah. Flat roofs. All the tile would have to go. All
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of the wallpaper would have to go. The roof looks like it needed to be replaced ten years ago. Maybe the dome part is just that dome part then. No. Look. There's there's multiple dome parts. So there's there's a box house with a dome side sticking to Oh, yeah. I see that now. But then there's a full on dome house too. So they've combined a dome house and a regular house. Actually breaks into the house. Yeah. The dome does. Yeah. Like, they have a they have pictures hanging on the outside structure of the dome. Did you see that?
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I'm looking for it. I'm looking at these yeah.
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This it's a hodgepodge, Ange. It's not a thing. It is weird. And even the inside and then
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there's just no excuse to, like, get up to one of the areas where you have to have a ladder. You know what? Is it a requirement to have the spiral staircase
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Yeah. With a hardly a railing? Because that's you know, Dome Home had that. Yeah. That's a clear Dome Home requirement. Where are the big spiders? You gotta yep. You gotta have big spiders, and you gotta have spiral staircases. And if it's not that, you don't got a dome house. Yeah. And on some water, which, you know, it checks that box. Yeah. And maybe I love that when they when they take a picture of themself. That bath that bathroom looks like it's from 1971,
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not 1979. I'll tell you that.
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Oh, I don't know. And there's like a look at this. There's a tile meditation. It's just a real interesting It is weird. It's sort of, like I say, a prototype dome. But they got it wrong a little bit. A Rubik's cube dome? The Rubik's cube dome, Andrews. This one is Oh my gosh. $1,100,000,
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three bedroom, two bath,
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quote unquote conceived,
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as they put it, in 1975.
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This is up in Canada.
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And it doesn't look like your average geodesic dome. It looks more like a Rubik's cube or a Star Trek prop.
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I could see the crew of the Enterprise beaming down and going into this very futuristic business. Right. And, you know, whatever it would be, a space camp or something. Looks kind of like cluster nerds.
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Yeah. That's what I I don't I actually don't like the look of it so much. It's unique.
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It is a dome
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because there's clusters.
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Yeah. It's it's definitely dome adjacent. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's
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no. It has it has a spiral actually like the other one more. Really? Yeah.
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Because it you know, if it was fixed up. Yeah. If you fixed it up, could see that. Okay. Alright. Well, then I think I have the just in the middle. You know, the just right dome? Yes. So this one is
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probably
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a combo house, so it might not be a legitimate
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geodesic dome.
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$915,000,
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five beds, five baths built in 1987.
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And this one's in great shape. It's in a beautiful location.
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$915,000
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is a bit much. I will admit for New Jersey, seems like a bit much to me. But they've also done the concept of combining a dome house with a traditional house. Mhmm.
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the only thing about that is the interior of a dome house is really weird. It's got
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weird walls
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and things that jut out that make it hard to hang pictures or put furniture in a particular place.
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It's a real unique vibe, and you just gotta lean into it. And so going into a traditional square house,
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it's a totally different vibe. Like, the walls are straight. They're boxed. You can put anything on the wall. You can have windows in places. You can't have windows in a geodesic dome. Mhmm. They are a completely different type of house. It's like going between an RV and a tent. Yeah. And I I it just seems odd to me, but then in this particular case,
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I think they nailed the implementation.
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And I don't know if you've noticed, but they have a super high-tech
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browsing program
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where you can get a floor plan of the house. Yes. I see that. And then you can click around Yes. And they give you VR like three d viewing Yep. Of the place. And you can kinda see what I'm saying about the weird walls. They just have, like, things jutting out in places and
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I think my favorite thing is the
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I think it well, I don't know if it's a true breezeway or dog trot is what they call it. A dog trot? Yeah. Where there's a connector between two buildings. Yes. Yeah. I don't know if it's a hallway. I haven't gotten to that picture yet. Yeah. I think it's You could call it a
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It's typically
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where
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in the olden days, people would have their dinner there because
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it would cause like good wind. Oh, get some flow. Yeah. Airflow Oh. When it was too hot to eat inside.
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I I think this is probably one of the better implementations I've seen. Yeah.
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I mean, is it worth a million dollars? I couldn't tell you. None of these things were seem like Oh, there's a there's a picture of a toilet,
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and the it's two different tiles. They have large tiles and then a bunch of small tiles. So it looked like the toilet was, like, sinking
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Oh, yeah. Towards the end there. Picture 38.
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I don't if I'm on it, but I'm looking at one of the bathrooms. Oh, they got a urinal or something. Oh. You see that? They got No. I didn't. They got a, like, a separate toilet right there next to the to the pooping toilet.
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Oh. But I don't know why it has two handles.
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I I mean, it's pretty nice. Well, it's for a number one or number two. I
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don't think you use that thing for number two. No. I know. I know. That was a joke.
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Wow. That's I mean, isn't that a great one? Oh, it's the combo house. That's the one I liked out of the batch. Oh, it's a bidet, I think. Yeah. Oh, okay. But it's separate.
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But you're right. Yeah. The the prototype dome for 399 in Florida, if you fixed it up, is the better one. Mhmm.
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This, of course, is financial advice. Is really cool. Obviously. Yeah. Totally financial advice.
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I know. The dome house houses are neat.
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And I you know, looking at these, I feel pretty good about the implementation we had. Mhmm. I think our implementation was alright.
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So there you have it. We'll have information in the show notes if you wanna go play around and take a look at them. Why not? It's fun.
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Okay. Just a reminder, this Friday is clanker therapy session two
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at 12PM Pacific,
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one nope. 3PM eastern. It'll be at jblive.tv,
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and we'll make it available for our members, and we'll probably put a portion of it out for, everybody else as well. And like Andrew's mentioned earlier, we got the telegram group and the matrix room so you can get going and start asking questions before Friday if you want.
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And we'll have links to that and everything else at weeklylaunch.rocks.
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That's where you'll find links to the clanker therapy session.
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So
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with that, we're gonna get out of here. Yep. Remember, we wanna know what you would do for a wellness week. You can boost that in. And, of course, any of the topics we covered like the data center stuff or even ethanol and gasoline, we love hearing your take.
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From the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty
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American West Coast, thank you for listening to this week's episode of The Launch,
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and we'll see you right back here next week. Have a good one. We appreciate you,
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and thanks to our members.