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Their IPTV service is pretty flawless, and I got a year of it for $90.

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I don’t think this is true. Iptorrents is exactly the same as private IPTV access and mybunny IMO. Service is crap compared to what’s going around on this thread. Still nice to have the community access, but it’s far from a premium TV service.

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What to pay contractor

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The agreed amount for the agreed level of service.

Yup the tuya integration is cloud, but there is a “local tuya” in the community store that lets you pull your device keys from the dev portal and control via local api.

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MVNOs are fine but I'm content with ATT prepaid because once you've added several lines to the plan it isn't much more expensive than a MVNO.

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ATT prepaid basically is a MVNO as far as data priority goes. You just don’t get the free phones and fast unlocks making the whole service almost free.

Gotcha. Ya with tuya just make sure you grab your keys within the 7-30 day window you have access to them after starting your dev account or else you’re going to need another burner email and maybe a different phone.

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AI can essentially cobble together a general purpose analysis of a product with minimal effort.

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MS and Google are already approaching companies discussing ways to get their products on AI’s good side, for a price.

Yes. Cricket and Metro have amazing deals and both will unlock your awesome free phone in a matter of months if you want to switch again. Phone service is really great and includes roaming Mexico and Canada as well as calling and texting a bunch of places.

The caveat is data priority. If I’m at the Fort Worth stockyards, any big event, or even Alliance town center where there a million apartments, data is not at all reliable. If I’m at a place with online ordering, I’ll sometimes have to use their WiFi. All busy places have complementary WiFi anyway so it’s not a big deal. Data is fine outside of congested areas.

I have cricket but can only compare it to business platinum plans which basically have nearly emergency level priority so I don’t know how they compare to like ATT retail which is only one notch above.

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Wifi 6 and 7 can easily match 1gbps, which is why running cable to every room is antiquated. Poor design/implementation of wireless would cause you not to get these speeds. In a new build it makes a little bit of sense to go more overkill, but I wouldn't be trying to hardwire every device and every room in the house

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100% agree but not wiring the backhaul would be a mistake. . Cheap deco x55 handles 100+ devices just fine when wired and gives ~1000mbps to all 160mhz devices and ~650mbps to 80mhz clients.

I have a few minis wired up in my IT area but other than that, it’s just cameras and APs that have wires.

Who needs tv ratings at all? You walk by the big sale islands every time you go to Walmart and if your TV ever breaks(not sure that’s possible), you pick one up. They have a bunch on the back wall if you need to look at them.

Qwen3-30b locally but you could probably get with something smaller. Openrouter has a bunch of free or super low cost options.

Used extended OpenAI integration for LLM api and Wyoming for TTS and STT.

Setup is pretty easy but function has to be pretty much perfect and prompt should explain what you want it to do.just use chat.qwen.ai for that. It fixed everything for me when Gemini couldn’t.

Apparently if you use an esp32 device for STT there are options for speech cut off sensitivity, but not if you’re using the iOS app. They just need to go to a button or something if they can’t get it right.