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OBEY THE LAW ASSHOLES

always bullies -- THE LEFT

damn. isnt she like 30 or something now? old woman.

GROSS :yack: :yack: :yack:

i've heard every one of those songs more than i ever wanted to and i can't imagine being subjected to the 'top hits' only.

the worst of the worst.

did she just say she studies 'da ert from space'? :lol:

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I will never forget this nor will I forget the leftists that taunted families going through this.

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absolutely NEVER FORGET THIS

Some of us just want a truck that acts like a reliable tool. Simple, tough, elegant.

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VA just tried to make the GOP extinct there and we have fricking RINOs still trying to play nice.

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unfrickingbelievable.

leave to the Rs...and especially the RINOS to frick everything up.

they WANT the Ds to take the House --- CHANGE MY MIND

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So you can pop up different dashboards via automation? Ok I’m interested.

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even easier. i bit the bullet and bought a full chatgpt account for $20/mo and i get unlimited prompts.

i admit i did alot of fighting in the beginning but now i've gotten chatGPT whipped into shape and i know if there's a card that's off center or falling off the bottom of the display to NOT go down the rabbit hole or you could spend 6 hours just trying to move something around only for it become a complete mess (ask me how i know).

now i just pull up dev tools and tell it that everything is FINE except that one card display and let's not redo anything else until we've figured out what is causing the issue.

on par, i would say i spend 15% of my time getting chatgpt to get the code right (it does this almost perfect every time) and 85% of my time with UX/display issues.

but i digress; i would suggest this if you really want to build some dashboards:

- take advantage of includes/packages/shared yaml for things like headers and footers; once you work it so those are external; the dashboards are so much easier to wire in and if you need to add to your ever expanding list of dashboard buttons on the bottom; you just change it in one place.

- i developed a dark theme early on (themes.yaml i think?) so thats great to also have because any new dashboards created will follow that so less to go wrong with AI

- avoid Ai getting too 'cute' and trying to write custom YAML for EVERYTHING. tell it to take advantage of existing cards as much as possible so you don't get into the UX death spiral that i found myself in a few times.

- basically i have a 'project' under chatgpt called '43" bar display' and i have chats under that; one for each dash i'm working on. that helps keep sanity because you'll bounce back & forth often as you're getting things set up or you think of something cool and want to add it to other dashboards you've already created

- i keep a google search tab open and ask google for the latest & greatest HACS integration for Widget X, Y or Z so when i talk to chatgpt, i already know which integration or card i want it to reference when building something and ive already installed it so its ready to go so the first yaml is generally pretty good right off the bat.

- i always have AI send me a file each time it creates a new YAML and this is a lifesaver when you realize you had it almost perfect 27 versions prior and you currently have a mess. its way less painful to 'revert' back and give AI that version and say "let's try again from this good yaml we had yesterday" nothing worse than AI fricking up a beautiful dashboard and you've lost the ability to go back to what you had and it seems unable to make it look as good as it did the first time. once you are happy with it, then you can delete those 40 other files in your 'downloads' folder it gave you that are garbage now.


any i'm blabbing. i know my case is unique because i'm putting this on a pretty large display and making it 'guest friendly' so alot of what i'm doing wont really translate that well.

but what does work well is asking AI to create automations, triggers or other thnigs just ty talking to it. its really good at that; but not as good at the UX without a little bit of fighting.

not a fan of RM at all. they look like cheap amazon junk to me and just never got the appeal of that brand and i love almost every type of watch out there.

amazon sells a zillion RM knockoffs for $25