Actually… Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.

But hey, at least the acknowledge that there’s the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.

Holy shit YES!

That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10/22/voice-chapter-11/#improved-sentence-matching

Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!

Alright, thanks for the recommendation (seriously)!

Definitely planned for next time. This time we went south to Fukuoka (already very few tourists) and rented a car back to Tokyo, staying in smaller towns. Highly recommend.

Oh wow, awesome!

I’m almost sorry to be blunt, but…

Women don’t want to be chased. You’re a misogynist who has reduced women to “people to have sex with” in your own mind.

If you change that, you gain the possibility of actual connections, including intimacy, with them; if you don’t, you don’t. Either way it’s up to you if you want the status quo to continue or to improve.

Hard disagree. I’m watching Voyager for the first time right now. ~24 episodes per season, 7 seasons. You could remove a shitton of episodes from it to keep the basic plot of “Ship stranded far away. Get ship home.” intact, but there are very few episodes you might be able to remove without taking something from the characters. And that’s what’s missing in modern series (including Trek) in my opinion; characters are either cardboard cutouts or have “arcs” that are more akin to whiplash. As a result I just don’t care about these people. You also cannot really fix this with “just” better writing, because it’ll still need to be rushed.

I do have a fulltime job, and hobbies, and friends that I spend time with. So I’m maybe averaging a single episode per day, and it’s been and continues to be such a comfort that these characters stay with me, have time to breathe and develop, and get the space they need for the writers and actors to find their groove and make the characters something unique. I do not want to give that up again in favor of… what? Getting fancy visuals and being done with a show after a week?

I’m permanently done with Marvel/StarWars/NewTrek. Next up are rewatches of DS9 and Next Generation.

Thank you for your sacrifice :D

While I don’t like it, it’s not hidden either:

https://bentopdf.com/privacy.html

There should definitely be an option to disable this for self-hosting, but if it’s just a counter for how often each tool is used by all users combined… Eh…

(Stirling also has something similar)

True. Especially the more “popular” temples are only open during regular hours, though.

In any case, I don’t doubt that you can have lots of fun and have the city for yourself at early hours!

Prisoner Of War:

Why not open a PR to make it configurable? The maintainer is super active and friendly.

Yeah but then most of the things people come to Kyoto for a closed.

Not saying I disagree.

If there’s specific things you want to do that happen to be in Kyoto, I agree. I just think (somewhat from personal experience) that going to Kyoto because that’s what you should do on a Japan trip is a bad idea.

Interesting. We really enjoyed Tokyo, but spent most of our time there in smaller, out of the way areas. Absolutely loved it.

Though my favorite memories are from a super tiny seaside town (no public transport, ended up there because we misread the map) in the middle of nowhere.

I mean… that’s a pretty memorable trip, no?

well… at least he realizes that was bullshit…?

This is all your fault for sending those dmails :/

Oh, and while I’m at it: do not trust any food recommendation written in English. Good or bad.

If you travel to Japan, honestly just… Skip Kyoto. It is so full of tourists (national and international), you cannot possibly imagine unless you’ve seen it.

Sure, there’s a lot of impressive temples there. But so is the rest of the country.

We were lucky enough to spend 4 weeks in Japan earlier this year, and if I could do the trip again, I would straight-up skip Kyoto and Osaka.

Rent a car, drive in some random direction. You’ll he a lot happier, it it will actually be your trip. By far the best memories coke from places not in any travel guide.