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Fleet AI dashcam:


AI work vision systems:


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Kaido

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Nano Banana Pro is out. dang AI u scary

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Live action conversion:

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BTS conversion lol:

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Kaido

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Nano Banana Pro is basically what I do instead of video games these days. A 2003 Linkin Park song came up on my Youtube playlist & I was inspired to remix the visuals. I'm not sure why muppets crack me up but here we are lol.

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Kaido

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Youtube rolles out the new Ask feature:

1. Conversational chatting with video content
2. As wellas Google Photos!


This is CRAZY useful!!
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Kaido

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The $20/mo pay-for version of ChatGPT allows you to save chats under Projects & reference those memories. One of the things I started using it for was unofficial medical analysis. So far:

1. It has accurately diagnosed me with two conditions I didn't know I had (one of which was misdiagnosed). I have a lot of medical issues & have spent more than my fair share of time in hospitals lately. ChatGPT has an ENORMOUS amount of data to correlate patterns with, so when used wisely, it can be HUGELY beneficial!! One trick is to take a selfie of your face & ask it to do a medical analysis.

2.I was telling one of my work contactors about this because they had to go in for surgery & they ended up self-cancelling an hour before the surgery due to what ChatGPT said about their condition. Their doctor was pretty upset as it was months in the making, but then had to admit he had misdiagnosed them & was going to cause unnecessary surgery & downtime.

Grok has a pretty good chatbot:


Some dude on reddit just got his life saved by Grok Doc:


 

Kaido

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2001's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within film was crazy cool given the state of CGI at the time:


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Uprezzed & animated:


Color graded:

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Kaido

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Nano Banana 3D printing workflow:

3D generators:






2D generators:



Suites:



Small high-resolution resin printers have gotten crazy affordable:


They have 16K-resolution consumer 3D printers now:



As a service:

 
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Kaido

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Recent AI-assisted coding & automation projects:

Primary tools:

1. ChatGPT 5.2:


a. Python
b. Websites
c. Electron apps
d. Docker
e. Custom-scripted Linux installs
f. Linux From Scratch custom builds

2. Gemini 3:

a. One-shot insanity
b. Ability to do feedback loops back into the system


Fun projects:

1. Raspberry Pi uptime monitor:


a. 8GB Pi 5 board can easily handle 1,000 ping, HTTP, DNS, and scripts
b. Touchscreen case (for status monitoring & control) with 128GB NVMe was $90
c. Records Internet, server, computer, and IoT device uptime

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2. Custom routers:

a. Server 2025 Hyper-V server running an OPNsense VM
b. Commodity hardware (ex. $1.2k Dell tower with 16 cores & 64GB RAM with Quad 10GbE cards for $150)
c. Custom VLAN's with isolation, VPN routing, etc.
d. Mesh networking with a management VM (Omada, Ubiquiti, etc.)
e. Tailscale integration (vPro KVM remote access, exit node VM,. etc.)
f. Multi-WAN (failover, dedicated routing, etc.
g. Endless free plugins (Zenarmor, Suricata, Unbound, CrowdSec, Squid, HAProxy, NetFlow, etc.)

The are pretty neat for both home & business. I'm playing with a mini PC-based version at home that uses inexpensive mesh WAP's that has 80% of the same features as a NGFW. Bonkers capabilities!

3. Custom Roku apps:

a. Similar to smartphone apps, but much lighter weight
b. Easy to sideload
c. Been working on the world's cheapest video wall

Essentially:

a. A cheap mini PC (a Pi can do a few cameras & an N100 can do more!)
b. A bunch of uber-cheap Wyze cameras
c. go2rtc to decrypt the video streams & transcode to Roku-friendly format

It's pretty cool because you can program the app, design the GUI, and even draw a 3D mockup, all with AI!

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4. Standalone Electron apps:

a. Cross-platform
b. Chromium-based
c. I was missing OG Picasa (Lightroom is too much work for just browsing lol) so I had Gemini 3 one-shot a replacement haha

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5. AI NVR:

a. Started getting into Frigate lately (DIY AI video surveillance)
b. You can sub-stream existing systems like REOlink
c, Integrates well with Home Assistant for custom event AI triggers

6. Secure software alternatives:

a. I don't even use Grafana anymore because I can just have ChatGPT do everything. 50" 4K onn.-brand televsions are $178 at Walmart. Basic custom dashboards can run on a Pi or MELE N100 fanless mini PC.
b. Same with custom & personal Telegram-style bots...just setup Tailscale to home & run custom pinned web apps. SQlite & Apache in a Docker container on a Pi & voila!
c. There's so much crazy integration these days...REST API, JSON, MQTT, etc. You can pretty much make whatever you can dream up and style it to look & behave however you want!!

7. Website programming:

a. Fantastic GUI design (colors, graphics, animation, etc.)
b. Endless custom integrations
c. Neat back-end designs, such as having website content creators simply publish from Google Docs

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Kaido

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Nano Banana Pro is full of all KINDS of surprises! I've got a pretty good workflow for upscaling images with no external tools. Screenshot:

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Custom upscaling prompt:

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OG meme for reference:

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Been working with the Kling 2.5 video model lately. The emotional controls are rapidly improving!

 
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Kaido

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Awesome, ChatGPT just diagnosed me with a THIRD chronic illness lol. The ability to have a conversation with a bot that has:

1. Read every public medical document available
2. Scoured all available online anecdotal postings for correlation
3. Can detect meta-patterns in vast quantities of data

When used correctly (i.e. as a research tool), it is 10/10 incredible. VERY NICE to have some solid answers & root causes to my lifelong health struggles!! Soon, hopefully:

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