Ugh, I KNOW.
All these people developing these amazing alternatives and I have to checks notes make an effort to degoogle myself for my own good. SIGH.
Some people put ice cubes straight in the pot, so it's a slower absorption. You could also just have a 'watering towel' that you can throw on the floor under the plants if you water them in place?
Finally, if you can get them to the sink easily, maybe you could use a glass watering globe to slide through the plant matter?
Have you played around with hosting your own LLM? I've just started running oobabooga, it lets you download various LLMs and host them. I've been working on getting it set up so the AI can provide text for Piper, and take input from Whisper. It requires ideally an nvidia card, but will work with AMD and CPU. That would let you use the API to get text for piper to read. It's a lot more privacy oriented than sending your queries off to ChatGPT. The larger models do take more CPU/RAM/VRAM to run, but perhaps a smaller tuned model would suit your needs.
GOG Connect did it until January of this year. You could sync certain games from your GOG library and get a Steam Key for it. It wasn't popular with publishers I'm assuming, because Capitalism; the number of titles you could do it to had dwindled to almost nothing, but it's happened.
Gorgeous painting. It's depressing that a nearly a century and a half later, 'Doing X while black', sometimes even a representation of such, where X is a perfectly normal human activity is still cause for histrionics for many.
Will it be waterproof or just a housing for the electronics?
Is it wall powered or battery?
I've been looking at setting up soil monitors for my garden, although I'm wanting them to report to Home Assistant. I'd prefer a Zigbee or Z-Wave monitor, but it seems bluetooth or rolling your own seems to be the way to go right now.
Ugh, I KNOW. All these people developing these amazing alternatives and I have to checks notes make an effort to degoogle myself for my own good. SIGH.