Radiator bleed-screw tool on my keyring.
I'm a plumber by training.
I don't see why not. You'd just need to use a really coarse sanding disks.
Oh yeah. It's the cleanup I'm trying to avoid. And sweating.
That's probably why so many is willing to pay for me to do it.
Compared to doing it by hand? Well yeah, a lot faster. I do this for living so the cost is easier to justify but I don't think there's going back after you've tried one of these.
Bought some Mirka Abranet sanding discs too, and the dust extraction is so good now it produces virtually no dust at all. The light around the sanding head also highlights every imperfection on the wall amazingly well.
It's a bit on the heavy side - almost 7 kg - but I can deal with that. Luckily I only need it occasionally.
Robota S22 is the exact model, in case anyone's interested. Paid 170€ for it. There were cheaper and lighter ones, but those didn't have lights.
Just create it, and if there's demand, people will show up. There are a few communities meant for advertising new ones, but simply posting there yourself will also make it appear in the "All" feed for people browsing that.
There's only so much you can do to grow it. Lemmy is still a pretty small platform with a limited audience, and I'm getting the sense that cage fighting isn't exactly close to most people's hearts around here.
Saying that it’s good at one thing and bad at others.
But that's exactly the difference between narrow AI and a generally intelligent one. A narrow AI can be "superhuman" at one specific task - like generating natural-sounding language - but that doesn't automatically carry over to other tasks.
People give LLMs endless shit for getting things wrong, but they should actually get credit for how often they get it right too. That's a pure side effect of their training - not something they were ever designed to do.
It's like cruise control that's also kinda decent at driving in general. You might be okay letting it take the wheel as long as you keep supervising - but never forget it's still just cruise control, not a full autopilot.
It's a Large Language Model designed to generate natural-sounding language based on statistical probabilities and patterns - not knowledge or understanding. It doesn't "lie" and it doesn't have the capability to explain itself. It just talks.
That speech being coherent is by design; the accuracy of the content is not.
This isn't the model failing. It's just being used for something it was never intended for.
That whoever is going to be me
It is actually just as hard as it looks. Not only the act of plastering itself, but knowing which products to choose and how to use them correctly. It seems simple on the surface, but it's an art in itself.
By far the most frustrating thing about plastering jobs is the drying times. This is especially true with inside corners - with a knife you pretty much can't do both sides the same day because you'll always end up messing up the opposite one.
I finally gave one of those corner tools a try, and the result is fucking mint. The customer is going to be so happy with these flawless corners tucked behind the curtains in their living room.
One day around 7 years ago I turned off the radio in my truck and I never turned it back on. I just sit in silence and I honestly prefer it that way.
Edit: to elaborate a little: I consider it almost like a meditative practice. I drive virtually every day, so this way I can quite easily force what I consider to be a healthy near-daily habit.
I do the same thing with my phone whenever I'm queuing.
I've yet to figure out a good way to carry a bit driver with me but if I had one I'd use it a ton. Just like I do flashlight now.