Ashdown

It looks like there’s been some update and I’m stuck in advanced voice mode. I logged on the other day and to my horror, it’s only advance voice mode, even in existing sessions.

It’s technically impressive but functionally terrible. It seems to prioritise being interruptible and instant responses rather than any thought or continuity. So rather than having a half-way decent voice conversation, I get stuck with repetitive surface-level garbage that advance voice mode serves up. I’ve even asked the session to describe the differences between its standard voice mode conversations with me and it’s ‘advanced’ conversations with me and it said this:

**“In this new voice mode, I respond faster

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My UDM stopped working, so I replaced it with a new one.

The new one has been spectacularly unreliable and has been entirely unstable. I have set it up from fresh and from backup, I have run it on its own with a single computer connected by ethernet and with no switches and seen the same behaviour.

Generally, it will eventually fail to a solid blue light flashing ever five seconds or so. Then, it will restart, do the same thing, then eventually turn to solid white light and a full fan in a frozen state.

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So far, I’ve had absolutely no luck with the support, just been directed to public knowledge articles with literal days between responses.

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I got tickets to Sydney, Newcastle, and Melbourne.

My poor wallet. 😢