Because other countries actually have environmental refulations with teeth. Though i do recall a company wanted to build a huge data center in Kenya https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsofts-usd1-billion-kenya-ai-data-center-project-hits-a-major-hurdle-as-the-government-says-it-would-require-switching-off-half-the-country-to-meet-power-needs

The problem isnt the search engine, tge problem is the search index. The index gets big and expensive to maintain quickly. Ive mostly switched to Kagi at this point.

Im not sure what the point of agents is yet in daily life. Ive been meening to try out some agent harnesses to see if i can get anything useful out of them.

So far my thoughts are, having used them for coding (they need babby sitting or will thought loop) and research on product ideas (actually can be somewhat useful in early stages to find prior art) they could be really useful for me personally keeping track of what im supposed to be doing any given day at work, they could also be useful for auto moderation. They might be useful for organizing my personal email inbox, they might be useful for dealing with compaines automated phone lines that go nowhere useful quickly.

So im a bit scatter brained and am juggling 5 projects at any given time at work, I often forget random tasks or problems i noticed. So having an LLM that can scan my last week of teams and email to generate a list of tasks i was asked to deal with and current problems ranked by importance could be quite useful. Havent gotten the time to test this. But im hopeful that is a viable usecase.

I have done some testing in chat mode to see how well they can enforce a given set of rules for hypothetical comments for say a forum or public chat. That seems to work fairly well, though I am not sure its a good idea to let them enforce unsupervised, but the false positive rate is pretty low, its promising with some tweaking and can almost certainly deal with spammers autonomously. I need to set up a harness and unleash one on a low stakes low volume chat/forum to see what happens.

Based on the results for moderation, and some testing for content analysis i expexct they would be great at classifying emails/documents and suggesting a sensible folder structure and email rules to keep things neat and tidy. Id never let them just run unsupervised but id expext really good suggestions for todying and catching mistakes ive made in my own organizing. Im hopeful here.

As for dealing with companies, the old phone trees could get annoying but the ammount of time i waste trying to get phone agents or the now mandatory chat agents where phone lines are gone is monumentally higher. Id rather burn my gpu power to have my bot talk to their bot until something actually useful or actionable is extracted. Its obviously a really bad fit, but my time is more valuable than the power id spend letting the bots try to reach and accord.

(All this is based on running models locally if that wasnt clear, i refuse to do this with a public pay as you go model)

I know, i know there are also some utilities to back up steam games. Ive used them years ago. I dont hate Steam by any means, but i really like GOGs philosophy and requirements so I support them where i can, though i will borrow games from the family library if someoen else bought it on steam for the achivements

If I’m a customer and have a steam account holding most of my games (like most PC gamers), why would I even consider buying it anywhere else if it isn’t even cheaper

I pay the same or sometimes a bit more for GoG games because they are DRM free. Id like better client support on Linux, but DRM free is a value proposition thats usually worth it.

Neat, if i wasnt trying to avoid bed slingers might have picked one up

The text is fine, but thats not a printer ive ever seen, i dont think its a real product, looks like a promotional render for some kind of small form factor printer with a built in dry chamber. Cool idea, but its not a real product, or its incredibly low volume.

Edit: also the “gun” is bigger than the print bed, which cant happen. And the gun is huge, way bigger than actual gun unless that printer is tiny tiny. It might be a 3d render but 100% not done by someone who understands how any of this tech works. AI would be a strong candidate for all the mistakes

Getting grandma on signal isn’t to hard, Lemmy might be harder

They’ve gotten better in terms of linux support. Though yea as a company I don’t love them, though no chip makers are really amazing companies they all have issues

Oh, for sure, the only revolutionary thing here is I could run an LLM on an international flight. That’s kinda cool, but not life changing.

The only other thing that’s revolutionary is that it’s arm, that’s where things are going anyway, which can be a huge efficiency win. I’ve long been wanting devices that can ramp up to several hundred watts of useful power when needed but idle at closer to 10. That might still be a pipe dream, we’ll see. But I’m for sure hyped about powerful arm chips starting to show up from not Apple

I kinda want it. Admittedly, not before there is Linux support. And I’d like to see upgradeable internal storage, PTM 750 sheets and all that.

But the reason why is I very much think x86 is a bit long in the tooth and I’m down to replace my desktop with such a device. I’ve been mulling shoving it in my server rack with wake on LAN and using it to stream games with Moonlight since I doubt the x86 emulation is quite good enough yet for things like Elite Dangerous.

Idk, not having an idle power draw exceed 50W is pretty compelling

Depends on what you mean by non-tech savvy. Also depends on what you mean by cloud.

So, the simplest way to get something close to the dropbox experience is to use syncthing. Install it like you would any other program, and set it up (lots of videos and tutorials out there if you get stuck) this will then copy the folders you specify to all your connected devices. The problem is if you don’t regularly have all your devices powered on and connected to the network at the same time then your best option is to have one machine left in a closet powered on and connected at all times so everything syncs smoothly and seamlessly.

Doing that you get a cloud of sorts without having to deal with servers in a traditional sense. It also requires no knowledge other than fairly basic computer skills.

This is cool and all, but it’s limited to file sharing, to get more advanced features you need to start learning servers.

However, there have been several projects in the last few years to make having a personal cloud easier. In no particular order: Zima OS, Open Media Vault, Hex OS, Synology OS, Casa OS, True Nas Scale, Unraid. These are all operating systems you need to install on a spare computer and leave it on all the time, but they create a website at their IP you can visit that has something like an app store where you can just add services. There are lots of videos and articles about these to help you get started.

P. S. If you do start setting up a real server everything on it can be accessed at home without much issue, but to get it available when you aren’t at home will require you to learn a bit about networking, and probably require you to get a domain name.

P.P.S. This whole system is easy enough for beginners to get started but becomes a deep pool of gotchas pretty quickly, be ready to learn there isn’t a good just plug and play solution currently, one problem at a time you’ll get there eventually. I have been mulling ways to make this whole thing easier for some time, eventually I suspect either myself or someone else will probably create a more plug and play project for home servers, but it’s still the perview of tinkerers for now, and likely will be for at least the next 5 years.

You sort of can, on the desktop site when watching a video on the right hand side there are a bunch of recommendations. Next to each recommendation is three dots. Click on the dots, then you should get a dropdown with the option to never recommend that channel again. I do this fairly liberally and mostly don’t get AI vids recommended anymore

I have finally moves over to Kagi, and I’m really liking it, give it a try

There is the HDMI pi cm4 carrier board and projects like OSMC (Open Source Media Center)

Quality is the main thing lacking, that and convienence. Do the fancy setup and with some configuration everything shows up in high quality with surround sound great for a nice home theater setup. Or even a middling home theater setup. Uhd 5.1 surround, hdr, the works. And convenience one app for everything from, shows, sports, Anime to porn, no need to use a keyboard the TV remote is all you need. It’s a bit annoying to setup, but the result is luxury and learning a bit more about networking.

Monero is specifically designed to be resistant to GPU mining, and has a set inflation rate of ~2% with no cap. In other words it effectively is governed nearly identically to normal currency and anyone can participate reasonably.

Additionally, while the value has gone up, that’s primarily thanks to it being used as a currency. It’s the preferred crypto for black markets.

Unlike Bitcoin it processes transactions quickly and with low fees. There is no way to know who sent what amount to whom or how much anyone has of it. It is the closest thing there is to digital cash.

Monero