colebrodine
@colebrodine@midwest.social
- Comment on Where to start? 1 week ago:
No downvotes or death threats from me! Start however you want or it happens to start! I started by watching TNG on air with my Dad as a kid, which is probably why I like the 90s shows so much. I’m really not sure how younger people find an entry point into the older shows because they just don’t have the same feel as the newer shows, IMHO, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy them.
I watched Picard and enjoyed it. I probably will never rewatch it like TNG, but it was a fun distraction. I’m glad others are enjoying it.
- Comment on Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what kind of money you want to spend? The M2 Hat is ~$14 USD and a 2242 NVME SSD can be had for ~$30-$40 USD since you don’t care as much about performance.
The USB to SATA adapter is going to run ~$10 USD and the SATA SSD drives are going to start ~$20 USD are go up from there depending on size, performance, etc.
If size of storage is an issue, the SATA SSD is probably the better route. I believe the NVME would be better performance since it utilizes the bus on the Pi more fully.
I would guess that for the money, most M2 drives and SATA SSD drives are going to be similar lifespans
- Comment on Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis 2 months ago:
Which Raspberry Pi do you have? There are some very reasonably priced M2 hats out there that you can boot from on the Pi 5, including the Raspberry Pi branded one.
- Comment on Good self-hosted groceries app? 4 months ago:
What I wish existed was a self-hosted version of OurGroceries.
If you want self hosted, I’d second all the Grocy comments. I don’t use it because it isn’t simple enough for my family, but I did like it.
- Comment on Joplin alternative needed 10 months ago:
It works great with my self-hosted NextCloud!
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
My oldest kid is a senior in highschool and is starting to show some interest in Linux and this kind of stuff. I’m hopeful that I can change my tune soon and maybe have one of the kids to share a hobby with!
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
I’ve told my wife and family that if something happens to me, they need to start migrating all their stuff off my self-hosted services to cloud services because its a matter of time before something fails and nobody’s around who knows or cares to fix it.
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
I used to have this problem. I started pulling a version number (like 27) instead of “latest” so that I could just pull minor releases when I did updates, and then I manually step up the version in the docker-config file for major versions when I’m ready for them. (I don’t like to pull a major release version until there’s been 1 or 2 maintenance releases since my nextcloud is fairly critical for my family)
- Comment on Google Photos syncing to TrueNas 1 year ago:
I have a Nextcloud server that I setup (before Immich was a thing. I’m also running it now, but not using it for photo backup). I have accounts for my immediate family and all of our phones are setup to use the Instant Upload feature to back up photos.
- Comment on Self Hosted Parrot.AI or Otter.AI Alternatives 1 year ago:
Thanks for the tip on the GPU! I live in an area where power is relatively cheap, so I’ll probably go for the 3060. I really wish some of these would work better with AMD since their drivers seem to be more Linux-Friendly these days.
If I get something going, I’ll share for sure!
- Comment on Self Hosted Parrot.AI or Otter.AI Alternatives 1 year ago:
Thank you! I’ll make see if I can string together a few things to come up with my own homebrew version of these services. Honestly, for what they’re charging I think I can justify a new dedicated GPU. I’ve got a few other dockers/services which could take advantage of it anyway, so maybe this is the excuse I’ve been needing to pull the trigger on that purchase.
- Comment on Self Hosted Parrot.AI or Otter.AI Alternatives 1 year ago:
Thanks for the heads up on Danswer!
- Comment on Self Hosted Parrot.AI or Otter.AI Alternatives 1 year ago:
Sure!
For work I attend a lot of meetings, both in person and online. The service takes a recording of the meeting/phone call/etc, transcribes it, identifies the people who were talking and then feeds it into a “ChatGPT” style AI. It then gives meeting notes automatically and lists action items assigned to each attendee along with other pertinent information, like due dates. You can also continue to “chat” with the AI regarding anything to do with the meeting. I often will asked it to expound on various topics, write emails to participants following up on items, give me pertinent information that was shared like emails, phone numbers, etc. You are also able to go back and listen to the meeting along with the transcription. If it was a video meeting, it records the video so you can see what was being presented at the same time. (I think there’s some opportunity for OCRing power point slides too, but these services aren’t doing that yet)
One specific example was a conversation I had with a customer regarding another company we worked with mutually. The customer went into great detail about their issue with the other company and asked if I could write an email to that company to try and help solve their problem. I fed the recording of the phone call into the AI and simply told it to “write the email referenced in the conversation” and it wrote out a pretty good email with a lot of detail that was shared by the customer in it. A couple of tweaks and I was able to copy and paste it right into my email software and send it.
There’s some other features the software has that I personally don’t find as useful, like automatic sharing of meeting minutes/notes. My two biggest issue with these services is that they are charging somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 US per month for an amount of “minutes” of meetings. Also, they are taking all of your meeting data and doing who knows what with it? They do meet all the European Union and California privacy standards according to their site, but we’re all here on a decentralized self-hostable community, so I probably don’t need to expand on my issues there :)
Even if there was just a good “ChatGPT” style AI I could self-host, I could probably transcribe the recordings somehow myself.
- Submitted 1 year ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on I have a 220 volt outlet, my PSU supports 115-240v, but the plug is only a standard 120v plug. How doninokug it in? 1 year ago:
“220 V” is the “nominal” voltage. All voltages fluctuate depending on all sorts of factors, but should stay within a certain range of nominal. In the USA most utilities follow the ANSI C84 Voltage standard. 220 V is what electricians refer to it as. Your utility probably calls it “240 V”.