TheHobbyist
@TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip
Just a stranger trying things.
- Comment on Privately Share Photo Albums? 10 hours ago:
Regarding photos, and videos specifically:
I know you said you are starting with selfhosting so your question was focusing on that, but I would like to also share my experience with [ente] (ente.io) which has been working beautifully for my family, partner and myself. They are truly end to end encrypted, with the source code available on github.
They have reasonable prices. If you feel adventurous you can actually also host it yourself. They have advanced search features and face recognition which all run on device (since they can’t access your data) and it works very well. They have great sharing and collaborating features and don’t lock features behind accounts so you can actually gather memories from people on your quota by just sharing a link. You can also have a shared family plan.
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 2 days ago:
Ollama, latest version. I have it setup with Open-WebUI (though that shouldn’t matter). The 14B is around 9GB, which easily fits in the 12GB.
I’m repeating the 28 t/s from memory, but even if I’m wrong it’s easily above 20.
Specifically, I’m running this model: ollama.com/…/deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 3 days ago:
You can. I’m running a 14B deepseek model on mine. It achieves 28 t/s.
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT for government agencies 1 week ago:
I wonder if ChatGPT will be “re-adjusted” towards the right to fit the new administration’s values.
- Comment on Make a JBOD Enclosure video 1 week ago:
I’m personally still very much interested in HDDs with their better cost/GB, though it is true they have a shrinking lead over SSDs. I hope to move to SSDs completely for large storage space.
- Comment on Make a JBOD Enclosure video 1 week ago:
I wish there were friendlier PSUs to these kinds of setups. Standard ones are often too large (yes even SFX), overpowered, with too many different cables instead of focusing on high efficiency at low loads and the specific connectors for disks.
- Comment on DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables 4 weeks ago:
The sad part is how using DP on your TV, if you find it, is shunned by Netflix and will not allow you to play 4K content.
They rely on some form of DRM protection which is available in HDMI.
Absolutely crazy. I really wish HDMI would not be such an omnipresent standard among TVs…
Source: help.netflix.com/en/node/13444 > “check your devices”.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 4 weeks ago:
The performance improvements claims are a bit shady as they compare the old FG technique which only creates one frame for every legit frame, with the next gen FG which can generate up to 3.
All Nvidia performance plots I’ve seen mention this at the bottom, making comparison very favorable to the 5000 series GPU supposedly.
- Comment on This is why I love James Lee 4 weeks ago:
It’s a very unique style: he’s blending actual animation /manga characteristics in live motion. Not saying it is not your case, but in general I think you need to appreciate mangas, Japanese anime or at least regular animation to enjoy it. I personally find the style brilliant and certainly unique.
- Comment on This is why I love James Lee 4 weeks ago:
It seems it is but at least it runs on Linux. Not the case for the adobe suite…
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update December 2024 2 months ago:
Love these updates, like always. The graphs, the new communities highlights and the general status update, it really brings us all together in the Lemmy-verse :) thank you for your hard work!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update November 2024 2 months ago:
Thanks for these reports/updates, always nice to see, it’s kind of like a newsletter, shedding light on various new communities worthy of visiting or looking for a new mod or so. :)
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 3 months ago:
They used PimEyes, nothing new.
Of importance: they do not want to release the tool but use it as a way to raise awareness.
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know, I’ve been eyeing the game and interested in getting it. I think I’ve even seen it on gog, so that’s great!
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
How’s the game nowadays? I think I recall the game having some issues when it came out, assuming it’s true, are they all now resolved?
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 months ago:
That does not sound like a viable long term solution to me.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 3 months ago:
Wizz
- Comment on 48,000 liters of PFAS-contaminated water leaked from U.S. army base in Japan in August 3 months ago:
What military activity generates PFAS?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I fully understand this to be a controversial take, but I think it is important to acknowledge that not all advertisement is the same. While I dislike all forms of advertisement, I only take issue with non ethical ones, which are based on surveillance. I don’t have any ethical concern with contextual advertisement which is how some search engines provide advertisement, such as giving advertisement for food when searching for food.
But it is also critically important that extensions remain a part of the browser, to give a certain level of control to the person navigating the web instead of just allowing any website to freely track our activities.
I don’t know what the path forward is for Mozilla. Google is unlikely to be able to fund Mozilla the way it has until now as a recent ruling which has deemed google as a monopolistic actor clawing at its default status everywhere it can. This was a major founding source for Mozilla. They need to figure out financing and while it is easy to criticize, we must also recognize the challenge it is to give sustainable and important funding sources to Mozilla. I really wish I had an answer… Can it somehow depend exclusively on its users for donations? Should It sell support services? Should it branch into more lucrative areas? If yes, which ones? It may need to be a combination thereof but for now, I’m personally blinded. We need to get together on this, because if we can’t help Mozilla, can we help anyone who might fall into this situation?
- Comment on Stop killing games 3 months ago:
It’s impressive how this initiative has gathered 360k votes in no time yet completely stagnated ever since. I don’t think it means that the initiative is done, actually I am quite optimistic it can pass, but these things go in waves. I think every time there is a new coverage on the initiative it launches it higher, we just need some folks who have some local presence in the EU to get their audience to act. Perhaps some famous video game streamers? Has that been done already?
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 4 months ago:
it seems AT&T may be interested in looking for alternatives to VMware?
- Comment on Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade (7390) - Greg Davill 4 months ago:
This was already quite a significant challenge compared to socketed RAM, but now with Lunar Lake I guess this is simply impossible? The RAM chips are colocated with the CPU…
- Comment on YouTuber claims another channel used AI to clone his voice without consent 4 months ago:
I think unless they have demonstrated bad faith in the past, we should still give them the benefit of the doubt that this was an honest mistake though it raises some other concerns as to what the internal process is for green lighting this when they had worked with Jeff in the past?
- Comment on Denmark is the 5th country to pass the #StopKillingGames EU threshold - 340K out of 1M signatures in total! 4 months ago:
And the Netherlands are 6th! But the hardest part will be reaching that Million threshold… We still have a lot of time, but the pace has certainly slowed down the last few weeks compared to the skyrocketing in the early days. I think we will need to have more awareness spread around the campaign, perhaps try to reach mainstream media in some ways…
- Comment on Acer’s first handheld gaming PC is the Nitro Blaze 4 months ago:
Looks kind of average to me. Also, I wonder if it would not have made sense to build it on Lunar lake if it was to be announced/released this late?
- Comment on Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable 5 months ago:
Is there any source I can read to find out more about this?
- Comment on Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable 5 months ago:
[…] after confirming the database contains images of Dutch citizens.
How could they confirm this?
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 5 months ago:
I think early last year they hyped some potential partnership to have a custom grapheneOS device, anyone know what happened to that?
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 5 months ago:
I’m sorry, what? That does not make sense to me.
- Comment on Day 33 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Loved this game and the story. The second half of the game is where it really become interesting! I remember that mission in the screenshot :)