AtHeartEngineer
@AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
Aspiring polymath. Applied R&D @ Privacy and Scaling Explorations #maker #Ethereum🦇🔊🐼🐍🟨🦀 Trying to make the internet better. Opinions are my own and subject to change
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 week ago:
Ahh, makes sense. Multizone is something I’ll probably end up doing in my house soon, thankfully all my ductwork is exposed in the basement which makes it easy. Thanks appreciate it, I’m going to try to get a prototype board spun in the next week or two, test it out for a bit, and then see if other people are interested in them too. Appreciate the info, I should consider being able to control dampers also.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 weeks ago:
Cool, I’ve come across this before. I have been looking for a more open thermostat, preferably esp32 based, that I can have good local control over. I have started to do the board layout for one with some air quality sensors built in.
If you don’t mind me asking whats more complicated about your hvac setup? Multistage? Heat pump? Multizone?
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 weeks ago:
They do work pretty well, I’m phasing out the Google homes in my house trying to go completely local, and the voice PEs are pretty good for voice control.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 weeks ago:
Which one would you recommend?
- Comment on bird based storage 2 weeks ago:
Same, started following him about 6 months to a year ago and quickly became a fan
- Comment on Please tell me 3 weeks ago:
I am pretty sure it is, it seems ironic to me
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 weeks ago:
If he helps bump the gaming industry in a better/healthier direction, he deserves 6 figures imo
- Comment on Please tell me 3 weeks ago:
I normally am against outrageous branding, especially in the overly masculine or nationalistic area, but I think they are pretty solid. Good product, they lean right into the ridiculousness just enough for it to be a little comical, seem to have good messaging, and it’s just good. Expensive for what it is though.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 3 weeks ago:
USB-C. We are clearly progressing. I never want to go back to the world where every phone had a proprietary power brick and connector.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Do you like and get along with him? Would you hang out with him outside of work if you didn’t work with him? I think that’s pretty telling. Adults can be friends, but it is important to separate work life and personal life. Enjoying sometimes time and also depending on them to eat can be messy.
If you wouldn’t want to hang out with him outside of work if you didn’t work with him, I would keep some distance/buffer. If you actually enjoy hanging out outside of work, then just be cautious but it’s probably worth getting to know them.
Hanging out with older generations, especially around people who just have a lot of life experience, is super enriching. Might learn a lot.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 3 months ago:
I think looking through the comments on this post about AI stuff is a pretty good representation of my experience on lemmy. Definitely some opinions, but most people are pretty reasonable 🙂
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 3 months ago:
Ya exactly! Or just sanity checking if you understand how something works, I use it a lot for that, or trying to fill in knowledge gaps.
Also qwen3 is out, check that out, it might fit on a 1060.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 3 months ago:
I see a mix, don’t get me wrong, Lemmy is definitely opinionated lol, but I don’t think it’s quite black and white.
Also, generally, I’m not going to not share my thoughts or opinions because I’m afraid of people that don’t understand nuance, sometimes I don’t feel like dealing with it, but I’m going to share my opinion most of the time.
OP asked what you self host that isn’t media, self hosted LLMs is something I find very useful and I didn’t see mentioned. Home assistant, pihole, etc, all great answers… But those were already mentioned.
I still have positive upvotes on that comment, and no one has flamed me yet, but we will see.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 3 months ago:
I think most people on here are reasonable, and I think local LLMs are reasonable.
The race to AGI and companies trying to shove “AI” into everything is kind of insane, but it’s hard to deny LLMs are useful and running them locally you dont have privacy concerns.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 3 months ago:
Local LLMs, I’m surprised no one brought that up yet. I’ve got an old GPU in my server, and I’m running some local models with openweb-ui for use in the browser and Maid for an Android app to connect to it.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 3 months ago:
We need laws restricting advertising
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 3 months ago:
Definitely. AR has a lot of potential, also could go sideways and have ads shoved in your peripheral view all the time too.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 3 months ago:
Health bar, bank account balance, number of steps in the day, calories burned, my next calendar event
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 3 months ago:
I want a GTA style HUD at all times 🤪
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 3 months ago:
Ads should be illegal
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 3 months ago:
Judging by the picture I’m sure it is
- Comment on Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days 3 months ago:
It probably is
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 4 months ago:
Love this
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
Oof this is too accurate
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 months ago:
I’ve never done dev for apple stuff, but I think it’s probably just not that friendly with more open/cross platform frameworks
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 months ago:
Ya I don’t think it’s supported on the apple tv app. Damn.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 months ago:
Damn ok that sucks it doesn’t seem available on the client for apple tv.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 months ago:
Maybe, i haven’t seen it yet though
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 4 months ago:
The only feature I want that jellyfin doesn’t have (or I haven’t found it) is shuffle. Throwing on how it’s made or mythbusters on shuffle is great background stuff.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 4 months ago:
Ya probably not. I guess we may see