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- Comment on How to start off small with the intent to expand 1 day ago:
I would get some cheap maybe even used X86 hardware to start with. Depending on your backup needs, you might need more than one M2 or SATA port. If you plan to use it as an always on device, I would keep the power consumption in mind. A celeron N could be the way. The cpu processing power is, in my experience, not the limiting factor for a self-hosted environment. Give it lots of RAM, every virtual machine and every running service needs space.
Using arm, like a Raspberry Pi, is not bad if you can find all your Docker images and binaries, compiled for this platform.
There are many possible distributions and software you could use, it really depends on personal preference.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it suddenly stopped spinning? 1 week ago:
It would solve a lot of problems. It could create one or two new ones in the process. 🤔
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 1 week ago:
Interesting.
It was hard for me to tolerate the 50hz flickering. Especially in peripheral vision. Same with fluorescent tubes. Good times (not).
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 1 week ago:
Useless superpowers… :) CRTs must have been fun.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 1 week ago:
Straight answer, I don’t know lol
:)
I tried to find something on the internets. It says something about additional colors and reducing color flickering. 🤷♀️
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I could tell if dlp, whenever my eyes moved.
They fixed the issue by increasing the color changing frequency in led beamers.:)
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 weeks ago:
What’s the 4th color on the wheel used for? White minus white… black, yes. But why?
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 weeks ago:
And then they invented the colour wheel. And the DMD with lots of tiny mirrors. And afterwards they used LEDs and laser diodes…
- Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 2 weeks ago:
You can never be sure. Regressions do happen.
First evaluate it on your test setup.
— useless hint of the daySome fs can do snapshotting (btrfs, zfs,…). Second best would be a current backup to restore from.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
rsnapshot is a script for the purpose of repeatedly creating deduplicated copies (hardlinks) for one or more files. You can chose how many hourly, daily, weekly,… copies you’d like to keep and it removes outdated copies automatically. It wraps rsync and ssh (public key auth) which need to be configured before.
- Comment on how do I find process that leads to oom? 3 weeks ago:
- journalctl shows the oom event
- Container limits you can limit container resouce usage
- also you can look at container stats to maybe identify the culprit. Or cyclically write the stdout of ps to a file to identify the memory hungry process.
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 3 weeks ago:
Debian + Incus :)
- Comment on xkcd #3147: Hiking 3 weeks ago:
Now, what about escalators? …for the escalating part of the hike.
- Comment on A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals 4 weeks ago:
Good times.:)
- Comment on A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals 4 weeks ago:
" Can I come with you?"
– little boy in Screamers (1995) - Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. What a strange companionship. :)
- Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 4 weeks ago:
What?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute “GPU chiplets” that Intel can place alongside its x86 CPU cores instead of the Arc integrated graphics it develops in-house today.
They could buy AMD Radeon chiplets too, that would be something.:)
- Comment on GitHub introduces hybrid post-quantum SSH security to better protect Git data in transit 5 weeks ago:
data in transit
Yes, but then it is stored unencrypted on github. Ready to be used as training data. Which isn’t bad per se. Just pointing out, that the weakest link in your chain of security mrasures is the… weakest link.
If you wanted to secure your code, you could store it on-site, behind a firewall, in its own network segment, with encrypted offsite backups. Elliptic curves would help too in this scenario.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 month ago:
That’s what LLM are made for;
Hence the Name? :)
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 month ago:
I mean the automatic speech recognition and transcription capabilities are quite useful. But that’s about it, for me for now.
It could be interesting for frame interpolation in movies at some point maybe, I guess.
I dream of using it for the reliable classification of things. But I haven’t seen it working reliably.
For the creation of abstracts and as a dialog system for information retrieval it doesn’t feel exact/correct / congruent enough to me.
Also: A working business plan to make money with actual AI services has yet to be found. Right now it is playing with a shiny new toy and the expectations and money of their investors. Selling the business while it is still massively overrated, seems like the only way forward. But that’s just my opinion.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The h4 already can be a managed switch itself (2" 2,5gbit + 4*1gbit with the nic addon.) if you want it to be one. Linux as the host OS (VLANs, bridges) - netplan works well for me. Some VMs and containers on top (lxd, incus, some use proxmox) for router/ firewall/ vpn-gateway (opnsense, ipfire,…) and other functionality which you don’t want to run on the host OS directly. The cpu is fast enough to run all your services at once. It all comes down to RAM.
IMO there is not one right way. It all depends on what you want to achieve. Also a lot depends on, whether you want results fast or if you enjoy the tinkering while learning.
- Comment on They took our free break! 2 months ago:
So the evil version of a footstool? Squattypotty tried to sell theirs with an explanatory video with unicorns and ice cream a while ago.