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I wonder if there are people that haven’t blocked those tankie instances

No, that’s the objective truth.

I’m using the 35b models.

Quality for qwen is mostly fine - sometimes it does hallucinate some shit while thinking, but it does correct itself almost every time. But the answers itself are, for the most part, precise and useful. Not what you know from the cloud models, obviously, but it’s absolutely fine for everyday use. What is actually annoying is the web search - not sure if that’s a qwen problem or a problem with open webui, but it actually takes a long time to finish the search.

I once had a situation where a model was running into an “infinite loop” while thinking, thinking the same line over and over again. And once, qwen just started outputting chinese halfway through the answer lol.

When it comes to context, I’m gonna be very honest - I don’t know. I have never hit any kind of problems or limits because of that since I’m not using AI over a long term project. I use it for small, concise cases and that’s it.

I use an 6700 XTX and it’s working perfectly fine, depending on the model. Gemma4 takes a long time to generate answers, but the Qwen-Series is quick and starts generating answers in ~10 seconds.

Yes. It’s not a kettle as in the pot you put on the stove, but an electric water … heater … thingy. I honestly have no idea how to call it in english. The german word would be “Heißwasserspender”, literally translating to “hot water dispenser”. I disassembled it, soldered a tiny raspberry pi board to it that could control the device as you could with the buttons and wrote a rudimentary API that I now control via home assistant.

Within HA, I can control the kettle via calling the API of the pi. For example, I got a script that triggers if my girlfriends phone is entering my WLAN-network.

The call to the API looks like this:

rest_command:
  kettle_set_params:
    url: "http://kettle.local"
    method: POST
    content_type: "application/json"
    payload: '{"amount": {{ amount }}, "temp": {{ temp }}}'

It’s dynamic, so for the “default black tea” she likes, these are the arguments

set_kettle_default_black_tea:
  alias: "Set Kettle"
  sequence:
    - service: rest_command.kettle_set_params
      data:
        amount: 500
        temp: 100

And this is the trigger:

- alias: "Start kettle when Ana home"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: device_tracker.pixel6_ana
      from: "not_home"
      to: "home"
      for: "00:00:10"
  condition:
    - condition: time
      after: "18:00:00"
      before: "20:00:00"
  action:
    - service: script.set_kettle_default_black_tea

That call is received by the pi, who then triggers the kettle. So every time my girlfriends phone is entering the wifi, it’s between 18:00 and 20:00 and there’s a cup present (done via a simple proximity sensor that I glued to the side of the kettle. That’s also not known to the home assistant, I didn’t really know how to feedback that information to it so I just had it handled by the pi itself), the kettle triggers and dispenses hot water. She can also do it manually via the home assistant app, I made a widget for that where you can just select temperature, amount and that’s it.

I just hope the thing never breaks because I reassembled it using superglue, but then I noticed I forgot to install SSH on the pi, making it kinda an isolated piece of software that I just hope keeps running indefinitely lol.

Pretty sure my house wouldn’t work anymore without it. My girlfriends growlights, the blinds, the vacuum, the lawn mower, hell even the kettle to some extent.

There’s a lot of options. There’s countless paid services that offer exactly that.

If you wanna build something yourself for free, you could probably set up a site accessible via HTTP on your server and create a script on your phone that pings it every 30 seconds or so. Afaik, termux has a termux-notify function that lets you send a notification.

Pseudocodelike, it would look somewhere like this I think:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Config 
NOTIFY_TITLE="Server Alert"
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Server returned a non‑200 status."

HOST="funnysite.com"
PORT=8080
PATH="/healtcheck"

URL="http://${HOST}:${PORT}${PATH}"
# Config

HTTP_CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "$URL")

if [[ "$HTTP_CODE" != "200" ]]; then
    termux-notify -t "$NOTIFY_TITLE" -c "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE $HOST:$PORT → $HTTP_CODE"
fi

exit 0

Afaik, termux doesn’t ship the cron daemon, but you can install cronie or use an external task scheduler. There, just set to run the script every 60 seconds or so. Whatever you need.

I haven’t tested anything of this, but in my head, it sounds like it should work fine.

Congrats to all the execs, you’ve completely ruined the tech industry.

No - I think they made it (involuntary) better by forcing people into looking into self hosting and taking control over their own infrastructure.