CallMeAl
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I’m not an AI
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How do you explain this tradeoff to users in a way that feels honest and understandable, without sounding like you are making excuses for Electron?
To people who dislike Electron due to its size, I don’t think you can. To someone with that mindset, saying “we are seeing something like 50–60 MB for the actual usage” itself sounds disingenuous.
However most people don’t seem to care that much about the size of Electron. Most people I know expect a modern system to have enough ram for it to not matter.
- Comment on I built a simple tool to find things to do without the usual paywalls or account signups 1 week ago:
what does this have to do with selfhosting?
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 weeks ago:
I do have an agenda, which is to try to understand…
If your goal is to understand why people feel the way they do then why are you arguing with people and attempting to refute their responses instead of thoughtfully reflecting their concerns back to them to confirm if you have understood?
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 weeks ago:
Reading through this thread and your responses gives the strong impression that you just want to argue while at the same time aren’t very well informed on the matter. Where you do respond its mostly whataboutism rather than actually addressing the comment you are responding to.
Your post asks “Why do people hate AI?” and then goes on to validates many of the commonly heard reasons people have for hating AI. You end with a suggestion that if we could develop AI into something else in the future, it might be good.
So it seems you already understand why people hate AI and are promoting an agenda rather than asking a genuine question.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
About 10 years ago there were several apps like that: Whisper, Secret, Yik Yak, etc. All faced controversy and went out of business. Today you have Hush.
- Comment on Why am I not Irish 2 weeks ago:
When it rains, why doesn’t it rain lemon drops and gum drops?
- Comment on Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice 2 weeks ago:
I think most people are way more influenced by nudges than they would believe or expect, as anyone who is successful in sales well knows.
- Comment on Finally we do not need to count it on fingers 3 weeks ago:
Tushay!
I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on Finally we do not need to count it on fingers 3 weeks ago:
Do I smell an ignobel in the wind?
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids - a Windows transcoding frontend for FFMPEG 4 weeks ago:
To be clear, I’m not trying to discourage you from posting about your project and I think you should always pursue such personal challenges.
I also think it helps others better contextualize your project if you include a bit in your post about your motivation (like in your reply).
To me, it’s also very nice to mention alternatives you are aware of and how your project compares to them. “It’s doesn’t do as much as Handbrake but it’s simpler” is a selling point for some people.
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids - a Windows transcoding frontend for FFMPEG 4 weeks ago:
What makes this better than Handbrake?
- Comment on It's me again. My Kubernetes devolver has reached the astral plane. 4 weeks ago:
People are lazy
Yeah, that tracks. It sounds like Type 1 Laziness: people who don’t want to do anything.
I sense you make this because you are Type 2 Lazy: Happy to learn and make 100 new things to avoid having to do a boring thing more than once. That’s something I can both appreciate and relate to.
- Comment on It's me again. My Kubernetes devolver has reached the astral plane. 4 weeks ago:
Sorry if this is a silly question, but what is the use case for this?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
You are confusing Thought Experiments with daydreaming.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running on a Docker instance with 8 VCPUs, 16GB of RAM and around 300GB of storage?
I usually do it the other way around. I figure out what I want to run and at what scale and then I get the server.
- Comment on Mini PC to replace fiber modem and wifi router. How to proceed? 5 weeks ago:
You can certainly do all that learning with or without directly connecting the fiber to your firewall pc. For a mini pc you will likely need to get a USB to SFP adapter. If you want to go that route I suggest searching for compatible hardware recommendations and get a USB to SFP that has worked well for others.
Personally I would stick with the ISP modem. In any case, happy learning!
- Comment on Mini PC to replace fiber modem and wifi router. How to proceed? 5 weeks ago:
This is working fine with no issues.
It seems like a lot of time and effort with no upside except having one device in the place of two. Is there more you are hoping to accomplish with this proposed change?
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 1 month ago:
Most of the parts of a lock are the same. However, the small internal parts, like pins and springs, are variable and can be changed out, usually by a locksmith. Those are the parts that require a matching key.
- Comment on Is there a decent video compressor like compressing from like 4k to 720p? Quality not an issue. I am used to watching cams when movies come out. Just size downward. 1 month ago:
Have you tried handbrake?
- Comment on A Netadmin's NAS: Creating a maintenance-free NAS based on RouterOS, from a homelab holdout's perspective 1 month ago:
There is no such thing as maintenance free hosting. There is just saving it all up for the eventual outage.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 month ago:
yes but usually at the family and friends distribution level
- Comment on What is a good present to get your dentist and dental assistant as a way of showing thanks? 1 month ago:
Send them a nice card with a personal note of thanks
- Comment on 1 month ago:
First off, only a subset of cursive systems connect all letters. These are called Continuous Cursive. Second, many cursive writing systems do include numbers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think it’s a cute way to express that what I do is pretty neat and also that I’m a real human being, not some corporate robot
Might want to be careful with that. Lately a lot of people see emoji in writing where you wouldn’t typically expect it to be a sign of ChatGPT writing.
- Comment on Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth? 2 months ago:
I don’t think you can owe somebody for something you didn’t ask for
- Comment on Alpha Release - spreadsheet-termux 2 months ago:
What does “optimized for desktop use over Tor” mean? Please explain the optimizations.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 2 months ago:
People want to believe because they wish badly for the money. Back in the late 90s my friends and I keep seeing papers advertising a guarenteed money making system for only $2.
Finallt one of my friends could not resist and ordered it.
He got instructions to put signs all over offering the money making system for $2.
“As you paid for it you can aee that it works.”
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 months ago:
Tipping when they visit places where it isn’t normal or expexted.
- Comment on Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my lab 2 months ago:
If you ask me, you are better off focusing on monitoring, fast detection, and auto-healing in a homelab rather than High Availability. I use an ancient tool called monit and newer tools like uptime kuma for this. Detection and restart is easier than having 2 of everything.
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel: proxy-dns Command Removal 2026 | What are some nice alternatives to encrypted DNS? 2 months ago:
I’ve been using Quad9 DoH for a few months now. Very happy with it so far.