CubitOom
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- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 4 weeks ago:
In today’s market, the perception or even the profitability of a product means nothing. All that actually matters is stock growth.
For a publicly traded company, or even one that just uses venture capital to start up; the product isn’t the thing that they might sell to consumers, it’s their brand. This is what gives them more capital to continue getting running the company and ultimately to profit.
This means that a company no longer needs to make good products, they don’t need to keep customers happy, they don’t even need to be profitable. All they need is to show growth opportunities to potential investors.
- Comment on Total ecstasy 4 weeks ago:
Not even a banana?
- Comment on Introducing selfh.st/apps, a Directory of Self-Hosted Software 5 weeks ago:
I recommend adding ollama under the artificial intelligence tag.
- Comment on Space Cheese 1 month ago:
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
Hey…I also advocate for more solidarity within communities, growing your own food, using less plastic & cars, and Star trek…Linux is just like 30% what I talk about.
- Comment on We've moved from the era of 'The Simpson's' did it, to the era of 'South Park did it' and that is unnerving 2 months ago:
I don’t see the problem really…but once it becomes “Futurama did it”, I will hope to not live on this planet anymore.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 2 months ago:
Ok, hmm I wonder how much work it would be to implement it using open source models. I think the hardest part would be translating the voice instructions to an API call that HA can use correctly.
Then there is the whole hardware issue to fix too. I do know that some SOCs are getting good at running 7B parameter models locally but the cost is still probably going to be prohibitive.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 2 months ago:
So what is Home Assistant using for this?
If I were to build it myself I’d probably over complicate it by using multiple llm agents on a local server. Probably use whisper to do the speech to text and then Mistral fine tuned on the Rosetta code dataset to send the API calls to HA. However that wouldnt keep it from always listening to me and trying to interpret what I say into a command for HA. Is that just a prompting issue for whisper or would I need another agent to turn on whisper?
I could maybe get this to run without specialized hardware like a GPU but it would be better to have one for the llms to be a bit more responsive.
- Comment on I miss windows 2 months ago:
Replacing a bay window ain’t cheap.
- Comment on Mad wormhole 2 months ago:
Bright and early for their daily races Going boldly, going boldly
- Comment on New York City Is Considering a Laundry Pods Crackdown 2 months ago:
But I love PVA being dissolved into tiny particles then being sprayed all over the things I use to eat and then being placed into the water supply.
- Comment on Best ergonomic/vertical mouse for FPS gaming? 3 months ago:
I’m also using the lift. Although I don’t do too many shooters, it did get me through cyberpunk 2077, elden ring, and armored core very well.
- Comment on What if 3 months ago:
The language of love
- Comment on It's big! It's heavy! It's wood! 3 months ago:
Did anyone else just hear the twin peaks theme music in their heads?
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 4 months ago:
I would say that if you are going to host it at home then kubenetes is more complex. Bare metal kubernetes control plane management has some pitfalls. But if you were to use a cloud provider like linode or digital ocean and use there kubernetes service, then only real extra complexity is learning how to manage Kubernetes which is minimal.
There is a decent hardware investment needed to run kubernetes if you want it to be fully HA (which I would argue means it needs to be a minimum of 2 clusters of 3 nodes each on different continents) but you could run a single node cluster with autoscaling at a cloud provider if you don’t need HA. I will say it’s nice not to have to worry about a service failing periodically as it will just transfer to another node in a few seconds automatically.
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 4 months ago:
With a basic understanding of how k8s works and an already running cluster, all one needs to know is how to run a service as a docker file to have it also run in k8s
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 4 months ago:
Well the kubernetes API has all the necessary parts built in mostly, although sometimes you may want to install a custom resource which often comes with complex service installs.
But I think the biggest strength of kubernetes is all the foss projects that are available for it. Specifically external-dns, cert-manager, and istio. These are separate projects and will have to be installed after the cluster is up.
You can also look at the cloud native computing foundation’s list of projects. It’s a good list of things that work well.
Caution, not all cloud providers support istio. I know that Google’s GKS doesn’t, they make you use their own fork of it
I would also recommend you avoid helm if possible as it obfuscates what the cluster is doing and might make learning harder. Try to just stick to using kubectl if possible.
I have heard good things about nomad too but I have yet to try it.
- Comment on Kubernetes? docker-compose? How should I organize my container services in 2024? 4 months ago:
You should try out all the options you listed and the other recommendatiins and find what works best for you.
I personally use Kubernetes. It can be overwhelming but if you’re willing to learn some new jargon then try a managed kubernetes cluster. Like AKS or digital ocean kubernetes. I would avoid managing a kubernetes cluster yourself.
Kubernetes gets a lot of flack for being overly complicated but what is being overlooked with that statement is all the things that kubernetes does for you.
If you can spin up kubernetes with cert-manager, external-dns, and an ingress controller like istio then you got a whole automated data center for your docker containers.
- Comment on Have you tried LocalGPT PrivateGPT or other similar alternatives to ChatGPT? 4 months ago:
Checkout ollama.
There’s a lot of models you can pull from the official library.
Using ollama, you can also run external gguf models found on places like huggingface if you use a modelfile with something as simple as
echo "FROM ~/Documents/ollama/models/$model_filepath" >| ~/Documents/ollama/modelfiles/$model_name.modelfile
- Comment on Hot earth 4 months ago:
Not hotdog
- Comment on What do you use to manage secrets in your network? 4 months ago:
Pass for personal use is great. Especially if paired with a self hosted private git repo like gitea.
Pass works well on all platforms I’ve tried, even android and wsl (although I’ve not tried with iPhone).
In a corporate setting. The biggest questions is going to be if there is already a secret store that has an API. If security will let you roll your own. How is it allowed to be networked. Who are the preferred vendors and is there any enterprise support available.
- Comment on Why scientists are making transparent wood / The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass 5 months ago:
You would have to make the glass, transport it and make it into window pane, so not much different.
Wood is compostable. But I wonder if making it transparent makes it something you wouldn’t want to grow food with.
- Comment on Why scientists are making transparent wood / The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass 5 months ago:
It might be a better insulator? Tipple pane glass is fine until the seal breaks and gas leaks out.
- Comment on Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century 5 months ago:
I kinda love it in theory.
Will be trying this out.
I do find it funny however that awk is lumped together with these small use case tools like sed, grep, tr, cut, and rev, since awk can be used to replace all of these tools and is it’s own language.
I don’t think the emphasis should be on simplicity, but rather on understandability (which long awk commands are not either).
If you give someone a bash script, they should be able to know exactly what the code will do when they read the script without having to run it or cat out the source it might need to parse. Using ubiquitous tools that many people understand is a good step.
Sadly awk is installed by default in most distros and tools like jq and jc would require installation.
- Comment on I love purple. 5 months ago:
I once heard that there is a theory that things written on yellow is more memorable. Which is why the default original color for legal pads, post-its, and highlighters is yellow.
So yellow should be what ever you need to memorize more. So it depends on your teacher and how much of the subject matter needs to be memorized. I’d say it should be history as there are a lot of dates and minute details, but I could also understand it being used for any subject that needs memorization like foreign languages, science, and even math.
Blue and green are both calming colors so those should either be reserved for that classes that give you the most stress or the classes that benefit the most from being calm, like creative writing or music.
Red is an exciting color, use it on what ever subject you are most confident i or interested in.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
On my phone, I’ve been using newpipe for a few years with little complaints. I can import my Google account subscriptions to it but I can’t comment or rate.
On my home theater PC I have been watching YouTube via Kodi with a Google API for over 6 years. It works excellent and there is no ads. Although Google may at any time revoke access to the API or charge me a fee to use it. It is kinda technical to set up and requires Kodi which is a rather large package with a lot of python dependencies. So if you only want to watch YouTube and don’t want to set up a Google API or read a doc then it might not be for you.
Others comments here mentioned freetube which looks really promising and I might try it on my laptop.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 25-09-2023 7 months ago:
And here is my exported settings for r5.0.
If using the same version, save as a file named
ComplementaryUnbound_r5.0.zip.txt
And paste in the following to import but I would suggest you play around with it.
shadowDistance=224.0 CLOUD_STYLE_DEFINE=3 AURORA_CONDITION=4 ATM_NOON_R=0.85 WATER_STYLE_DEFINE=3 ATM_COLOR_MULTS=true ATM_END_R=0.85 BORDER_FOG=false ATM_FOG_MULT=0.65 UNDERWATERCOLOR_R=85 ATM_NIGHT_R=0.85 LIGHTSHAFT_QUALI_DEFINE=3 WATER_QUALITY=3 UNDERWATER_DISTORTION=false ATM_MORNING_R=0.85 LIGHT_COLOR_MULTS=true CLOUD_QUALITY=3 ATM_RAIN_R=0.85 WAVING_I=0.75 NIGHT_NEBULA=true GENERATED_NORMALS=true SELECT_OUTLINE=4 SHADOW_QUALITY=3 DETAIL_QUALITY=3 WAVING_SPEED=0.70 BLOOM_STRENGTH=0.045 WATERCOLOR_R=85
- Comment on Alternative ways to run Plex? 7 months ago:
Jellyfin is great
- Comment on Alternative ways to run Plex? 7 months ago:
I will always recommend buying or building a small home theater PC (htpc). Then you get a wireless keyboard with a connected track pad and you are set.
If you are more tech savvy, you can save money and recycle by simply installing Linux on an old laptop/pc that you are not using and plugging it into your monitor.