I’m planning to introduce my kids to Linux at a really early age. I was using DOS at 4-5 years of age. They’ll be using Linux. I hope by hooking them up young, they’ll grow resistance to corporat OSes and devices. Plus I’d be able to delegate the maintenance of the self-hosted services to them. 😄

“Hey girl, Immich is outta date!”

True but this isn’t specific to the tech bubble. It’s a feature of capitalism. Competition forces firms to adopt shorter term horizons. If a firm has significant profit to make by focusing on the short term and it does not, its competitor would. If the profit possoble within this period is significant, having the competitor collect it runs the risk of the current firm failing, or the competitor accumulating enough for hostile takeover, among other failures. That would stop the current firm onwer from collecting profits in the future. Even if focusing on the long term is more profitable over time, firms may not survive in a competitive environment to realize long term profits. These are some of the fundamental processes that drive firms into short term horizons. With liquid asset markets there are even more immediate processes driving firms into short term planning.

Add to that planning based mainly on prices, which don’t capture a ton of reality and you get situations like a water hungry datacenter in the desert, cause the price of water does not capture its long term availability for example.

All of this has happened in the past, even a century ago. It’s happened and keeps happening in other industries too. For example the fossil fuel industry.

That’s my thought process too.

Thank you for your service!

I bet many of us are subbed to 404 given their content’s presence here. It’s good to see them returning the favour! Time to show that content is not created only on Reddit.

Is Ollama doing the cooking? 😂

Add storage via good USB hub or use a multi-bay storage box later on. The have built-in hubs. E.g. Terramaster or OWC Mercury Elite Pro.

For the highest possible resource utilization and security support beyond Apple’s, you could try installing Linux and using Docker containers for everything. You should be able to run quite a few services.

The next best option resource-wise is to run a large Linux VM and docker containers inside it. The Docker for Mac setup does exactly that. This is how we solved running a complex and resource hungry tech stack locally for development at a past workplace.

Then come running services in multiple VMs.

I’m running a container,

Hey why do you have my pocket?

Not it. People are worried about what their brand of authoritarin capitalism will do with transhumnism.

Whenever you see technoligical skepticism, it’s almost always about its effects on the working class as used by the ruling class of the time. If for example you opened up a new public research agency for AI (like NASA but NAIA) with the short term goal of developing open source AI and the long term promise to reduce the work week for all through AI productivity advancement, I think you’d get broad support.

Today however we hear private execs left front and centre salivating over the layoffs they’d be able to achieve thanks to AI, or over the new profit growth they’re gonna achieve. Most people know they ain’t getting any of that profit and would instead be stuck with the layoffs and inequality, among other negative effects. And history tells us this is a well founded concern.

Not sure what a music assistant is. The speaker acts like a media player in Home Assistant. Actually now that I think about it, I don’t know how I’d play music on it. It doesn’t seem to do cast. 🤭

Debian

I did not read the post, I just came here to say Debian since that’s the answer to the general question. 😄

For music, it’s not great. For voice, it’s pretty good. It’s decently loud and legible. There’s no bass. The mics however are pretty good. As far as I’ve read, you can’t get the mics to work well unless they’re tuned for that speaker in physical placement and hardware/firmware. The HA speaker uses the same kind of DSP chip that makes it possible for it to hear well in worse than ideal conditions which makes speech recognition work so well. So yeah, if you don’t wanna faff with stuff and you don’t care about music, just get it. It’s got 3.5mm TRS out if you wanna hook a proper speaker for music. The DAC is probably not amazing for HiFi but should you want to hook up something like a JBL Charge, I imagine it should work. In fact I’m planning to do this in another room where I used to use a larger Google Nest speaker for music.

Buy this. You can use your own voice processing on another machine on your network. You could even hook it up to your Ollama. I have it and it’s completely replaced Google Home for voice control.

Ah yeah, from AI perspective yes. I was stricrly speaking of the gaming market.

3DFX: ☠️

EXPLODING BATTERY

I want a dirt cheap mid-range GPU!

Most people don’t buy top of the line NVIDIA so they are okay with lower performance. If lower performance is sold at significantly lower price… they are likely to make a lot of sales. For example if someone offered me a 4060 equivalent for $100, I would buy it instantly and lower my graphics settings if needed.

The Android app finally does IO on a background thread. 🫠