Getting grandma on signal isn’t to hard, Lemmy might be harder

They’ve gotten better in terms of linux support. Though yea as a company I don’t love them, though no chip makers are really amazing companies they all have issues

Oh, for sure, the only revolutionary thing here is I could run an LLM on an international flight. That’s kinda cool, but not life changing.

The only other thing that’s revolutionary is that it’s arm, that’s where things are going anyway, which can be a huge efficiency win. I’ve long been wanting devices that can ramp up to several hundred watts of useful power when needed but idle at closer to 10. That might still be a pipe dream, we’ll see. But I’m for sure hyped about powerful arm chips starting to show up from not Apple

I kinda want it. Admittedly, not before there is Linux support. And I’d like to see upgradeable internal storage, PTM 750 sheets and all that.

But the reason why is I very much think x86 is a bit long in the tooth and I’m down to replace my desktop with such a device. I’ve been mulling shoving it in my server rack with wake on LAN and using it to stream games with Moonlight since I doubt the x86 emulation is quite good enough yet for things like Elite Dangerous.

Idk, not having an idle power draw exceed 50W is pretty compelling

Depends on what you mean by non-tech savvy. Also depends on what you mean by cloud.

So, the simplest way to get something close to the dropbox experience is to use syncthing. Install it like you would any other program, and set it up (lots of videos and tutorials out there if you get stuck) this will then copy the folders you specify to all your connected devices. The problem is if you don’t regularly have all your devices powered on and connected to the network at the same time then your best option is to have one machine left in a closet powered on and connected at all times so everything syncs smoothly and seamlessly.

Doing that you get a cloud of sorts without having to deal with servers in a traditional sense. It also requires no knowledge other than fairly basic computer skills.

This is cool and all, but it’s limited to file sharing, to get more advanced features you need to start learning servers.

However, there have been several projects in the last few years to make having a personal cloud easier. In no particular order: Zima OS, Open Media Vault, Hex OS, Synology OS, Casa OS, True Nas Scale, Unraid. These are all operating systems you need to install on a spare computer and leave it on all the time, but they create a website at their IP you can visit that has something like an app store where you can just add services. There are lots of videos and articles about these to help you get started.

P. S. If you do start setting up a real server everything on it can be accessed at home without much issue, but to get it available when you aren’t at home will require you to learn a bit about networking, and probably require you to get a domain name.

P.P.S. This whole system is easy enough for beginners to get started but becomes a deep pool of gotchas pretty quickly, be ready to learn there isn’t a good just plug and play solution currently, one problem at a time you’ll get there eventually. I have been mulling ways to make this whole thing easier for some time, eventually I suspect either myself or someone else will probably create a more plug and play project for home servers, but it’s still the perview of tinkerers for now, and likely will be for at least the next 5 years.

You sort of can, on the desktop site when watching a video on the right hand side there are a bunch of recommendations. Next to each recommendation is three dots. Click on the dots, then you should get a dropdown with the option to never recommend that channel again. I do this fairly liberally and mostly don’t get AI vids recommended anymore

I have finally moves over to Kagi, and I’m really liking it, give it a try

There is the HDMI pi cm4 carrier board and projects like OSMC (Open Source Media Center)

Quality is the main thing lacking, that and convienence. Do the fancy setup and with some configuration everything shows up in high quality with surround sound great for a nice home theater setup. Or even a middling home theater setup. Uhd 5.1 surround, hdr, the works. And convenience one app for everything from, shows, sports, Anime to porn, no need to use a keyboard the TV remote is all you need. It’s a bit annoying to setup, but the result is luxury and learning a bit more about networking.

Micro is pretty nice, has limited mouse support in the TUI line numbers highlighting. That or Neovim customized

Someone who wants trun by turn directions more conveniently that airpods or something. Let’s you have situational awareness while driving. If they weren’t Meta I’d consider some for prompting me about people’s names I forget names 5seconds after hearing them. Or people like me who can’t consistently distinguish faces, hence the facial recognition witha a database of names would be useful. I could also see them a preferable to a go pro or something when trying to capture and share a pov video while say working on a car or something.

If you were doing that, it would be easy to forget sometimes that you need to turn them off or take them off before private activities. Especially if you need glasses.

Fuck Meta, won’t buy their glasses, but absolutely would buy a similar product if I could run it through my servers.

If you want a gui on your server ignore the Proxmox just use Debian

Hyprland isn’t really that drama laden these days thue got better moderation and the lead Dev is maybe less of a piece of work.

Omarchy is DHHs baby, DHH is a white supremacist

I kinda want to decompile the windows kernel and throw it in here and publish whatever comes out…

I can live with that, 100miles of range is more than I use day to day, so is 60miles. Winter road trips could be a pain, but that’s maybe once a year

The article says 2.5b people is the max for everyone to have a high standard of living. Lower standards of living could be supported for a larger population. At least that’s the claim.

Idk if that’s necessarily true, though I suppose it depends on what you define as the high standard of living. That isn’t well spelled out. It also assumes there isn’t significant change in energy input required for the high standard output.

Zulip maybe?

The one thing that bugs me is having to look up whether periferals work with Linux. Still have odd issues with ones that work like Logitech mmo mouse I have to start Piper every time I log in pretty much to set the DPI. If I ever get around to buying something like a stream deck I’ll have to tripple check it will play nice. Not the end of the world, just little annoyances.

The only other things I miss are COD and LoL, honestly though with how toxic the communities are or can be idk that I’m missing anything of value just haven’t found anything that scratches the same itch yet.