If Intel/AMD provides an LLM capable card, by the time I get around to making a big boy server, then that’s what I’ll get. Ideally Intel for the sweet AV1 encoding and Quick sync. Then again, if the card runs LLMs, then transcodes won’t be a problem. Cuda looks nice, but fuck Nvidia, I’ll go without.

Don’t look at me, I’m an Android gamer these days, and my home lab runs on integrated Intel graphics.

Maybe one day I’ll build a gaming rig, but mine’s so old now (gtx970) that I’m pretty much starting from scratch. I can’t justify the expense to make a rig from nothing when my Retroid pocket is >£300 and I can play most everything PS2/Gamecube and before.

Christ. Some cheap phone for calls, SMS and banking. Some other device for literally everything else, perhaps I can get it with a headphone jack again.

GoDaddy(I think) for my domain, Cloudflare +Letsencrypt (DNS SSL challenge), Tailscale (to access applications remotely), AirVPN (for applications to access the web), Gmail (smtp, I want to migrate soon).

I host everything else.

Debate me bros are the worst.

I’ve tried being more empathetic when I reply to people, and that generally gets productive results. But, I’m just as guilty for thinking worse of people when they reply to me than I should.

I dunno if it’s a defence/offence thing. Perhaps I’m more prepared for conflict and can interrupt negative impulses.

‘Hunter2’ Was my original plan, yours is much better with a special charachter, thank you.

I saw Immich’s licence. I don’t want to dig up old drama though.

I was unaware jellyfin didn’t take donations.

I thought they would both take donations though. Money is money after all.

Holy-shit it does!!! I couldn’t find any of the main repos I want to donate too: Pi-Hole, jellyfin/seerr, *arr, immich. I guess that’s an outreach problem? Getting PromoFaux (Pi-Hole) onto librapay. Pledges seem to help with that.

But Lemmy, Syncthing and Vaultwardern is in in there. I have a tonne of services using MySQL, it’s in there.

Thank you kind stranger, my bank acct hates you.

I’ve said it before, I think there’s money in a service that crowd funds open source donations.

I use so much FOSS that making sure they all get some money is a real first world problem. If I can only give £10 that month what do I do? Rotate who gets the tenner? Give everyone £.20? Then you have to figure out how each service wants funding and organise that.

Instead I could go to FOSSfund select all the software I use and donate £x. That money gets divvyed up and stored with other people’s donations until a threshold is reached.

When enough money is accrued the service makes a substantial donation. The FOSSfund itself is funded through interest gained while holding donations.

Of course I am a naive user that wants good things to exist and has no idea the difficulties in making them happen. Brb, off to vibecode a payment system. I forsee no problems. I will not be taking questions or feedback at this time.

What is it that you want from me? Things are shit? I agree. Things will get worse? I agree. I’m naive? I agree. Appeased?

I’ll find ways to communicate with other oddballs. While the government is playing whack-a-mole with VPSs, VPNs, i2ps, openWRT, other shit will come around. If not there’s meshtastic. If nothing else does, I’ll go touch grass I guess.

Corporate internet doesn’t interest me over much, so if that’s all there is, on I’ll move.

Most of the content is in America for now. Buy a VPS in the Somalia and host from there.

All I’m saying is through rose tinted glasses, I think I preferred the internet when I was stumbling upon random people’s passion projects. A website devoted to some random cat? Sign my RSS right up.

Money getting involved in the internet has destroyed the UX while admittedly increasing utility. Worth it? Maybe, aside from banking, email, maps and Uma musume I don’t much engage with corporate internet anymore.

I am Naive? No doubt about it.

Who says I am happy with the enshitifaction of the interwebs.

I am happy these tools exist. I am not happy that they’re necessary. I trying to say that the problem of “how do we host and access services without government impedence” is a solved one.

This internet sure. Build an i2p router and the dark web has always been there.

Honestly, I think i preferred the internet when it was small. It was less useful sure, but stumbling on people’s passion projects and collections of curios they were hosting was just… nice… Ya know? Probably rose tinted glasses though.

No worries. Thanks for talking with me.

I think we mostly agree, at least we don’t disgree on anything substantive. Except the last fear mongery paragraph. My grouchy math teacher said the same sort of things about pocket calculators. Here we have another calculator, quite literally, and the same sort of arguments being made.

I didn’t mean listen to what Tesla says, but listen to what they do. They had a problem killing cruiser motorcyclists because the two break lights low to the ground they have resembles a car far away. Anyway, my own luddite problems with car tech aside. It’s not a reason for you to stop using it, nor would I try convince you.

My main problem is with the anti-AI people, for the reasons I’ve already gone over. Grouchy math teacher arguments aren’t convincing. Anti-capitalist arguments aren’t an argument against AI but capitalism. The ethical arguments (deep fakes) are half convincing but could be handled legislatively.

Correct, calculators can make you quicker… Just like they made me quicker with my cover letter. A pocket calculator would make my writing a cover letter slower though. Correct tool, correct job. I will accept for some jobs there isn’t an appropriate calculator yet.

Let’s reframe the issue with your car using your braked for you. You don’t see potential dangers in trusting a machine with acceleration and breaking? Tesla is screaming that you should.

But for cruise control you have accepted certain dangers and for AI you haven’t. That’s fine, don’t use it. For my own experience, the car can accelerate but the brakes are mine always, for if it does weird things with the power.

It is luddite though. “Tech is potentially dangerous” is luddite. I agree, it is potentially dangerous, so are knives, cars, etc. but we accept potential dangers in society, I would like them better regulated (deep fakes are bad yo) but I wouldn’t throw away scalpels because knife crime is on the rise.

Ok but there’s a distinction between “you don’t see the value in it”, and “there is no value in it.” The first means, congrats don’t use it, leave everyone else alone, unless you want to sound like Ben Shapiro claiming hip-hop isn’t music. The second is much harder to demonstrate, particularly as it’s value has already been demonstrated to many people. Just as an example, it turned a blank page into a covering letter that I could edit into what I wanted, breaking through blank page paralysis=value. Maybe it’s very little value, but it’s still value. Not the only use case for generative AI, or the best one.

Back in my day calculators were making us dumber, and to be clear I would accent that mental numeracy ability is lower now, but not that we’re dumber for having them. Luddite arguments are not convincing, I suppose I’m still hearing “calculators are making us dumber”

It’s AI… So… Yeah.

I dunno, I like AI for what it’s good for. The luddite argument doesn’t particularly sway me, my clothes, furniture, car, etc, are all machine made. Machine made stuff is everywhere, the handmade hill to die on was centuries back during the industrial revolution.

The anti-capitalist arguments don’t sway me when specifically applied to AI. The corporations are going to bad things? Well yeah! It’s not “AI bad” it’s “corporate bad”.

The ethical arguments kinda work. Deep fakes are bad, and I don’t think that the curios AI provides tip the scales when weighed against the bad of deepfakes.

Tl:Dr AI is a heavy, blunt tool.

Can your confusion be treated with a scalpel?

Scalpel: Am I a joke to you?

Uma musume? In Lemmy? That game has been consuming my life recently