Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].

I’m like “what’d we ever do to you?”

Switched from Kubuntu to Mint + KDE last week. Very happy indeed.

At least the article points out that this is a Wall Street valuation, meaning it’s meaningless in reality, the company doesn’t have that much money, nor is it actually worth that much. In reality, Nvidia’s tangible book value (plant, equipment, brands, logos, patents, etc.) is $37,436,000,000.

$37,436,000,000 / 29,600 employees = $1,264,729.73 per employee

Which isn’t bad considering the median salary at Nvidia is $266,939 (up 17% from last year).

It sounds like the processor is the real limitation. Plenty of stuff from Windows XP era and before ran in less than 512MB.

I ran it on a Ras Pi 3B+ and it did ok with 1080p and below. There were a few movies that had stuttering issues, so I’m guessing the Pi’s better with some codecs than others.

Renegade Cut had a pretty good video about her. https://piped.video/watch?v=HC4K1mx0SPQ. I was mostly wrong about her. I didn’t realize they became friends later. That’s a pretty big arc for only one season.

Maybe we don’t live in the worst possible universe. Madonna and Will Smith in the Matrix, everybody using the Hulk Hogan Grill, Stallone as Axel Foley, OJ as the Terminator. I guess I’m ok with where we are now.

Probably better to ask on [email protected]. Ollama should be able to give you a decent LLM, and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) will let it reference your dataset.

The only issue is that you asked for a smart model, which usually means a larger one, plus the RAG portion consumes even more memory, which may be more than a typical laptop can handle. Smaller models have a higher tendency to hallucinate - produce incorrect answers.

Short answer - yes, you can do it. It’s just a matter of how much RAM you have available and how long you’re willing to wait for an answer.

One thing I love about usenet is that it’s great if you’re just looking for one episode, song, etc and don’t want to download a whole collection.

Why replace torrents? Why not use both? It’s a bonus if your usenet provider includes a VPN.

Even after the price cut, theirs is still 3x the price of Mercedes’ system which works better. I have a feeling Tesla’s earnings report won’t go well this afternoon. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-earnings-q1-175358835.html

I guess “It’s not for everyone” is the real takeaway here. I’m not a phone guy in general, but I’ve been using cards since BK was still selling 99¢ Whoppers. I’m guessing both of us are ready to pay before the cashier has our order rung up.

To each their own. (I’m finally admitting that I’m fighting a losing battle on writing checks though.)

Same here. I guess I should have pointed out that I’m not really much of a phone guy to begin with. I don’t install many apps, and I stay logged out of Google. To me, losing a phone really just means losing my pictures and videos. The most expensive phone I’ve ever had was $200.

Using a phone sounds inconvenient to me. I usually just pull my card out of my wallet, wave it over the terminal until I hear a beep and that’s it. Worst case scenario, I have to insert it into the chip reader or God-forbid swipe it through the slot like some kind of Neanderthal.

I’m kidding, but seriously, that’s easier than screwing around with a phone, to me.

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxmpmln-CI

Words just mean whatever these folks want them to mean.

I’m definitely going to keep that one in mind - it looks a lot more straightforward than Pixelfed. For now, Cloudron only lets me install 2 aps on their free plan. Installing another would more than double my hosting costs.

I guess I’ll see how far I can get with Wordpress before I have to look at another option. Thanks for all the help!

Another update. I went with Wordpress and it’s working like a charm so far.

Another question - is Wordpress suitable for hosting thousands (upon thousands) of images, or should I set up something like Pixelfed to handle that? I’m basically trying to digitize as many photo albums, VHS tapes and obituaries as possible before this stuff is lost to time.

Those look pretty good. I’m going to take a few days and try out some different things.

Static would definitely be easier. I finally got MediaWiki working but it’s really picky about what info I can enter and how I have to enter it. And if something goes wrong, it’ll be a pain to get everything installed and working again, even with backups.

But Peertube was the main obstacle. Now that that’s done, I don’t think the website will be a big issue. The real issue is scanning thousands of photos, organizing them, and coming up with a privacy policy. I’ll probably have to require a login because people don’t want their photos out there exposed to the internet, but that’s a whole other can of worms.

Just brainstorming here. Maybe I’ll store all the personal info in MySQL (which I’m pretty good at) and serve the individual pages with Joomla. Having all the info in a database will make it easier to migrate to whatever the next platform will be. And the only people listed on the site will be already dead, so that cuts down on privacy/identity theft issues.

I’ve been dreading starting this project for over a year, but now that I’ve started, it’s not so bad - kind of fun, actually.

I may end up switching to something else. I’m doing a family history website, so MediaWiki seemed like a good choice because I like the Wikipedia style pages. But it’s been pretty difficult to work with so far.

I had a course on Drupal and Joomla in college, maybe I’ll give those a try if Wiki doesn’t work out.

Wordpress sounds good too - I’ve heard that’s the easiest to work with. Since this is a family history site, I’ve gotta think about the unlucky schmoe that has to take over this site once I kick the bucket.