Don’t waste your time and money on a pi for this. He a cheap mini PC. Like the types that go in the back of the secretary monitor at your dentist office. That pike of junk I’d usually much better than a pi. It even has a box and room for a hard drive.

Thanks, I’ll look into these.

Simplex chat service anyone?

OMG you gotta look at this:

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Nah, man. The answer is kids don’t need to be on the internet. They need to not be on the internet or on a data plan until they go to college and they gotta pay for that service.

It’s basically Google sticking its long long schlong between you and your kids.

Imagine you trying to open the door to your house and a Google rep shows up, asks you for a password and opens the door only when you have given it your password.

Imagine that same scenario when you try to do anything at home… Looking for underwater? Password please! Start you car? Nope, unless you got password. C’mon satisfy lord Google’s requirements!

So you want your kids to go on your phone that you purchased? First you need internet or this retarded process doesn’t work. Mmkay! You got Internet, now install a spy app on both phones and you’re good! Now just be sure you’re online and then give us the password, we’ll unlock your kids’ phone for the given amount of time.

And that’s what family link is. It’s a stupid excuse by Google to have their spying app installed on your phone.

Its Android

Yeah that looks though.

Switching to Podman. Supposedly Cockpit has a gui for it.

The hardware makers are forced to make warables with most of the computing done at data centers after they steal your data to figure out if the police should report you.

You’re right. It’s kind of how Michael Jackson music doesn’t mix well with orchestra music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXbdLfzGwHU

I’ll recommend this new VPN thing :

https://rayfish.xyz/

Its new so its evolving quickly with weekly releases and nightly builds.

Lots of people have told me about their grievance list due to AI having a big part in the development. It’s a bunch of guys in the team, so there’s the human element there.

As for my opinion, it’s the only VPN I’ve managed to get working on my own.

I lost connection yesterday and I am not sure what happened but my home computer and my phone were on the same VPN constantly for a week. Jumping from the house WiFi to 5g didn’t break the VPN connection but it did take a few seconds the first time I did it.

My other option would be Tailscale.

Update on the lost connection. I had restarted my computer and that changed my firewall device name for the VPN. So it was not rayfish related. It’s been pretty steady since.

I did. I looked into all the various VPN options. Tailscale and headscale are good options. I tried and failed to make them work for me. This one just worked very easily in comparison.

Thanks! I like my free ponytail!

No, actually rayfish creates a tunnel network such that cloudflare is not needed for self-hosted things like immich or navidrome. You can connect to those by the IP overlay from rayfish or its hostname also created by rayfish. If your phone or home IP change, the actual overlay IPs stay the same. The two devices reconnect otheir own. So truly Cloudflare can go pound sand and report the 30,000 hits it protected me from AI. Ofcourse I guess I could use their DNS to keep a searchable FQN AA record.

Oh so it doesn’t do dynamic changes in IP like rayfish does within a few seconds?

I guess I’m wrong. Wireguard can be p2p and that’s exactly how most users use it so it’s super easy to setup that way.

Anyway, this ray fish thing is just impressive that’s all.

Because this one has no central server.

Ah that’s good. I never sign up to the radio. So basically I don’t wish to login to listen to music.

Go ahead and sign in with your YouTube Gmail credentials, he or she won’t automatically store them for future use.

Agreed, it’s not for production. For me, as an engineer, LLMs are a couple of things. One is they are killing the planet by consuming energy, dumping the smog into our communities and consuming the water we need to survive. The other way to see it is…uhh give me a funny ass picture of a cat driving a taxi with a donkey and a giraffe riding in the back…make it a 5 minute video… probably uses way more resources than… write a program that gives me network freedom, here are the specs…

Once I get this initial bit and I study it, then I should be able to develop it like any other piece of software. It’s that initial kick that helps a lot. In my experience, if you keep asking the LLM for more, your program will just suck ass more and more until you’re left with nothing working. The other problem is it makes you lazy. Why should I debug if the LLM can do it?..debug this! But instead of a debug you get a full re-write and you don’t know what changed.

So I hope they are using the LLM in a structured way. Remember, no matter what the LLM does, if you’re not a programmer who would otherwise have understood the program enough to write it, you will still not understand it. Same for the cryptography.

But LLMs are basically a librarian who can parse thru many books and predict the next word or sentence. It’s locally correct. So imagine using Google maps street view to drive your car. First you have to get the big thing…where are you at? Now, with no windows just a gps signal telling you how far you are, you turn left or right based on your own knowledge of where you want to go. Finally, you crash on obstacles like other cars, pedestrians and buildings. Each time you crash you can get out to see where you are and start again. That’s LLMs in a nutshell. But if you finally get to where you wanted to go, you have a full program for anyone else to use. Lol