I think that most of the time when people decide that they don’t like decaf, it’s because they got some day old coffee from somewhere that doesn’t move enough decaf to ever make more batches. I like the caffeine in normal, but decaf is great for just the flavor.

I feel like at some point in the next few years Musk and Trump are going to have a falling out, and if Musk loses in that falling out he’ll get slapped with a domestic terrorism or treason charge.

I think my instance has been growing at about 30 GB a year. I think if you set it up to not rehost the pictures, you can keep the whole thing in the handful of GB range.

So when I ask Let’s Encrypt for a cert, I ask for *.int.teuto.icu instead of specifically jellyfin.int.teuto.icu, that way I can use the same cert for any internally running service. Mostly I use SSL on everything to make browsers complain less. There isn’t much security benefit on a local network. I suppose it makes harder to spoof on an external network, but I don’t think that’s a serious threat for a home net. I used to use home.lan for all of my services, but that has the drawback of redirecting to a search by default on most browsers. I have my tailscale exit node running on my router and it just works with SSL like anything else.

I use a central nginx container to redirect to all my other services using a wildcard let’s encrypt cert for my internal domain from acme.sh and I access it all externally using a tailscale exit node. The only publicly accessible service that I run is my Lemmy instance. That uses a cloudflare tunnel and is isolated in it’s own vlan.

TBH I’m still not really happy having any externally accessible service at all. I know enough about security to know that I don’t know enough to secure against much anything. I’ve been thinking about moving the Lemmy instance to a vps so it can be someone else’s problem if something bad leaks out.

If you want apples to apples, why the hell is Tesla, a company that makes under 2m vehicles, have a market cap of 1.4T while Toyota, a company that makes 10 million vehicles a year, has a market cap of 233B. No matter how you look at it, Toyota has better numbers in every way, but Tesla is a tech company as far as the market is concerned.

I have a dell power edge 730, which was about $200. It’s CPU shrouds perfectly match the GPU intakes so air just flows through both from the server fans. I’ve seen a few 3d printable fan mounts for jury rigging them into a regular tower too.

I picked up a pair of old Tesla P40s. Right now I’m running a Q4 quant of Qwen 2.5 72B that fits in the combined 48GB of VRAM with 12k context. They aren’t as fast as newer consumer cards, but it generates as fast as I can read while costing less than a used 3080.

About 5 years ago FB decided that they wanted to 2FA using my college email instead of the one actually attached to the account. Don’t have my college email any more and I never cared enough to figure out how to fix it.

I just use an IP address, they always resolve http and I can type 1.1.1.1 faster.

Use ranch dressing. I was informed that was for gays and city folk only. I really had no response to that nugget of wisdom.

I have the opposite. Unlimited phone data, but it throttles above some high number that I’ve never hit. Capped home internet from crapcast, 1.3 TB, I haven’t hit it but I’ve come within a couple gigabytes.

They offer unlimited data if I use their modem/router for an extra $10/mo. Of course their modem comes with the wonderful feature of a public hotspot for any other Comcast customers in the area. I’ve been thinking about getting their modem, putting it in a metal box and just using pass through with my opnsense box.

I like the catppuccin cursors (along with the rest of catppuccin) https://github.com/catppuccin/cursors

I live in a major city. The nearest Kroger is 2 blocks away. The nearest non-kroger is 7 miles away. And I have to drive past 3 Kroger’s to get there. It’s ridiculous.

Bought a kobo recently. Bought it direct from Kobo, Walmart wasn’t involved at all in any step. Worked perfectly out of the box with Caliber too. Nice little device, library interface could use some work but it’s functional.

Well when the LLM craze collapses in the nearish future we’ll have a bunch more nuclear power in the 2030’s. So that’s good I guess?

Wake up between 7 and 10 depending on what timezone I’m in, I work late so I don’t need an alarm. Open the hotel blinds to get some real light. Eat some yogurt. Do a light work out. Shower. Do whatever until whenever my phone says go to work. Work 3–14 hours based on whatever schedule is on my phone. Go to hotel. Go to bed. Appreciate the fact that I have no meetings ever and at least 16 days off a month.

What you are looking for is a RAG and is one of the few legitimately useful implementations of LLMs outside the wall of hype.

This is 100% of the reason that I use the discord flatpak.

My one and only reason is that I’m a turbo-nerd. No professional or even educational tech background at all.