nirav72

>"Computer says no" is a saying for a reason.

Current LLMs rarely or seldom say no. Unless, they're specifically configured to block out certain types of requests.

You should lookup 'Supply-side Jesus' to get a better understanding of American Christianity.

What did Belize do? Lot of Americans have no problems moving/retiring to Belize.

I read somewhere that Google has largely abandoned support for their Coral TPUs? I still use a Coral TPU for Frigate NVR. But not sure how long they'll be supported.

>the NUC segment has a gaping hole post 2023

There are dozens and dozens of NUC style / form factor machines available these days. Especially cheap ones from China. Not sure what you mean by gaping hole post 2023. I'm running 3 of them with N97 and N150 Cpus. All bought within the last 18 months.

PC gaming is a small single digit percentage of the total volatile memory market. Neither Samsung or micron or Hynix currently have any incentives to increase production to address the shortage and lowering prices for that segment of the market. It’s just not a money maker for them.

After I read this article, I realized that I have a huge backlog of unplayed/partially played games in my steam library. Significant chunk of those games are from Indie devs. Probably enough games to last me a year or two. Plus, most of them seem like they will run just fine at max to high settings using my 3080 Ti on a 1440p display. Point is, I really need to stop looking for the next hardware refresh so I can keep playing newer big budget titles. This and current memory prices made it easy for me to forget about upgrading for the next 2-3 years.

This is clippy’s revenge on the world.

I got into ST about a year or so before samsung acquired them. Amazing ecosystem at the time and the ST community was great. I even taught my self groovy, so I could write my own device handlers. Then it went down hill couple of years after the acquisition. I still have my gen 2 ST hub and have been slowly trying to pivot towards HA. How easy is it to integrate ST into HA? I have a bunch older zwave wall switches and few other sensors that are tied into ST. But I really hate the ST app.

More mythological than science fiction.

I remember paying $250+ to some company out in CA and shipping my Xbox to them. Recommended by some friends. A week later it came back modded and a new HD installed. Along with a 10 page guide on how to use xbmc. Including mounting a remote windows share using smb. Or transfer the media files to the Xbox via FTP. This was around 2004. At the time, there wasn’t any easy way to play downloaded or ripped content on a TV from over the network. So a modded Xbox was a game changer.

Just want to point out that the NSA is part of the DoD. (Or DoW now)

The initial reaction was - What is that? How do you play the video? I happen to have a old VCR in storage and a USB 2.0 capture dongle. Hooked it up and showed them some old family videos. So their final comment was - why is the video quality so bad?

I bet the reaction was similar to what my teenage kids had when I showed them some VHS tapes I found in storage.

I played with this a bit today. Only downside is, no easy way to update containers yet. But on the other hand, no more dealing with macvlan or custom docker networks.

Lemme guess - us-east-1?

Perfect thanks. I'll give the N97 a go and put it to good use as a dedicated frigate NVR box. It certainly has a much lower power draw than my Unraid server.

I've been debating if I should move my frigate off an aging Unraid server to spare mini PC with Proxmox. The mini has a N97 with 16gb ram. How cameras do you have in your frigate instance on that N97? Just wondering if a N97 is capable of handling 4+ cameras. I do have a Coral TPU for inference & detection.

>It's a relatively involved process

No its not. It's a 3-step process with only one in person interview involved. I've helped 2 people go through that process in the last 2 years.

1) Submit an application and fee. Along with additional documentation (if any). Then wait for biometrics appointment notification.

2) Go to appointed date for biometrics. (Finger printing, photos). Takes about 30 minutes. No different than appointment for TSA Pre-check or Global entry.

3) Go for naturalization interview. If accepted, then usually interviewer will let the person know that they've been approved for naturalization. They'll receive an email/letter indicating date , time and location of the naturalization ceremony/oath.

Of course, depending on the area of the country you live in , the time between the above 3 steps varies. From 90 days to upwards of a year or more. Also, the above is for most people. But there could be some complicated cases where a person has to make multiple in-person visits. But regarding interview, there is only one.

Nice! One suggestion - please add AM4 socket boards. With current memory prices, AM5 with DDR5 is becoming unattainable for some. DDR4 prices are rising as well. But not nearly as bad as DDR5.

Hopefully parts are still available.

> my home internet goes, currently the devices disconnect from each other.

You might be able to solve this by hosting your own control plane such as Headscale. Instead of having Tailscale manage/coordinate all the nodes on tailnet.

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

I just wish they had Apple level inventory on hand. Sometimes I’ve waited months for product or component to be back in stock. Then gone in matter of hours. Currently waiting on the G4 pro doorbell. (WiFi version).

Anyone know if there is a similar selfhosted/run local option?

Thats been my experience also. I’m able to get better answers related obscure tech we use at work on gemini than chatgpt or any other llm.

by the way - You can use Global Entry ID# for precheck during domestic travel. My precheck was expiring and I had called specifically for a question. Their support person told me that since I recently signed up for global entry, I didn't need to get precheck. So even if you don't travel internationally often, but might - then its worth it to get Global entry. Of course if you don't plan on ever travelling outside of the U.S ,then yeah no reason to get it.

Whats the most common reason they’ve harnessed you over? Just wondering if they’re going based on prior issue on file? I’m of Indian descent , born and raised in the U.S - I must be the lucky one. Because I’ve never had any issues. Entering back in the country has been trouble free so far. Have you thought about signing up for global entry. Recently signed up for it myself and now I just skip talking to a human (and waiting in line)

Is this even reversible without crashing the housing market? Considering that most Americans that already own homes treat it as part of their retirement nest egg. Also the cost of building new homes has gone up due to increases in material cost and land.

I’ve used n8n for local adhoc automation. They had a nice desktop version and had this neat option to export the flow and run it standalone. They got rid of the desktop version. Not sure if there is option to run standalone flows now without hosting the entire n8n app in a container.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a windshield projected HUD showing notifications. Let’s hope that never gets added.