Rhaedas

Another Mandrake user off and on user back then. Was my first Linux, mainly because the install was very easy to do. Since it was based on Red Hat, I guess I started at the right end of the curve and worked my way back to Ubuntu.

Figured from the expression.

“It’s the same picture.”

Always has been. The only difference is what they’re selling.

Your point of Ubuntu guides is one reason why I settled on Ubuntu this time around. I didn’t want to have to dig deeper to make things work when there’s usually Ubuntu install instructions. Granted they can often be just .deb, but Debian is a bit too far for me (I tried it a number of years ago and it was too “Linux” for me. But Mint (which I do like, and actually have on a spare laptop) is too Windows-like and doesn’t feel like I can alter it like I want. I guess I’m just saying that Ubuntu has always hit that sweet spot for me, and this time around I’ve stuck with it and very rarely boot into Windows now. So when I see everyone recommending everything else but not mine, I wonder if I missed a memo.

I’m curious why I never see Ubuntu recommended in these kind of questions. I do see people suggest Ubuntu-based, but then name Mint or others and not an Ubuntu variant. Is it strictly a Canonical dislike or anti-snap thing, or something else? The reason I ask is that I’ve tried many different distros over the years on and off, but this time when I went all in because of Microsoft’s pressure, I went with Ubuntu 22.04, and it’s been flawless. So it just seems weird that it’s never named while others that I know of but seem very niche are mentioned.

That nickname is an insult to compassionate and intelligent muppets.

Even those that don’t understand command line know its used more than just “for hacking”.

I don’t think Hollywood has caught up yet. It doesn’t even have to be a console, just any window with some code scrolling by fast equals hacking.

Ubuntu users here wanted to go Debian, but also want to live in the current world.

It’s the Fediverse. You can literally run your own little instance on your own or or a friend’s computer and restrict only the ideas you want to talk about. When you say “this place” you mean everyone else since there’s not a single entity controlling the flow of discussion.

And if “we” sold out, I’d like to know how much each of us got. I seem to have missed a check.

Remove the chocks, fire up the engines, head to the taxiway. Checklists and walkarounds are for noobs. If you get some red flashing lights, just do like the flight sim videos and tell it to shhhh.

The model isn’t going to help there, then. I’ve been messing with some of the whisper variants like faster-whisper, also tried an older one called nerd-dictation, haven’t yet found one that doesn’t creep in garbage from time to time. And of course you have to make sure the data the VR is getting is clean of noise and a good level. It’s tough to troubleshoot. The advantage is that LLMs might be able to pick through the crap and figure out what you really want, if there’s enough trigger words there. I even had an uncensored one once call me out on a typo I made, which I thought was hilarious. But getting 100% accuracy with so many places that can error is a challenge. It’s why I suggested finding or making (!) a fine tuned version that self limits what it responds to, to help put another filter to catch the problems. Ironic that the dumber things work better by just not doing anything when the process breaks.

Having used Voice Attack on the Windows side, the same thing applied. It wasn’t that VA or Windows were better at picking up a voice command, but a matter of setting the probability of a match for a command low enough to catch a partial hit, while high enough to weed out the junk. So that’s probably the goal here, but that gets into the coding for the voice recognition models, and I’m not good enough to go that deep.

I don’t use a HA so not familiar with the details of what’s out there, but where are you having the problems? Is voice recognition fine and the model just isn’t always following the directions precisely? If not, what are you using, whisper or something else? (I’m in search myself of a better voice to text that’s local). Certainly by now there are local models fine tuned for being HA, which would work better than a general purpose that could drift or misunderstand common commands.

Designed so they wouldn’t become another HDMI fiasco, where you have to search for aftermarket clips so your plug stays in. Now, do Displayports need it, probably not. They feel about as secure as a USB. But there is that fear going back to even VGA, where most worked fine without screwing them in, but just to make sure… (I can’t recall, did EGA have screws?)

I can’t say if the frequency is right, but poorly shielded spark plug wires will send all kinds of EM out. You know, the older cars where if you touched one of those wires you’d feel it, or you could see the aura if it was dark jumping around.

I’ll add to the bias. I created both a kbin account and a Lemmy.one account when the migration happened. Preferred kbin’s look and feel, then changed over to mbin when Ernest started having issues. Haven’t looked back, mbin is great.

As a (still) Linux novice, this is something that I noticed with later distributions but never thought about your valid point. I did always wonder why there should be different places to install things in the same OS. It would probably be fine if they handled things the same, but then all you’re doing is changing the UI. It never “felt” like they did things the same.

People don’t change. Some people look at what they’re repeating and try to understand the why, others blindly do what they are told by whom they deem as authority. LLMs are the latest, earlier were various websites (which LLMs were trained on, uh oh), still before that were the computer magazines with things to type in and the later versions even maybe a free CD of stuff. The printed media was less likely to have malicious things in them, but lord did they have errors, and the right error in the wrong place could ruin someone’s day if they just ran it without understanding it.

Ollama.com is another method of self hosting. Figuring out which model type and size for what equipment you have is key, but it’s easy to swap out. That’s just an LLM, where you go from there depends on how deep you want to get into the code. An LLM by itself can work, it’s just limited. Most of the addons you see are extra things to give memory, speech, avatars, and other extras to improve the experience and abilities. Or you can program a lot of that yourself if you know Python. But as others have said, the more you try to get out, the more robust a system you’ll need, which is why you find the best ones online in cloud format. But if you’re okay with slower responses and lower features, self hosting is totally doable, and you can do what you want, especially if you get one of the “Jailbroke” models that has had some of the safety limits modified out of them to some degree.

Also as mentioned, be careful not to get sucked in. Even a local model can be convincing enough sometimes to fool someone wanting to see things. Lots of people recognize that danger, but then belittle people who are looking for help in that direction (while marketing realizes the potential profits and tries very hard to sell it to the same people).

You didn’t factor in the variability of federation vs. a single platform and how not only can it affect how long it takes for everyone to see a post, if they do at all, but also how many duplications there may be floating around. And I don’t know if you can predict that reliably, as we’re all still trying to figure it out.

I agree it can be used fallaciously, often found in the business world. My point was to include both good and bad honestly and not hide it, and people won’t shut down if they get the good first. It also depends on the subject - if they’re on the right track and your suggestion leads to better results, that’s not as negative as telling someone they’re doing something incorrectly and offering a different way.

In the end, how you say things is just as important as what is said.