Pika

I like that you used the term significantly here, because usually the question is use will disappear, which it never will. Being said? open usage of image generation isn’t going to go away, and the same is likely to be said about casual ai chat bots. I do think that eventually when the bubble pops and investors realize that they are blindly tossing money into what is essentially a paper shredder most commercial usage of it will nosedive.

This effect is generally rather rapid, once one major company decides to drop it, usually it starts to snowball. Being said, with less commercial avenues of it, non-commercial projects that use cloud based services for it will likely have their prices increased to make up for the difference, so you may see /some/ non-commercial projects go down if the models aren’t being self hosted, but I don’t think it’s going anywhere

You mentioned it already seems to be decreasing as well? I might agree with that. It’s reached the point where the everyday consumer is saying “well this is cool, and makes it easier, but I don’t know how well I can trust this” and we also have some locations (such as the US) starting to put restrictions making it harder to copyright the outputs, which lowers a lot of its value in a commercial sector, but at the same time, we have big companies still going all in on it. So this concerns me.

mine is this way as well. it will count inputs as setting the clock and if you put an invalid time in has a hissy fit and isn’t clear what it is asking of you. The amount of times my grandfather has tried to use it after losing power and got frusterated because he was trying to cook something and the clock wanted to set the time as something stupid like 30:22 or something like that is annoying.

mine has a way to change the clock to 24h and the ability to calibrate the hot keys, but sadly doesn’t seem to have a sound control.

I’m not PC but, one benefit of using a central server for syncthing is an always on backup that doesn’t require another client device to be on, it also allows for easier creation of new shares.

For example, with syncthing you can set the “servers” client device to auto approve/accept any shares that are to trusted devices, then when you get a new device, instead of needing to add that device to every device you share on the syncthing network, you only need to add that device to the server and then you can have your other clients connect to the servers share instead of device to device. It’s easier. You can also configure the shares on the server to use encryption by default too, since you don’t really ever need to actually see the files on the server since it’s basically a install and forget style client.

As an example of what I mean:

I have 10 different devices that run syncthing, 9 clients and a “server” client. these clients are not always on at the same time, and as such when I change a file, the files can become desynced and cause issues with conflicts. By having a centralized server, as long as the server is on(it always is) and client itself is online, it’s going to always sync. I don’t need to worry about file conflicts between my clients as the server should always have the newest file.

Then for example say my phone died. Instead of needing to readd every seperate client that the phone needs to share with to the new device, I only need to add the phone as a trusted source on the “server” client via the webui -> click share to that device on every share the phone needs, and then remap the shares to the proper directories on the mobile device. this is vs having to add every device to the phone, and the phone to every device it needs access to ontop of reconfiguring all the shares. It’s simpler, but fair warning does cause a single point of failure if the server goes offline.

yea I have the machine backed up in case this happens. I have noticed that its a mess UI wise. But ipfire doesn’t seem to be stable. every few months it’ll randomly kill itself which will take everything on the network down until i manually restart the machine and then force tell it a new DNS server. It’s something I’ve never managed to resolve on the machine, and I don’t seem to have that issue with my test network with OPNsense.

I’m in the process of switching from ipfire to opnsense myself.

I hate how bloaty opnsense is at first glance but it has so much more control so once I copy my current config I’ll be leaving ipfire in the dust.

I have never thought of doing this. That’s now going on my server.

THIS NEEDS TO BE MAINSTREAM.

There is very little reason that with the digital behemoths that microwaves are now, that a simple “sound off” setting can’t be done.

I would also love a “sound off for this cycle” option, but that might be being too needy

my grandfather cant even hear the beeping, let alone if the microwave is running.

I had forgotten about the set UID flag. That might actually fix the issue altogether without having to do a hard-coded sudo path.

And would mean I wouldn’t have to double check the commans to make sure that there’s no destructive subcommands that could be done as well.

I might try that later, thanks!

I have been really trying to avoid implementing it into the user session, it requires superuser to run the commands and I don’t like the concept of hardcoding sudo paths using nopasswd

But I probably will end up having to do something similar in the user environment.

edit: Now that I think about it, I could probably just make the command path to the network command be authorized as no password on any user as I don’t really see a situation where the user logged in shouldn’t be able to manipulate the network it’s connected to.

I Actually had attempted to do that via a service, It didn’t work. And at that point, I had spent a few hours trying to get it connected to the internet alone so I was already frustrated and was happy enough that it was able to at least connect again. Telling myself I’ll go back to it later. Guess what never happend 🦊

When I bother testing it again, I will attempt to fix the service for it. Although in a perfect world it would be nice to have it remember passwords that way the startup is just having it connect to the already saved network, but I don’t believe that’s going to get fixed any time soon.

You might be right and binding it to a key binding may end up being the easier route.

Time shift is my best friend easily. I have finally convinced myself that I don’t need 12 hourly snapshots a day, along with my 7 daily 3 weekly and 2 monthly.

But God, is it nice to just be able to click the undo button and the only punishment is waiting for an Fsck to finish scanning

agreed! I just wish that I didn’t need to do 6 commands to actually connect to wifi!

that sucks, at least they called you instead of you walking in for the job after moving already and them being like “oh you didn’t actually get the job”

I would take that as a solid win in my books. Sr level pay, but lower level work? Sucks that it’s likely more customer facing but, that’s still a W then if they had done everything right.

Worked at one of my jobs for 8 years. Around the 4th year mark they made some decision to add a higher paid training oriented role into it that was essentially meant as a manager role, but you had no actual underlings because your goal was to go area by area and supervise or say where they could possibly do better. I was told I was the perfect fit, and honestly I love training and helping people so it was right up my alley.

I officially trained for the position for almost a year, got the credentials needed for the position and even extra permissions system side to be able to run the position, fully expecting that I was going to be getting the position. Then suddenly radio silence, the training sessions stopped with no followup, I stopped getting invites to meetings.

I eventually asked “hey what is going on” and they said “oh parent company decided that we weren’t good enough to actually get that role”. So much time wasted for getting that position. The only real positive (and why I feel it was a “switch” as well) that came out of it is that they never actually took away the additional security permissions I was given, so I was the only one with my title to have basically full access to anything system side so any issue that came up I no longer had to escalate to a management level or rely on finding someone to have to escalate for me.

agreed. thats where I went wrong with my poor ee-pc. I went 3 years without updating it and it worked like a charm, then decided to try and update it. every source was dead, including the keyring. Manually fixed the ring, half the packages failed to update even with valid sources. Had to disable all package verification.

I then made the mistake of “Well surly a fresh install will be easier than trying to fix this broken mess”… I have not had a functional wifi management service since. None of them support the system anymore as the arch was discontinued officially a few years ago, and the only way I can connect to wifi now is via command line without network memory or saving.

Yeah, I had never heard of it, I generally stray away from video based mediums, but I am a little surprised I didn’t come across articles for it, I can only assume that none of the creators I followed covered it.

Although it was kind of funny to see the beginning of that second video, him still trying to do damage control, it looked for a second like he was going to agree that he had screwed up that install because he said it was 100% his fault and then he Backtracked and said that it wasn’t his fault and I’m like so close lol.

It’s not just new projects that are switching. I’m seeing an increasing amount of current projects that provide a way of upgrading to another thing like Postgres or MariaDB, Due to the lack of innovation and change on MySQL