You know Google drive? You know how it doesn’t work when the internet is out? You know how we live in rural USA so the internet is out every other day?

Yeah that computer in the corner is my own Google drive that still works when the internet is out.

Only needs some hammering and zip ties and it’ll be good as new.

Last I checked, EVs also have tires, so probably not the former. :P

The 2 is a bit dubious, but it looks just like jpegificaion to me.

They’re okay for tasks which are reasonably a single file. I use them for simple Python scripts since they generally spit out something very similar to what I’d write, just faster. However there is a tipping point where a task becomes too complex and they fall on their face and it becomes faster to write the code yourself.

I’m never going to pay for AI, so I’m really just burning the AI company’s money as I do it, too.

I can sometimes tell what county (not country) I am in from differences in the design of street signs (mostly the street name signs at stop lights), changes to the look of highway overpasses, and whether or not Flock cameras outnumber people.

Banished is fun. Rimworld is fun and addictive as crack.

I have tried that. I have a dish taken from a directional WiFi antenna. When placed behind the gateway, it sometimes increases speeds, sometimes hurts speeds, and sometimes does nothing. I found it a bit too inconsistent, and a bit too ugly, to be used permanently. If I had a proper mounting solution, I might have gotten it tuned just right, however at that point I would rather just buy and mount external antennas to hook into the gateway.

My exact deployment today actually doesn’t even have anything behind the gateway. That is just because for my specific case, all the towers it can reach are within a roughly 90 degree field of view. To block the bad ones, I really only need to block off a few sections of the window it’s sitting near.

I unironically do something similar to this. In my area, the only options are a dogshit local WISP, Starlink/other satellite, or (where possible) cellular.

I am one of the “lucky” people who are able to use cell for my internet, however whether it’s the cell company having a craptastic network, software/hardware bugs on the my customer equipment, or a combination of both, there is only ONE cell tower I can connect to which yields a useful connection.

All other towers result in the equipment failing to connect to the tower, connecting but failing to get an internet connection, or only yielding download speeds 5Mbit of less.

I have found that by shoving sheet metal around my ISP’s equipment, I can quite easily block off the non-functional towers and ensure they’re never connected to. I don’t think speeds are any better, but it does help with reliability.

I ran a Tor relay on one of my spare servers for a while, and my god did that thing get port scanned. Even two years after I stopped hosting the relay, it was still getting pinged every 5-10 seconds (while my other servers tend to get pinged “only” once ever 20-30 seconds).

It even seems to have a floor that isn’t worthless! Fuck yeah!

5 looks a bit like a bird

I use Nextcloud, but as you said it’s a bit big, and with each update it’s slowly turning into more of the entire G-Suite.

I’ve used filebrowser, but be aware that until just a few days ago, it gave out access to a shell. Even with that turned off, I’d be very weary of allowing access from out of the VPN. I had a server pwned with filebrowser appearing to be the vector, and to my memory console access was disabled for the account most likely breached.

Lemmy only. No other social media, be it Twitter, Instagram, or any federated/FOSS alternative.

I still read some Reddit, but only signed out and I certainly don’t post.

Why not both, then?

I have one of those in my car today.

Similar story here. I once had an assignment which was a part of an art contest with the theme “how to make the world a better place.”

I simply took a photo of a tree and gave it the description of “I would make the world a better place by planting more native plants.”

I got an award for it and didn’t think of it beyond that. Several years later I dated a friend from then, and it turns out I got first place in the entire school. She got second and put in effort with a drawing.

I wouldn’t mind if online textbooks had a button on the side that is just a looser search (like what Google was a few years ago).

It’d be handy if I could type in “gravity problem with the bunny” instead of having to either search for “bunny” and flip through all the results, or try to remember/guess the exact wording of the problem.

You probably could still call it AI too, since there’s likely some small machine learning model involved in that search.

For some reason I can’t find that exact frame, but I believe this is the source. Brut makes good shit. https://youtu.be/InnwzzJa8ek

It also could be a different video from him. Looks like Brut, though.

Man forgot to put on his VPN before replying to his own thread lol.