I love Poland, love the people. In many towns though (ie I was in Bielsko-Biała recently) it smells like many things run on coal (like residential heating).
Aaaacckkkktuuaally, at my kids school vaping is now an epidemic of sorts. It's much cheaper, it's cool, you get it easily via Snapchat. Many kids later pick up smoking (anecdotally).
Fwiw, I see it on the page as well: SuchAndSuch finsihed Zip (a quick brain teaser)... I always think: Do these people know LI is spraying the news that they're wasting time on this bs to their whole network?
This is pretty big here in the Netherlands, a lot of internal discussion is going on about our sovereignty wrt IT. Especially since the ICC (international Criminal court) is moving away from MS365 after getting shut down [0] (which is seen as THE example that we need to do something), and now that Trump threatens to invade Danish territory... I'm seeing several online petitions popping up blocking this. The company concerned (Logius) is saying "It's not so bad" [2]
At this moment my two questions for these things are:
1. Can I run a local LLM that allows me to control Home Assistant with natural language? Some basic stuff like timers, to do/shopping lists etc would be nice etc.
2. Can I run object/person detection on local video streams?
I want some AI stuff, but I want it local.
Looks like the answer for this one is: Meh. It can do point 2, but it's not the best option.
1. Probably, but not efficiently. But I'm just guessing I haven't tried local LLMs yet.
2. Has been possible in realtime since the first camera was released and has most likely improved since. I did this years ago on the pi zero and it was surprisingly good.
> Can I run a local LLM that allows me to control Home Assistant with natural language? Some basic stuff like timers, to do/shopping lists etc would be nice etc.
No. Get the larger PI recommended by the article.
Quote from the article:
> So power holds it back, but the 8 gigs of RAM holds back the LLM use case (vs just running on the Pi's CPU) the most. The Pi 5 can be bought in up to a 16 GB configuration. That's as much as you get in decent consumer graphics cards1.
> Because of that, many quantized medium-size models target 10-12 GB of RAM usage (leaving space for context, which eats up another 2+ GB of RAM).
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> 8 GB of RAM is useful, but it's not quite enough to give this HAT an advantage over just paying for the bigger 16GB Pi with more RAM, which will be more flexible and run models faster.
The model specs shown for this device in the article are small, and not fit for purpose even for the relatively trivial use case you mentioned.
I mean, look, lots of people have lots of opinions about this (many of them wrong); it’s cheap, you can buy one and try… but, look. The OP really gave it a shot, and results were kind of shit. The article is pretty clear.
Don’t bother.
You want a device with more memory to mess around with for what you want to do.
My eye hit the "It’s not just hot water – here’s why" as one of the first things... em-dash, here's why... I smell the smelly smell, even though I'm not even opposed to it haha.
A "parenthetical dash" (the semantic meaning) can be typeset either as an em dash (a typographic meaning) without spaces, or as an en dash (a typographic meaning) surrounded by spaces. And the latter is often referred to as an em dash (as a semantic meaning), since basically everyone uses that to mean "parenthetical dash" which is the correct term but a term that virtually nobody uses.
I like the calendar, it deals well with all other providers. I like Pass, especially for sharing credentials in the family. Drive is nice, although I switched to Immich. I use the VPN a lot too.
I've recently stared using Pass for some things, and does work fairly well so will likely move non-essential logins there. For VPN I just use Wireshark home.
Just struck me that the competitors also had most of the kitchen sink. I guess Office365 and Google's offering forces others to bundle a similar package.
If you look for it I think you’ll find that they indeed see it as their mission to offer an ecosystem to rival MS and Google. You can do docs and since a couple of weeks also spreadsheet. It’s all decent but very minimal. Drive is aspiring to become a Google Photos/iCloud alternative. It works well enough, including auto syncing from iOS and Android.
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