entropicdrift

entropicdrift , 2 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in Tethered Bottle Caps

If you can't hold a small plastic bottle by the neck, you've got bigger problems than tethered caps.

entropicdrift , 2 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in Tethered Bottle Caps

Y'know how you hold the bottle with your hand to lift it? Believe it or not, you can hold it by the neck, and even slightly touching the little plastic ring the cap is tethered to will keep it from spinning.

entropicdrift , 8 days ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in What is your set up? How do you use Jellyfin?

Intel N100 Beelink box with 16GB of single channel RAM runs my Jellyfin server and Caddy. It's also hooked up to my home theater system directly so I can use Moonlight on it to stream my main gaming PC.

My storage is a 4-bay aluminum USB 3.0 external enclosure attached to an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux (Arch BTW). The Mac mini runs my Arr stack and mergerfs on the external drives so I can load balance across them and scale it up or down as needed. So basically the Mac Mini acts as a NAS.

entropicdrift , 8 days ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in What is your set up? How do you use Jellyfin?

Symphonium is also the best for listening to audiobooks in the car. It has a really comprehensive set of DSP options

entropicdrift , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in Is it possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9?

So first of all, you shouldn't involve yourself in your friend's business. Fraud is generally frowned upon.

But secondly, you know that ChatGPT was trained on the entire internet, right? Like, every book. I don't think "more books" is gonna help.

I hope you take your computer skills and make something of yourself. Try not to get any more involved in this scheme, seriously. You don't need this crap marring your reputation.

Besides, there are better reasons/ways to fight the system than helping other people avoid learning.

entropicdrift , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in Is it possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9?

Just that they're no easier to use to fool an anti-AI system than using ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing, or Claude. Those AI detectors also give false positives on works made by humans. They're unreliable in the first place.

Basically, they're "boring text detectors" more than anything else.

entropicdrift , 12 days ago to Selfhosted in Is it possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9?

I believe commercial LLMs have some kind of watermark when you apply AI for grammar and fixing in general, so I just need an AI to make these works undetectable with a private LLM.

That's not how it works, sorry.

entropicdrift , 12 days ago to Selfhosted in Is it possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9?

Quantized with more parameters is generally better than floating point with fewer parameters. If you can squeeze a 14b parameter model down to a 4-bit int quantization it'll still generally outperform a 16-bit Floating Point 7b parameter equivalent.

entropicdrift , 21 days ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Chromecast Jellyfin issues

Have you tried setting up Kodi and the Jellyfin plugin instead on it?

entropicdrift , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

IMO, if you want the beast deals right now on a 12+ TB HDD, you should use serverpartdeals.com instead. I've got 2 manufacturer recertified 14 TB enterprise-grade drives from them and it was way cheaper than buying any 14 TB external drive.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Does Jellyfin allow continuous playback until manually stopped?

The AndroidTV client does notably have a quirk in that it'll stop playing at the end of a season if doing an autoplay of a TV show and playlists don't seem to work for TV shows yet, so unless you've got something with long seasons you can put on, it might be best to make a collection and play that.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago to Technology in Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

I pay for ChatGPT+ and it's real. I talked to it for about an hour today from my Android phone.

There were occasionally longer pauses than shown in the promo video, but only ever between when I spoke and when it started replying

entropicdrift , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

They're still mounted individually, so you do RAID5 or ZRAID on them, same as if they were internal. You can potentially be bandwidth-limited since USB 3.0 has a 5 Gbps speed limit, but realistically only for reads and you're still fine in terms of overall performance since they're all spinning disks anyhow and 5Gbps is fast enough for any media server/NAS unless you've got a 10-gig LAN/internet connection and feel the compulsive need to saturate it.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

I'd recommend a DAS setup (just a 4-bay USB 3.0 or better hard drive enclosure) with a server with any modern Intel CPU in it.

entropicdrift , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding?

Dunno. My point was just that it's an easy change, so presumably if you care you could figure it out pretty simply