halfwaythere

halfwaythere , 1 month ago

No.

Sand to wafers…
Fortunately, there is no shortage of raw material. Silicon is the second most common element in the earth’s crust, comprising about 26% and exceeded only by oxygen at 49%. But silicon does not occur naturally in the pure form needed for electronic applications, for which it must contain less than one in a billion non-silicon atoms. The starting material really is sand. Not just any sand, but silica sand, specially quarried for this purpose and having concentrations of quartz (silicon dioxide) as high as 95%.

https://semiengineering.com/from-sand-to-wafers/

halfwaythere , 3 months ago

You could say that with most any hardware. You could have a dedicated server fail and have your network be down till you got another instance up or have a "fall back" kick in.

What makes Rasp Pi so much more unstable? If anything a couple PIs are definitely a cheaper solution compared to other hardware like you are suggesting?

halfwaythere , 4 months ago

Reolink is a Chinese company. Not known for their privacy. My experience with their cameras is the quality is meh and their software is even more meh. It amazes me how often they get recommended. I guess it's due to their cheapness.

halfwaythere , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

This statement is so wrong. I have Ollama with llama2 dataset running decently on a 970 card. Is it super fast? No. Is it usable? Yes absolutely.

halfwaythere , 4 months ago

You can already do this. There are plenty of vids that show you how and it's pretty easy to get started. Expanding functionality to get it to act and respond how you want is a bit more challenging. But definitely doable.

halfwaythere , 5 months ago

Probably not a well received opinion but the amount of China promoting drivel that goes on here in lemmy is astounding.

halfwaythere , 5 months ago

I mostly agree with your statement and we should be aware of both.