Wow, ok. I was having difficulty reading. Me skuzi

It does bundle a lot of cool stuff together that you’d normally have to piece together.

Holy missing paragraphs Batman!

Nice!

ASCII porn! LOL It take about 30 minutes to bang that out on a dot matrix, tractor feed, and, well, if you stood back about 5 feet and squinted one eye, it kinda looked like a pin up gal.

I would have to deploy it and run it through it’s paces before I start promoting it.

If it’s a Ring Doorbell camera, I think they just unclip from the wall. If you don’t have the special tool, a flat bladed screwdriver will suffice. Gently press it into the slot on the bottom and gently pull up and viola! Then set it somewhere like in a closet under a pile of clothes and wait until the battery discharges.

I hear what your saying, and I agree to a certain point. I think that we can and are pushing boundaries Also, I realize that all technology wields a double edged sword. Always has, always will. I agree with you on data acquisition/brokerage. It is unfortunate that we, as private citizens, must go through such great lengths to preserve as much of our privacy, security, and anonymity as we can. Taking my data that I generated with my own labor, use it to further profit your billion dollar company, without giving me due compensation is quite the slap in the face. If my data is worth so much to them, then it’s worth a mint to me. I get that loud and clear.

However, to me, the internet is a vast information repository.Full of all manner of entertainment, data, interesting adventures, and education. At no other time in human history have we ever had the sum total of the world’s knowledge in the palm of out hand on on our desktop. Maybe not wisdom, but knowledge. The great libraries of Alexandria couldn’t hold a candle to the internet.

I just filter out the stuff I want from the stuff that I don’t want and call it a day. It would be fascinating to see what it will be in 50 to 100 years.

My first encounter with a computer was the Altair. then the Timex/Sinclair, then I think a couple in between, then TI 99-4a full setup, then one of just about each since then. It’s been a wild and crazy ride. I can’t keep up, the technology is moving at a lightening fast pace.

I have a English pit I’ve had since she was a very little pup. Early on I noticed that there were times when she seemed distressed. She would come nose punch me in the leg and whine and paw. As time progressed, I discovered she was actually predicting my seizures. At first I thought it coincidental, but the accuracy was just too uncanny to dismiss. I have read that before a person has a seizure, they emit a certain chemical odor that the dogs can sense. My lady friend also says my demeanor changes before I have a seizure, and my pit may also be picking up on those cues. She’s never had any formal training, it’s just something she does and I am grateful.

I’ve read some about wastewater testing and such, more towards the pharmaceuticals that our body excretes, which can proliferate our drinking water supply, and thus affect the population. It was quite interesting. I’m not sure if we filter for those elements now, or even if we can at the present.

a small Hotline server.

Hotline was pretty underground as I remember. Pre-cusor to P2P and a host of other platforms. At the time you’re not quite as aware, but looking through the lens of history, it’s fascinating where all of this technology originated.

Bookmarked! Thanks for that. Learning all kinds of stuff today.

Well, Foundry is a standard, can’t deny that. LOL You might want to compare that to Caldron VTT

no longer works with recent Docker, due to API versioning

I had that issue with Portainer recently. I had to drop back to the previous docker version, and held it until Portainer works through the snag. I didn’t think about original watchtower being affected. I just got tired of having to fix broken updates, and went looking for something better. When original watchtower worked tho, it worked well.

and everything works perfectly after a reboot

I always hold my breath whenever I’ve done anything major to the server and I need to reboot.

I wanted to use dolphin-mixtral but holy crap it wants more RAM than my entire setup

This is basically what I’ve found with self hosted AI. I just don’t have the equipment for it. Would love to be able to host a selfcontained LLM, but alas, as you say, it eats up resources. FEED ME MAURICE!

Navidrome

I’ve found Navidrome to be quite capable of handling large music collections. I was worried in the beginning. It sips resources. When I fire it up and listen remotely, I watch the CPU and RAM. It barely moves the needle. Very happy with it.

I also came to the realization recently that the reason I don’t relate strongly to other self hosters is because I’ve unknowingly been trying to create a minimal self hosted system that is more beneficial to small, low powered devices.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with minimal. The way technology is in this timeline, you really don’t need a lot to get a lot out of it.