But actual results and bugs have very little to do with corporate firings or open positions, as 30 years of history show us.

If corporations “think” they can fire people, with AI as an excuse, and put that cost in their pockets, they will do it. We are already seeing it in the US tech-bro sphere.

Companies will tank themselves in the medium-long term to make short term profits. Which I think is the “dev market” that OP is talking about. It shouldn’t affect the market, but it will because you have MBAs making technical decisions. I could be wrong, but the tech market is very predictable as far as behavior. They will hire a skeleton crew and work them to burnout to fix the AI slop. (Tech industry needs unions now)

Isn’t this kind of the opposite? The effectiveness of protests diminishing? Like people are doing shit and trying their best with the limited time and resources they have and people are actively getting involved resulting is the largest protests in american history.

And yet the needle doesn’t even twitch. People are also doing their best to non-violently show that they are completely against the actions of the government, and yet the government doesn’t even care enough about the will of the people to acknowledge them or their concerns outside of an AI generated meme…

There are only so many non-violent steps you can take with those in power completely ignoring you. Haven’t we gone through this already throughout history?

That only solves maybe one of the listen problems. Whatever instance you have, you still have to get and serve media to other viewers and instances. The only problem that this solves is potentially CSAM spam/moderation.

Let’s say it was a cell phone, it could handle maybe 2 concurrent transcoding streams before stalling out and people running into buffer times (which makes them leave).

If every person had their own tiny, low powered servers, then you could have max like 5 concurrent transcodes on any instance in all of peertube for old laptop or desktop computers. Assuming an average of people have a 100/30Mbps connection (which is true in much of the world outside of major cities, or even lower), then that would be absolutely maxing out at 10 concurrent viewers if everyone is running AV1 compatible clients (which is not the case) and more like 6 concurrent viewers per video at h.264. Those estimates are at low bitrates also, so low quality, absolutely no slowdown from your ISP, and absolutely no other general home or work-from-home use. In reality it would be closer to 3-6 concurrent viewers per instance (not even per video)

Still not even counting storage which is massive for anyone that creates more than a couple videos per year.

My point is just that it is an extremely difficult and costly problem that is not as simple as “more federation” like in text and image-based social media because of the nature of video, the internet, and viral video culture. Remember, federation replicates all viewed and subscribed content on the instance (so the home instance has to serve the data and both instances have to store it)

Nice! Always good to convert something that is no longer supported.

For future projects, I would also suggest using the SEEED studio Xiao series https://www.tinytronics.nl/index.php?route=product%2Fsearch&search=seeed+studio+xiao if you don’t need a lot of IO, which is often the case with IOT stuff. I use it for everything HomeAssistant related.

The esp32-c3 version for the cheapest with a nice antenna if you have to put the module near metal (my homemade doorbell uses this)

The esp32-S3 model for more processing power (my VoiceAssistant satellite uses this)

Esp32-c6 variant to replace the esp32-c3 for everything that you want to convert to Thread in the future (esphome is starting to have Thread support https://esphome.io/components/openthread/)

Esp32 board are great, but the xiao series is so tiny that you never have to worry about them not fitting!

Just a few thoughts as to why it hasn’t taken off:

Video is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive to serve than text or even audio.

• Your server needs a great upload speed which is not achievable for on-site home servers for most people in the world

• Your server has to have at least one dedicated encoding GPU (no raspberry pis or Intel nucs if you want any meaningful traffic)

• Your server has to have a ton of storage, especially if you allow 4k content to be uploaded, which while much cheaper than before, is still expensive. Here in the EU, reliable storage is around 300€/12TB for drives, which fills up very fast with 4k videos or if you try to store different resolutions to reduce transcoded loads.

• Letting random people upload video onto your instance is significantly harder to moderate than text or photos. Like think of the CSAM spam that was on Lemmy when it started in taking many new users…

• The power usage (and bill) of the server will also be much higher than without peertube because of constant transcoding

The cost, both financial and server taxation-wise is simply too great for me, and many others to setup a peertube instance.

Regardless of how easy it is for people to create on peertube, someone has to bear the cost of hosting it. That is cheap-ish for Lemmy or mastodon, but there is a reason YouTube was a loss leader for a long time for google, and many streaming services restrict 4k video.

That isn’t even getting into compensation for the content makers.

I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.

It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn’t in there.

I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn’t auto-restart without my permission…

Yes, but I am also of the opinion that not one single acronym should be used without at least once in the section saying what the acronym is. Many many programing docs with say what am acronym is exactly once, somewhere in the docs, and then never again.

Also, if there are more complex concepts that they use that they don’t explain, a link to a good explanation of what it is (so one doesn’t have to sift through mountains of crap to find out what the hell it does). Archwiki docs do this very well. Every page is literally full of links so you can almost always brush up on the concepts if you are unfamiliar.

There seem to be 10 extremely low quality, badly written, low effort docs for every 1 good documentation center out there. It is hard to RTFM when the manual skips 90% of the library and gives an auto-generated api reference with no or cryptic explanations on parameters, for example.

I miss the Compose key so much on windows for my work computer

Hell, a 12TB WD red Plus in the EU is 300€. $160 for a 14TB is absolute dirt cheap

Also OLED screens so you could literally make a notification LED from 4-7 pixels in software without even having to add extra hardware at all

They sell tons of stuff that isn’t food.

Clothes and work & running gear(even Aldi merch once a year), budget electronics and appliances (their toaster ovens are very often used for DIY solder reflow ovens), garden tools and supplies like slug pellets and shears, and even lower quality tools that work fine for ocassional light use.

That is the largest overstatement of the year.

It rivals aliexpress/amazon brands in quality, sure, but it still generally isn’t even at the quality of Ryobi, which is a lower-medium tier brand together with Bosch green, much less makita, dewalt, or Bosch blue.

Though for many non-renovating homeowners just needing the occasional drill work, it works just fine!

The Minigame maps in source days were crazy good!

I am still relatively inexperienced and only embedded. (Electronics by trade) I am working on an embedded project with Zephyr now.

If I run into a problem I kind of do this method (e.g. trying to figure out when to use mutexes vs semaphores vs library header file booleans for checking ):

• first look in the zephyr docs at mutexes and see if that clears it up

• second search ecosia/ddg for things like “Zephyr when to use global boolean vs mutex in thread syncing”

• if none of those work, I will ask AI, and then it often gives enough context that I can see if it is logical or not (in this case, it was better to use a semi-global boolean to check if a specific thread had seen the next message in the queue, and protect the boolean with a mutex to know if that thread was currently busy processing the data), but then it also gave options like using a gate check instead of a mutex, which is dumb because it doesn’t exist in zephyr.

For new topics if I can’t find a video or application note that doesn’t assume too much knowledge or use jargon I am not yet familiar with, I will use AI to become familiar with the basic concept in the terms so that I can then go on to other, better resources.

In engineering and programming, jargon is constant and makes topic introduction quite difficult if they don’t explain it in the beginning.

I never use it for code with the exception of codebases that are ingested but with no documentation on all of the keys available, or like in zephyr where macro magic is very difficult to navigate to what it actually does and isn’t often documented at all.

Yet every 1-2 years the same proposal comes back with a different name and they have to have the exact same discussions over again because it has already been talked to death so it just depends which EU Parliament members have switched sides because of totally-not-bribary from lobbyists and nationalists.

This time around was razor thin margins.

There have been some big changes at brother in the past couple of years. I am holding out hope that they don’t enshittify and go the way of the others with firmware updates.

I started using activities instead of virtual desktops with 2 desktops each.

Separate wallpapers, separate start menu favorites, separate panel pins, etc… Plus you can hide activities not in use to keep it tidy. I used to use virtual desktops more, but I think of it now as a 2D grid. Vertically activities very organized and for each you can switch horizontally where organization doesn’t matter as much.

Activities are great except there is a bug where the little wallpaper previews won’t show with the default, batch resized and renamed wallpapers.

Immich

Jellyfin

*arr suite

Mealie

Authelia

Aegis

Liftlog

Syncthing

Aves Libre

Gadgetbridge

Lemmy

Forgejo/codeberg

Their flagship models only IIRC.

But the principle of an ODM is that the company lets another company completely design, manufacture, etc… Their product and then they paste their name on at the end and sell it as their own, which is why the design is often identical, because it is a reference design with a couple tweaks.

Like 99% of the cheap smart watches do this, as well as the Nothing CMF line. The non-flagship HMD line historically did this, maybe it changed in the last couple generations have changed it?

I am still rocking my Xperia 5ii. The fingerprint sensor stopled working after 2 years completely (a known problem that persists to newer models and it is thought to be a hardware problem, but it doesn’t happen on any other phone with a power button fingerprint reader and booting in safemode and back or a phone reset to factory can fix it for a short time, so I think it is planned obsolence in firmware), the software support only lasted 2 years (1 android upgrade IIRC, I am on 12), and the battery usage is 2.5-3% per hour with the screen off on 4G and 2%/hr on WiFi.

Other than that it is a great phone! Pro camera app is also awesome.