Adding to this (which is a solid recommendation and answer BTW), you can try out podman kube play <your-file>.yaml (see here) before going full k8s or k3s setup to familiarize yourself with the concepts, without moving too far away from the docker-compose ease of use.

Regarding question 1, any distro works, but if your are looking specifically for a lightweight, fast to deploy node host os, I recommend opensuse microOS/leap micro or similarly, fedora coreOS. With both you can drop a combustion/butane/ignition config file in a usb installer partition, so you can quickly integrate fresh installs in your cluster (ssh, network config, user accounts, package installs) see https://opensuse.github.io/fuel-ignition/

You can find out - set up a local DNS (pihole, blocky et. al.) and check which domains the vacuum connects to.

Then block those and see what happens! Interesting experiment for a weekend.

To be fair, many roombas have a mini DIN connector somewhere, which opens up the possibility for external control - what I plan to do when mine stops working due to server shutdown. However, getting replacement parts will get more and more tricky as time goes by.

I just had to through out a mostly functional airfryer because the drawer rail disintegrated and the replacement part is no longer manufactured. The oldest one I could get was a “new” version with more plastic and a slightly bigger size, so it didn’t fit by about 5%.

It really should be illegal, there is no logical reason for 500 slightly different models and inoperability of basic functions (drawers, APIs, …) aside from malignant greed and planet destruction.

Every night at ~ 12-1am

unattended updates / transactional-update are awesome.

Stuff has been running for years, and it’s still up to date.

Hmm. I had pretty much the same experience, and wondered about having multiple conversation agents for specific tasks - but didn’t get around to trying that out. Currently, I am using it without LLM, albeit with GPU accelerated whisper (and other custom CV tasks for camera feeds). This gives me fairly accurate STT, and I have defined a plethora of variable sentences for hassil (intent matcher), so I often get the correct match. There is the option for optional words and or-alternatives, for instance:

sentences:
 - (start|begin|fire) [the] [one] vaccum clean(er|ing) [robot] [session]

So this would match “start vacuum”, but also “fire one vacuum cleaning session”

Of course, this is substantial effort initially, but once configured and debugged (punctuation is poison!) works pretty well. As an aside, using the atom echo satellites gave me a lot of errors, simply because the microphones are bad. With a better quality satellite device (the voice preview) the success rate is much higher, almost flawless.

That all said, if you find a better intent matcher or another solution, please do report back as I am very interested in an easier solution that does not require me to think of all possible sentence ahead of time.

With this new driver, system LEDs, audio LEDs, extra keyboard keys, keyboard backlight, and other features are working.

And this over a year after this was released. Our whole office skipped this gen for new hardware because Linux support wasn’t ready. Additionally, reports were that performance on Linux was/is abysmal for the capabilities. Generally, I feel it was a mistake to prioritize all new ARM and AI CPUs for windows, with lagging and shit linux support until now, as mostly enthusiastic would-be customers are AI devs/researchers, and they often prefer some Linux variant as it “just works” with most tooling. The ‘normie’ office windows user does not give ²shits about locally accelerated inference. Why chipmakers fumbeled the ball so badly with the new AI accelerator / NPU CPUs is beyond me.

Ah yes, a fellow quadlet enjoyer. Cheers!

Did

$ /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/podman-system-generator --user --dryrun

Also prove to be really valuable, too?

How are any of the produced “apps” actually useful and not just buggy copies of better things that exist?

Am I missing something or is this just for generic, low tech “I need a website” use cases?

Alright, might have to do some deeper investigation for why it’s messing up. Anyhow glad to hear it does work in principle and it may be something I’m doing - thanks!

Was trying this, but I’ve had issues with the app not properly synchronizing with the server. Does that work for you and if so, what’s your setup?

Was supposed to replace “Bring” and due to the issues, currently using grocy, where sync works, but is otherwise very tedious to manage inventory.

Maybe, but as someone who spent a summer school breaks worth of time in 2002 getting drivers for a Nvidia GeForce 2 card to run under Mandrake (oh the kernel panics…) to play counter-strike 1.X on wine… It’s come a long fucking way.

I use Debian for everyday work and on my private machine nowadays and struggle with the shitty experience of windows when helping someone out now and then. Granted, I don’t have much time for games these days, and often fire up the PS for that, but I feel experience can vary as long as you know what you want and manage expectations.

The poster you’re replying to was not referring to 3rd party software in user space.

Bubbles tend to pop sometimes.

PostgreSQL is definitely a boost to performance, especially if you offload the DB to a dedicated server (depending on load, can even be a cluster)

Nevertheless, it probably has much to do with how it’s deployed and how many proxies are in front of it, and/or VPN. If you have large numbers of containers and small CPU/low memory hardware, and either running everything on one machine or have some other limitations, it’ll be slow.

Admittedly, I’m not very familiar with the codebase, but I feel Apache isn’t improving the speed either. Not exactly sure how PHP is nowadays with concurrency and async, but generally a microservice type architecture is nice because you can add more workers/instances wherever a bottleneck emerges.

Nextcloud with the “Notes” plugin and app.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-notes-secure-note-taking-integrated/

https://github.com/nextcloud/notes

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Just make everything Shittier

Virtual high five! Keep it up, I’m always happy to see someone find joy and a sense of accomplishment in programming things.

Check out polymorphism and concurrency when you feel you’re solid enough on the other things. Concurrency/threading can be a bit weird to wrap your head around, but essential to build powerful things. (See Reader-/Writer problem to start)

I have no idea what any of these does. I might just aswell be unknowingly installing a keylogger or something.

This actually applies to windows GUI installers just the same. You really don’t know what you’re installing either, although you do usually give it administrator permission to make changes to the system. In some way it’s even worse, it’s “running commands” and hiding it from you.

Same, really love them, as you can wear them for hours and they cause no pressure or uncomfort. ANC is great too. I use them for work.