Definitely take the GPU out and heatsink off the CPU, when it gets banged around both of those things because of their mass can fuck up your motherboard. I moved a lot for about a decade of my lifr and had multiple desktops get fucked up.

I’d also check these out: https://www.amazon.com/Shipping-Temperature-Expanding-Packaging-Instant/dp/B0C5J8VYL3

There is another newer open source project called void that’s a cursor clone but with open source models (voideditor.com)

Mines running strong even through hardware changes for 6 years now

Ahh, makes sense. Multizone is something I’ll probably end up doing in my house soon, thankfully all my ductwork is exposed in the basement which makes it easy. Thanks appreciate it, I’m going to try to get a prototype board spun in the next week or two, test it out for a bit, and then see if other people are interested in them too. Appreciate the info, I should consider being able to control dampers also.

Cool, I’ve come across this before. I have been looking for a more open thermostat, preferably esp32 based, that I can have good local control over. I have started to do the board layout for one with some air quality sensors built in.

If you don’t mind me asking whats more complicated about your hvac setup? Multistage? Heat pump? Multizone?

They do work pretty well, I’m phasing out the Google homes in my house trying to go completely local, and the voice PEs are pretty good for voice control.

Which one would you recommend?

USB-C. We are clearly progressing. I never want to go back to the world where every phone had a proprietary power brick and connector.

If you like experimenting with cryptography check out circom, it’s a relatively simple language to program zero knowledge cryptography. I was the head of development at a programmable cryptography research and development organization for a bit, it’s fun stuff, we researched and experimented with zero knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and some more far fetched stuff like fully homomorphic encryption and indistinguishablility obfuscation. What you are trying to do definitely can be done with zk.

Also, please never use xor again lol

Do you like and get along with him? Would you hang out with him outside of work if you didn’t work with him? I think that’s pretty telling. Adults can be friends, but it is important to separate work life and personal life. Enjoying sometimes time and also depending on them to eat can be messy.

If you wouldn’t want to hang out with him outside of work if you didn’t work with him, I would keep some distance/buffer. If you actually enjoy hanging out outside of work, then just be cautious but it’s probably worth getting to know them.

Hanging out with older generations, especially around people who just have a lot of life experience, is super enriching. Might learn a lot.

Ya, this is the way. I use ... all the time

I think looking through the comments on this post about AI stuff is a pretty good representation of my experience on lemmy. Definitely some opinions, but most people are pretty reasonable 🙂

Ya exactly! Or just sanity checking if you understand how something works, I use it a lot for that, or trying to fill in knowledge gaps.

Also qwen3 is out, check that out, it might fit on a 1060.

I see a mix, don’t get me wrong, Lemmy is definitely opinionated lol, but I don’t think it’s quite black and white.

Also, generally, I’m not going to not share my thoughts or opinions because I’m afraid of people that don’t understand nuance, sometimes I don’t feel like dealing with it, but I’m going to share my opinion most of the time.

OP asked what you self host that isn’t media, self hosted LLMs is something I find very useful and I didn’t see mentioned. Home assistant, pihole, etc, all great answers… But those were already mentioned.

I still have positive upvotes on that comment, and no one has flamed me yet, but we will see.

I think most people on here are reasonable, and I think local LLMs are reasonable.

The race to AGI and companies trying to shove “AI” into everything is kind of insane, but it’s hard to deny LLMs are useful and running them locally you dont have privacy concerns.

Local LLMs, I’m surprised no one brought that up yet. I’ve got an old GPU in my server, and I’m running some local models with openweb-ui for use in the browser and Maid for an Android app to connect to it.

We need laws restricting advertising

Definitely. AR has a lot of potential, also could go sideways and have ads shoved in your peripheral view all the time too.

Health bar, bank account balance, number of steps in the day, calories burned, my next calendar event

I want a GTA style HUD at all times 🤪