I remember throwing out a Sony trinitron with my Dad when we got our first LCD. The thing must have weighed 200 pounds. It sat on the verge for God knows how long before it disappeared.

This would have been about 20 years ago. What a mistake.

Then again… I remember my folks throwing out or donating my old computers (C64, Amiga 1000, 500, 600). War crimes, I sez.

Good man/woman/inanimate carbon rod

You might like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7IVcp3312Q

I’m just showing the kids episode 1 of Ren and Stimpy…wish I had a CRT for it

Yeah I can see both Flatpak and App Image

Seems like it’s there.

I’m coding a Kiwix mcp (I assume you’re using kiwix as your wikipedia source?) that might be of interest to you. I’ll post about it on !localLlama when done.

I don’t like any of the extant Kiwix MCP tools that I found because they leave formulation, ranking, search and interpretation up to the LLM.

I’m looking at a different way to get exact spans with re-ranking via TinyBERT right in front of the llm so that it doesn’t have to do 3 jobs and hallucinate itself into stupid, which is what small LLMs tend to do when given multi-hop tools.

I’m testing it with Ling Tiny 3, miniCPM5-2b, Granite 4-3b and Qwen 3.5-2b and 4b, with the goal of making sure that it actually generalizes. It’s been a massive pain in the ass and I’ve basically proven RAG from first principles…but when I’m done, you won’t need to vectorize the source into any kind of database nor “just trust me bro” the llm is searching Kiwix properly.

Well, if you’d rather a ready made solution or two

https://www.projectnomad.us/

https://futureproofhomes.net/

https://clawbox.com/

Like the poster above you, I’m rolling my own. More work…but a lot cheaper

PS: you know about this one, right?

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-core2-esp32-iot-development-kit?variant=35960244109476

While I’m not the biggest fan of this (for technical reasons), this is quite simple to onboard

https://www.jan.ai/

I mean, it’s pretty much a “one-click install your own local AI chatbot” at this point.

“Force has no place where there is need of skill” - Linux (by way of Herodotus)

Because the context is likey to be “… to a third party” of a presumably human kind. Human to clanker (which then gets eavesdropped) ought not to qualify.

Ofc letter of law vs spirit of law, variation in jurisdictions, legal interpretation, YMMV etc etc

Zero data retention. And even that is a pinky promise unless compliance has been audited by an independent 3rd party.

Honestly, if this sort of stuff is a concern for people, I’d investigate using direct API access, or perhaps subscribing to Lumo, which has a better privacy model from what I understand.

Or run it at home on your own rig. Qwen 3.6-35B Is more than capable for this use case. Hell, Qwen 3.5-9B even.

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Exactly. And it was gobbling up 30 gigabytes / is switched on by default.

#JustMicrosoftThings

Somewhat antithetical…but have you tried setting a weekly or daily task in ChatGPT to check Reddit, Hugging Face threads, GitHub pages, etc and compile a report? OAi has pipes directly into Reddit after their trade deal, so that should be a trivial ask.

Yes, you could probably figure out a way to do that locally too…but unless you are strictly against the cloud, sometimes the 80/20 solution beats yak shaving.

Otherwise, I quite like the IBM Technology and Bijan Bowen YouTube channels:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKWaEZ-_VweaEx1j62do_vQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOCahKBCEUuzDJawM7yN1dg

This is…okay. 3.6: not great, not terrible, but succinct and seems to follow the trends:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkVfrGwV-iG9bSsgCbrNPxQ

Finally…there is something to be said for not being “informed”. The amount of churn, slop, and misinformation on Reddit etc makes me lean away from contemporaneous information and towards general knowledge and self-guided, focused research.

The cognoscenti are frequently wrong, IMO.

I literally just now disabled hiberfil.sys on Windows (it’s basically useless tbh) and reclaimed 30 fucking GB of space.

powercfg /h off

30GB.

WTAF.

$20 for a Compaq CQ45 or slightly newer on eBay…throw in a small SSD.

See my comments above as to what you can run with it. TL;DR a surprising amount

Can confirm that worked well into the Win8.1 era.

Heh. I have a core 2 duo (Compaq CQ45, circa 2010) with 4gb running Zorin Lite OS. For 99.99% for every day tasks (and then some) it runs excellently, with about 600-800mb in reserve before caching. We’re talking YouTube, LibreOffice, multiple Firefox tabs, GIMP…all it needed was a cheap ssd to replace the spinning rust.

For context: this thing struggles to run Half Life 2 at any sort of reasonable speeds (though that’s an iGPU issue to be fair).

Last glance this laptop costs $20AUD to purchase off eBay.

Win 10 LTSC, Tiny10 or Tiny11 no good for your brother’s use case? I haven’t kept up with the Tiny cooks but IIRC Tiny 10 used a comically small amount of ram.

Tell me you weren’t alive in the 1990s without telling me you weren’t alive in the 1990s

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