Just learned, Grok now requires a paid subscription to generate nudes. That won’t stop the average slop, but maybe some weird stuff. Because these people need to put in some payment details. And they’d probably need to do some extra work not to get their personal credit card connected to illegal activities.

I think the only way for us to do something, is to complain to our legislators and make them pass laws to mandate watermarking for all AI services. With proper watermarks, we could do AI filters.

And automatically detecting if an AI image is an unconsentual deep-fake… I don’t think that’s possible with technology.

Isn’t that a Nintendo Switch game? You’d need to install and run an emulator for that, like you did with Yuzu on Windows. I don’t think Yuzu is around anymore, but there are some sucessors, Eden and Citron? I’d install one of those. At least Eden has SteamOS mentioned on it’s homepage. You need to install it, though. The SteamOS or Linux version from their homepage, not copy the entire emulator over from Windows. After that you can transfer the game files and load them into the emulator. Any variant to copy files between computers should work. A windows network share, USB stick, microSD card, a cloud drive or filedrop/sync tool…

In addition to the DB, there’s also a media directory with a lot of stuff like images. I guess that should be saved as well. Not sure how that’s done with Docker but I’m sure it has some mechanism to back up volumes. It’s called “media” in the docker compose file, or “app/static/media/” in my non-containerized install.

Isn’t that processor almost 15 years old? Nor sure what kind of price is alright for that. 250 seems a bit much but I don’t really know. I mean it’d probably work fine and 24GB is plenty of RAM for a few selfhosted services. I don’t think you need a graphics card for most services. Though Jellyfin can make use of the video encoder in it. Or use the encoder that comes with the iGPU in the processor. (Edit: Not sure in this case as it’s a very old generation.) And maybe the machine learning features in Immich can make use of the graphics card. Otherwise a GPU just wastes power in a server.

No idea about power consumption. I don’t know where you live, some countries have really cheap electricity. Some don’t and you maybe don’t want to run a random (old) gaming pc, because some waste a lot of power and some don’t and there is no good way to tell except measure it.

You mean AMD or Intel? I can’t find any variant with an ARM processor. According to the internet, both the Intel and AMD version should work with Linux. My wife actually owns the Intel X13 Gen1. With Linux Mint Debian edition on it. Seems to work fine, she didn’t ever complain. Just be aware these are 5 year old devices. She paid 404€ for a refurbished one. We went with the 16GB RAM option, since that’s soldered and not upgradable. Also had an i7 processor at that price point.

You should read their project page and blog. I mean I don’t own any crystal ball, I can’t look into the future and see if it’s going to succeed… It speaks ActivityPub. So it is the Fediverse. And it is a shop… Or better: It might become one. Because their progress meter shows something like 25% done. Currently it’s just some early computer code and they need to invest a lot more time before it’s ready to do anything.

I doubt it’s gonna “replace” Amazon, though. I mean Free Software alternatives rarely replace multi-billion dollar companies… But if they keep at it, it might become an online shopping platform. And maybe one day, you can buy something there, or sell your Etsy stuff via “Shops”. Or maybe they lose interest, start a new hobby, finish school and don’t have time for this anymore and the project goes nowhere. I don’t think we can tell.

I think it’s a solid idea. I mean there’s probably some stuff to figure out so people don’t get outcompeted on their own website or scams and the like… But kinda reminds me of how competing supermarkets will be close to each other so people can visit both and spend more. Or how shopping malls or shopping districts work with everything in close proximity / under one roof.

Well, I tinkered around a bit with Speech Note which has a good amount of features and is easy to install as a Flatpak. I think it has an option to do this, but requires a bit off fiddling, an extra tool and permissions for the Flatpak. I didn’t find any software with a particularly good integration into the Desktop, though.

Also read about Blahst but didn’t try it yet. Maybe that one is an option.

Sound lovely! Yeah, Lemmy is the internet after all. People are wildly different here.

I’m one of the Linux nerds here. I tinker with electronics, smart home stuff. Selfhosting. Occasionally I’ll send some pull requests towards PieFed or other random projects I like. Maybe in the near future I’d like to relaunch my personal website and turn it into a digital garden with cooking recipes maybe a blog… I’m somewhat of a believer that AI is going to ruin the internet and displace everything with slop and fake cooking recipes, so I’d like to work on a revival of the human aspect online… Yeah and I do regular stuff like home improvement with the slower days around Christmas.

Btw, 3D worlds sounds nice as well. I mean I don’t own any gaming machine or 3D headset. But always wanted to visit such a place. I just wasted time on Minecraft clones (Luanti) and the like.

Good question. maybe I was wrong, I’ve used Debian for so long, I’ll either just update it or use the advanced installer… It’s certainly on the installation media now. Not sure if it copies it over to the system. Would make sense, though if it did…

Any specific nice hobbies? Sry, you don’t need to answer as this is kind of a (too) personal question.

Aha. U got no better hobbies or something meaningful to do?

Good luck! And don’t forget to add the non-free-firmware repo and maybe the other additional ones if you need them. A standard Debian comes without. And if you’re following an old tutorial, that might not cover the split between non-free and non-free-firmware which happened somewhat recently in Debian terms. Their own documentation is good and up to date, though.

I don’t think we need conditional sentences when talking about this. These platforms exist. Just go there and have a look. I’ve scrolled a bit through farcaster.xyz and maybe one or two others. And there are a lot of them which got passed around and failed.

Atrophy or deskilling is a underrated problem in my opinion. And it applies to all things in life. Some people suggest computer literacy went down, because people are on their phones and tablets these days and everything works smoothly, so there is little to no motivation to learn how these things work, what they do behind the scenes, what privacy is…

Furthermore a general lack of worth or value of things, because everything is available in abundance and will arrive from China at your doorstep the next day. So we used to have nice hand-knitted norwegian sweaters. And these days we wear arbitrary cheap stuff and we just throw it in the bin after one season. Of course this leads to all kinds of societal issues once things lose value. And all malls are going to close and get displaced by Amazon. And manufacturers will discontinue quality products, since they’re competing on a low-quality market now.

Same likely applies to knowledge. Why all the hassle to learn something from the grounds up, in a years-long process, if there’s cheap results available right now, and the question doesn’t call for quality in the first place?

(CW:Political opinion. I know it’s a bit fatalistic, but I think we can see the same dynamics in the political landscape. People’s grandpas still fought against the nazis and they held up democracy. People now know little about the value of democracy because they didn’t need to fight for it. So for all they care we might as well appoint fascists to lead us. I think on a more abstract level, it’s all one and the same form of atrophy. Also fits the question/answer theme of this video. Because fascists for sure have simple and easy to understand answers ready to our questions.)

Maybe that’s because it’s super new, done by a single person and just not well-known to people? I mean I just tried to google whether it’s open-source and there was no useful link on the first page of google… So no wonder people don’t arrive there. I bet it was the same for Lemmy, a few weeks after it got invented.

Me too. I guess the internet is going to change soon anyway. AI Slop is going to displace a lot of things. And these cooking recipes don’t really work. So there will be a demand for genuine, human content. And the only way to tell is if you have some connection to the creator. So we might see a revival of human connection online. At least that’s what I hope will happen… And seems lots of people are fed up with social media as well.

Nah. She doesn’t. And I think the days of Blogs and personal websites are mostly a thing of the past. These days people doomscroll on Instagram. But I have some fond memories of the good old times as well. I used to have friends (of different genders) who would write publicly about technology, sugar-free recipes, I knew someone who did styling videos on Youtube. But that toned down as we all grew older and got other things to do, and the internet changed as well.

Whatever people do on computers… Surf websites, do emails, online-shopping, organize documents, vacation pictures, paperwork, type letters, draw diagrams, watch videos, do video conferences, stuff related to hobbies… I mean she isn’t a programmer or designer by trade or anything like that, but computers are just useful tools for a lot of things.

Hmmh. I mean I mostly play old games and they tend to work better in Wine/Proton anyway, so I don’t have a virtualized Windows. I ran into some annoyances with other operating systems though, since most mundane desktop environments do lavish graphics these days. Or I’d randomly watch a Youtube video in a guest system and that’d use a lot of CPU with a recent codec and full HD or more… I guess all of this really depends on what people do with their virtualized machines, though.