https://files.ikt.id.au/osi18j.mp4

what happens if you go direct to it?

I think it might just be the tyranny of distance, Brisbane Australia to Oslo Norway is quite a way

Network wise it should be ok, it’s a 17MB file and I have a 10MB/s upload speed (100mbit), so at full beans should take under 2 seconds to load the full video, if we add in some distance and quadruple the time it’s still 8 seconds but the video is 51 seconds long so it still shouldn’t be buffering :S

computers eh?

it’s still buffering for you? damn! where are you at?

heya! are you able to test again and let me know if it’s any better?

I have no idea who the creator is, it’s just a random youtube short I found

It’s a bit funny because my subscribed feed moves so slowly but content here has such a short life

I don’t have the stats to back it up but it feeeels like:

First 4 hours - 50,000 views

Rest of the first day - 5000 views

Day 2 - 5 views

But I plan on doubling my upload tomorrow so hopefully there will be less buffering issues in future

it’s learning 😃

I do wonder if this is any good:

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

Trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages – 40% of the data is non-English – Apertus includes many languages that have so far been underrepresented in LLMs, such as Swiss German, Romansh, and many others.

“Apertus is built for the public good. It stands among the few fully open LLMs at this scale and is the first of its kind to embody multilingualism, transparency, and compliance as foundational design principles,” says Imanol Schlag, technical lead of the LLM project and Research Scientist at ETH Zurich.

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/09/press-release-apertus-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-language-model.html

It’s available in LM Studio:

I mainly translate from Ukranian and French and for that I find any Mistral model is good enough

I know it won’t be popular because people would rather downvote and claim AI is useless but it genuinely is amazing and claude is clearly the best by far

if you want to self host your own you can do that for example with /c/localllama@sh.itjust.works

don’t bother learning html and css, just use claude code and it’ll get you a nice basic website, unless you’re looking to code as a hobby then go for your life

rspamd

i did the google take out and then just a regular drag and drop, everything went fine but all my screenshots had no dates in the metadata by the looks so it put them all on a single date which caused immich to stop loading properly

just once it did I went through and deleted all my old screenshots and now it’s all good again :)

afaik MariaDB is the open source version of MySQL

In terms of heat, what kind of room do you have it in? Somewhere with good natural airflow, or away in a closet somewhere?

Just on floor in garage upside down so the laptop air vents face up, nothing special at all but main thing not in my office heating up the joint 🥲

I actually wonder if RISC-V might overtake ARM in the linux world, the chinese are throwing a lot at it and I’ve seen very little out of ARM, I expected Linux to go the way of Apple where x86 is phased out and ARM is phased in because who wouldn’t like a lower power, cheaper CPU? or like wayland overtaking X.org but I just don’t see any great leap by desktops or laptops towards it, x86 has remained solidly in place outside of Pi like devices

Unfortunately I made the mistake of not backing it up, and when the external drive died I lost my data

😢 yeah good point, I’ll look at getting it to backup my main 2tb

You’re based in Brissy or further north in Qld, right? What kind of thermals does your system have, and what’s the room it lives in like?

Logan city! Was going to take a picture but it’s just a bunch of cables running along the side of my garage, the NBN conveniently comes into it far away from everything (I assume the only other front of house option (the kitchen) was out of consideration) can’t really say what temperature, it would def be mostly ambient temperature with a bit of extra heat coming from the solar battery when it’s charging but for the most part prob ambient outside temp

The laptop itself looks to sit around 50 degrees most of the time but this is pretty low power:

afaik the temperature being hot isn’t an issue, computer components (and most components in most things) prefer a stable high temperature 24x7 over going cold then hot all the time.

I think a mini-pc is a pretty solid choice regardless, I’ve had a 1ru rack server that was loud as fuck, fkin like 10 40mm fans! absolutely not worth it, and have friends who keep their servers/even old desktop PC’s running 24x7 in their bedrooms, these things are heat generators and in brissie if you don’t have a good aircon/airflow your room will got hot as shit and the fans will increase in speed so it’ll be either noisy and hot or both

100%, thinkcentres are the most well supported of the major brands iirc

the battery is a nice little in built UPS feature, bit underrated if you get a second hand laptop with a working battery

So after months of dealing with problems trying to get the stuff I want to host working on my Raspberry Pi and Synology

I take it ARM still not there package wise? Sucks to hear, I was really hoping we’d be further along by now

i just use a second hand laptop I got from “hock and go” down on gold coast, it has an ethernet port :O AMD stuff, I always generally stick with AMD for graphics as a lot of people complain about nvidia on linux, when I was in the store looking at them all did some pretty extensive searching on network driver compatibility, it has been a complete bitch in the past to deal with (ESPECIALLY wifi drivers), it seems to be a bit better these days

got it home, stuck a 2tb sata ssd in it, installed just regular ubuntu 24.04 lts, works well, i have the desktop version installed but 99% of the time I’m just sshing in

use it for immich and qbittorrent and a few other things

Works well enough for me, even though this might be the highest idle cpu usage I’ve ever seen (it’s not a fast cpu):

Btop: https://files.ikt.id.au/6c8kwp.png

My other servers are idling at like 0.1:

Htop: https://files.ikt.id.au/4uvrht.png

But I haven’t noticed any issues outside of immich taking longer if I go like, recheck all photos or starting up services, not a problem for me

was interested in this as well: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/934940

Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive HDD 24TB US$309.02 (~A$478.61) / 28TB US$353.02 (~A$546.76) Delivered @ B&H Photo Video

But haven’t dealt with USB attached storage before, I assume it would be fine but I’ll wait till I’m a bit closer running out of space

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2       1.8T  164G  1.6T  10% /
/dev/sda1       1.1G  6.2M  1.1G   1% /boot/efi

Police, customs authorities, and the Receiver of Wrecks have warned beachcombers not to eat the bananas or to take them home

Why though, this is like the first question they should ask

amazing work!

Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely. The particular songs don’t matter much. They are fungible as long as the general mood stays consistent.

can’t relate

i find new awesome music all the time, i only found i loved hardstyle 8 years ago, techno 5 years ago, vaporwave like a year ago

This is a fantastic service if you’re not that interested in music and are just looking for the aural version of mediocre Ikea artwork to cover the bare walls of your day

if you want to make it harder for yourself to discover new music then cool, but don’t imply that because you used spotify as a sort of cafe jazz background radio that we all use it like this

does your blog have a blackhole in it somewhere you forgot about 😄