My answer is… excessive. So keep that in mind. If its just you or you and another adult, just set up kodi in some form.

I wanted something that would have profiles for my kids, a remote, and easy access. Where I am currently is:

• Flex Launcher - 10’ UI. The same person started Big Launcher after but never completed. I’m hoping to finagle Plasma Bigscreen into doing what I want, but I’m not there yet.
• Media is all Jellyfin, now with my older game emulation there as well.
• Logging into the machine also auths against JF, so its per user at the OS level for each member of the family. Currently working on NFC for login so my kids can tap a toy or something to get their account logged in, rather than me or my wife doing it.
• PC is an industrial pc I picked up, its light on usb ports but I added a wifi/bt card from another machine, bumped up the ram with some spares I had.
• I have a usb soundbar and usb audio processor, all audio goes through there, managed via pipewire.
• I couldn’t get CEC working well on it, so I made use of an overly expensive video switcher for this purpose that I picked up a while back. Corp conferencing switcher. Now I can send CEC programmatically.
• Current remote is just an older android tablet with lineage on it. I want to replace this with a keyboard/remote combo, but haven’t found what I wanted to yet. This will just get broken accidentally by a kid, so I’d prefer a remote.

The experience is pretty decent, just login and browse. In any case, this is the (overly complex) way I’ve addressed things for me. That said, a few notes / to-do items:

• No streaming platforms (I will not use them anyway)
• I still need to stand up a youtube front end (I don’t use it much so low on the list, more for my wife)
• I want to set up something to show family photos from immich as the background
• I need better controllers for gaming. I have one 8bitdo pro wired, an old 8bitdo NES controller, and a gamecube usb adapter (but my gamecube controllers have all gone to crap now, so thats useless). I also connected up the balance board from the wii, but haven’t gotten much use out of it yet.
• I want to get my AudioBookShelf on there as a dedicated setup with login by desktop account automatically, haven’t even started this yet. May have to do something a bit different here too as I want a read-along style for the kids.
• I would never buy all this stuff, I used things I picked up on the free or cheap via hardware replacements through my work and tech liquidation/“recycling” companies.

Well you can build models yourself, but definitely not the ones they are using. Those you can modify, but thats about it, as you said.

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One thing I’d note is what sourcehut has done is far beyond what codeberg has, specifically this part:

original content written with or which facilitates the use of LLMs (large language models) or other generative AI technologies

What codeberg did was the first part - content written with LLMs, though even that is “mostly”. Sourcehut goes way more restrictive.

And a shot out to @[email protected] for BentoPDF! Glad to have you here and an awesome tool to boot.

I generally don’t ever look at dashboards, only historical data, and only after an issue.

I get an alert that there is an issue, and if its an issue thats happened before, there is an automation to address (this is why I look at historical data, to determine indicators).

So I never need to look on a mobile dashboard, because the only thing I’m interested in is the notification. The only way that isn’t going to work is if I have a larger outage, but I get a notification through work for that - I have a site-to-site setup so I could attach a switch to my work network for work reasons, and if that goes down I get a notification through my work setup (and vice-versa, which was a fun morning when that side went down).

Its already pretty dark and just getting worse…

You can, I’m just saying be prepared for disappointment. The amount of effort you need to put in, imo, you could have had a spreadsheet and been done. And then used that with a script to autogenerate some mermaidml to get a purdy drawing out of it (which I highly recommend leveraging Beautiful-Mermaid ).

And then you can feed that to an llm and make your queries about ports or other uses, to me thats a much better use/approach. To each their own though.

Nope, and I wouldn’t recommend it either. They are generally not great with mapping IMO, no matter the model.

And really this is better managed with a quick diagram and a spreadsheet. If you want some software, look at netbox for this, you can add in validation rules and all kinds of automations as well.

But really, use a spreadsheet.

I’m describing what I saw from many governments and comittees from when I used to review these specs for bidding.

I would have to disagree its not the norm, governments are always corrupted in some way, but thats a much more divergent discussion.

I can say with confidence that the overwhelming majority of specs are written to include or exclude specific bidders though. My work is and was global, too, so this isn’t a US only issue.

How much they do to control the bidders list will vary though.

Not to go toooooo far down the rabbit hole here, but even that is a “kind of”.

Specifications can (and often are) written in a way to limit potential bidders. Lets say there are three manufacturers of these things that have good build quality, but I want to target a specific manufacturer. I could put in specific upper and lower constraints for height, width, flow rate, etc, and then I can say that due to the site conditions (which were designed to those criteria) only one manufacturer is eligible.

I can then add specific restrictions for installation certifications, warranty coverage, distance requirements for eligible servicing personnel, etc.

While all this may seem reasonable and practical in the spec, its really just a way to control who is eligible for competing on the bid.

And if I was really shitty, I could leave specific things ambiguous so a company can come in really low on the bid to get picked, who then issues a change order because of that thing. Which then makes the cost higher than the losing bidder who included it from the start.

Its not really as competitive as you think, thats part of the disgusting game being played.

I’ve gone this route! Anything with a busted screen is fair game to me, though I haven’t picked up any recently, mostly just tiny/mini/micros (and heavy on the lenovo tiny).

But a custom hacked up laptop can be a great option especially with tight space to work with

Edit: I’m surprised I missed your original post! I did the same, though what I reused was first a lenovo tiny, more recently updated with a digital signage player I picked up that I swapped parts out on - way more fun than a standard console imo!

Yup, and the ones here (and NJ I believe passed today, goes into effect next year) require a powered grid to work. Because of the back feed risk, they won’t work with the joking comment about plugging it into a UPS.

BUT!

Some of them you can yank the DC connection to the microinverter (an MC4 connection usually), which can be connected up to a battery system as a backup/bypass mode. The microinverter after that would also allow you to safely connect to grid, or to a dedicated load in an outage.

Another $800-$1200 though

Its not even a distro. Its arch with dotfiles. Literally.

No repos, no custom packages, etc. Just arch with sloppy dotfiles.

Thats when you unplug from the wall and into the ups! 😀

Could be a 20s clip! 😀

I read the original differently than you, but it seems its been edited in the meantime (and I’m on mobile at the moment)

Either way, I think all is well currently

Testing, test plans, and QA is not “mostly all”.

Let’s also stay on topic please. Its tagged appropriately and the relevant disclosure is present.

That really isn’t the issue, and no, that would not be permitted here. It would be one thing to note that an LLM was used in some part of the project, it would be entirely different to criticize the poster based purely off whether or not there were any contributions involving LLM.

That would be a rule 1 violation.

If you want to comment on a known vulnerability, thats one thing. Commenting that its vulnerable because an LLM had a pair level patch is not.

From Wikipedia:

Gottheimer’s net worth was between $16.9 and $75.3 million in 2023, and he and his wife Marla Tusk, who is general counsel at the political consulting firm Tusk Strategies, reported $897,617 in joint income

AIPAC isnt the only reason.

Ah, got it, I misunderstood from the post, sorry about that

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