@geerlingguy Ah yes. I had one of those as a child. My favorites were the radio receiver and the buzzer. Modern me would probably mod the heck out of it.

@wesley - I remember reading these kinds of articles about Mastodon a while back. There's a growing part of me that wants the mainstream to keep reporting this kind of stuff. Similar to scaring away gentrification with fake gunshots and news that isn't entirely accurate.

That part of Bluesky in particular, I've been a using the way clownfish use sea anemones. All the politically obsessed users are the stinging tentacles keeping the trolls at bay. However, I realized very quickly that I could just mute them forever by unpinning discover, and the non-political space beyond is a slice of heaven.

Italian Oregano. The way this stuff grows reminds me of fire. Pruned as much dead dried growth as I could recently. Starting to burst with new growth

Picked up more cuban oregano, except variegated. It was quite squished when it arrived in the mail, so I'm waiting for it to un-squish itself like my others did after a week or so. Boy do these grow quickly after they establish themselves!

Ignore my temporary makeshift crutch lol

@geerlingguy That's really cool! Also saw the distributed llama test. Wonder if it runs cooler with a case due to airflow?

Makes me hope Deskpi makes a sequel to the Super 6C, but not sure if they sold enough of the original to justify it.

@badnetmask @the10thwiz - Jetson's are low power in relative terms, just not Pi 4's level of low power. Both can go on a quad rotor (for example), but in terms of gas tank, one is a Honda Ruckus, and the other is a Honda CBR 1000 RR haha.

@badnetmask @the10thwiz - Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super can do this stuff for sure - including running ollama with acceleration. Only three considerations are weight, power consumption, and they can potentially take a few months to ship. Price could be an issue, but that's either subjective, or limited by personal resources.

By the way, ollama is a service endpoint with its own REST API. If a puny device is connected to a network, you could install ollama on better hardware (example - some roided up RTX 50XX equipped PC) and magically get a bazillion tokens per second on the underpowered one. The default port is 11434, and your code hosted on the Pi 4 is just a client of that service endpoint.

@geerlingguy - Very cool! I ordered my 16 from Raspberrypi.Dk, but that was pre-tariffs. Not sure if pricing was impacted.

https://raspberrypi.dk/en/shop/category/raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-cm5-en/

Apple's weather forecast reminds me of the orrery scene from the movie "Pitch Black".

@geerlingguy Haven't tried this yet, but there's distributed llama
https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama

Does it overcome the gigabit networking curse? Edit - never mind (saw other post).

How not to water tomato plants. I think there's a bit of root rot happening here (yellow leaves), but there's still a lot of fruit. Current guesstimate is these will ripen starting July though October.

@geerlingguy - excluding youtube and reddit (looking to dump both), life outside of the legacy socials has been pleasant.

@cnxsoft - this one sounds fun

@cd_home @geerlingguy - I just meant AI encompasses a broad range of different stuff, but you're right. Maybe "as a technology" is a better way of putting it.

An example is me using it to analyze a picture of the garlic chives growing in my garden, and returning a measurement of certainty that they're covered in black aphids. I'd conditionally pass this data to the middleware that controls my insecticidal soap sprayer, or send an SMS message. Someone else trying to make a quick buck could use it to analyze a person's physical characteristics and pass this data to advertising software (I'm 95% certain you're a fat male in your 50s. Here's an ad for blood pressure medicine and a promotion Ponderosa steakhouse is running this month).

Haven't been doing much tech lately with tariffs. Been leaning heavily into gardening. This is a fraction of what I've been taking care of - although this year, I've been especially vigilant with my tomato bed. Hardly any flowers are visible because I've been hand pollenating everything. They are jam packed at this point. Cuban oregano (crazy succulent) is a new addition. I'm also showing the back yard beds a lot of love. Leafy greens like chard, sorrel, curled/flat parsley, and dill are thriving for the first time. Georgia's Chernobyl grade noon sunshine is more diffuse due to tree cover, so the soil dries out slower.

@geerlingguy - Search engines (especially google - literal posterchild for enshittification) were deteriorating way before the LLM genie exited the bottle.

Also - AI in general is cool. Working with it as an engineer (meaning more advanced than low effort cheating during job interviews, code completion, generating garbage images, SEO spam, etc) is really useful. I think what we're witnessing is another "eternal September" - meaning not the technologies fault. More like the end users getting their hands on photoshop only to use it for drawing stick figures.

@marvin8 @geerlingguy - 🙃

Unrelated, but outside of the books, I'm also a huge fan of the radio show. The recent-ish movie was forgettable, and I only remember fragments of the TV show. Not sure why I remember so much Tom Baker era Dr Who more clearly since it was the same relative time period.

@geerlingguy - lack of an actual python ruins the joke for me. Especially since they're so ubiquitous in the pet trade, so setting up the photo would have been easy. Like showing a pic of Gandalf and saying "May the force be with you".

Went to Panama city and Colon (accented o) in Panama last week. Besides the beauty of the area, being outside of the United States dumb embargoes and tariffs was a breath of fresh air. Got to see BYD cars and all the other goodies we're missing out on. I plan go back very soon.