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  • Others may have better, or fancier solutions, but I’m a fan VPN -> Home Network -> VNC over SSH/TLS for Linux boxes, and RDP for Windows.

    Again, none of VNC or RDP ports or services are ever exposed externally, and even on the LAN, they require authentication and use secure tunnels.

    Full disclosure, I haven’t used RDP in a while and I don’t know what version of SSL/TLS it comes with anymore.

    I know there are self-hosted AnyDesk style options and maybe they’re better than my approach, but I’ve never used them so I can’t really speak on that.




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    You’re on Android use NewPipe and it’s forks, personally I prefer Tubular and PipePipe.

    Periodically YouTube will break, but both of those forks, as well as new pipe prime, update fairly quickly.

    GrayJay is interesting… It has different feel and feature set than newpipe, but it’s worth using. I will say I get more login errors with GrayJay, but closing the app and reopening it resolves it.

    All the piped apps will be in f-droid/droidify, you can download GrayJay directly, or just scan the QR to add the repo to a FOSS repo manager.


  • You’re on Android use NewPipe and it’s forks, personally I prefer Tubular and PipePipe.

    Periodically YouTube will break, but both of those forks, as well as new pipe prime, update fairly quickly.

    GrayJay it’s interesting. It has different feel and feature set than newpipe, but it’s worth using. I will say I get more login errors with GrayJay, but closing the app and reopening it resolves it.

    All the piped apps will be in f-droid/droidify, you can download GrayJay directly, or just scan the QR to add the repo to a FOSS repo manager.


  • I believe Tails already supports I2P, you just have to enable it in the terminal and reboot.

    I don’t know who this developer is, maybe they are well-known and well regarded.

    I just know that for an OS, better to be safe than sorry and go with and established and well respected project such as Tails IMO.

    Not trying discourage users from trying it, just that they should be mindful of the risks and adjust their behavior accordingly.


  • Unless there’s a way to secure public funding for them, this seems like a reasonable middle road.

    Like a Patreon, which while having its own unique set of problems, enables a paid content distribution ecosystem for independent creators unlike anything else available.

    So, absent inserting invasive advertising, and lacking public funds, I can’t see how else they’re supposed to maintain infrastructure and development costs.




  • TBF I’ve never configured an Arch system from scratch, so maybe it’s me that’s missing out.

    The thing about Fedora that got me to stop switching, was that it just felt more adult then the various and fashionable Ubuntu based distros, or any other well regarded distro I used over the years. The right mix of stability and new features/support, pretty much out of the box.

    Also, after tweaking Gnome a little bit for a more Windows 10 dock/bar style launcher/menu, it’s been perfect for me. Think I’ve been rolling with it since 38 now.

    Anyways, best of luck with your new box.







  • No, I’m living in this thread. I’m talking about very specific issues related to LLMs, that I’ve highlighted ad nauseam.

    Reread if you’re confused.

    If anything, it shows that you believe in the concept of “AI” way more than I do, as you’re conflating LLM and FSD.

    I don’t believe in AI, it doesn’t exist. Just specific advanced machine learning algorithms, some better than others, and some all smoke and mirrors. But here, now, I’m talking about LLMs.



  • I mean, it probably will eventually, but that has nothing to do with LLMs, nor is it a technology that I want to exist.

    I can definitely see a world where lobbyists for automakers and insurance companies create such a financial and regulatory burden, where only the wealthy can afford to drive their own cars, if they choose to. Where as everyone else must rent or lease their self driving car as is if it’s a IaaS or SaaS subscription.

    But none of that has anything to do with using LLMs for the tasks they can accomplish, or telling people to stop bitching about them not being able to complete the tasks they aren’t good at, or even capable of.


  • Yes and no, I have self-hosted models on one of my Linux boxes, but even with a relatively modern 70 series Nvidia GPU, it’s still faster to use free non-local services like ChatGPT or DDG.

    My rule of thumb for SaaS LLMs is to never enter in any data that I wouldn’t also be willing to upload cleartext to Google Drive or OneDrive.

    Sometimes that means modifying text before submitting it, and other times having to rely entirely on self-hosted tools.