#i dont need an AI to help me use an OS. If I do then that means the OS is shit and the real problems aren't being addressed

[vanishingmoments]

wouldn't it be insane if companies didn't create LLMs and image generators for software and websites for which they are totally useless

[tailsos-official]

Youve got yourself a fairly low power home server box right there. The most common use cases for computers like that are as a NAS box/Media streaming server, Home automation/security server, OpenWrt router box, Emulation machine for different OS'es or retro games, a remote access rendering/compute station if you stuck a dgpu in there, which also opens the door for machine learning, which you can use to run simulations, facial recognition for home security, or run local generative AI if you so wish for whatever reason.

If I were you and I wanted to upgrade this box at all hardware wise, I would do this and in this order.

1. I would buy a 15-20 dollar sata ssd and stick in in there. Teamgroup vulcan drives have yet to fail me in this department.

2. Add more ram. pretty much whatever you can find for cheap as long as its similar to whatever ram you already have in there is fine and preferable even

3. add a cheap slot powered gpu like an A310, RX560, GT 1030, RTX 3050 6GB, RX6500XT, RTX 4060, or the professional variants of those cards, and that gives you a very capable little server box.

honestly though, you dont need to upgrade it at all if your just getting into home servers and havent found a use case yet. That machine should still be perfectly capable of light server workloads just fine, though I would definitely at least get a 2.5" SSD, thats always a good Idea.

As for the Software side, I think the peak of home server software is proxmox hands down. Its also one of the most complicated OS's to learn and get right, so unless you have the time and energy to learn how a hypervisor works, you can choose any major distro and itll have a server edition. Theres also other dedicated home server/NAS OS choices as well, like Truenas, Unraid, CasaOS, Openmediavault, Rockstor, and a million others ive never used. The world is your oyster in this regard. Just dont use windows server edition. It sucks.

Anyways hope this helps 👍

hey you i have a old pc with 2tbs of storage i NEED to do something with it. i hate seeing it there doing nothing it bothers me to an unbelievable degree.

ps. this can involve basically involving software (New Os, making a server (i don’t have any use for), etc.) hardware specs are i3-7100@3.9ghz 8 gigabytes of ram and 2 tb of storage

its a hp pavilion 570-p013wb

[odettw]

this is olivia’s connections!!

song based connections

golden: the choices we make change the path that we take, but I know that somewhere out there there's a path that we chose, there's a life that we share, there's a love and it grows - a amizade de olivia e muse parece uma conexão de outra vida. parece que mesmo que acabem se perdendo no caminho, sempre se encontram de novo. podem ter se conhecido na infância, no ensino médio ou na faculdade mesmo

dusk till dawn: but you'll never be alone, i'll be with you from dusk till dawn, baby, I'm right here, i'll hold you when things go wrong, i'll be with you from dusk till dawn - muito migos confidentes que estão sempre lá um pelo outro quando as coisas dão errado, aquela primeira pessoa que você corre atrás quando tá com algum problema 

there you are: only you know me the way you know me, only you forgive me when I'm sorry - queria botar a letra toda porque essa música é tudo :´), mas pensei que seria a única pessoa que saberia de todo o passado de olivia, pra quem ela conta o que realmente ta sentindo e é sincera de verdade, porque ela tem dificuldade de se abrir sobre o coração e ser frágil. com certeza seria recíproco

unfuckwitable: so tired of fake friends and fake love, you know, no time for no lie and I'm here to show. i found a way higher: me is all I need to be inspired - olivia ou muse foram fodidamente traidos um pelo outro, no sentido de amizade. e até hoje tem uma treta/rivalidade muito forte, est��o sempre se alfinetando e tretando

you wish you knew: don't wanna put my love in you, don't wanna make a headline and lose, don't wanna be the one that you choose, ‘cause I'm the one, the one, the one that you wish you knew - olivia fez algo para muse no passado e elx simplesmente não confia nele, não quer ter nada com ele e nem chegar muito perto, pois sabe que ela sabe manipular. pode ser ao contrário, também.

sweat: oh, dripping down your body like gold. slowly steaming up the windows. my skin on your skin again and again, sweat for me, sweat for me - sexo, sexo, sexo. é só o que elxs tem, mas não significa que adorem isso. só os olhares entre elxs já pega fogo, quem dirá a cama. 

common: as I lay here in your bed i need you on my chest to warm me all the time, to take away your breath. it's written on your lips, there ain't nothin' common 'bout us - claro, muse já deixou claro que não pode se envolver de jeito nenhum. ambxs sabem disso. mas tem algo a mais do que só noites vazias. tem algo ali que atrai as duas pessoas, que as conecta de alguma forma e olivia quer muito tentar a chance

feel something: i would fall into love and stay, would fall into love and stay. and its not fair, i keep on writing sequel stories i know that are not there. i just wanna feel something, i just wanna feel - depois de tantas decepções amorosas e na vida profissional, olivia quer se apaixonar de uma vez e ficar bem, e no desespero, quando vê muse dando bola de verdade, ela se joga completamente naquilo (o que pode fazer ela quebrar a cara, pode fazer muse usa-la etc, pode virar algo tóxico)

here: truly, I ain't got no business here but since my friends are here, I just came to kick it, but really I would rather be at home all by myself not in this room whith people who don't even care about my well being - olivia é arroz de festa sim, tem malícia e tem vontade de ser super porra louca. mas as vezes dá merda. então ela vai a uma festa, npc coloca algo no copo dela e ai ela começa a passar mal e muse ajuda ela

plastic hearts: hello, the sunny place for shady people a crowded room where nobody goes, you can be whoever you wanna be here. frightened by my own reflection, desperate for a new connection: pull you in but don't you get too close - duas connections aqui! muse a está levando a olivia pro mau caminho. incentiva ela a trapacear, chantagear, usar todos os recursos dela pra conseguir o que quer e subir na vida (dormir com chefes, trapacear para ser vista no ballet, etc). muse b, porém, começa a não reconhecer olivia e no fundo sabe que ela mesma não está se reconhecendo. seriam connections a longo prazo porque ao pouco a olivia vai ficar mais dark e tóxica, meio que se perdendo no caminho

angels like you: i know that you're wrong for me gonna wish we never met on the day I leave, i brought you down to your knees ‘cause they say that misery loves company. its not your fault I ruin everything and it's not your fault I can't be what you need: baby, angels like you can't fly down here with me - era a primeira vez que alguém estava realmente gostando de olivia. se apaixonando de verdade por ela. mas naquele momento, a vida profissional falava mais alto do que a romântica. depois de tantas decepções, ela achava que poderia decepcionar também. olivia trai a confiança de muse (spoilers no privado pra quem se interessar) e magoa-x

little white lies: but you, you don't tell the truth, no you, you like playing games. 'cause you've been taking up my mind, with your little white lies, little white lies - tiveram desavenças sérias no passado. por alguma briga feia causada por mentiras de algum dos lados, hoje em dia não confiam umx nx outrx e mal se olham na cara.

live while we’re young: let’s go crazy crazy crazy till we see the sun, i know we only met but let’s pretend it’s love. and never never never stop for anyone: tonight let’s get some and live while we’re young - se conheceram em uma festa, ficaram a noite toda conversando e desde então não pararam mais. pode ter rolado uns beijos ou não, o que importa é que muse sempre tenta fazer com que helena saia da zona de conforto e curta um pouco mais do que está acostumada, ou o contrário.

never enough: lips so good I forget my name, I swear I could give you everything: too much is never enough - um dos ex rolos de olivia não se contentou com uns amassos, não era suficiente, queria namorá-la. mas ela estava em uma das fases de sua vida que ela não queria nada sério (já que ela tá sempre pulando de um rolo pro outro). OU AO CONTRÁRIO, ela queria algo sério e a pessoa não 

perfect: i might never be the one you take home to mother and I might never be the one who brings you flowers, but I can be the one, be the one tonight - não tinha jeito. muse e olivia sabiam que não iam dar certo juntos. mas ao mesmo tempo, sabiam que toda vez que quisessem uma noite rápida de diversão, podiam ligar umx prx outrx. 

special connections

ride or die: alguém que sempre está consigo, independente de tudo. é sua amizade mais forte em storybrooke. mesmo que discutam muito, fazem tudo umx pelx outrx.

little sister: apesar do laço não ser de sangue, olivia adotou essa pessoa como alguém para cuidar e proteger sempre que pode. + foi do riso de odette, que tinker bell nasceu.

little help: ela pode não ter muito, mas o que tem, ela divide. podem ser pessoas que morem na mesma residência, um tanto quanto quebrada, que ela, ou outras pessoas sem grana. 

little help 2 (i dont want your help): alguma pessoa rica que seja sua amiga, e fique tentando a ajudar, pagando as coisas pra ela, comprando presentes aleatórios que deixam ela puta. 

watcher: alguém que sempre está assistindo ela dançar. seja nas esquinas quando está buscando algumas moedas, seja pela noite quando ela treina e pratica, dando a vida, como se fosse a única coisa que ela fosse boa 

customer: alguém que sempre é atendido por ela no cassino Playful Hearts. pode tratar ela bem ou mal.

ex on bad terms: tentaram e tentaram muito fazer o relacionamento funcionar. mas era difícil. olivia gosta de manter os sentimentos pra si mesma, tem dificuldade de se expressar, e sempre está fazendo coisa demais. as brigas ficaram intensas e elxs decidiram parar de tentar, mesmo que ainda exista uma chama inacabada.  

ex on good terms: terminaram há um tempo, mas sinceramente? foi para melhor, porque agora tem umx nx outrx uma pessoa que a conhece melhor do que ninguém. vivem juntxs, dormindo (apenas dormindo) juntxs, papeando e se ajudando sempre que precisam.

why i hate rich people: alguém que sempre a esnoba por conta de dinheiro, pode caçoar das apresentações de rua dela ou qualquer coisa assim.

hate sex: discutem e discutem muito. sabem que despertam o pior umx nx outrx. mas sempre se pegam quando estão bebadxs, não tem como. seja no fim do expediente de olivia, ou em algum bar em que ela vai pra encher a cara (momentos raros, mas nem tantos). 

nice rich people: uma amizade rica que ela adora, mas sempre que a pess8oa chama ela pra sair, olivia fala que está sem tempo, pra não ter que falar que ta sem dinheiro.

pain killer: alguém que lhe vende remédios pra dor, é onde ela gasta boa parte da grana dela. as vezes pode até vender outras coisinhas mais, porque ninguém é de ferro

familiar stranger: sempre fazem compras nos mesmos lugares/passeiam pelos mesmos lugares/se esbarram por ai, mas não são próximos, nem se conhecem. mas as coisas começando a ficar esquisitas, porque parece quem umx está seguindo x outrx.

don’t worry about me: alguém que já a viu ter crises de dor algumas vezes e se preocupa com ela. olivia sempre fala que está bem, que não precisa de ajuda, massss 

teacher: alguém que ela estava ensinando a dançar

partner in crime: ela vê que o que ele está fazendo é errado, mas o que pode fazer? ele está fazendo o mesmo que ela: tentando sobreviver em um mundo injusto demais com os mais pobres. por isso, decide não dedurá-lo 

girl squad: tão sempre juntas e se ajudando, se cuidando, parceirinhas pra toda hora. espiritos livres mas que sabem que sempre podem contar uma com a outra. 

dog owner: olivia “tem” um cachorro que sempre a vai até sua casa. ela cuida, dá comida e água, faz carinho, as vezes ele até dorme consigo. mas ela não faz ideia se é um cachorro de rua ou se ele tem dono. até apelidou o cachorro de jean-bob. mas o que ela não sabe é que x donx é muse.

swimming partner: alguém que sempre a vê fazendo mergulhos no mar próximo ao cais. a pessoa pode mergulhar com ela ou ficar só ali observando.

loosing game: uma connection baseada em arcade - duncan laurence. basicamente, não importa o quanto tentem ficar juntxs, olivia e muse sabem que só tem a perder quando estão em uma relação

online friends: alguém que ela só conheça virtualmente, quem sabe até com apelidos, apenas em salas de jogos/batepapo/tinder

videogame buddies: alguém que tenha videogame e sempre chame ela pra jogar porque ela adora

general connections

primeiro beijo

primeira vez

primeiro amor

bi awakening

flertes

melhores amigos

amigos próximos

rivais de algum jeito

colegas de trabalho

inimizades

party friends

drunk friends

amizade colorida

ex rolos

assistem reality show juntos

enchated forest’s connections for odette

amigos de reinos próximos (pensei tipo, famílias próximas/aliadas sabem? principalmente famílias nobres, de outros príncipes/princesas da família da odette)

namorado na adolescência, antes de casar com o derek e foi super criticadx já que ela tava prometida em casamento

pessoas que ela conheceu nas pequenas viagens dela e se deram bem.

alguém com quem ela tenha tido algum tipo de rivalidadezinha? talvez no ballet, ou em algum hobby

amizades bem próximas em quem ela realmente confiava

[attorneyfag]

teh longest fking shitpost ever

cat statue!drunk!tipsyGnostalgic [TG] joined chat.

wearing glasses!Crocodile [CROCODILE] joined chat.

TG: (there is a porcelain cat standing on the floor where one previously wasnt... in the place where a roxy lalonde was getting wasted. its expression seems dead set on being astonished, mouth painted wide open. it seems capable of moving, but looks like a stop motion animation in real life. maybe youre drunk too. who knows.)

CROCODILE: im

CROCODILE: ...

CROCODILE: are my glasses smudged

CROCODILE: what the fuck is this

TG: no

CROCODILE: holy shit it talks

CROCODILE: are you a god

TG: ....no? litraltly no clue whas happning

CROCODILE: this seems like the sort of shit a god would do

CROCODILE: i am on to you, cat statue lady

TG: aha

TG: i

TG: still have no idea lmamo

CROCODILE: i wonder if there is a way to make you not a cat statue and into.. a god again

CROCODILE: if i had fingers i would be doing that

CROCODILE: 'im watchin u'

CROCODILE: thingy but

CROCODILE: i don't have hands and it's fucking depressing

TG: i didnt relalize you guys didnt have fingers

CROCODILE: yeah we have toes

CROCODILE: but not fingers

TG: i feel sorry for you

CROCODILE: maybe i could grow arms if i believed in myself

TG: hmmm...... buddy imm gonna fidn a way toget you guys some ARMS

TG: somehow

CROCODILE: how are you going to do that if you're a cat statue

TG: i

TG: dont knwow

CROCODILE: with the power of majjyks

TG: YES

TG: that

CROCODILE: majjyk tiem

TG: yes

TG: alas friedn

TG: i do not have.... majyyks

CROCODILE: gasp

CROCODILE: we need to get majyyks

CROCODILE: where can we buy those

CROCODILE: is there a walmart nearby

CROCODILE: let me ask siri

TG: IN THE LOHACSE

CROCODILE: ask siri

TG: i dont have the feet to ask siri for majyks

TG: help

CROCODILE: siri do you have any majjyks

CROCODILE: siri: my majjyks r mine u motherfuckr go buy some urslef

CROCODILE: ok

TG: oh nooooo

TG: siri y :(

TG: : ' (

CROCODILE: if siri will not share her majjyks willingly

CROCODILE: we must take them

CROCODILE: by force

TG: we gogta take em!!

CROCODILE: yeah exactly

CROCODILE: um

CROCODILE: hmm

TG: how we take from an ai tho

CROCODILE: siri give me the majjyks or i wont close all the background apps when i turn off the phone

CROCODILE: siri: no

CROCODILE: siri

CROCODILE: siri: no

CROCODILE: yes

CROCODILE: siri: no

CROCODILE: yes

TG: oh my

CROCODILE: siri: no

TG: gog

TG: is thsis gonna be 4evr

CROCODILE: im gonna fite u siri

TG: ssssiri

TG: siri: fuck you guys

CROCODILE: siri if you dont share the majjyk i will update you to the new stupid os that has tons of swiping and tapping and numbers and shit

CROCODILE: siri: oh fuck

TG: YEAH

CROCODILE: numbers man

CROCODILE: fucks up with all the numbers

TG: SIRI GIVE US YER MAJYYKS

CROCODILE: yeaH SirI

CROCODILE: siri: omg fine u little shits ill give u teh majyks

CROCODILE: thanks siri

TG: ok lil guy... time to get you some ARMS

TG: *does thehth majyyk thingy*

TG: *crocodile gets arms*

CROCODILE: *arms*

CROCODILE: arms

CROCODILE: wow

CROCODILE: such arm

CROCODILE: much appendage

CROCODILE: many limb

TG: omgfgf yeha

CROCODILE: ok now that i have arms

CROCODILE: we need to use the majjyks to make you not a cat statue

CROCODILE: and back into a

CROCODILE: god

TG: my gog

CROCODILE: i know you are one dont lie to me

TG: ur right

TG: i AM a god

CROCODILE: use the majjyks

TG: and with my godpwoers i can,.,,

TG: *gives the entire race of crocodiles arms*

TG: *prosperity +1*

TG: andddd

TG: *turns into a god*

CROCODILE: i knew it

CROCODILE: #exposed

TG: gesp

TG: you cant DO THIS

CROCODILE: so posting this on tweter

TG: youbve btrayed me nak

CROCODILE: hahaha

TG: *unexists crocodiles phone*

CROCODILE: now that i hav ARMS i can

CROCODILE: no

CROCODILE: omg

CROCODILE: how

CROCODILE: how

CROCODILE: what

CROCODILE: what

CROCODILE: HEWAT

TG: thas riht nak

CROCODILE: MYPNHN

CROCODILE: im gonna fite u

TG: dont speak aword of this to ANYBOBDTY

CROCODILE: reexist my phone

TG: *majyyks crocodile to not have arms*

TG: thsi is what uget

CROCODILE: no

CROCODILE: i trusted u

TG: when u want tofigtht a god

TG: 2 bad nak

TG: 2 bad

CROCODILE: im going to steal someones phone and #expose you using my foots

TG: and whtat i have to say tothat is

TG: *unexists all crocodilians arms*

CROCODILE: haha i still have leggos

CROCODILE: *run away wit leggos*

TG: *unexists crocodiles leggos*

CROCODILE: r00

CROCODILE: d

CROCODILE: kangar00

CROCODILE: i ran to austrailia probably

CROCODILE: fuck, a spider

TG: byye nak

CROCODILE: dont leave me i dont want to be killed by a spider

CROCODILE: im sory

CROCODILE: i will not #expose you on tweter

CROCODILE: pls give me leggos

CROCODILE: this spider is highly poison it will kill me

CROCODILE: you are better than this

CROCODILE: i know you re

TG: no im not

CROCODILE: think of all the good times we had

TG: i never was nak

TG: i never was

CROCODILE: this power has gone to ur head

CROCODILE: remember who u used to be

CROCODILE: remember

TG: alass nak

CROCODILE: ur worse than siri

TG: ye but i can majjyyk food

TG: and goodness

CROCODILE: *get kill by spoder* *last werds* fuk u roxeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyy

TG: oh no,,,,,

TG: *weeps*

TG: *weeps on nak*

TG: GOODNITE SWEET NAK

[toomanysinks]

BMW continues to bet on the (Azure) cloud

Earlier this week, at MWC Barcelona, BMW announced its newest in-car AI initiative: BMW Natural Interaction. The idea here is to use cameras, microphones and other sensors in the car to allow you to have more natural interactions with the car, either through voice or gestures. The marquee feature here is the ability to point at something outside the car and get more information about it or, if it’s a restaurant, have the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) make a reservation for you. These systems will work by combining in-car AI with cloud technologies — and for those, BMW continues to bet on Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

After the announcement, I sat down with Christoph Grote, BMW Group’s senior VP for electronics. I admit that a lot of what I saw in the demo felt a bit futuristic, but Grote noted that everything he showed off during his presentation is more or less production-ready. “I don’t think I would’ve dared to stand up there if any of the things I showed today were a utopia,” he told me. “All of this is in series production and some of it is already available as part of the BMW OS 7 release. But the major work we are doing, looking ahead to the iNext [electric SUV], is about gaze, head pose and gesture tracking and combing those with the other modalities. But everything we showed today is going to go into production.”

In practice, this means that BMW will use two cameras: a wide-angle camera behind the rear-view mirror that can track the gestures of both the driver and front-seat passenger and one behind the dashboard that only looks at the driver through the steering wheel and recognizes when their eyes blink, where their eyes look and their head pose.

As Grote noted, figuring out where you are looking is not exactly easy. The camera sees your hands in relation to the car. That’s pretty straightforward. But the car, too, is situated somewhere in space, and for this to work, that localization has to be very precise, and the digital map has to be very detailed, too. “GPS isn’t enough for this,” Grote said, and noted that the company plans to use the car’s forward-facing camera to gather additional information that helps localize the car in space based on comparing the image to the digital map. The AI smarts that power these mapping features run right in the car — and in many ways, these features also lay the groundwork for self-driving cars, which obviously need highly detailed maps, too.

In many ways, this work is a continuation of BMW’s work on its IPA in-car assistant. “There, we use Azure Cognitive Service and we plan to integrate these new modalities (like gaze and gesture tracking) with the same technology. And that’s important for these multi-modal systems. […] We have a great partnership with Microsoft and we expect that’ll continue.”

Grote also noted that BMW has a long history of working in the cloud, thanks to many years of experience in offering its connected car services. “We don’t think of the car as an isolated client that connects to some service in the cloud, but that we also see these connected cars as a swarm that has collective intelligence.”

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity is one of the hot topics in the car industry right now — especially given the advent of 5G with its low-latency connectivity — and BMW does have its own point of view here. For Grote, V2X systems that use the cellular network and connect to the cloud have major advantages over those that try to connect cars directly. These cloud-connected systems, he argues, are easier to maintain and they are able to translate between different standards or — in the long run — integrate different generations of this system to ensure that cars from different manufacturers can talk to each other.

“A cellular-based system is forward-looking, maintainable, secure and the better foundation that guarantees future development efforts versus a standard that’s 20 years old, from a time when the carriers were not interested in machine-to-machine traffic at all.”

BMW continues to bet on the cloud for many of its newest tech developments. Among car manufacturers, it’s obviously not alone here. Daimler recently announced that it has moved its big data platform to the cloud, for example. And in many ways, that move makes sense. Running online services isn’t a core competency for many of these companies, and even if they are experienced at running their own data centers by now, this isn’t what allows them to differentiate their cars in a highly competitive market. That energy is better spent on building applications, not managing them. The large cloud providers also offer global coverage, and redundancies are hard and expensive to build.

Why BMW is betting on the cloud

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/bmw-continues-to-bet-on-the-azure-cloud/