fonix232
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2·2 months agoIn my opinion - and yes I know it’s punny - fish also belongs in the “too opinionated” category.
It’s not a bad shell but overall I found it to be quite reluctant to work the way you want it, if that isn’t the way the developer meant it to be used. Which is fine, but again, it means that fish is opinionated.
Meh, I find OMZ a bit too opinionated.
antidote with the right plugins + starship with the right prompt builder beats anything.
I liked movie Hammond too, don’t get me wrong. It’s just a completely different story because of the character shift.
The movie really dumbed Hammond down to “overly optimistic money guy with a vision”. Which was a bit distasteful if you’ve read the books. Just a bit.
I found most Japanese whiskey to be too sweet for my taste. GJ has that balance of smoothness while keeping the sweetness at bay.
Plus I’m not that big of a fan of non-scotch whisky anyway.
By the way if you want something truly smooth, and not too sweet, the cheaper Mackinlay’s Shackleton remake, usually around £20 a bottle (should be around $25-30 in the US), is an amazing choice.
There’s two products of Jack Daniels that I do appreciate:
- their BBQ sauce (I know there are better ones but none of them reached the UK yet, sadly, it’s a “good enough” substitute at a good price)
- Gentleman Jack - pretty much the only commercial bourbon I find drinkable, albeit not worth the price
Except every single MacBook you can buy right now (directly, from Apple, not second hand) directly beats pretty much every other device in its price range - unless you go super crazy with the specs and want to do 128GB RAM with an M5 Max and 8TB storage.
So it’s hardly overpriced.
2·3 months agoDue to the fact I am running UnRaid on the node in question, I kinda do need Docker. I want to avoid messing with the core OS as much as possible, plus a Dockerised app is always easier to restore.
I’ve actually been eyeing lemonade, but the lack of Dockerisation is still an issue… guess I’ll just DIY it at one point.
Piper does chunking for TTS, and could utilise the NPU with the right drivers.
And the idea of running them on the NPU is not about memory usage but hardware capacity/parallelism. Although I guess it would have some benefits when I don’t have to constantly load/unload GPU models.
Aye, I was actually hoping to use the NPU for TTS/STT while keeping the LLM systems GPU bound.
The thing is, if AMD actually added proper support for it, given it has a somewhat powerful NPU as well… For the total TDP of the package it’s still one of the best perf per watt APU, just the damn software support isn’t there.
Feckin AMD.
And I am on ROCm - specifically on an 8945HS, which is advertised as a Ryzen AI APU yet is completely unsupported as a target with major issues around queuing and more complex models (although the new 7.0 betas have been promising but TheRock’s flip-flopping with their Docker images has been making me go crazy…).
Well yeah, the availability of these more advanced hardware bits is pretty new - for example, all the older GH Minis and Echo devices were running a quite pared down Linux distro with software processing for e.g. wake words.
Transplanting all that to MCUs takes time, but now we have a solid base, a handful of devices/boards that utilise the various XMOS chips, and soon we will be seeing more and more consumer level devices - but again that takes time when there’s no big megacorp behind the project pushing it to completion with bottomless finances and hundreds of engineers.
But you’re not exactly correct on there being no other options. There’s the Satellite1 smart speaker which might be a DIY kit but it does exist. Then there’s the Seeed Studio Respeaker Lite w/ ESP32-S3 to which you can slap a speaker (either directly or a powered speaker through the audio jack). In fact the Respeaker lineup has a handful more options for smart speakers all utilising the various XMOS chips.
Just keep in mind that these speakers are DIY mainly for two reasons:
- the technology is pretty new
- there’s no big corpo push behind it to deliver profitable (in some way) consumer products
There WILL be consumer products (hopefully soon) on the market, but again, this is being done by volunteers and small startups with just a handful of people, it takes more time to get them on the market than it does for companies the size of Amazon or Google.
To be fair, in the early days HA wasn’t too usable. Even around 2018-19, the integrations were limited and the core logic was quite wonky. I’d say around 2020 it became mature enough for daily use for non-tinkerers.
I do wish there was a smaller LongCat model available. My current AI node has a hard 16GB VRAM limit (yay AMD UMA limitations), so 27B can’t really fit. An 8B dynamically loaded model would fit, and run much better.
The HA Voice Preview is a pretty solid device, but you’re right, there isn’t really any ready made Echo/Google Home Mini replacement device - primarily because all those devices are generally sold at a loss, or at cost at best, and subsidised by your data being sold.
You won’t be able to make a Google Home Mini contender for below $50, and at that price most people will opt for the former. Good quality speakers, microphones, local processing (like the XMOS chip in the Voice Preview) all cost money, and there’s no subsidy to be made. Some older Echo devices are rootable, but the hardware tends to be somewhat exotic (meaning no open source support for specialised components), and there’s little ongoing third party support (focus has been on the display-equipped models, and to run Android on them).
All in all, “cheap” and “fully local open source voice assistant” don’t really coexist.
There were like, about two years between OpenHAB and HA being released. Former debuted in 2011, HA saw first release in 2013.
I’m very well aware. But you’re clearly not aware of the fact that this X server simply wouldn’t be running on an old enough kernel for the 2038 problem to be relevant.