Is no one going to post the Technology Connections video???

Okay, then

https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c

Also https://youtu.be/RpoXFk-ixZc

And maybe channeling electro boom: https://youtu.be/INZybkX8tLI

Pixel phones can monitor phone calls for scam conversations (it runs locally on the phone, so audio doesn’t get saved or uploaded).

Theme parks do use image recognition to flag obscene things in ride photos.

I had to look up embeddings: so this is comparing the encoding of movies as a similarity test?

Which can work because the encoding methods can indicate closeness of meaning.

And that’s why this isn’t running an llm in any way.

I recently went to the bank to get a letter on their headed notepaper to act as proof of account ownership. They just printed it out on blank paper from a laser printer.

Grep was originally written to help identify the authors of the Federalist Papers.

There are much more powerful tools to automate that kind of pattern matching now, of course.

In recent times I’ve played Baby Steps, Cocoon, Inside, Slay The Princess, Thank Goodness You’re Here, Hyperbolica, Unpacking… Going further back, Unfinished Swan, Untitled Goose Game

I don’t think that originality has gone. Maybe it’s just easier to churn out shovelware, but there are still new ideas appearing.

It has a GPU, but it’s helpful to know that I can look out for adaptors, thanks.

I like to be able to have a charger set up in more than one room than can be shared instead of moving chargers around all the time.

Yes, Lenovo!

I just bought a more beefy laptop and it has a special charger cable because it’s 170W :(

Star Guitar

https://youtu.be/0S43IwBF0uM

I’ve run koboldcpp on a steam deck. You have to stick to small model files, of course, like maybe 4Gb, but you can get decent speed if you do.

And Edge Gallery on Android can run models locally on a phone.

That’s a great question!

Wait, does “this comment” refer to your comment, or the one that you’re replying to?

I use Obsidian as a OneNote replacement because it’s built around markdown, which is just a a text file that includes structure and formatting.

I don’t use their subscription syncing service, just sync files to my own phone and server. Obsidian is great for organizing, but I can still read all the files as text.

I found that the resilio mobile app would use up a lot of battery at night (sometimes about 10% an hour).

Syncthing was better for that, but would sometimes just stop updating on a phone. I would check and it would have not been syncing for weeks and be signed out of the web UI.

Why would you want it to be a server instead of an app just running on the phone, that can work offline?

I used those to call back to the UK when I moved to the US, back around 2005.

When you entered the number you wanted to call, it would do a VOIP connection from the line you were on to that company to a line in the destination county. So it was an Internet call for the international part (which is how they did it cheaply).

I realized that because the cards I bought were from a company with “VOIP” in the name!

I had one of those Radio Shack tone dialler boxes so that I could pre-program the free US number and the card id number.

Just having driveway alarms can be useful. Battery motion sensors trigger a chime on the base unit. Enough to give you an alert that something needs to be checked.

I should add that I do use it for backups, it’s a great program, but I’ve only ever used it for one-way scheduled syncs.