Decouple people from big tech

I’m not making fun of what you’ve said, and I’m not talking down to you. That said, I like where you’re going, but that will never happen. You can mark it on the calendar: ‘That irmadlad asshole said - never happen’. On the one hand I applaud you loud and clear. On the other hand, we live in a global consumerist society. Corporate is just giving them their fix. That’s their plug.

My entire stack runs off a 14kw solar array

I have solar too. Hell I have solar on two barns. I like it. I often think about how far along we might be here in America if a lowly peanut farmer had not been ridiculed beyond belief for putting solar on the white house. Now, they were not what you’d call efficient, but it was a start. I think the next presidency took them down.

but your techiest uncle could host the entire family in a privacy cooperative, for instance

Oh no doubt. I’ve long since been a promoter of the notion of a server in every home. We live in a digital society. We have digital assets. These need to be centrally housed on a very secure server and backed up.

However, self hosters and homelabbers make up <2% of the world’s population. It gets even less if you differentiate between consistent homelab/self hosters and those who were just experimenting. Yeah, we do it, but not on a massive scale to even make a ding. Again, I like where your head’s at, but it’s not us we need to convince, it’s them. And they like their crack. Corporate likes their money.

I mean, I’m not saying give up. Keep pushing. But realistically, we’re in a script.

allow additional users it will not be fully open

Just for trusted friends or randos? If randos, have you ever been a mod? Never set up a Lemmy instance, but I have been a mod of quite a few Reddit subs. It’s a headache I will never engage in again.

Just in general or because you’re setting up a Lemmy instance?

If you’re using Firefox, then there are a plethora of cookie copiers. I used one, don’t know which now, a while back. Seemed to function for my purposes.

Oh you’ll smoke a turd in hell for your insolence. That would make sense. It’s much easier to complain.

Me too.

This whole internet could run on a tiny fraction of what it current consumes, with no drop in service levels

But it doesn’t.

… if the extraction of profit from every single interaction was not prioritized.

But it is.

So, now what are we going to do? Give me real world solutions that will actually fix the issue, which would be implemented by real world corporations and real world data centers. I’m not problem hampered, I’m solution based. So let’s fix it.

I use both Song Sleuth and Smart Bird ID (iOS). Fairly decent. I wouldn’t bet any significant bet on it’s accuracy 100% of the time. I’m no birder, but it seems to work well enough for my purposes.

Do what works for you OP. Don’t let 'em give you shit about your pony tail.

Listen, everything that they are doing by scorching the planet and turning the tap water brown, could be achieved on CPU or much smaller GPUs on local machines

Didn’t downvote you however, are you saying if I ran an AI model local, that scorching the planet and turning the tap water brown is ok with you, just because it’s local?. Because that’s exactly what we’re are doing when we access the internet. Throw AI out of the scope, and we’re still pumping massive amounts of carbon in to the air, still turning the water brown. There are 8.4 billion people on this planet. Approximately 6.3 billion of them are online. That’s just individual humans. That doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of data centers that aren’t even connected with AI and all the energy production to make them run.

So, who will be the first to actually practice what you preach and shut down your servers and internet devices? C’mon…make the first step towards a cleaner planet.

If you’re speaking of audio analysis ML or AI models, they are quite efficient. As a mediocre musician, who is clinically deaf and cannot hear some frequencies with enough clarity to make a judgement either way, I lean on AI assisted audio mastering. I haven’t dabbled in AI generated music, but with the right DAW and a handful of plugins, some keyboards and instruments, you can do a lot right in the comfort of your home.

I’ll bump you an upvote. I have used AI for a lot of things around the lab. For one, it makes a very concise search engine. This is just for my personal use, and it works fairly well. Sometimes I’ll make the same query to several AI platforms just to get an overall view of how to proceed. It’s a tool, might as well use it.

Damn son…you busy! LOL

I don’t think you’re overexaggerating the potential backlash at all; especially on Lemmy.

I don’t either, like you said, ‘especially on Lemmy.’ The thing is, AI assisted anything is unavoidable. Even in the case of longstanding, well established projects, we’re seeing AI being involved to some extent or the other. Like you, I’ve used AI to create a small handful of things for my server. One would be when I log in via SSH, there is a banner that pulls a random song from Navidrome’s playlists and displays it on the MOTD. For instance, today’s is:

🎵 SONG OF THE DAY

Blues Garage by Marco Tansini

I did make my code available here with the stipulation that it works on my machine, buyer beware, as it were. But I’d never purport to maintain it even tho I released it. For one, I don’t have the patience to wade through mounds of criticism, and requests for other options. That patience left me decades ago.

instead they’d rather sit on the internet and criticize other people’s methods of coping with overload.

Preach it! Dev toils away at creating an app. Dev releases it to the public for free with no obligations whatsoever, to even consider it. Dev gets hammered for a variety of things including AI. Go make your own app and release it to the public and see how that goes. It’s a mote/beam kind of thing.

I think vibe coded projects need at least 6 months to a year of history before they replace anything critical in my stack.

Reasonable. I do the same with updates. I wait for all the early adopters work out all the bugs, and when I feel comfortable, I update.

OOoops! Sorry about that. Yeah, Feishin is an awesome player and has no issues with huge playlists. In the UI, it nopes out. That’s my only real complaint.

Again, I do not run Jellyfin, but what you’re saying seems contradictory to what the devs are implying: here and here. Since I lack the hands on experience, I will leave the issue with the experts.

but what I tend to see is one or two people here saying that Jellyfin devs don’t recommend exposing it publicly

I think what the devs are saying is ‘don’t expose Jellyfin to the public in an unsafe manner’. I don’t run Jellyfin, but can confirm what you’ve read here. In that vein, don’t expose anything to the public in an unsafe manner.

Question: Is there a hard limit for playlists? Reason being, I have a rather large collection I have converted from the physical media to flac. I have a playlist that is edging 100k songs. When I try to play it in the Navidrome UI, it takes at least 5+ minutes to even begin to play, and then forwarding to another song is neigh impossible. I can play other playlists smaller than that in the UI. Feishin, which is indirectly routed through Cloudflare, and not taping the local IP of the server, has no issues playing the playlist in question. Substreamer, iOS, has no problem either.

Specs:

Optiplex 7020 i7-49790 32 GB RAM

…which seems like it would be sufficient.

I recommend Navidrome for music. The only issue I have with Navidrome is that with a playlist that contains a large collection of music, bogs down to the point of being inoperable. So, I have to split the playlist into smaller chunks.