No worries. Your post was well-written. And I’m glad people could offer some advice. Not even the proficient Lemmy users get all of this right all the time. I just figured I’d drop you a comment in case the mods take action, to spare you the effort to also learn about the modlog and how to look up their note… But seems it wasn’t necessary 😄

Sorry, I don’t have an answer to your question, but two other communities that would fit: !homelab@lemmy.world and !homelab@selfhosted.forum

They’re both not really active, though. And someone asked about OpenSense hardware before and didn’t get any answers…

Just writing this so you have some other places to look up, in case your post gets deleted, I think you’re technically in the wrong community here. As per rule 3 in the sidebar, this community isn’t about hardware questions.

Sorry, I’m not not able to help with that. Maybe there’s a limit how many old messages your server or client syncs?

I suppose it’s old drama by now. And I didn’t check if there’s new one in the meantime. As of now, both projects are active. Both have a userbase. Judging by the lasst commits, it’s still the case that Tuwunel is a one-man-show and Continuwuity is a community project.

I think whether you do closed source software is a personal choice. Based on considerations of your application. Like money, of if you want to rely on a company and how well they do their job, if it’s still gonna be around in 7 years. If you can customize it enough to suit your needs. Or you base the decision on ideology.

I’ve been using Yunohost on the NAS. And it’s simple, works well and is pretty reliable, I didn’t get any major issues for many years now. (And in general, community maintained open-source software has served me well. So that’s what I do.)

Downsides as a proficient Linux user are: You can’t just mess with the config while the automatic scripts also mess with the config. You need to learn how they’re set up and work around that. Hope software has a config.d or overrides directory and put your customizations there. Or something will get messed up eventually. And you can’t just change arbitrary things. The mailserver or SSO or reverse proxy and a few other components are tightly integrated and you’re never gonna be able to switch from postfix to stalwart or something like that. Or retrofit a more modern authentication solution. It is a limiting factor.
And YunoHost doesn’t do containers, so I doubt it’s what you’re looking for anyway.

I’m a bit split on the entire promise of turnkey selfhosting solutions. Some of them work really well. And they’re badly needed to enable regular people to emancipate themselves from big tech. Whether you as an expert want to use them is an entirely different question. I think that just depends on application. If you have a good setup, that might be better suited to your needs. And if done right might be very low maintenance as well. So switching to a turnkey solution would be extra work and it might not pay off. Or it does pay off, I think that really depends on the specifics.

Interesting. Does anyone happen to know what’s special about the one service that scores ninety something percent on several books when all the other AI services do 4% or less? Is that measuring their safeguards? Or some other effects? Or does it mean there’s one service (Claude) that’s just way better at reciting books than all their competitors?

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Edit: Not sure if this conversation is going anywhere… But now it went through, and Grok sends a wall of text. I’ll stop wasting energy now. I bet Musk would like it to vote. But as of now it’s not an US citizen.

Yeah, I casually “forgot” I still have my Google account as well. Just that I moved everything away a long time ago. Mainly for privacy reasons because I didn’t like any Google reading my inbox. I’ll randomly log in to gmail every few years and see if it’s still there… I mean it won’t get any better, these things get constantly made worse. So if you can muster up the energy and time to do something, it’s probably better to do it sooner rather than later. But I feel you. Subscriptions can be changed, that’s just time and effort to do it. But people for 20 years is hard. I don’t see any good solutions to tackle that.

Not really contributing, but gmail has long been about reading your mails, harvesting the personal information and displaying ads. All the filters, “magic” sorting and algorithms are integral part of gmail for decades now. If you’re still there in 2026, nobody can help you. You probably want this.

I’ve been part of that game for a long time as well. I guess it used to be easier when things were a bit simpler, more transparent and less connected. But there’s no way this works in the modern world with the amount of complexity (and intransparency) stuffed into an average electric vehicle. Or getting a doctor’s appointment via Doctolib.

We better take care of this, though.

I wish selfhosting was a bit easier. I do that as well. My stuff is on a Nextcloud. We have all these alternatives available and it works quite well. We’d really need to make it available to everyone, though. Like a home wifi router, or a small device that people just plug in, with an unbreakable and maintanence-free selfhosting solution for home use. We have several projects aiming at that. But I don’t think we’re quite there yet. I think something like Home-Assistant is almost there, just for a different niche. It’s relatively easy to just buy a RaspberryPi or their box, set it up. It’s almost indestructible and by paying a few bucks a month they take care of making it available from outside and some money goes towards development and a healty community.

Yes. The phone is the real kicker. They’re gonna cut you off from modern life unless you buy into the Google ecosystem. More and more apps are required to do mundane things, ride a bus or train, book a ticket to an event, charge your car, split expenses with your friends or handle money in general. Gadgets and appliances have companion apps to properly make use of them. I’d have 5 authenticator apps on my phone to do paperwork. And I won’t be able to communicate with friends or find out if the shop is closed today unless I have an account and maybe the app of some platform. All of that is proprietary, part of surveillance capitalism. And it’s getting proceedingly more difficult to evade Google, because they’re slowly adding SafetyNet and device verification to many apps. And of course sprinkle some AI on top because that’s what we do and it aligns with the rest of it. Or Google just changes strategy and asserts more control over every phone user as needed for their corporate interests.

We’re not there yet. I still have GrapheneOS on my phone and I’m doing alright. It’s not very comfortable, though, and I can clearly feel which way we’re headed.

With the computer/laptop, it’s easy. Backup your data, wipe it and install Linux. It’s gonna take a while to get accustomed if you’re used to a different operating system… But I don’t think it’s more difficult to use or anything in the long run. The initial extra work is an investment that pays off later. I’m fairly sure Linux is the one platform that will resist and keep coming with default settings without AI and corporate surveillance.

Interestingly enough, it’s also used by big tech to power all the servers and AI services. But at the end of the day it empowers everyone.

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Sure. Sadly I don’t have the proper tools around to do that. And in my case I wasn’t too sad. These devices had 100mbps ethernet and a slow wifi standard. Now they’re on e-waste and I got an upgrade to Gigabit ethernet and 5GHz wifi 😆

Not sure if I get your point. Abstraction is a concept used by IT people to deal with complexity. You’ll use Docker containers in order not to have 200 very specific problems and learn about the intricate details of all of them. Or use a turnkey solution because a working day has a finite amount of hours and you can just not care and have somebody else set the XY value of Postgres to 128 because that’s somehow needed for software M on python x.xx… Of course you’re then not going to learn about these things. It is not “bad”, though, in itself to abstract these issues away from you. Same for the other things I mentioned, networking, virtualization. Abstraction there allows to swap out complex things, do things once and in a clean way because it’s easy to miss things without abstraction and you always need to pay attention to a bazillion of specifics. Also helps with backups, deal with issues because things should break within confined layers, punch above one’s weight, security, do something once and roll it out several times…

I think what you want to avoid is poorly designed or written software. Or poorly done setups. Or not learn about important things. Abstraction is generally something you want, especially with complex things.

That’s what I was thinking as well. But what they portray in the video is mostly warehouses and assembly lines. Which seems to me like the domain of specialized robots?! …There’s a few snippets, far and in between with what I’d call human-centric places. A humanoid stocking a fridge, unloading the laundry and bringing coffee…
I can envision humanoid robots work in smaller warehouses as well. Or as a receptionist. Or in more jobs in the far future. It’d take quite a while until that delivery driver robot can illegally park the car in my busy city, run across 3 lanes of rush hour traffic and hand me the packet. And then be fast enough to do it hundreds of times a day and in all weather conditions.

Edit: I might be wrong, though. Just read an article about Hyundai going to deploy many humanoid robots to car assembly lines.

Maybe try something like YunoHost. That’s a web server Linux distribution. And it’s supposed to take care of the set up and come with somewhat safe/secure defaults. You’d need some kind of server, though. Or run it in a VM to isolate it from your home services. They have PeerTube, Lemmy, PieFed installable with a few clicks. (There are other projects as well, Yunohost isn’t the only option to help with the set up.)

But yes, some kind of isolation is probably nice with web services. Also from the home network, and from storage with personal data on it.

Yes, OpenWRT lasts way longer. Main thing that ends support is hardware requirements. My old devices with only a few megabytes of memory got dropped eventually. Not because of the chipset, a modern OpenWRT would just not fit any longer. I rarely see other reasons for them to discontinue updates.

Sorry, but how exactly are humanoid robots supposed to get pallets in an out of 30m high warehouses? Do we revert back to driving around forklifts? How are store chains like Wallmart supposed to stock the shelves without modern, automated warehouses?
What kind of efficiency do humanoid robots have at welding a car chassis? How does every family drive 2 cars when we’re going to assemble them at a speed like in the 60s when every family had one?

I don’t think any of this makes sense. We do rely on robots. You can’t buy a canned soup in a large store without robots. Your car mechanic can’t order a replacement part within 2 days after your car broke down, without some big logistics center powered by robots. We have a bazillion car brands and it’s a logistics nightmare to have replacement parts available. And they all have specialized robots, conveyor belts… None of that even works with humanoid robots. They’ll just be 1000x slower at carrying things around, manipulating big heavy objects, they can’t lift pallets… All of that has better solutions as of today.

I mean ultimately we wouldn’t have food for hundreds of millions of people to begin with, without massive technology in agriculture. Not sure what the proposal is… Should we all resume working on the fields to harvest food? Do we replace these big, mostly robotic harvesters with a bazillion humanoid robots pulling out the carrots?

Or 0.1% of the $16 trillion the billionaires own according to Wikipedia / The Forbes list of the world billionaires.

No. We got the same news report last year and the year before… I think in 2021 Jeff Bezos alone cashed out $10bn. This is just our yearly reminder of rich people and that they do financial stuff and their tax evasion schemes.

The $25 million have been a good investment, considering Trump in turn does things like Project Stargate to send $500 billion towards companies like OpenAI.
…You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours…

Whatever came of Project Stargate. Did they follow up on it? Maybe the US taxpayer should be upset. But then there’s just so much other outrages for them.