On the RPi microSD, on a USB stick, on a SSD,… entirely up what you have available and what you need.

Immich fits on a RPi so not sure one needs a lot of memory for that.

Funny I have the opposite experience.

I use KDE Plasma, Firefox, konsole, etc and sometimes, no idea when and why, I just pick a file then drop it somewhere else, including ON the terminal… and it works?! Like it brings the full path for that file and then I can compose with CLI tools, amazing!

I’m quite used to the terminal so I rarely use drag&drop (mv, cp, scp, rsync, etc just work) but when I do I’m actually often positively surprise that totally different software made with different interaction paradigms (e.g. GUI vs CLI) do work well together. Overall I think https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ is quite impressive.

Gosh… wish I could upvote twice. Feels like we just gave a low cost (for now) chainsaw to anybody who wish they had a pocket knife then say “There, you can cut anything with that!” and somehow they forgot they can just buy some OK stuff from Ikea or a nice artisan. The need to “build” anything without taking a minute to know, not even the state of the art, whatever already exist out there and “fix” it by “personalizing” it is nuts.

Let’s not “vibe code” anything when reliable solutions already exist!

AFAICT it relies on https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/HEAD:/libavfilter/vf_scdet.c

Neat, made me curious, seems to rely on https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#scdet-1

There are actual radios, like FIP.fr or plenty of other ones that just give you the m3u8 and their playlist. It’s not federated but it’s less centralized than most platforms like SoundCloud or Apple Music.

If you do want a specific song and album you can pay for it via BandCamp and get the actual file, DRM free, to play on any device.

If you do want a song or album it BandCamp does not have, or you already have a copy of, e.g. physical CD, and you want something less centralize SoulSeek still works.

PS: I have been running my own PeerTube instance for years now but I don’t use it for music, just videos.

Haven’t actually tried it myself but check https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sponsorblock-options

I’m listening to podcast on a daily basis. I’m using Escapepod on a deGoogled Android phone.

Basically I pay for premium feeds, this way the author of the podcast get money and I don’t ads. One example is “Tech Won’t Save Us” via Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/techwontsaveus/posts?vanity=techwontsaveus and another is 404 Media.

How it works is that premium podcast feed have a uniquely generated URL that I then use on my podcast client. It then downloads the episodes from the feeds, no ad. It’s very straightforward.

No need for YouTube (terrible, part of Google/Alphabet) nor Apple (terrible as it’s doing everything possible to grow it’s closed ecosystem) to have quality content.

It’s all just speculations, both what you suggested and what others said.

You are on the right path with your screenshots but you might not be measuring the right thing.

So, you need a (paper) notebook to record objectively (not your biased feeling assuming a pattern that might not exist) when it happens and for how long. Only from then can you backtrack to WHAT causes it. Sure you can have some hypothesis (update related, screen attach/detach, BIOS, RAM, etc) but that should NOT lead to your data acquisition.

So you htop is nice but AFAICT it’s just about CPU and memory, it’s not about e.g. IO so consider instead iotop, in particular if one process is some indexing (e.g. locatedb). Theoretically if it’s not CPU/memory (which you are saying it’s not the case) then it basically just leaves IO, that can be again indexing, some heavy process that is bottlenecked on disk access, but can also be a bug, e.g. BT pairing/unpairing that happens faster than you can notice.

Think of this as a fun investigation that leads you to better understanding of your setup, good luck.

play around with local LLMs and image upscaling

FWIW I did that for a bit https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence and I stopped doing it. I did it mostly from FOMO and that, maybe, truly, it wasn’t just hype. Well I stopped. Sure most of those (then state of the art) models are impressive. Yes there are some radical progresses on all fronts, from software to hardware to mathematics underpinning ALL this… and yet, that is ACTUALLY useful in there? IMHO not much.

Once you did try models and confirm that yes indeed it makes “something” then the usefulness is so rare it make the whole endeavor not worth it for me. I would still do it again in retrospect because it helps to learn but… honestly NOT doing it and leaving others to benchmark, review, etc or “just” spending 10 bucks on a commercial model will save you a LOT of time.

So… do what you want but I’d argue gaming remains by far the best usage of a local GPU.

To clarify I listed here behaviors that I believe is common. I’m NOT listing behaviors that somebody privacy conscious is. That same person could around the neighborhood with a hoodie, glasses, hygiene mask just the same way.

What I was trying to highlight wasn’t extreme behavior, one way or another, but rather typical ones.

Yes, I didn’t say this was OK. What I’m saying rather is trying to highlight the lack of novelty.

See my earlier answers. I’m not justifying any of that infrastructure or behavior, only trying to highlight that this information, namely that OP is walking around the neighborhood, where and when, is already available to numerous of the actors including :

• neighbors, just visually seeing him with their eyes
• mobile operator via their 5G/4G towers
• mobile OS via their positioning data
• WiFi hotspots
• ISP via WiFi hotspots
• any app with geolocation tracking and any of their commercial partners purchasing that information
• connected devices via BT scanning potentially sending back data to their manufacturer, assuming most are connected
• governments with abilities to get information from ISP, mobile operators, mobile OS maintainers

So… the question IMHO is : is there are NEW data with or without the camera network? I’d argue marginally more.

Sadly not the only one https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx23ke7rm7go

Well I get why you stick to a hardware device you like… but honestly that’s 15 years old. You can get something better and cheaper delivered to your door tomorrow.

I personally went down a similar path while discovering https://www.rockbox.org/ was still a thing, looking for old iPod or Archos I could refurbish, checking 2nd hand market, etc. As much as it pains me to say, unless you are a collector it’s not “worth” it. You can get something ridiculously smaller, with more memory, more features, etc for the price of a meal.

IMHO it’s better to get rid of Windows by purchasing new hardware that is genuinely interroperable by supporting standards.

Ideally you’d check something like https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-update-the-firmware-on-your-zune-without-microsoft-dammit but it might be more work than you want to put it. Maybe your local HackerSpace could help though.

My point finally is that freedom is quite important and feeling trapped daily is not worth ~$50.

Related article https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx23ke7rm7go on how such glasses are actually used, sadly.

Oh noes… who will think of the shareholders?! /$

What’s next, he’s also going to ask people not use terms like “slop” like MicroSlop CEO?

Honestly a lot of people, including me, who do complain about the AI hype (not public research in AI) were, or still are, sadly, customers. People who wanted to buy MORE of his products but not fund something that has so many predictable negative consequences with so little upsides except for his bank account.

Good to know, any VPS provider that scaffold for YUNOhost then that you’d recommend?