No, I thing you might be confusing it with Tampa.

You do have a choice, it just happens to be rather desynchronized. It happens at the voting booth.

Besides being wrong about tire/tyre, I also really like how you are completely wrong about “Trolleys” being something you have too go to San Francisco for… And that the OP didn’t even talk about “Trolleys” , but “Trams”…

First of all… There’s plenty of different types of Trolleys around the world, like:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_trolley https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Stewart-Golf-R1-S-Push-Trolley-3-2.png

But now that we are specifically talking about Trams, they also exist in:

• Melbourne (159 miles)
• Kyiv (144 miles)
• Saint Peter’s burg (127.7 miles)
• Cologne (121 miles)
• Berlin (119 miles)
• Moscow (114 miles)
• Milan (113 miles)
• Budapest (107 miles)
• Silesian Interurbans (106 miles)
• Vienna (110 miles)

Just to name a few of the 403 cities around the world that operates a tram network. And comically enough, the San Francisco doesn’t even get near any of the above with it’s measly 5.16 miles of track. Even Los Angeles (82.7 miles) and Dallas (96 miles) has San Francisco beat.

Even if all support is dropped, everything is running on open source software, so nothing is going to stop working as a result of dropped support.

Finding replacements might become tricky at some point though.

It doesn’t really matter whether Zigbee was merged into something else, because it simply doesn’t have any technical means of phoning home. It simply can’t access the Internet.

There’s no intermediate corporate owned servers, there’s no proprietary software.

So it doesn’t really matter what the corporation does because it can’t affect my “smart” devices.

That depends on the kind of “smart”.

I have a bunch of IKEA “smart” light bulbs, but they are connected through a Sonoff USB Zigbee dongle. And all of it is controlled through the open-source zigbee2mqtt and home-assistant.

No one, but myself and my family, have any control or ownership of any of those devices.

Apparently I am too…

1. Linux (NixOS BTW)
2. Also Sway
3. Colemak
4. Mechanical keyboard, but the key caps are still QWERTY.

That’s definitely not what I’ve heard, please elaborate.

Arch is fine… It has good documentation.

NixOS or Gentoo is probably my pick.

The only true “roadblock” I have experienced was when running on the raspberry pi, where the CPU was too slow to do any transcoding at all, and the memory was too small and unupgradable to be able to run much at the same time.

As soon as I had migrated to a proper desktop (the i7-920) I could run basically everything I would regularly want. And from then on it was a piece of cake upgrading. Shut the machine down, unplug, swap the parts, plug in, turn on. Linux has happily booted up with no trouble with the new hardware.

Since my first server was a classic bios, and the later machines was UEFI, then that step required a reinstall… But after the reinstall, I actually just copied all the contents of the root partition over, and it just worked.

The main limiting factors for me has been the amount of memory, the amount of SATA connectors for disks, and whether the hardware supported hardware transcoding.

For memory, ensure the motherboard has 4 sockets for memory, that makes it easy to start out with a bit of memory and upgrade later. For example you could start out with 2x 4GB sticks for a total of 8GB, and then later when you feel like you need more, you buy 2x 8GB sticks. Now you have a total of 24 GB.

For SATA ports, ensure the motherboard has enough ports for your needs, and I would also strongly recommend looking for a motherboard with at least 2 PCIe 16x slots, as that will allow you too add many more SATA or SAS ports via a SAS card.

Hardware encoding is far from a must. It’s only really necessary if you have a lot of media in unsupported formats by the client devices. 95% of my library is h.264 in 1080p, which is supported on pretty much everything, so it will play directly and not require any transcoding. Most 1080p media is encoded in h.264, so it’s usually a non-issue. 4k media however often come in HEVC (h.265), which many devices do not support. These files will require transcoding to be playable on devices that do not support it, but a CPU can still transcode it using “software transcoding”, it’s just much slower and less responsive. So I would consider it a nice convenience, but definitely not a must, and it depends entirely on the encoding of the media library.

EDIT: Oh, I just remembered… Beware of non-standard hardware. For example motherboards from Dell and IBM/Lenovo. These often come with non-standard fan mounts and headers, which means you can’t replace the fans. They also often have non-standard power supplies, in non-standard form factors, which means that if the power supply dies, it’s nearly impossibly to replace, and when you upgrade your motherboard you are likely forced to replace the power supply as well, and since the size of the power supply isn’t standard, the new power supply will not fix in the case… Many of their motherboards also have non-standard mounts for the motherboards, which means that you are forced to replace the case when upgrading the motherboard… You can often find companies selling their old workstations for dirt-cheap, which can be a great way to get started, but often these workstations are so non-standard that you practically can’t upgrade them… Often the only standard components in these are harddrives, SSDs, optical disc drives, memory, and any installed PCIe cards.

As long as it’s capable of booting into Linux, then you can start building a homelab…

Initially I had a 2-bay Synology NAS, and a Raspberry Pi 3B… It was very modest, but enough to stream media to my TV and run a bunch of different stuff in docker containers.

In my house, computer hardware is handed down. I buy something to upgrade my desktop, and whatever falls off that machine is handed down to my wife or my daughter’s machines, then finally it’s handed down to the server.

At some point my old Core i7-920 ended up in the server. This was plenty to upgrade the server to running Kubernetes with even more stuff, and even software transcoding some media for streaming. Running BTRFS gave me the flexibility to add various used disks over time.

At some point the CPU went bad, so I bought an upgrade for my desktop, and handed my old CPU donown the can, which released an Intel Core i5-2400F for the server. At this point storage and memory started to become the main limiting factor, so I added a PCI SAS card in IT mode to add more disks.

As this point my wife needed a faster CPU, so I bought a newer used CPU for her, and her old Intel Core i7-3770 was handed down to the server. That gave quite a boost in raw CPU power.

I ended up with a spare Intel Core i5-7600 because the first motherboard I bought for my wife was dead, so I looked up and found that for very cheap I could buy a motherboard to match, so I upgraded the server which opened up proper hardware transcoding.

I have since added 2 Intel NUCs to have a highly available control plane for my cluster.

This is where my server is at right now, and it’s way beyond sufficient for the media streaming, photo library, various game servers, a lot of self-hosted smart home stuff, and all sorts of other random bits and pieces I want to run.

My suggestion would be to start out by finding the cheapest possible option, and then learn what your needs are.

What do you want your server to do? What software do you want to run? What hardware do you want to connect to it? All of this will evolve as you start using your server more and more, and you will learn what you need to buy to achieve what you want to.

“AI” is a very broad term. Back when I went to university, my AI course started out with Wumpus World. While this is an extremely simple problem, it’s still considered “AI”.

The enemies in computer games that are controlled by the computer are also considered “AI”.

Machine learning algorithms, like recommender algorithms, and image recognition are also considered “AI”

LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are also “AI”

None of these things are conscious, self aware or intelligent, yet they are part of the field called “AI”.

These are however not “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence). AGI is when the machine becomes conscious, and self aware. This is the scenario that all the sci-fi movies portray. We are still very far away from this stage.

The individual country thresholds does not matter anymore. 7 countries have reached the threshold, which is the important bit.

Now we just need 1 million signatures total, it doesn’t matter from which country.

Do whatever you want, as long as it doesn’t harm others.

For what it’s worth, the door handles on mine moves exactly as smoothly as they did on day one… So I think they have managed to design it in a way that keeps dust and gunk out.

I’ve had my Ioniq 5 for a year and a half, the door handles seem pretty solid to me. What’s your worry with them?

Good point… Most electric vehicles would stay charged for quite long, but the cybertruck is actually known to have a somewhat aggressive vampire drain issue…

Batteries don’t really degrade unless they are kept at a high state of charge.

https://youtu.be/W7JyjZI3LUM?t=289

Solid password of what? The router admin panel? On the router that is physically in his home? He can just factory reset that router, and presto… Password is gone.