I tried out ollama. It was trivially easy to set up.

Stable diffusion is a bit more work, but any power user should be able to figure it out.

The problem is that they become a buzz word for at scale companies that need them because they have huge complex architects, but then non at scale companies blindly follow the hype when they were created out of necessity for giant tech stacks that are a totally different use case.

They add a lot of overhead and require extra tooling to stay up to date in a maintainable way. At a certain scale that overhead becomes worth it, but it takes a long time to reach that scale. Lots of new companies will debate which architecture to adopt to start a project, but if you’re starting a brand new project it’s probably too early to benefit from the extra overhead of micro architectures.

Of course there are pros and cons to everything, don’t rely on memes for making architecture decisions.

It’s just not worth it until your monolith reaches a certain size and complexity. Micro services always require more maintenance, devops, tooling, artifact registries, version syncing, etc. Monoliths eventually reach a point where they are so complicated that it becomes worth it to split it up and are worth the extra overhead of micro services, but that takes a while to get there, and a company will be pretty successful by the time they reach that scale.

The main reason monoliths get a bad rap is because a lot of those projects are just poorly structured and designed. Following the micro service pattern doesn’t guarantee a cleaner project across the entire stack and IMO a poorly designed micro service architecture is harder to maintain than a poorly designed monolith because you have wildly out of sync projects that are all implemented slightly differently making bugs harder to find and fix and deployments harder to coordinate.

Cost to run the company? They will proudly milk as much money as they can to maximize profits. Having a bigger margin is a point of pride for them. Watch any shareholder meeting. They will publicly brag about it.

Seriously, I kinda want to use it for my markdown files.

I don’t think that’s the statement. I think it’s that they were hoping that they could ignore it but weren’t about to.

Who the fuck uses comic sans for programming? I use comic mono.

I write my commit messages for myself in the future so future me can figure out what the hell past me was thinking

I prefer a single ultra wide because it doubles as a dock. I can get all my USB devices and laptop power connected with a single USBC cable.

I was casting video files from VLC. When I switched to YouTube I was trying to use the YouTube app on the Google tv. I’m starting to think my Google tv might be fucked up somehow so maybe I need to do a factory reset, but I have 2 of them and while ones better than the other, neither is that smooth.

Yeah I’m just so sick of cast being unreliable. The main reason I’m asking here is to answer two questions. It’s getting Chromecast set up on a raspberry pi even a thing (I’m just not really informed about what it requires), and are raspberry pis powerful enough to provide a silky smooth streaming experience. It’s kinda sounding like the answer is no.

I saw that and it looks very promising. My biggest question is about being able to cast to it. I’d really like to be able to use the Chromecast standard since it’s built into so many things, and I’m not sure if it’s feasible to get it set up on an open source setup without it being unreliable or finicky, so I’m hoping to hear if anyone has gotten a smooth setup with it.

As much as I’d like full control over my device out of principle, I’m just sick and tired of something as simple as being able to stream to my TV being so choppy and unreliable.

I really don’t want a Roku because of bullshit like this https://www.pcmag.com/news/roku-bricking-tvs-unless-users-accept-dispute-resolution-terms

It’s not an nft, it has to be hexagonal to be an nft

Damn it, all those stupid hacking scenes in CSI and stuff are going to be accurate soon

I learned vim in college when I needed to edit files over ssh. It’s incredibly impressive as far as cli editors go, but I just don’t see how it’s more productive than a well set up ide with hotkeys.

I only have one monitor… It’s an ultra wide.

What matters is consistency and our time system has tons of crazy inconsistent shit in our. Everyone knows about leap years, but do you know about leap seconds? Imagine trying to write a function to convert unix time to a current date and suddenly all your times are a second off.

Just look at this insane bullshit nonsense. The added complexity of time zones and daylight saving time is nothing compared to simply supporting our time system.

Old electronics sounds great