Dusty @ Dusty @l.dusty-radio.com

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I still have a 3D Plasma TV. I haven't found a reason to replace it as it's still going just fine.

You shouldn't have to though. The whole "only available if you happen to live in X" is so much bs when it comes to things like this. Sure if it was a giveaway and needed to be shipped, I could understand. But a website being locked away to only certain regions is ridiculous.

Unfortunately, Claude.ai is only available in the US and UK. We're working hard to expand to other regions soon.

sigh

If how AI is currently going (and currently way overhyped) is anything to go by, it's just going to make everything up in a plausible sounding way and not actually accomplish anything.

But it seems like every man and his dog has an opinion on why it's going to be Next Big Thing ^tm

That's a low poly pup right there.

I don't think lying to your SO and friends are a good way to accomplish anything.

I feel like the threat to "kill off desktop PCs" has been going for years, yet it has never eventuated. I'm a bit too old and too tired of all the threats/clickbait lately to even start to worry about it actually happening.

If it does, I'll find an alternative, but I very highly doubt it will happen anytime soon.

Previous discussions in the same community

https://lemmy.world/post/1284442

https://lemmy.world/post/1283650

My lemmy instance is hosted on a 1GB vps with no problem. Even with a few other services on the same VPS.

This has been a problem since well before AI became feasible.

I don't. There is a community I subbed to that has absolutely nothing to do with American politics. The mod of that community keeps posting bs about American politics to that community under the guise of "they used a computer to post whatever so it belongs in this community about technology".

This is on one of the bigger sites and bigger instances. I ended up blocking that community from my personal instance because it was being inundated with a bunch of crap having nothing to do with technology, but certainly had an agenda.

If that was the only community that (supposedly) was about technology, I'd have to find a bunch of other, niche communities to cover what that one does (or should).

Why is this cross posted to the same community so that two show up?

https://lemmy.world/post/1284442

https://lemmy.world/post/1283650

I've run Searxng for a while is there any reason to switch?

No, but some people are stuck behind CG-NAT and can't port forward to the outside world for wireguard. Things like Cloudflared, Tailscale and ZeroTier get past that.

It's of course possible to use wireguard to a VPS and tunnel into that, but that's a bit more technical to set up.

Even more so since profiles are generally less anonymous than reddit.

How so?

My profile tells you I use an instance (in this case my own, dusty-radio) and my username on that instance (in this case Dusty). All this tells you is the name I've chosen and that I host this myself. It's no different than if I was Dusty on reddit, other than the instance URL.

Awesome! It's always an amazing feeling when you finally get things dialed in just right. Congrats!

I don't really see it as an issue. Post it to whichever community you are most active on. If people want to part of that particular instance, they will see it and interact with it.

Just like I'm interacting with this post right now even though I'm not on lemmy.world. I'm quite over what became the gamification of karma on reddit, and really hope it doesn't become a thing here. There's no reason about having to worry about which instance to post something to, people will find it and interact with it.

If it works for you and allows you to start learning, there's no problem with it. Too many people seem to think that if you haven't compiled whatever yourself, it's not true "self hosting" but you should do what works best for you to get to the goal you want.

People want it for torrenting or hosting things to the outside world. /c/Piracy has been flipping out because Mullvad removed port forwarding, which now apparently makes them one of the worst VPNs ever.

Mullvad (and I'm sure others) removed it because individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services. They simply do not want the kinds of things that users were hosting, passed through their servers as it has led to police visits, blacklisting and providers cancelling them.

Thank you for this, looks good!