What are they good for Local LLMs are running these generative tools on local (not cloud) hardware. This is good for cost, security, privacy, and the resources spent. That said, those of us with tiny budgets still can do some interesting things. By that I mean the following generative AI: Images Video Audio (music, audiobooks) ... Read more
Updated 11-Sep-2026 ebook2audiobook is an open source project that does what it says on the tin. Setting Up ebook2audiobook on Debian 13 (Trixie) with AMD Radeon 680M Acceleration (integrated GPU) This guide outlines the complete setup for running ebook2audiobook on Debian 13 (Trixie) using an integrated AMD Radeon 680M (RDNA 2) APU for ROCm hardware ... Read more
Navidrome and Jellyfin are servers for Audio and Video, respectively. They run on Linux (and possibly other operating systems) and have clients that can access them and stream media, provide an organized interface for browsing, etc. They should be accessible to AI agents as well. Navidrome for audio Navidrome uses the Subsonic API and has ... Read more
See also Samsung buds core bluetooth Android devices Android apps Disable One UI 7/8 battery indicator Android Debloater I didn't know what to do with the newer GUI version (is this a docker thingee?), so I just ran the old shell script, which is only a year older, and it worked fine. Summary I try ... Read more
Apparently it is time to update my command line / terminal / shell commands. Here we go: Nerd Font icons Nerd Font patches great terminal fonts, including my favorite Hack. Yazi Yazi is a *terminal file manager, and also integrates with Zoxide and Fzf. And it can run on top of Kitty. Kitty Calibre's Kovid ... Read more
I believe that the Home Assistant will be the key to freeing myself from the Google ecosystem of personal assistants. Of course I will still want the YouTube Premium](https://www.youtube.com/premium) membership 1,790 THB/year (it might be 1,990 THB/year at the end of my current subscription), so that we keep the curse of advertisements at bay and ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 See also Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning The future is being made in China. Not all or perhaps even most of the future, but big and important parts. The implications are enormous. China Shock 2.0 Note: The idea that the success of the Chinese EV industry is just a takeover of western automotive ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning See also Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Speech Tesseract Generative AI in Music AI Chat Bots Local LLMs The anti-search engine Put a basic search into Gemini (or any AI chat bot) and compare that with the utter slop of Google or related search results. The quality difference ... Read more
Updated 09-Sep-2026 See also Coming of the Bots from 2016 Rise of the Chat Bots from 2016 Deep Speech from late 2010s Tesseract from late 2010s Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning updated 2026 Generative AI in Music 2026 AI Chat Bots 2026 Local LLMs 2026 Coding AI 2026 Separate from image, video, or music creation, AI ... Read more
Updated 22-Jul-2026 Caddy is a high performance web server. It is actually 11 years old as of 2026. Strangely enough, Nginx is now 21 years old, and Apache web server is now 31 years old. Caddy is built with Golang. Just as we migrated from Apache to Nginx, now it is time to migrate to ... Read more
Updated 27-Aug-2026 Note, Claws has some ugly bits that just don't go away. I'm currently trying out Aerion email client, which looks quite promising. Claws is a 25-year-old email client that is still getting updates. It started as a fork of Sylpheed, and is now using GTK3. The look is a bit old-fashioned, but it ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 Scraping bots (AI and otherwise) have increased to the point where they have become virtual denial-of-service attacks. I'm not against AI in general, as I use it in several areas, but those in charge of these bots engage in unconscionable behavior, a kind of *destruction-of-the-commons" phenomena. Anti-bot mitigation Anubis Zip bombs go-away Note ... Read more
This is my latest watch, replacing the Xiaomi Mi Band 8 Pro. I'll be comparing these directly. To be honest, this isn't something I planned on doing anytime soon (switching to another watch) but late one night there was an online shopping urge (and a very nice discount) and well, what can one say. Samsung ... Read more
Updated 18-Jun-2026 This article was originally published on 08-oct-2024 on the Ruizu x52. Now it is expanded and mostly about the Ruizu x62. See also Ruizu mp3 player Sandisk Clip Jam mp3 player mp3 players and Linux Updated Ruizu x62 The updated Ruizu x62 improves upon, stays the same, and has degraded from the previous ... Read more
Audacity is an audio editor useful for a variety of things, though in no way a DAW (nor will it be). It is great for simple and fast functions, such as exporting in different formats, noise reduction, high- and low-pass filtering, and normalization, etc. Audacity tools Noise reduction (if needed) High pass filter Low pass ... Read more
This is meant as a cautionary note regarding open source software forks. And by this I mean hard forks, namely that one project goes a different way than a previous version. Both are a bit different, but happened within six months of each other to important (to me) open source projects: Syncthing-Fork --> syncthing-android KeePassXC ... Read more
Note: v.2.x.x has been released: Syncthing (deb) Syncthing forum BasicSync (android wrapper/app) Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with ... Read more
Updated 22-Apr-2026 Algorithm aversion is when an AI is discriminated against. There are a variety of approaches for studying this phenomena which clearly exists. Algorithm aversion Aversion is assumed to be an irrational and largely unconscious preference against something or someone. Algorithm aversion is an implicit prejudice against AIs in the widest sense of the ... Read more
Updated 31-Aug-2026 See also Samsung buds core bluetooth Android devices Android apps Disable One UI 7/8 battery indicator Android Debloater I hate bluetooth I have hated and rejected bluetooth for since its inception. I mean, for headphones/earbuds. Of course I use bluetooth for things like: Smart band Car connectivity (in conjunction with wifi) SMK25II midi ... Read more
Updated 24-May-2026 There are several places to put in DNS resolvers and Secure DNS servers to use, and variations of those services. DNS resolvers Resolvers resolve DNS names to IP addresses. These are usually one or two IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses. These can be set at your home router, so that all DHCP leases have ... Read more