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  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mltohomeassistant@lemmy.worldEnergy usage clamp meters
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    1 month ago

    I’m using off-the shelf CT-clamps with an ESP. Obviously it’s a fair amount more work, but it’s cheaper than a commercial solution, fully offline and no subscriptions, you know exactly what you are getting, and you can build a solution that is just the right size for your application, and infinitely modifiable if your needs change.



  • I have a different take.

    AI today is basically a mechanical school. AI students are trained to give a specific answer. This is at the heart of how all machine learning works, including generative AI. Even image generators do this.

    “Here’s a million examples of what the pixelated representation of a hand looks like; now go and make a derivative copy.”

    This is fine for objective facts, like physics and history. It is useless for art.

    Merely drawing a hand is not art, it’s an objective truth (do typical humans have 5 or 6 fingers?). But art school is not about objective truths. Art school teaches creativity. Specifically challenging ideas and expression.

    AIs can’t fundamentally challenge ideas and express themselves because they lack personal experience, personality and individuality.

    Society at large has been fooled into thinking that speech (LLM) and other generative AI lead to AGI. But the reality is that these models have more in common with encyclopedias and stock image libraries than intelligence.









  • Yes, but also no. Older hardware is less power efficient, which is a cost in its own right, but also decreases backup runtime during power failure, and generates more noise and heat. It also lacks modern accelerated computing, like ai cores or hardware video encoders or decoders, if you are running those appd. Not to mention lack of nvme support, or a good NIC.

    For me a good compromise is to recycle hardware upgrades every 4-5 years. A 19 year old computer? I would not bother.



  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.worldRight to Root Access
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    6 months ago

    This opinion is so backwards, it’s actually impressive.

    The purpose of a locked boot system is to control what the device does as much as possible, which intentionally, or incidentally (it makes no difference) means the manufacturer and only the manufacturer gets to decide how much privacy they get to invade.

    Get real.