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Dallaswho
| Favorite team: | Missouri  |
| Location: | Texas |
| Biography: | 5.5x Message Board Genius “I do think that Dallaswho MIGHT BE Drinkwitz, posting on SECRANT, not kidding.” -HRV |
| Interests: | Football, cars, building things. Failing at garden/landscape. |
| Occupation: | Oil/Tech |
| Number of Posts: | 3474 |
| Registered on: | 12/4/2023 |
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Finally made a home assistant bot. Used qwen3-30b and extended OpenAI integration. It handles complex instructions WAY better than Alexa once you get prompt and function structure correct. Took me a couple hours to figure out default “execute_service” function sucked. Now I can ask it to rotate colors and make 20% brightness on 20 bulbs all at once or say make the red ones green. Alexa screws things like that up almost every time.
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PSA: IPT is exact same service as mybunny and private iptv access .com.(pia) Dogshit for at least 2-3 hours per day. Otherwise best selection on earth. Just don’t count on it being a TV replacement if you have a wife.
re: Re-setting old work laptop
Posted by Dallaswho on 2/18/26 at 3:29 pm to GeauxldMember
Couple things:
You don’t need to buy w11 before installing and it will never force you to enter a key.
Admin password usually refers to a password in the UEFI that prevents changes. (Like booting from a thumb drive). The only way around modern ones is to reflash the bios chip which often involves soldering.
Before modifying, need to make sure you ca enter system menu and enable boot from external drive. If you can do that, then you can install whatever you want.
If you’re locked out of changing the boot order, then you might be able to get a system board for like $40 or so on eBay assuming it was a w10 PC. Thats how I got my current laptop and am in it for like $100 for a perfect 12th gen i5 latitude.
You don’t need to buy w11 before installing and it will never force you to enter a key.
Admin password usually refers to a password in the UEFI that prevents changes. (Like booting from a thumb drive). The only way around modern ones is to reflash the bios chip which often involves soldering.
Before modifying, need to make sure you ca enter system menu and enable boot from external drive. If you can do that, then you can install whatever you want.
If you’re locked out of changing the boot order, then you might be able to get a system board for like $40 or so on eBay assuming it was a w10 PC. Thats how I got my current laptop and am in it for like $100 for a perfect 12th gen i5 latitude.
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I know it seems extreme to the average user, but I would never buy a laptop/prebuilt to not then immediately follow up with a clean OS install. Way too much bloatware comes standard.
You may be out of luck. Microsoft new driver policies mean if you don’t have a desktop or business laptop, then your non-certified drivers won’t be in the OS image. If you have a modern budget laptop, your options are spend hours to get the NVMe to work or use the OEM image installer from the machine’s UEFI.
So my vision experiment went worse than just using yolo-world. Still might work as a verification step though. Anything to avoid tagging images manually.
That’s the thing about doing novel things with AI: It either fails, or there’s a GitHub with a way better solution within a few days. If you couldn’t find a good tool for something a week ago, it’s time to look again.
That’s the thing about doing novel things with AI: It either fails, or there’s a GitHub with a way better solution within a few days. If you couldn’t find a good tool for something a week ago, it’s time to look again.
re: Help me buy a central HVAC system - best price / reputable source for drop shipped system
Posted by Dallaswho on 2/12/26 at 10:52 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
eBay another option. Under $4k after tax. Just make sure get 80-81% furnace if it vents through a metal pipe. The 90+ ones need special exhaust.
re: Help me buy a central HVAC system - best price / reputable source for drop shipped system
Posted by Dallaswho on 2/12/26 at 7:28 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Furnace? heat pump? Is furnace the high efficiency fan type?
Over the weekend, I directed a n8n workflow towards 10k images, gave it a few object classes, and am having it build an Uktralytics style dataset using Qwen3VL 30b. I’m hoping it’ll reduce the actual tagging time to a couple hours instead of a couple weeks.
Lunar Lake has on-package ram similar to Apple. It’s a phenomenal chip but short-lived because low margins and it doesn’t fit the Intel business model which is selling to OEMs who would rather have more control over the hardware.
Despite being short lived, it already has excellent support in Windows and Linux. The NPU is ridiculously good and unlike Snapdragon’s and AMD’s, it is actually utilized broadly in today’s popular AI apps and libraries.
The big question is why would you need 8x Xe2 cores and NPU4 in a light laptop? I guess your Teams video effects will be buttery smooth. 3D stuff will have good support. For Diffusion, you still want CUDA.
Despite being short lived, it already has excellent support in Windows and Linux. The NPU is ridiculously good and unlike Snapdragon’s and AMD’s, it is actually utilized broadly in today’s popular AI apps and libraries.
The big question is why would you need 8x Xe2 cores and NPU4 in a light laptop? I guess your Teams video effects will be buttery smooth. 3D stuff will have good support. For Diffusion, you still want CUDA.
My only advice is to leave a NAS as a network storage device and leave running more accelerated software to machines better suited for that.
No point in trying to build an everything machine.
No point in trying to build an everything machine.
re: Anyone heard of/worked with Clawdbot yet?
Posted by Dallaswho on 2/4/26 at 7:05 am to Chorizo chang
A token is just a chunk of text that a transformer model turns into thousands of numbers on the front end and turns back into text on the back end. Rule of thumb is 100 tokens = 75 words.
Custom AI requires you directly access models and this cost money. SOTA models like Opus can run $5 for a million input tokens and $25 for a million output tokens.
Custom AI requires you directly access models and this cost money. SOTA models like Opus can run $5 for a million input tokens and $25 for a million output tokens.
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Read through some of the req's... run as it's own user, okay, stopped at grant user sudo access with NOPASSWD.....
This is a feature. Force ip/mac and set ACLs:
Allow in 0.0.0.0/0
Allow out model
Allow out gateway
Drop out 192.168.0.0/16
Allow out 0.0.0.0/0
re: Anyone heard of/worked with Clawdbot yet?
Posted by Dallaswho on 2/2/26 at 5:59 pm to Big Scrub TX
Just fired it up. In under an hour I got a chatbot that knows what day it is. The future is bright. Using local qwen3 though. Asking the time is already 14k tokens and I’m barely configured. Letting this thing run wild on opus would cost far more than an employee.
Now I’m going to have to learn how to avoid spam filters because this guy is going to go prospecting 24/7.
Now I’m going to have to learn how to avoid spam filters because this guy is going to go prospecting 24/7.
re: Final Engineering Verdict I'm smarter than chatgtp.
Posted by Dallaswho on 2/2/26 at 5:53 pm to Lonnie Utah
You can get like 20 BNC or 5.5x2.1 ends on AliExpress for a couple bucks. Usually the green/black ones with screw terminals. They’re fine for quick DIY like Halloween and what not. I’ve learned to just use cat5 for everything because it’s really good, basically free, and has enough conductors to expand projects without getting too sloppy.
Low latency video is super tough. It’s why teams, zoom, FaceTime, etc decouple audio from video, and change video speed to catch back up after jitter, so that at least you can have a conversation.
“Casting”will be at least 500ms latency or completely unsuitable for computer use.
The very best network solutions involving video compression are realistically150+ms which is noticeable but maybe not a deal breaker. Your projector may not support those. Not sure. They’re browser plugins.
Direct wireless HDMI(not over your network) will be fine for computer use but I don’t know about gaming.
Direct wired HDbaseT (not over your network) is as good as it gets and maybe even ok for fast games.
“Casting”will be at least 500ms latency or completely unsuitable for computer use.
The very best network solutions involving video compression are realistically150+ms which is noticeable but maybe not a deal breaker. Your projector may not support those. Not sure. They’re browser plugins.
Direct wireless HDMI(not over your network) will be fine for computer use but I don’t know about gaming.
Direct wired HDbaseT (not over your network) is as good as it gets and maybe even ok for fast games.
True. Also noteworthy that a windows license for $10-15 bucks is a very reasonable price. This is in line with what OEMs actually pay for most machines. Bussiness class machines are more due to driver certification.
Office license for $10-15 is another thing entirely because this is a price that is simply not available in the USA via any official channel that I could imagine. It almost has to at least be foreign or some other scheme.
Office license for $10-15 is another thing entirely because this is a price that is simply not available in the USA via any official channel that I could imagine. It almost has to at least be foreign or some other scheme.
re: Sony Spinning Off Its TV Business - TCL Taking It Over
Posted by Dallaswho on 1/22/26 at 4:00 pm to LemmyLives
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Costco has a lot of trashy customers that act like women wearing a dress and returning it 364 days later.
They make it too easy. I’ve only returned one thing in my life and it was this $600 all in one tineco mop/vacuum thing for the wife.
It was 5-6 months out, used, and no questions asked and I had to make the take the little bonus dust buster thing it came with as they didn’t seem to want it.
We dropped our membership that year though because other than returns, that place is a disaster.
re: IOS Safari Forward And Back Buttons
Posted by Dallaswho on 1/21/26 at 8:52 pm to Miketheseventh
You can put the address bar back on top.
re: UCG-MAX / Firewall in general
Posted by Dallaswho on 1/20/26 at 8:16 pm to GrammarKnotsi
Not sure about that device but access control in networking in general these days is first match instead of apply all. The firewall will apply the first rule matching your criteria and not read the rules below.
This is opposite of OPN/pfsense that apply all so that bottom has more weight (but quick rules use the new method).
Both are confusing but it’s for performance so only need read until find match.
This is opposite of OPN/pfsense that apply all so that bottom has more weight (but quick rules use the new method).
Both are confusing but it’s for performance so only need read until find match.
re: Home security camera question
Posted by Dallaswho on 1/20/26 at 1:49 pm to Whatafrekinchessiebr
Kind of but here is the thing. Ubiquiti is basically Apple on steroids. Once you go Protect, you can't back out. You have to be 100% Protect.
You can't export streams at all without their NVR and you can't realistically export streams even with NVR to anything more useful because they use VBR and the external system won't get any detail that the original Protect camera didn't deem important enough to encode properly. Also, almost nothing is configurable. Can't even rotate 90 degrees without screwing up detection and getting chopped in the UI. Unify Protect is a walled garden, and while a lot of people like it, their only decent exit option is a complete new system.
I would just say proceed with extraordinary caution and due diligence because your capabilities are tightly locked in.
You can't export streams at all without their NVR and you can't realistically export streams even with NVR to anything more useful because they use VBR and the external system won't get any detail that the original Protect camera didn't deem important enough to encode properly. Also, almost nothing is configurable. Can't even rotate 90 degrees without screwing up detection and getting chopped in the UI. Unify Protect is a walled garden, and while a lot of people like it, their only decent exit option is a complete new system.
I would just say proceed with extraordinary caution and due diligence because your capabilities are tightly locked in.
It’s good.
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