Answering this question.

In terms of automation n8n is the closest you’ll ever get that is at least partially FOSS.

But for client based I’m having good experience with Goose https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose

The project recently moved to the AI arm of the Linux foundation.

It’s a mix of terminal helper and agent orchestrator. I’m not yet too deep but the mix of recipes and skills seems to work pretty well!

Thanks for the addition! Edited to make it more clear: there part also referred only to the time before you’ve connected.

(edit: all of below stuff is only for not being on the same network. After that it gets … messy)

Oh boy! First: Thank you - I thought to briefly validate my knowledge and understanding before answering and went down a rabbit hole :D this is my current grasp, happy to be corrected!

First: Most is actually not even distro agnostic but also OS agnostic:

Most modern wifi devices when you tell them to “connect to WiFi” radiates, literally, what it can do and what kind of connection it wants. E.g. im a wifi device with WPA3 capabilities and this is my Mac address to answer me.

OS specific is the question if your Mac address gets scrambled or not. For both iwd and networkmanager, which both support it, have it turned off by default. There is a big advantage to being able to be recognizable on friendly networks after all.

Now comes the part I wasn’t aware:

Even your hostname is often still broadcasted publicly! This happens during the DHCP handshake - and many devices don’t support apparently existing standards to address this gap. It’s all about securing the first frames where devices align on communication standards, encryption way, etc. This seems to still be quite public.

Android was easier (and iOS seems to be the same but I didn’t bother with that more): Same as Linux but more aggressive by default: Mac scrambling all the time while searching for networks ,DHCP uses obscure strings as hostnames, etc.

Fun fact: even those have stable max addresses once connected. Again, getting the same DHCP lease and being able to whitelist or recognized by the network seems to have more upsights than I was aware of.

That’s sich a Mac answer it’s unbelievable.

Describing “A project aimed to be agnostic of it’s environment” as a design mistake and not a inherent flaw of the OS is… Just wow.

Remember in this thread it’s about the pro and con of Macos as interference hardware. This is a major flaw which comes baked into the hardware. I tested it and find it an unacceptable limitation. It’s important for others to know.

To state “containerization is the issue” though… Just wow.

Depends what you want to do… For example I didn’t get python whisper in a container to run on Mac in any way that can be called “performance” and I don’t want my dev workflow to optimize for an OS I despise :D

“here’s someone who fucked up big time. We report it and there are these consequences”.

This isn’t even about war performance at all?

Ha that’s fair!

Wish you a lot of fun with your new machine when you’ll have it!

For the price of the Asus rog I’d get 12 years of a pro subscription to any of the big companies.

And I don’t have that kind of cash at hand anyway…

The problem is that this is one of the few use cases where I can afford the (dangerous and unreliable) cloud service but I’m far away from being able to do so self hosted.

I’m actually using LLMs quote a lot to counter some of my brains more weird bugs working-as-intended features. But this is way beyond what I could locally do.

For anyone in a similar shoe: you can mix local and remote quite well though, using local for everything that works out and remote for everything else. I.e speech to text and email analysis is done on my local server while bigger sets are done on the CLI with remote providers.

The problem is the other side:

The seller has a huge interest to not deal with too much fiat exchange. There’s always fees and market risks associated.

The USD historically was very stable compared to the rest. That in combination with the huge purchasing and military power the US represented while being reliable as a trading partner pushed the US dollar into focus.

The USA then spent a lot of time, energy, money and lifes (mostly others) in ensuring this dominance.

Think of it like a language: a Spanish and a German work together in English - not because it’s impossible for them to learn each others language but because the overhead is too big.

Specifically to your example: no one wants to sell anything to Russia in rubles.

Imagine this scenario:

Hey, I’ll pay you 100 YC (your currency).

Oh since we agreed on the price a few days ago it’s only worth 80YC.

Oh now it’s 120 YC but no one else will take the currency I’m paying you in except me.

Oh now it’s worth 10 YC but we signed the contract, hurray!!

What you are describing is neoliberalism in its base form. If you want to dice deeper I to it I suggest Saez instead of some 16th hundred philosopher. (I’m not too familiar with Lockes work, this is more about time than profession or person).

The reason why taxation works different than contract agreements is basically:

Taxes are used as normalization tool, both in the fiscal as well as the social sense.

In general you have three categories of tax: based on purchase, based on possession and based on income.

Most modern countries use all three in a combination. The reason why it’s not purpose linked is simple: you can’t organize it.

To give an example: How much worth does a future tax payer? And who benefits?

Based on the answer to that question you’d either tax consumption (because future tax payers will keep cost low), income (because production facilities for future tax payers is taken from the workforce) or possession (because future tax payers are the foundation of generational transfer).

And on top of that comes the big question of social normalizing effects: even very conservative counties tax higher incomes higher than low incomes to improve the overall Gini coefficient, i.e. achieve a bit of wealth distribution. Now you’re fully in “opinion” country though: How much should society pay for its weakest or unluckiest?

And because it’s not yet complicated enough there’s one very simple element coming on top: “what can we get away with?”. Rules, especially if taxation, are only meaningful if they can be enforced.

German highways for example have a dedicated tax for heavy transports for using those roads exactly the model you’ve described. 50 years ago that would’ve been technologically impossible to realize there.

Now using a sidewalk as an exame and it becomes messy. Because the people directly using them would be the obvious choice. But what about the shops closeby which profit from foot traffic? What about the reduction in micro plastic pollution because those people don’t use cards (which produce about 1/3 of it). What about my body weight? I’m fat and will damage the ground a very tiny bit more than someone who’s half my weight. And what about paramedics using it? The rulebooks and exceptions will be either: broad and easy to abuse, broad and they will exclude many people from using the infrastructure or narrow which brings both at the same time.

To come back to your example: you pay for school because it’s the one institution that makes sure that our economy will work a few years down the road, having new consumers and taxable incomes which are needed for me to continue, well, existing. And you do have a verbal agreement: “I’m choosing to stay in the place I am”. This binds you to its laws, including taxation.

Now if you argue that you’d just want to keep what’s yours then usually just looking one generation back already makes that break apart: where did your parents income and education come from, what social structures did they benefit from, etc.

But: All of this is not intended as “taxes are good as-is”. A) I have no idea what your frame of reference is and B) it’s not in my opinion. But it’s complex. Really really complex because the whole system changes depending on reference timeframe, social norm and the societies past and present goals.

Thanks for your experience! I’m in a similar boat regarding NVIDIA - plus the budget …

At least in Europe the V100 are only available from China and with a huge markup.

Used 5090 for 3,5k, even a 3060 used is still at 250$ plus.

It’s crazy at the moment - I simply can’t afford self hosting LLMs which is a new thing to say :D

This got way longer than expected but the tldr is: foreign exchange is super complex and depends on a lot of factors which don’t matter to you as money user. I tried to give a few examples below.

Plus: You’re mixing up two very different concepts:

Fiat evaluation and purchasing power.

First, money;

“More worth” is a natural instinct but doesn’t reflect how the money market works: it’s a question of how much of that money is in circulation as well for example:

1107650 CHF Million 19396,90 USD Billion

(Source tradingeconomics.com ).

So while it’s the CHF is slightly over value when compared one to one the picture is different when you look at total money available. Then you look at production capacity, glue creation and supply and demand for those currencies. All of this will flow into the price.

The minimum wage discussion is a completely different one: here you need to compare minimum wage to the purchasing power of the area you are looking at and take into consideration how the tax and financial situation changes to be able to compare it.

There’s for example concept called big Mac index which is a crude way of showing the difference: how much does MacDonald’s charge for their bullshit? They are everywhere and quite good at finding a acceptable local price.

If you want to dive deeper a key word to look for is the Gini Index with which the wealth distribution is quantified. I’m not good enough to explain it well though.

Now for the colors: design of money is the job of the nations (or unions) main bank to decide usually. The US seem to have the creativity of a washed down rock while others are more creative.

The Euro money for example is designed with guardrails by each member country but color, size and form are fixed and optimized to be easily recognized even with various visual impediments, which I personally really like.

Same: but it DOES make a difference that’s why I answered it. Target group is not necessarily the poster but other readers - this foundation is cumbersome but awesome, I want to spread positivity where possible :)

Yes because a) they are the biggest authority on these licences in the world, b) have many lawyers at hand actually and c) are the ones who can significantly damage your brand.

Imagine someone with a lot of friends, lawyers and money telling you “be careful, pal”.

Frankly I don’t care if you believe it or not. I only honestly hope they none of your animals get to that point.

It’s not about a terminal disease it’s about chronic suffering. And yes, for humans as well im arguing for medically assisted suicide.

Your last point I don’t get either l: How do you intent to help a German Shepherd with an infected hip who has a survival chance of 0% for an operation? How do you intent to “help” any being with an illness where no medication exist?

You sound to me like the “just work harder” equivalent of health.

You’re full of strawmen to create a world that’s just wrong because of the choices other humans make. Please allow a world that is just uncaring to all living beings - and some of us are confronted with that more than you apparently are. And no, I’m no longer talking about animals.

Feeling with you, stranger friend!

Serious tip: don’t traumatize your child by making it over the top traumatic and they’ll be fine!

Your instinct is correct, kids have an amazing grasp on life and death.

I had and have the same topic with my back then three year old. I won’t go into details but death is a topic for quite a while now.

Be open, be honest and don’t shy away from translating it to his level: If he had a favorite toy that got destroyed it’s an emotional connection he can make for example.

One important thing for me to point out though because it caught me as a shock: true empathy is impossible for a kid that age. Meaning: the chance is high that hell say something that will be completely out of the blue or shocking - expect it and don’t be too harsh please, even when he’ll manage to trigger something ❤️

Because I assume you’re asking in food faith: Because animals suffer more - medication is not as available for humans. In nature they would starve or fall prey to hunters. As pets we rather give them something to die painlessly than to starve them.

To be clear: It’s literally “misery or death” - I hope you’ll never get into this situation but seeing a beloved animal suffer through something like this.

In case you wanna give it a shot: I gave writing samples of myself from chat and emails to a self hosted LLM, telling it to extract the writing style deviations, key elements, common phrases, symbols, patterns, etc. Then gave that as a “answer it this style” system prompt expansion - works like … Quite okay. Still need to go over it or course but it doesn’t sound like marketing bullshit but conveys what I want.

Completely agree with your general assessment though! They’re getting better but the marketing machinery is crazy in their claims.