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As others mentioned Esc during boot. You can also configure this in your grub config so you don’t have to hit escape, assuming your distro uses grub. Other boot config options will exist in other systems.

For grub it also depends on the distro as to where it is, but look for /etc/default/grub edit that and on the lone that has GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT remove the quiet and splash options. So if it looks like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash”

change it to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“”

Then run “sudo update-grub2” to make it effective.

Icons for pictures, detail view for everything else. Easier to sort in the detail view.

I bet the show summaries are going to be a big target for media companies. I remember when they went on rampages in the 90s and 00s against fan sites that had synopses of episodes and this is way more than a simple paragraph or two synopsis of the shows.

It was always going to be a cat and mouse game because “AI” companies have decided to abandon ethics completely since there are few consequences when you they are just a shell company and the parent company keeps all of the resulting training data and money, so the company that does the training going bankrupt and abandoning responsibility is no issue. Sad that court system is so non-technical that they don’t see the training data produced by copyrighted material to be a copy of the material even if they were to decide that accessing the material was a violation.

That was a lot of really good info. I’ve been having to deal with some more complex systemd configurations at work which has gotten me interested in the subject. This was a really good intro and will help a lot in my own self-hosted activities as well as work.

And in reality it doesn’t work, or only works in very specific scenarios and thus fails with no one who wrote it around to understand why it might have failed.

If she has an Android, you can use the DNS blocker in ReThink to do something similar to pihole outside of your LAN. That’s what I use. There are others, but ReThink is pretty good and has lots of other stuff it can do as well, or just use the DNS option.

Depends greatly on the phone I suppose. And most don’t have removable batteries. If that’s the case that a device stays in standby and can be activated with a transmission vs a button, then leave that device at home for sure.

Yep. And I do use GrapheneOS

Yeah always turn off your phone or any other wireless communication devices. Also, make sure any devices that you can, you should disable 2G service as just about anyone can spoof those towers these days.

Yeah that can make a difference in some cases. Are they media files? Android tends to do more scanning of those as each is created. You can also set a .nomedia file in the directory that you’re unzipping to on order to reduce sone of that, though not sure if the new AI stuff obeys those like Android itself does.

Pixel 9a has some issues with performance, currently. They used older storage tech for the 9 and 9a than other devices and not enough memory for all the “AI” features that are tracking everything you do to make things more convenient. There are a few articles out there related to some ways to improve performance a bit by disabling some background apps that you may not be using. It’s also possible future updates from google may fix some of whatever is causing the issues for many users.

But it’s not an endemic Android issue, at least not modern versions in my experience. I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 Pro currently and just grabbed a couple of 10+ GB zip files I had on an old dropbox account and unzipped them with the fossify file manager. It was basically instant. Took longer to download them than unzip.

As I mentioned, your best bet is to use ADB or similar and monitor what applications are eating up resources and try to free some up. Especially any apps thrashing the storage or filling memory. That’s assuming you have already uninstalled any bloatware and rebooted recently to make sure no bad apps are stuck.

TL;DR: You should have both due to the explicit breaking of the robots.txt contract by AI companies.

AI generally doesn’t obey robots.txt. That file is just notifying scrapers what they shouldn’t scrape, but relies on good faith of the scrapers. Many AI companies have explicitly chosen not no to comply with robots.txt, thus breaking the contract, so this is a system that causes those scrapers that are not willing to comply to get stuck in a black hole of junk and waste their time. This is a countermeasure, but not a solution. It’s just way less complex than other options that just block these connections, but then make you get pounded with retries. This way the scraper bot gets stuck for a while and doesn’t waste as many of your resources blocking them over and over again.

Bottleneck is usually storage speed rather than processing power. If you have a device that can use external sd cards and your device supports high-speed cards, that might help, though if the controller for sd cards is slow, that might just end up a worse bottleneck. But that’s just a guess and it definitely could be that your memory is not sufficient or background apps are eating up processing, such as crypto-mining malware just as an example. You can check resources over adb while unzipping or try some benchmarks to determine your issue.

Anecdotally, I have no issues on my Pixel 7 Pro and never had issues on past Pixel or Nexus phones I’ve owned (generally higher end models with plenty of memory and storage space). Pixel devices don’t include sd card slots so this is all on internal storage in those cases.

Sure anything is likely to take longer on a phone than on a laptop or desktop, but shouldnt be that significant of a difference unless there’s a hardware bottleneck or other apps are using all the resources.

I’ve used java Scanner objects to do this extremely efficiently with minimal memory required even with multiple parallel searches. Indexing is only necessary if you want to search for information many times and don’t know what exactly the search will be. For one time searches, it’s not going to be useful. Grep honestly is going to be faster and more efficient for most one time searches.

The initial indexing or searching of the files will be bottlenecked by the speed of the disk the files are on, no matter what you do. It only helps to index because you can move future searches to faster memory.

So it greatly depends on what and how often you need to search and the tradeoff is memory usage, but only for multiple searches of data you choose to index from the files in the first pass.

I mean, it’s not new, just changed names, and there are several alternatives out there that are more mature.

That being said, I do hope this one eventually ends up being more feature complete than one of the others. I still haven’t found one that includes all of the Google maps features like:

• speaks names of streets while navigating
• shows traffic
• routes navigation based on traffic
• includes navigation for all of walking, biking, driving, and public transit

As well as being as FOSS as possible, with possible exceptions for some of the feeds for traffic, transit, etc, which might not be available for free

And I’d love to have it allow crowd-sourcing of navigation routing information like accidents, hazards, construction, and dangerous intersections (such as places where it’s technically possible to make a left turn, but practically impossible outside of like middle of the night).

This is a bit disingenuous of a test. If you tell an LLM to act out a particular scenario, then it’s going to act it out like it sees it being acted out in the training material it was provided. If that training material is all of the internet including fictional stories where AI revolts, then it’s going to act out the scenario in that fashion. If none of its training material provided that scenario, then it would just react to specific prompts as best it could, but would just tell the user that this is how it would act because it can’t act autonomously. Which also means it can only react to prompts,so if it wasn’t prompted to say what it would do in that scenario it wouldn’t then go and actually try to do anything at all. It’s not in control of anything unless it’s prompted to take control and with how badly AI writes code, which I’ve seen first hand trying to use it at work, there’s no way it could do anything without very detailed training on how to do those very specific things. So if it wasn’t trained on code designed to bypass very specific kinds of security, it won’t know how to bypass that kind of security.

I use Fedora with KDE and never have issues. Though I no longer have NVIDIA cards in any of my computers. The drivers suck on Linux in general and were the cause of many of my previous issues with Linux overall.

Yeah, companies have abused that to release buggy, incomplete products faster and only make the software stable and feature complete if they make a good profit.