hendrik

I enabled the DLNA server in Jellyfin. And that works okay with my LG webOS TV. But it’s down to the quirks of the TV which also likes to enable subtitles and the default audio track.

Well that’s kind of baked-in to social media. If you’d otherwise talk to lots of different people in person, read much etc and now come to the internet and choose any of the mentioned platforms… That’d be bad. You’re now in a smaller filter bubble. If you’re already in some echo chamber and for example switch from mastodon to bluesky… that’s a minor change. The situation is a bit different if you change from a nazi platform to a regular one. It’s still not good. But better.

That’d be a post for !TIL@lemmy.world

With “drama” I was going for the built-in drive towards negativity and sensationalist stuff. Like people complaining and sharing outrageous news that stirs them up. I think it’s well established that people are more incentivised to engage with content they disagree with, rather than nuanced or positive things. I’m no exception. I’ve had a superb weekend, did a day trip with some friends, sports (climbing) etc. But somehow I don’t talk about that on the internet but end up painting a dark picture about the near future. And my real-world conversations aren’t like that. In face to face conversations I also talk about mundane stuff, what made my day, recommend positive things to friends… I think we have some unhealthy dynamics baked into internet talk, due to the way our platforms are set up and due to how attention works.

Sure. The internet killed newspapers. And there is no easy fix. We’d need easy payment methods, value the labour of the journalists… And that wasn’t available when this happened. And nowadays we have a few other issues on top. Originally, the internet wasn’t supposed to do any of that. It was supposed to connect people all around the globe. Make information available to everyone…

I think a lot of the unhealthy dynamics aren’t baked into the internet itself, but due to people making everything about money and advertising. I think we (theoretically) could do without. And make the internet a very different place. It doesn’t seem this is happening. But I still got some places (Linux forums etc) with a very different atmosphere. I’m not sure where we’ll end up in like 15 years. Maybe after reaching rock bottom. I’ve also watched and read too much science fiction. Currently it looks to me like we’re headed for the 2006 movie Idiocracy. But H G Wells is fine, too.

Sure. Mainstream media comes with it’s very own set of issues. And I’m glad I have the internet available. But social media is bound to get you engaged in some drama or bubble instead of objective truth. I don’t have any solution to offer. And I think the internet in general, is bound to get worse for some time to come. More AI, more noise, misinformation, enshittification. I think we’re in for a dry spell in the near future. Maybe it get’s better after that with some technological or societal advances. Maybe not, we’re going to see. But it seems to me there are some people out there wishing for a better situation.

The thing with that is, it happily makes up business hours and venues. And you end up in some dark alley without any entertainment. Or a different kind than you envisioned…I doubt someone does this more than once or twice…

Sure. I’m living in a different filter bubble anyways. Ticketmaster seems to be big but it isn’t the only platform where I live. I guess I’m not really mainstream and I go to smaller concerts, festivals, art museums. And a lot of them have different ticket services. So I usually end up googling them and following the trail of links to the individual ticket shop.

I’m 10 years younger than you. Maybe a bit more. I grew up with the rise of social media. I still despise how it confines me into a filter bubble. Makes my world smaller (despite connecting me with the world) by choosing my perspective. I take care to occasionally read local news. And not take my political perspective from platforms with an algorithm tailored to shape my perspective.

But I get it. Not everyone does it like me. But I think we have a big problem with algorithms and media literacy.

And how do non-old people navigate the web? I mean I get it, you don’t need to google the Wikipedia article about the French Revolution… You can ask AI. But how do you find business hours for the repair shop downtown? Which website sells the concert tickets? News from yesterday? The forum that tells you if 32GB of RAM fit into your laptop?

Yeah, most PCs get turned on and off like once per day. For example at most offices or at home. That’s perfectly within normal use.

Consumer harddisks are made to be spinned up and down occasionally. Don’t do it every five minutes… But I’ve been doing it for years and years with my server that spins up the disks once or twice a day, once I access some of my archived files. And it’s perfectly fine.

obligatory Betteridge’s law of headlines

I think you can set up a VPN in a way that it doesn’t forward all traffic, just specific traffic to one IP or a certain network, and everything else goes out the default route. That would leave you with your regular connection, except if you’re talking to your VPS, then it’ll go through the tunnel. But that won’t help you with the android and multiple VPN apps at the same time.

Maybe you could configure the firewall on the VPS to drop all traffic from the internet, but just accept packets from your home IP address? I mean with most providers your IP is going to change regularly. You’d need some additional logic or write some script. Your VPS would add an exception to its firewall so you can access it, while dropping all other internet traffic by default. That’d be a solution completely without VPNs.

Or if it’s just a few simple services… Lock them with some login screen and people would have to log in with username+password to your services.

What’s the difference regarding this task? You can rent it 24/7 as a crude webserver. Or run a Linux desktop inside. Pretty much everything you could do with other kinds of servers. I don’t think the exact technology matters. It could be a VPS, virtualized with KVM, or a container. And for AI workloads, these containers have several advantages. Like you can spin them up within seconds. Scale them etc. I mean you’re right. This isn’t a bare-metal server that you’re renting. But I think it aligns well with OP’s requirements?!

Well, there’s both. I’m with runpod and they bill me for each second I run that cloud instance. I can have it running 24/7 or 30min on-demand or just 20 seconds if I want to generate just one reply/image. Behind the curtains, it’s Docker containers. And one of the services is an API that you can hook into. Upon request, it’ll start a container, do the compute and at your option either shut down immediately, meaning you’d have payed like 2ct for that single request. Or listen for more requests until an arbitrary timeout is reached. Other services offer similar things. Or a fixed price per ingested or generated token with some other (ready-made) services.

That depends on the use-case. An hour of RTX 4090 compute is about $0.69 while the graphics card is like $1,600.00 plus computer plus electricity bill. I’d say you need to use it like 4000h+ to break even. I’m not doing that much gaming and AI stuff, so I’m better off renting some cloud GPU by the hour. Of course you can optimize that, buy an AMD card, use smaller AI models and pay for less VRAM. But there is a break even point for all of them which you need to pass.

https://runpod.io/

They also offer some templates, instructions and blog posts about this. And since I’m not advertising for a single company, there’s also vast.ai and several others.

Maybe they meant open, as in it leaks your private data and is open to be exploited by advertisers, malware etc?

Agreed. And I’d say the mobo is more likely, as it has more different components like capacitors and whatnot. So just by volume.

As a final test you could rip out RAM, GPU etc disconnect all unnecessary cables and run just mobo + CPU + PSU. See if it beeps/lights up or changes anything. That’ll rule out a short in some other component being the issue.

I mean we’re not 100% sure, but looks like you’re in for a new mobo (+CPU).

These lights and beep sequences aren’t 100% reliable. So I wouln’t take it for granted. But it’s a bit suspicious in my eyes that none of the LEDs light up. Maybe it’s the PSU, then? I mean it could be anything. And in my experiences it’s most likely a cable that got unseated accidentally by the vacuum… But you mentioned it’s a server… And I’ve had PSUs fail after being online 24/7 for years, and then one day you turn off the power and they won’t ever come back. And with the bent CPU pins I’m not sure. Most of the times straightening them works, but sometimes they break off after doing that.

These kinds of diagnostics are next to impossible without some spare parts, to swap one at a time and see which is at fault. If you don’t figure it out by chance, you’d need to borrow some.

I don’t think this is a piracy community. Maybe have a look at the Wikipedia article and the side bar there.