I have started using LLM tools recently after taking a new job where a lot of people do it. I’ve discovered that it’s actually fairly helpful not only for explanations, but in two other respects

• Sifting through immense amounts of documentation. I have to deal with some datasheets that are hundreds of pages, where there will be info scattered throughout. It’s very helpful sifting through those.
• Doing boiler plate “plumbing work” in my code. I’m mostly drawing a line where I don’t want it doing the “core” work in that which I’m an expert, since I agree that if I stop doing that, I’ll atrophy. However it can help accelerate my process if I pass off some of the minutiae that I don’t feel the need to do.

However all that said, I am honestly pretty impressed how well it works. I’ve mostly been using Claude, and damn, it’s honestly pretty competent. I had it make me a helper Python GUI program for me to test some stuff (I’m not a UI/high level engineer like that, I’m an FPGA Engineer), and it did a decent job. It definitely needed a good amount of massaging and guidance. However I can definitely see the appeal, and I think it’s a slippery slope, and I need to make sure I remain disciplined in not letting it do everything

That’s a good comparison. I assume you’re saying that a car is like a mechanical radar and a train is the phased array, right?

Great explaination, thanks a lot!

Can I get an ELI5? My understanding is that easements are the fees that customers (either individual or community) pay to get the equipment/infra run to their property for service.

Are you saying that customers wouldn’t have paid those easements if it was the normal telecom company doing it, as opposed to Google? If so, what are the “damages” in this case? I’m not understanding for what you could sue.

I have been using my Garmin Fenix 7x for over a year with GadgetBridge. 10/10 recommend it

Yes, I use GB instead of Garmin Connect. I have been doing it for the last year (started Feb 2025). I have a Fenix 7X. It has been pretty great overall. GB shows a lot of information, and does everything I want, and nothing I don’t… They recently added Health Connect functionality, which is really cool.

The only issue I’ve had was for a couple months I was having issues with my watch getting into a really bad state and needing a factory reset. It would reboot and then get stuck at “processing FIT files” (is something). I disabled auto syncing, since I theorized that maybe sometimes the sync would get interrupted or something, and Garmin firmware might freak out about it. Now I just occasionally manually sync, generally while sitting at my desk.

Besides that issue, I’ve loved GB. I finally donated last week, since I’ve gotten so much value from GB and they’re doing such good work.

I discovered breezy when I started using GadgetBridge since breezy can provide the weather for GB. So my Garmin gets its weather from Breezy.

+10000 for Cory Doctorow

Idk if you’re being sarcastic or anything, but I’ll actually answer the question. Apologies if this is unnecessary.

You can hook up an Over the Air antenna (like one listed in this article ), which you can hook up directly to a lot of TVs I think.

Instead of connecting to your TV, you can get an IP Tv Tuner, like HDHomeRun. This let’s you connect the antenna to your home network and access the feed from your computer and their app. It also provides a video stream that Jellyfin and Plex (I’d bet Kodi as well) can access.

I thought I remember Amazon also listed that, but it’s moot at this point.

Another good option that lists DRM plainly is https://ebooks.com/

They even have a search filter for only DRM free

Ok, good to know. Next time I buy an eBook I’ll look at it

That’s good to hear. The last (and only) book I bought on Kobos store I had to use Adobe Digital Editions I think, which was annoying since they don’t provide that for Linux.

Do you have an easy way to strip the DRM from the Kobo ebooks? If not, then is it much different thank Amazon? I also have a kobo but don’t buy from their store. I mainly buy books on ebooks.com if they are DRM free. And maybe acquire others that aren’t DRM free.

Not officially I don’t think. And even if you did, you’d need a customized app to point to said server, and then you wouldn’t be interoperable with the regular signal network

I think they’re suggesting doing it on top of SMS/MMS instead of a different transport protocol, like Signal does, which is IP based

Pretty sure they’re actually the most compatible. I read somewhere that Intel QSV is the best for transcoding, followed by nvidia. And Arc uses QSV I think.

Don’t have a source, so take with a grain of salt.

I’m thinking about throwing an Arc B580 in the Minisforum MS-01 I just got and pass it do my JF VM.

I finally got around to deleting my account. Put in the request a month ago, and today is the day that they said it would actually be deleted. Since they give a month just in case you wanna abort. Today is a good day, but I should have done it 5 years ago.

Obligatory

https://youtu.be/V7PLxL8jIl8

For the android users, just gonna put this here

https://gadgetbridge.org/

My bad. I thought I saw that they ship with them now. I haven’t really looked at the configurator since I got mine in 2021.