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I thought I'd give his podcast a listen a while back because it's good to keep an open mind.

Halfway through one episode, he mentioned his contact in the industry who was telling him about how the agents are actually useless and people have to do all this cleanup work to use the output they generate, and of course Ed promised his audience that's the entire industry and that the collapse was imminent.

That was right at the moment that the models were getting so good that we could "one shot" an issue.

I knew then and there this guy was hot air and I never took him seriously since.

Call this pitchforks.

My favourite part about blue jays is that they mimic other birds. So they'll make hawk calls to try and scare the other birds away.

Oh how I loved driving around in GTA 2!

Thank you for your great work there and for sharing how you did it. I felt nostalgic playing with the model.

And who has an interest in your opinion, pray tell.

I'll dish it out and dish it back, but I'll never talk down to someone because I don't like how they write or their method of solving problems. We are not all born with the same gifts (or with English as our native tongue).

That's what some here don't seem to understand, that there's a way to put things gently when you're addressing someone to their (virtual) face.

You don't see how it's nasty, and then you pile your own nastiness on top.

Get a life and read something you want to read instead of spilling your bile on somebody sharing their work.

@dang I don't know if there's anything you do about people being pricks for no reason like they are above in this thread.

One thing to keep an eye out for is a communication from TP link telling you to stop using their name.

Great work!

Were you not also taught to "say something nice or nothing at all?"

There's no reason to be this nasty. If you don't like the writing, skip the post.

For what it's worth, the writing is clear and it gets the point across.

OP, thank you for doing the work and for sharing it.

Not OAI.

Nobody is saying that. I'm reading more underwhelment.

Oh, the halcyon days of three months ago when a new flagship from a frontier lab generated excitement rather than a shrug.

Fable 5: I give it work, it tells me things that are true and that make sense, it does good work.

Opus 5: I give it work, it makes false statements and draws weird conclusions, I correct it and get it on the right track, it thrashes around but gives me something working though usually buggy.

5.6 Sol is probably on par with Opus 5 on ability but at least it doesn't waste as much of my time.

It's wild to watch old videos of DDT application and attitudes back then.

https://youtu.be/-UiCSvQvVys

Plenty more out there.

I think you'll need to replace the mainboard with one from ifixit.

Not aware of a debug interface, but in the absence of that, you'll need to desolder the nand module and replace the files there with the help of another owner. The mobile read forums are where you can connect with fellow owners.

So the short version: I'd replace the mainboard.

I admire and support your effort, but the title makes it sound like you couldn't run apps in the past.

Nickelmenu deserves a mention in the opening paragraph and a differentiation of what this new piece of software brings to the table.

Likewise. I'd had a Kobo Glo HD for more than 10 years and it was still going strong. I looked at the new color screens and they didn't look as clear to me, though it was a subtle difference. Only got the Clara BW because I wanted to use the BT remote.

I encounter freezes mostly when I enable Bluetooth/wifi. Haven't tried on a multi-core kobo but I imagine the UI thread can keep running there.

When reading, agree on it being more than sufficient.

My recommendation is partially because the price can be identical when they have a sale. That was the case when I got a BW--it was the same price as the color.

I should also mention I run quite a few things on my kobo: boringtun to connect to my home network, a fetcher to sync my books and feeds, Plato and its article fetcher whenever I update my Wallabag articles. I'm beyond pleased with my reader experience. The extra processing power would just be icing on the cake.

KOReader probably lets you edit text files but I only use my kobo to read. Have not tried connecting any external devices.

0 issues using nickelmenu out of the box.

I recommend enabling ssh (native kobo feature) so it's easier to modify the config without needing to plug in, though obviously this is optional.

If you connect over SSH, I would recommend not touching system files. The new kobos don't have a removable SD card so if you corrupt the system files and it can't boot, you need to either do some PCB surgery or get a new mainboard.

You can already do that. Look into NickelMenu.

For the unaware, there is an existing solution that integrates with Kobo's native software (Nickel).

It has been maintained for years, and it supports every Kobo AFAIK.

It's called NickelMenu, and it's great. I'm in the Kobo ecosystem because of NickelMenu and Plato.

One note if you're thinking about getting a kobo due its relative openness: consider getting a two-core device. I did not do my homework and got a Clara BW because I don't want the color display. Later I found out that color is the only one with the two-core CPU.

It certainly reads like it. Bots are everywhere now.

Sure, that's why I said implicitly.

Publishers will always state a maximalist position but the truth of what they accept is what they tolerate without suing.

And, regrettably, The Archive lent books regardless of physical possession.

Publishers had accepted the prior arrangement before The Archive decided to push it, if not explicitly then implicitly by not suing.

I'm a believer in The Archive's mission, and I wish they had treated the goodwill they'd accumulated as something worth preserving and not a currency to be spent.

It has been stated by many before me: lending books should have been handled by a separate entity, especially when they removed the physical backing requirement.

Sure, that's true until you hit a difficult problem where the smaller models thrash endlessly whereas its big sibling can solve it with one prompt.

As a member, the gas savings pay the annual fee, and I get my staples from Costco every few months. Peanut butter, paper towels, TP, tissues, and sometimes mushrooms and washed greens.

Everything else I'd rather get from my local grocery stores.

Can you elaborate on SELinux? It affected me too but I just had to add :Z to my mount argument. Curious about whether there's further impact I'm unaware of.

I presume he's exhilarated that the government is taking the threat seriously and banning foreign nationals from accessing these super dangerous tools.

Congratulations, Dario!

Thank you for sharing these wonderful stories!

You're also not paying to search on Google.

Did you read what you shared?

It’s talking about security cameras, low-bitrate video.

FTA: "Myth Busted: At security camera bitrates (400-800 Kbps), H.265 provides negligible compression benefits. The marketing claims of "50% savings" apply only to high-bitrate content like 4K movies at 25+ Mbps, not security cameras."