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Nothing they say exists until it exists

ah yes, when someone tells me to “go get some water” I usually put it on a plate. Very natural.

Mine is the F4-210.

I probably could, but frankly it’s not worth the effort when my pi is already set up the way I like, and is more powerful. I don’t see the advantage of trying to hack the nas into shape when its hardware is atrocious anyway.

It has 1GB of non-upgradeable ram and the CPU scores 131 on geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/20874021

My pi has 8GB of ram and scores 1018 on geekbench, and cost half as much (~£90-100 vs I think ~£180-190). https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11626981 (so 7.7x, not quite 10x, but still an insane gap)

What do you find is the advantage of the nas if it’s outperformed by the cheaper pi?

I have one, but I feel pretty burned by them since the model I bought was immediately outdated because the next hardware version after mine was a new cpu arcitechure, and the new software updates don’t support the old architecture. I think they moved from arm to x86 or something like that. So I’m stuck with old software that’s no longer supported, only a year or two after I bought the up to date model.

And, yeah, as the other commenter noted, it does feel quite like you’re using knock-off software. Remoting into it doesn’t really fill me with confidence. Maybe it’s fine but it just looks/feels like the cheap and shitty version of something more reputable. And it’s not even running a proper version of linux that I could customise - it’s a stripped down version of arch that I can’t install anything on unless it’s on their official app store, which doens’t even work half the time, and when I do install the official version of plex/etc the cpu is so wimpy that it can’t even direct stream untranscoded video directly off the disk. My raspberrypi 5 is literally 10x (!!) faster than it in cpu benchmarks. You’re probably right that I could probably overwrite the os with something better, but then what’s the point in buying an expensive NAS when you could just buy a pi with much more power, community support, packages, etc, plus a dumb external usb enclosure for half the cost? Maybe the more recent ones with the updated cpu architecture are more powerful and have better apps, idk, but now I just use it as a dumb hard drive enclosure and do any smarts, such as plex or scripts I need to run, on my pi anyway.

So, I’m considering just moving all my NAS/plex data to an external drive attached to my pi.

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this whole concept relies on the idea that we can reliably detect AI, which is just not true. None of these “ai detector” apps or services actually works reliably. They have terribly low success rates. the whole point of LLMs is to be indistinguishable from human text, so if they’re working as intended then you can’t really “detect” them.

So all of these claims, especially the precision to which they write the claims (24.05% etc), are almost meaningless unless the “detector” can be proven to work reliably.

If they do say “but it’s solar”, then that’s greenwashing. All power consumption has an opportunity cost: that solar could have gone into the grid and offset some coal power, but instead it’s wasted which means more (or at least… “not less”) coal usage somewhere else. wasting power isn’t fine just because it was renewable. By that logic we could plug all the solar panels in the world into electric space heaters and waste all the power and that would just be fine since “it’s solar”.

Satisfactory’s arachnophobia mode, but for IRL

no, it was just funny

good read, but a better link for the next person:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Perihelion_precession_of_Mercury

url v1.0.1 release notes:

• removed m. for desktop users (mobile users will be automatically redirected)
• removed language from url (international users will be automatically redirected to their local language)
• now links to the relevant section using # syntax
• bug fixes and performance improvements

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so you’re suggesting that it’s feasible to use a video stream from the car to read lips by, what, paying out of pocket to send the video stream over the built-in cellular? Possible, sure. Then receiving it at a datacentre and running one of the most computationally intensive algorithms in existence on the video stream, 24/7? Or at least only when I’m using the car? so the datacentre is processing presumably tens or hundreds of thousands of these all at once, so at let’s say 5mbps per video that could easily be multiple terrabits per second of bandwidth, consuming megawatts of power in order to spy on people in probably the least efficient and most expensive way imaginable, and all to determine that I said I like coke rather than pepsi so the car company can receive $0.01 in selling that to some ad company?

Is that scenario possible? Yes. Is it happening? I am certain that it’s not in any rational company. The same line of reasoning applies to listening to your phone’s microphone or camera, except there you’d also notice your phone getting hot and the battery dying in an hour or two.

The GPS thing is feasible. I don’t know if they’re doing that but they could. As soon as you mention transmitting video feeds or cloud AI you’re in conspiracy territory.

||Now, Tesla’s on-device AI processing using the driver’s power bill to analyse video on-site and only send the tiny results into the cloud… is very different. ||

Someone could simply use GPS and see that the only place in the area that’s open is the gay bar and infer from that, or even lip reading.

https://xkcd.com/1425/

weird, I don’t remember doing this