Your demo just returns "Identify product number LanguageModel is not available".
For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
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Re: For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
#162I fail to see a useful usage for AI in this case. Couldn't you just print the product number as a barcode/qrcode and let a "dumb code scanner" read it, instead of having to download a multifunctional LLM?
The author's own AI demo falls on its face with "Identify product number LanguageModel is not available" too.
Re: For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
#163I have a better proposal. Let's scrap the web. It's corrupted and broken, it hasn't been fun since MySpace. We serve native apps like VNC over kitty graphics protocol + mosh/ssh + ios/android/windows/macos mosh/ssh client. Even if we need to distribute a customized terminal to make it work. Get rid of the browser and the app stores at the same time.
How is your "customized terminal" not yet another browser?
Because it has no HTTP or HTML
Re: For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
>There’s no reason these things shouldn’t last more than 20-30 years on average. This is actually a difficult problem I feel. Misaligned incentives aside. How do you keep a company running if it is so good it captures the whole market in 15 years, but it takes 30 years before it's products need replacing? (This is a simplistic presentation of the issue, but I feel it's understandable enough to start to formulate idea…
> How do you keep a company running if it is so good it captures the whole market in 15 years, but it takes 30 years before it's products need replacing? I think that you don't. Things don't have to be infinite money-spinners to deserve doing. Use the googobs of money you made to invest in something else, and let the parts and repair for the old product take over the majority of the old business. Fire up the lines on…
>Things don't have to be infinite money-spinners to deserve doing.
The point here is to optimise societal benefit of the production.
I like your ideas about repairability and such. One thing in the back of my mind here is the issue in the UK where we used to lead, somewhat, in nuclear power. We stopped building new power stations and lost the ability as a nation to do so. One would want not just the 30 year old washing machine to be manufacturable, but also for tech improvements to be added in over time. One would also want to extend the manufacture from washing machines to other goods in order to extend the societal benefit. If it can't sustain personnel, then that impacts societal benefit too; as well as impacting ability to attract talent. People being able to insert a replacement control board is different to the company making new control boards that include necessary modifications for changes in the power supply system or improvements to the motors, say.
I appreciate your response, thanks.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait until TVs come with their own cellular modems so they can give the corporate middle finger to people like us.
This is the actual reason there was all that hysteria around the "race to 5G" with the dire warnings that we'd be buried by China if we didn't roll out 5G ASAP. The actual reason is that 5G works better with congested cells and large numbers of clients than 4G, so it's a lot easier to put cellular modems in every device and bypass those pesky users.
Except many TV models are already sold at a loss. Throwing a $20/month cellular modem in there isn't going to help any.
The number of users who opt out of connecting their smart TV to Wi-Fi is so damn tiny that it is a rounding error for TV makers. They just don't care.
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#166> Electrolux washing machine I had to buy one a couple of years ago. Snarkily I asked the floor salesman if I could get the washer “without all the smart features”. He said “let me check”, which had me puzzled. He came back to inform me that they still had last year’s model which was before the “smart” features were rolled out. He said they can sell it on the same warranty, & since it was older I would get a signific…
It was a pain to do, but I have a Sony "Google TV" that I fixed to remove or hide the Sony bloatware and Google adware. I hated how the home screen would display full screen loud ads and the TV would constantly want to update so that it could display an even more obnoxious screen layout with more ads, so I loaded a simple launcher that always displays a static list of hand-picked apps. It required (or successfully da…
The annoying part is if you disable all the ads and recommendations, they disable voice search. Feels like they are punishing me for opting out of ads...
Re: For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know where I can read more about QR code protocols? I was under the impression that a simple URL (with http/s) is common, and I've never had it not on any device.
Not OP, but I found this article recently: https://cubiclenate.com/2024/03/22/generate-qr-codes-in-the-... Includes patterns for wifi credentials, calendar events, and a few more.
There's no special URL there either, though. The parent specifically mentioned a protocol with semantics for "web links", hence my question.
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#169> Electrolux washing machine I had to buy one a couple of years ago. Snarkily I asked the floor salesman if I could get the washer “without all the smart features”. He said “let me check”, which had me puzzled. He came back to inform me that they still had last year’s model which was before the “smart” features were rolled out. He said they can sell it on the same warranty, & since it was older I would get a signific…
I don't get why people care about about whether a TV is "Smart". I have a "Smart" TV and never use the features, and it doesn't bother me. I have a PiHole in case it tries to do anything funny, and that's good enough for me.
My smart TV is more annoying than helpful. When I plug in my steamdeck or raspberry pi it thinks a windows computer is being plugged in an tries to run Samsung dex/windows thing and register the computer. I have to wait 10s for it to finish then press back on the remote.
So annoying and there is no way to remove this or toggle it off. Oh yeah and when I open the menu to scroll the different inputs or apps there are ads. Paid a few thousand for this thing and it still shows me ads.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a way to set up the modem, router, pihole, or any other part of the network to close that loophole?
Yes. Put your TV behind a second router, manually assign IP address and route to your local network, and don't give the router an upstream gateway. Then any packets the TV might send even to a plain IP address will be dropped at its router before reaching your main router.
One can also just run an open source router/firewall software and do this by clicking a few buttons. OPNsense or OpenWRT get the job done wonderfully.