Pocster

Ain’t got any . Using abs

My cad skills limited

No . The box is bought. The internal white support thing to house cores3 , speaker , amp etc - needs redesigning

Deployed ! Loads of issues with the 3d printed case . I’ll rethink that .

M5 soonish . But marginal gain ? Price hikes because of inflated ram costs ? 2nd or “ opened but never used “ m3 ultra on ebay . What do we prioritise ? ram , gpu , cpu 64gb good - but more is better for larger models newer architecture ( m4 latest ) give a performance boost at a cost gpu more cores oh ! Apple have finance options …. That’s trouble . I won’t look …. 0% finance upto 12 months , or 4.9% for longer . That’s pretty low interest . I won’t look I’m not looking Could order . Then if m5 “ better “ relative to cost could cancel I won’t look looked , ordered !

Yes and yes

My other thread “ voice control “ is bollocks Anyone looked at how these work ? (expletive deleted)ing amazing ! . I mean what a LLM does engineering wise ! Been reading non stop all weekend! The possibilities are mind boggling . Local llm is going to be insane …. I’m so excited ! (expletive deleted) me ! Couple this with multiple microphone arrays . Jesus ! Stay tuned for insanity and “ Wow (expletive deleted) me “ moments . Nerds only need respond to this thread others can (expletive deleted) about with dpc and which happy meal to order .

Now you can (expletive deleted) about for another 10 yrs like me on other projects !

Seriously I thought he was skimming it with that deliberate non evenness - because most of the house is that style anyway .

Swmbo’s friend ( I don’t have any myself ) asked me to look at some skimming they were having done . It’s a 1800 cottage or something - you know exposed brick , exposed timbers . I went in the lounge where the plasterer was . ” Alright mate , that looks good I like how you’ve made it look uneven to fit the character of the house “ I said His face dropped and he responded “ that’s flat mate “ I said no more . Perhaps it was the light . But I think my cocks flatter than that (expletive deleted)ing wall !

(expletive deleted) ! That’s smart mate !!

Then you shouldn’t be (expletive deleted)ing about on a chimney stack . Jump over a few streets and get it in there my man ! 💪

Always looks different at night

(expletive deleted) going up a ladder and standing on the roof

SWMBO away . If another ‘ box ‘ appeared in IT cupboard she would not notice 😉

Kitchen roll for big boys

I read recently that openAI said 99% use ChatGPT as a toy . Without spending a fortune on say Claude tokens chat gives the best of both worlds for me ; creativity and technical. It stuns me that after the internet and now LLM that people just don’t leverage the capabilities they have access to . Still as you say depends what layer you are at on the onion …

Thermostat is automation car lights come on when dark it’s everywhere - just don’t think of it . Time to take it up from HA doing a lot ( and working surprisingly well ) . Local LLM gold standard 💪

😂😂😂😂 . Limited vision expected from people whom clearly don’t understand the impact of local LLM and incorporating it into everything you can think of .

Gonna need more RAM , gonna need more GPU …

You know what . I did that . I bed 4 tiles today

Chatting to my best mate we’ve had a strategic change . Going to historical LLM use multiple 8 way microphone arrays . Be able then to localise regions based on timing of wake word to hit which mic . LLM allows a lot of fuzzy talk e.g “ play something I like by Coldplay “ Going to add a database so we have history I.e in the above example you would play Coldplay album that I have played the most in the last 3 months on the speaker nearest to the microphone. This exceeds Alexa capabilities. History of lighting / music etc from previous actions . Equally I could record conversations as reminders to be replayed later 😊 ; can’t see any issues with SWMBO there . Then we can take intent into assumptions . I get home at 7pm in a Friday rather than I ask for radio on Avalon ( that’s what it’s called ) could implement the likelyhood and therefore ask “ do you want the radio on Pocster ? “. As constant querying verbally may become annoying we can have a point where it simply puts the radio in based on probability of that is what I want . Also once wake word is received any audio has its volume reduced while doing speech to text as you speak I.e not waiting for command to finish . Add in the voice id ( Alexa does this but not very well ) I.e SWMBO talking or me . If SWMBO requests something I haven’t authorised then confirmation is requested from me . The more I think about this more uses I can think off - some OTT of course - but that’s the fun !

Piss the bed on my behalf! 👍

You’ve got it ! After building for 10 yrs a bit of variety and fun projects are required !

Rain everyday I think . Nothing has come through though since last post . Have mostly built my internal sky light internal gutter -ready to install .