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Today thanks to a NetworkChuck video I discovered OpenWebUl and how easy it is to set up a local LLM chat assistant. In particular, the ability to upload documents and use them as a context for chats really caught my interest. So now my question is: let's say l've uploaded 10 different documents on OpenWebUl, is there a way to ask llama3 which between all the uploaded documents contains a certain information (without having to explicitly tag all the documents)? And if not is something like this possible with different local lIm combinations?

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Yesterday I was trying to install the Ubisoft version of AC Odissey on my PopOS! machine, and I wasn't able to do so because when I try to launch Ubisoft Connect from Lutris, it asks me to do the login and then shows only a black rectangle.

I tried looking online for a solution but as far as I understood it's a problem of the new Ubisoft Connect UI and I wasn't able to find any fix... can someone help?

It really sucks because it prevents me to play some games that are supposed to run on Linux just because at the time I bought them on Ubisoft Connect instead of Steam :/

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submitted 2 months ago by shaked_coffee@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've recently bought my first Tuxedo laptop, an InfinityBook Pro 16 - Gen8 and after having some minor issues with Fedora on it (mainly with the Tuxedo Control Center) I moved to PopOS! and since then it worked flawlessly. Or at least, it used to work flawlessly until last week, when the laptop started to reboot at (apparently) random points of its usage. This is REALLY annoying.

Does anyone encountered the same issue? Have you identified its causes? And how have you fixed it?

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 26 points 2 months ago

Cool. Would be even cooler if there was an alternative to Google Wallet for non-samsung smartphones tho...

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 18 points 3 months ago

This!

Discord was great and I'm pretty sure that some projects will take its place (like Revolt maybe that others are mentioning) but PLEASE FOSS PROJECT JUST USE AN INDEXABLE FORUM like Discourse, so that people don't have to signup and enter a server for each project they use!

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 12 points 3 months ago

I guess that with discord (and many other non-foss free projects) the problem is that they start as free and then wanted to start to make money at a later stage.

For-profit software and companies are not necessarily bad, but they are bad when they take their existing software and start radically changing it for the sake of making more money.

If for example discord always had some features just for Nitro users and others for everyone, and those features (and the nitro price) would have always stayed the same it would have been much better

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 16 points 3 months ago

Ahahah sorry, I know what Authy is.

Mine wanted to be a way to say that after I discovered Ente Authenticator (the link I attached), which is another 2FA app that keeps an encrypted backup of your codes and lets you access them on multiple platforms and it's foss, I "almost forgot about Authy" since Ente Auth replaced it perfectly for my use case.

I thought that since is not a very famous project others could have found it useful

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 19 points 3 months ago

She was saying that on Mastodon (that was the main activitypub platform she was comparing to) the choice of the instance can heavily influence your experience. If I don't remember wrong her main points were:

  • There's a local timeline and a federated timeline, and even in the federated timeline you see your instance posts and the posts of the instances yours have federated with, not all posts
  • A global search is not always the easiest thing to do, and previous attempts of project that would have facilitated it didn't received much appreciation from the community
  • If your instance admin do choices you don't agree with (for example blocking another instance) the only way to interact with that other instance is to move yourself
  • Moving from an instance to another means loosing your posts and replies, that would stay on the original instance

She was not saying that this approach is wrong, in fact many people on Mastodon like this more community-focused and less-global approach, just that it isn't what they wanted for Bluesky

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 12 points 3 months ago

That's almost exactly what I was thinking before listening to the podcast.

But there she explained how ActivityPub was missing some of the feature they wanted because of its instance-centric approach and how trying to change that would have been hard (given how sceptical towards changes and everything corporate-related the fediverse community can be), and so they opted for a new protocol since the goals of the two project were with different aims.

Still not 100% convinced tbh, but I can't deny she has a point...

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I recently finished the episode of The Verge's podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky's CEO and it seems a quite interesting project. At the beginning I wasn't looking really into it because of their choice of using a new protocol instead of the existing ActivityPub, but after listening to her and the reasons behind this choice maybe I'll give them a chance.

What do you think? Do you use it alongside with the fediverse?

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 18 points 3 months ago

It can be a bit overkill for your use case if you only need to stream the USB media on your tv, but take a look at Jellyfin, it's a program you can install on any PC and as long as this is up and running on the same network you can access your media on that PC (in your case with the USB plugged in) from any other device (TV, other PCs, Tablets, smartphones)

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 17 points 3 months ago

Matrix is a communication protocol, such as IMAP+SMTP communication protocols that are behind emails. This means that the "communication stack" when you use Matrix, as well as when you use emails, can be summarized in 3 parts:

  • the client (the app you use to chat, such as Apple Mail or Outlook for emails, Element or FluffyChat for Matrix)
  • the provider (who is offering you the service, such as gmail.com or yahoo.com for email, matrix.org or chat.mozilla.com for Matrix)
  • the server (the app that your provider runs to let you chat, for emails all most famous providers have their own proprietary servers, for Matrix the two main options for server are Synapse or Dendrite)

I haven't read the article properly yet, but from what I've understand for now it seems Commune.sh aims to build a new client for Matrix that reproduces the layout and features of Discord, while at the same time being based on an open communication protocol and therefore having all its related benefits.

Seems pretty promising, I'm gonna keep an eye of it 👀

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submitted 3 months ago by shaked_coffee@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml

A couple of years ago with my old phone (running if I don't remember wrong Android Pie) and my old laptop (running Manjaro KDE) I discovered KDEConnect and how it could enable a clipboard sharing feature similar to the one Apple provides between Macs and iPhones. It was great! Now, after having changed both my phone (now running Android 14) and my laptop (now running PopOS! 22.04) I wanted to reproduce that magic but I found out that with Android 10 some complications regarding clipboard sharing arrived and so it doesn't work out-of-the-box anymore :(

I found some saying that the only way to do that was by the persistent notification button (still ok but meh) and some others reccomending some adb commands to make it work as it was before (which would be great but I wanted to investigate a bit more before pasting some random commands to my terminal)... but it was all kinda old content (referring to Android 10 or at most 11), what's the situation as of today? Do you use clipboard sync? And if so, how?

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submitted 5 months ago by shaked_coffee@feddit.it to c/matrix@lemmy.ml

Since I recently set up a decently powerful homelab, with a bunch of services running on docker behind traefik, I thought it would have been cool to try out selfhosting a matrix homeserver for personal use (at the beginning it will be just me, potentially it will extend to some friends and/or a small organization of around 20 people working together). At first I was thinking about going with Dendrite, but then I've seen it still doesn't support Threads, nor Matrix 1.5 API and that despite the announcement of a couple of months ago its repo hasn't yet be moved to the new element-hq GitHub as it happened with Synapse. This made it seem kinda like a "2nd class citizen" compared to Synapse, and therefore made me think if the latter would have been a better option to selfhost. And then I bumped into Conduit.rs so now I have 3 option to be undecided about!

Therefore, here I am asking for your preferences and advices: which is your favourite one / which one would you recommend for my use-case?

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I know this question has been asked many and many times, but a) this kind of things can change with time (bugs may get fixed or appear, new generations can fix hw problems and get new ones, etc.) and b) I didn’t find it on Lemmy yet (but maybe this is just me being bad searching stuff in the fediverse), so here it is once again.

So, I need to buy a new laptop and I’m undecided between those two machines that, from what I’ve seen, are very very similar, but not exactly the same (apart from the chassis, that should be exactly the same, right?)… What are some differences I could use to decide?

And, if you own one of this two, would you recommend it? Why/Why not?

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submitted 6 months ago by shaked_coffee@feddit.it to c/samsung@lemdro.id

In the last months, the battery of my S2 tablet was draining really quickly, untill it died and I wasn’t able to recharge it. So, I thought that the battery was dead (it served me for a bunch of years so it could have been acceptable) and I ordered on Amazon a new battery to replace it.

After replacing the battery, though, the tablet turned on saying the new battery was at 50% and, when plugged in, it was acting as if it was charging. Apart from the fact that it wasn’t charging the battery that instead was quickly draining even if plugged in.

Obviously I tried cleaning the charging port, changing cable, changing power adapter, changing socket on the wall, but nothing worked. So I assumed that the new battery they sent me was broken and I purchased a new one but when it arrived: exactly same situation.

Could it be that I was very unlucky and I got a broken new battery twice? Or maybe the problem is somewhere else? Did anyone encounter a similar issue?

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I’m finally moving my selfhosting experiments from a VPS to a physical machine in my house but, since I don’t have a static IP address, I opted to use the dynamic dns service offered by Cloudflare.

On their official website I’ve seen suggested ddclient but I haven’t find that much information on which labels should I add to set it up. Therefore, I’ve also found this docker image that seems pretty clean and easy to set up, but the video talking about it was of 3 years ago and I’ve seen that the github repository has been archived last year…

Which option (not necessarily among the two above) do you prefer to set up your Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare? (I don’t know if this can be an important information to add or not, but the Linux server I’m using is running NixOS)

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Ciao amici di LeAlternative, vengo qui da voi in cerca di un parere:

Sto iniziando assieme a due amici un nuovo progetto che potenzialmente in futuro dovrebbe coinvolgere molte più persone e, siccome per progetti simili in passato si è sempre utilizzata una combo GSuite+Slack che si è sempre rivelata vincente, loro due hanno provveduto subito a creare la prima cartella condivisa su Drive. Tuttavia, siccome appunto si tratta di un progetto nuovo, pensavo che potrebbe essere l’occasione giusta per proporre strumenti liberi alternativi a i soliti che usiamo, anche perché potrebbe essere un buon modo per raggiungere con tali strumenti persone non tech-savy e che non si sono mai interessati della loro privacy online prima d’ora.

Per quanto riguarda #Slack pensavo di provare un po’ #RocketChat e vedere se può fare al caso nostro, ma la cosa che più mi preme sostituire in realtà è la suite di Google. In particolare, le nostre esigenze sarebbero:

  • archiviazione (stile Google drive)
  • documenti di testo (stile Google Documents)
  • fogli di calcolo (stile Google Spreadsheets) che dovrebbero avere le seguenti caratteristiche:
  • feature collaborative “di base” come cartelle condivise con alcuni utenti, possibilità di modificare contemporaneamente uno stesso documento e di lasciare commenti
  • possibilità di utilizzo agevole (cioè semplice anche per utenti per cui Google docs è il massimo della tecnologia a cui l’umanità è arrivata) sia da mobile (Android e iOS) che da web
  • possibilità di fare self-hosting o possibilità di utilizzarle con un piano gratuito (se il progetto dovesse proseguire e ingrandirsi e il prezzo è ragionevole non sarebbe un problema pagare, ma ora come ora siamo solo in 3 e tutti abbastanza squattrinati 😅)

PS: so che sul sito di LeAlternative è già presente un articolo molto esaustivo sulle possibili alternative a Google Drive e infatti dopo averlo letto mi ero già fatto una mezza idea su quale servizio potrei tentare a proporre, ma ho deciso di fare questo post per sentire più pareri da parte di chi queste alternative le utilizza o le ha utilizzate nel pratico

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My team wanted to start using Trello to better organize the work we have to do and, since I believe it's much easier to start using foss software from the beginning rather then switching to it after years of using something else, I wanted to suggest now a different option, possibly selfhosted.

I've seen online that there is Focalboard that seems to be what we are looking for but I've seen it recently switched from being backed by mattermost team to be community-driven and I didn't found enough documentation on how to install it with docker on an arm server... Does anyone use it? Is it a good option or there are better ones? And if you're using it, could you help me spinning it up?

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Fairphone 5 Announced! (shop.fairphone.com)
submitted 10 months ago by shaked_coffee@feddit.it to c/android@lemdro.id

Looks like a new model for the Fairphone has been announced! What do you think about it?

Personally I love the fairphone project but after having tried GrapheneOS on my Pixel 6a it would be hard to move to a different OS

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 39 points 11 months ago

I was using .ml domains for my selfhosted services, since it was just an hobby and I didn't wanted to invest money on it. Apart from Freenom website being pretty unusable since I have memory, I've already had troubles renewing them last year and now they stopped working without any notice nor update from Freenom itself. Finally I decided to move to a payed domain from Infomaniak, since it's been more than a year I've been selfhosting and $10/year is a fair price for me.

But still without those free domains I wouldn't probably ever started selfhosting, and I guess a lot of other people like me wouldn't have experimented or spin up their projects if they had to pay for a domain from the beginning. So despite my hate for Freenom I guess I have to thank them and hope someone else (maybe a bit more "professional") will take its place in the future

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