Always eat your greens!
What local models have you been using? And what hardware are you running them on? I’ve been playing with local LLMs a bit for exactly your use case.
I have zero interest in vibe coding or full agentic workflows. But having a local LLM generate a Bash script to help me automate parts of my home lab infrastructure would be nice.
Awesome!
Oh great, they’re already preparing the next industry grift mania…
Been using it for two years on my side business laptop, works awesome. Plug and play functionality with most the apps I need, and rock stable.
Slow and steady, with occasional spikes when a government or mega-corp does something particularly terrible.
The CEO apparently is a big private equity guy, and those bloodsucking ticks only know how to do one thing: Suck every last drop of money and goodwill from the company and its customers as quickly as possible.
Breaks my heart, I’ve been a massive Bitwarden advocate for years. Been happily paying for the individual paid plan. I’m now working on setting up KeyPassXC with syncthing.
Wait!!! You mean the multi-trillion dollar mega-corp that promised that Manifest 3 would actually make adblockers more effective, lied to us???
He sniffed a baboon’s ass, then got mad that he got shit on his nose.
Nice, I’ll have to give it a try.
Thanks for the feedback!
I’ve been super happy with Bitwarden for years now. But with their new CEO being a big Private Equity guy, I am wary of the enshitification risk.
I’ve been looking for an alternative that works on both Android and other platforms. I use my phone for a lot of random stuff, so my password manager working on my phone is essential.
Has KeyPassDX been good? Does it work with the same password database as KeyPassXC?
I’ve seen more compelling writing on the back of a gum wrapper.
Absolutely pathetic, BBC.
Classic enshitification arc. They were a fast growing startup that engineered really good printers and software. People, especially newbies flocked to them because their software was easy to use and their initial print quality was very good without any tweaking or tuning.
But they were backed by private equity, and had to start showing higher and higher returns, they started locking in users with their proprietary cloud services.
They’ve been locking users in more and more recently, and just a few weeks ago, threatened a user with legal action for posting AGPL code up on their own repo. The code enabled users to use their Bambu printers without needing to sign into Bambu’s cloud.
Now there is a big community backlash and Bambu is having to do PR damage control.
My Jellyfin server goes, “Burrrrrrr!”
Never been so happy to sail the seven seas! 🏴☠️🥰🏴☠️ Jellyfin FTW
I can’t speak for other fields, but I’ve worked in IT as a sysadmin for about a decade at a bunch of different companies, big and small.
I’ve never worked at a place that was close to “overstaffed” nearly every place I’ve worked we’ve needed at least 2-4 additional people.
Everybody was overworked, overwhelmed with tickets and projects, working 50+ hours a week constantly.
But upper management and executives love claiming that staffing is maxed out and needs to get more lean. Like, dude, our IT team is handling dozens of tickets a day, running 5-10 different infrastructure projects simultaneously, and keeping near-decade old equipment alive because we were denied our third budget request in a row.
Ryzen 7 5800 X3D Radeon RX 9070XT 32GB of DDR4 system memory.