Actually, (and I wasn’t aware of this until you mentioned it, so thank you), it does support serverless connections:

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#i-only-use-rustdesk-for-a-few-devices-on-my-local-network-with-no-internet-connectivity-can-i-still-use-rustdesk-with-direct-ip-access

So I think between cloud server, self hosted server and direct IP, OP should be covered.

RustDesk (rustdesk.com) is open source, and similar to TeamViewer, and has paid plans, including a paid self hosted option.

Lol of course, but I have also briefly tried it on an s22 ultra, and it still wasn’t a great experience. Still not a new-new phone, but it still had similar stuttering/lagginess issues that just killed the experience for me.

But it probably depends on what each individual can tolerate.

Dont take this as an endorsement, I have 2 semi broken ones, but nexdock/uperfect make lapdocks. The touchpads are pretty awful though.

Having used dex on a Samsung s10, I think 1 still applies to some extent. But maybe new phones are better?

Single universal cable is pretty good though, definitely required.

Motorola have been doing desktop modes since the Atrix 4g. Samsung have had it for a long time as well (s8 or s9?). Its kinda crazy how slow google is at getting this out for stock android.

Alphonso is listening for TV sound signatures, which while definitely intrusive and privacy invading, is not the same as 24/7 listening for voice-to-text-to-ad purposes.

They would only need to listen for a second or so to determine what channel you are on, instead of all the time, so there is a massive difference in scope.

They are effectively shazaming your TV.

Still creepy and invasive, but not 24/7 recording invasive.

The myaddress+shop@gmail.com should be trivial to defeat by a spammer. Its a very simple string remove/replace to get back to a stock email address, or change it to impersonate another service, eg. myaddress+netflix@gmail.com.

It’s only useful for the actual service, after that, you can’t rely on it.

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Wonder whose responsible for the policies that created that? :D

Its never just “A little extra code”. Each browser will have to implement it themselves (although possibly it could be done in chrome and everyone else inherits it by default), each browser will run the features through the standard debates around support, necessity, correctness, side channel security issues, etc. Firefox might drag their feet, chrome might implement it differently, edge might strip it out because it hurts their scraper. 5 years later it might get useful.

Keep in mind that any browser side extension runs the risk of breaking access for smaller browsers, so it can’t be used until there is near 100% market saturation, which could take years.

And you have to be very careful not to break accessibility for blind/etc users, who may have a non standard browser to begin with.

It would be nice if the AI robots.txt thing could be legally enforced.

Just to lightly temper your expectations, the OCR isnt perfect, and you may need to add your own tags/text, but its still an awesome system.

At least for paperless, one of the selling points is OCR plus text search. Do you can dump in all your receipts as photos, and then 3 years later, search “lawnmower” and find the receipt for it. (I dont know if this applies for this software, but its very nice in paperless)

Is this a fork of paperless?

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

I didn’t say you can’t have a GPU, but to me, its wasteful. I keep my jellyfin server off when not in use, and use WoL to start it when its needed.

I have played with local LLMs, and the models I used were unimpressive, but without knowing what the OP has in mind, we cant know how much power it will use. If it just spins up the GPU once a day for 20 minutes, probably okay, you won’t even notice it. But anyone like me who doesn’t already have a GPU in their lab will probably notice it quite clearly on their power bill.

A megacorps server farm is huge, but its also amortised over millions of users, they probably don’t need 1-1 GPU to customers, so the efficiency isnt necessarily bad. (Although at the moment, given megacorps are tripping over themselves to throw compute at LLM training, this may not be true)

Idle is low power, not zero power. And it won’t be idle when its scraping and parsing the sites, so depending on how much scraping its doing, it could be significant non-idle energy usage.

Yeah, absolutely. And running a GPU 24/7 to occasionally search is just a waste of power. I’m not convinced that google and bings AI search makes financial sense either, Google dropped live search (where the results updated as you typed realtime) because it was too expensive, how does LLM search end up cheaper than live search?!

Edit: This is the live search thing: https://searchengineland.com/test-google-updating-search-results-as-you-type-49116 ~~Annoyingly hard to find, and I can’t find the articles on its cancellation, but from memory it was related to expense. ~~

Edit2: Google Instant Search, and the death was blamed on mobile, and wanting to unify the mobile/desktop experience. I do vaguely remember expense being an unofficial/rumored reason, but I can’t back that up.

I personally have zero interest in AI search, if you mean LLM. The fact that it can make stuff up, also means it can miss stuff as well. Neither are acceptable for a search engine.

If you mean some kind of deterministic algorithm for indexing and searching, then maybe.

Also, attempting to crawl sites locally sounds like a great way to get banned from those sites for looking like a bot.

I really don’t want him remaking the video…

That is very weird, especially as it was renewed in 2024.

Also appears the Canada is a company in Texas:

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