Asheville Charlie

I just want the world to be a better place for everyone.

Every single human.

Location: Asheville NC US
Interests: Coding, Robotics, AI, Linux, Nature, Photography, Politics and random goofiness

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2024-10-05 02:46:34

I just received, in my account, $750 for assistance from #FEMA.
I received the base amount.
If you're in the #disaster area, apply for this. Get your bank account info and put aside 30 or 45 minutes for $750. Took about 2 days.
https://www.disasterassistance.gov/
#asheville
#helene
#disasterassistance
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2024-09-30 13:22:18

#asheville and #buncombe county friends. This is a reminder that there are 2 daily county media reports at 10am and 4pm. They are broadcast on the buncombe county Facebook page and simulcast at PBS radio FM 88.1 and likely other places.
I've also found iHeartRadio at 99.9 fm is good for continual updates and talk.
#helene

2024-08-10 17:46:07

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Could this not say where they're going and who is seeing them? As in the quantity of people regardless of venue.
Like this.. trump went to a tiny arena and had a tiny crowd. Harris went to a big arena and had a big crowd.
Then begs the question why is he going to tiny arenas..
No it's not an equal venue equal number of people thing.

2024-08-10 11:53:03

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Literally the only reason I am here to begin with was in protest of x/twitter.
There is no good reason to be there anymore. I don't care if you've got a million followers you don't sell your soul to hate.

2024-08-10 10:19:35

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When you make a deal with the devil you have to deal with the devil...

2024-08-07 11:10:28

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For some reason it reminds me of the halting problem..

2024-08-06 20:09:51

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Seems like all they need to do is take a screen capture of him saying civil war is inevitable and that they don't want to be part of that. Case closed.

2024-08-06 10:52:34

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I'm afraid I have to say to this day it is driver support. The latest kernel update destroyed my video and the one before that killed my Wi-Fi. Yes I managed to fix it and work around but still..

2024-08-05 12:35:57

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I tested out Manjaro a while back and it definitely made my list of daily drivers.

2024-08-01 15:33:11

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Until you go to get them fixed..then.. $$$$$ not so much..

2024-07-30 15:26:16

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1. It works.
2. It's built by people for people and not built by corps for corps profit.

2024-07-25 12:29:36

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Here's some general clues without actually building the thing.. you kind of have two systems.. a solar system charging a battery and a battery system powering a pi.
For the solar to charge the battery you need some way to control the voltage and feed the battery and not overcharge it. Similarly you need to take the battery reduce the voltage and feed the pi. Those are the pieces parts imho.

2024-07-25 10:12:37

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Productivity and customizability are not necessarily the same desktop imho..

2024-07-24 12:15:50

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I thought we knew this almost 10 years ago..

2024-07-22 12:17:22

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Obviously not optimal but you got to start somewhere and this guy gets props

2024-07-21 09:24:05

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Ya know.. for me.. I've come to the point where I see if something has AI baked in it's an automatic no.
Why?
Often times it's wrong and you don't know it. It's a climate disaster. It's fluff and marketing and rarely substance.

2024-07-20 15:23:26

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Imho, people who do, do.
I regularly interact with younger people and a lot of them say they want to be a game developer. I ask them what kind of things they've been working on and 95% of the time it's nothing.
Then there's the one young guy I ask what you've been working on and he's created scripts for games and been working with command line prompts and busy with the project of the day. Those are the people who do.

2024-07-20 09:16:00

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To me it's a difference between closed operating system and software written to profit a company or the same software written for the benefit of the end user.
It's kind of a choice of objectives.

2024-07-19 09:00:59

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🤣😂😂🤣

2024-07-13 10:36:12

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Yup

2024-07-05 07:04:27

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I do fortran or cobol.. they're so old they're new and every once in a while there's a freak out and not enough of those guys around to fix crap

2024-07-05 07:02:15

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THISSSS
I found out quickly when you help people you buy their system. 6 months later when something completely unrelated happens it's on you.
That fix it money ain't worth it.

2024-07-02 08:36:47

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20 years or so..
I worked in tech for big places like universities where I had access to all the keys for all the things for many years.
When I finally decided to give that up and lost all those keys I realized I didn't want to pay for all that crap so I jumped Microsoft ship went to Linux and never looked back.
Got to say the hardest transition for me was Photoshop to Gimp as I started a web business afterwards.

2024-06-29 20:00:48

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My experience with Arch..
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/701/684/132/520/423/original/e653f19595c3f14c.mp4

2024-06-28 16:18:35

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I do quite a bit in this space and the problem always ends up being software and support. You just can't beat the raspberry pi documentation and community..

2024-06-26 13:45:18

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I'd like to add you're not free from the consequences of what you say.

2024-06-25 10:21:32

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Try older Radeon with a newer kernel.. crashed me on Mint..doh..

2024-06-20 15:28:08

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I'm working on the hardware for a robot project that's going to take a while but it does have voice recognition, speech, and I'm thinking about doing something AI with it which was kind of what this post was about :-)

2024-06-20 15:15:21

Thinking seriously of creating a screen scraper and then feeding #ai a few gigs of questions, capture the data and make my own llm out of that because data is free right?
#ashevillecharlie_thoughts

2024-06-20 09:34:16

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But..but.. it has electrolytes
(crazy old reference)

2024-06-18 10:50:18

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And that's why we back up our crap..

2024-06-17 11:34:34

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there's a your mom joke in here somewhere..

2024-06-14 11:44:30

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I've only recently found you but you provide a steady stream of very informative and interesting content and I appreciate you. Keep up the good work.

2024-06-12 21:14:17

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Umm.. maybe I'm out of the loop but what the heck do you need AI in a terminal for?

2024-06-08 09:25:48

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The dark art of grep..

2024-06-07 09:46:32

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Since I started using Linux I have jumped into robotics.
Quite a few years ago I dumped windows for linux. Just a couple of years ago started in the makerspace with single board computers like raspberry pis where Linux is King. That has opened a whole world of python, motors, servos, sensors and sooo much more..

2024-06-06 18:42:44

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All Hail UTF-8.
Man has that saved me more than once...

2024-05-31 15:37:17

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Wrong answers only..ok..
Dolphin

2024-05-28 11:25:57

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Makes me wonder if there's an intermediary solution.. like a secondary system that watches the whole damn thing cuts out the ads and then serves it up to you later..

2024-05-28 10:24:56

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Before AI was cool four or five years ago, I got a Jetson nano (running Linux) and loaded up a bunch of Nvidia tools and libraries to create my own AI models.
I personally have no use for general AI stuff but I think an AI development distro would be the best case for Linux

2024-05-24 17:43:27

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I was excited until I saw the local VPN and I use the DDG third party block thing which also does local VPN.. waaaaa

2024-05-22 09:32:34

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via Pink Floyd
Goodbye all you Windows I'm leaving you today goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Goodbye all you updates there's nothing you can say to make me change my mind goodbye.

2024-05-21 17:42:29

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My gut tells me this is about training data for models.. I am so unbelievably grateful I'm all Linux..

2024-05-16 17:31:47

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While I personally gave up PC gaming a long time ago for consoles, I'm glad it's getting the attention and support and finally becoming a viable gaming platform because way too many people use that as an excuse to hang on to Windows.

2024-05-12 09:38:26

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If you go all in on a Google app or service that isn't directly related to their advertising biz, you should be ready to have it pulled out from under you. History don't lie.

2024-05-04 15:45:32

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The knowledge that this is not windows, why, and how.

2024-05-03 17:39:44

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Excellent choice. It's been my client for a while now and it's very good.

2024-04-27 09:53:28

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Social media Karen speaks to the manager.. lol

2024-04-26 17:10:38

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WOW..

2024-04-24 20:02:34

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Noncompete clauses "benefit employers and workers alike,"
I laughed so hard I shot milk out of my nose.

2024-04-16 21:04:27

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Wait.. new users only?.. so he farms the hate people, kicks out people he doesn't like and then anyone else has to pay to say something.. seems like a handy filter..

2024-04-10 14:21:07

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Just wait till quantum computing gets its legs and hooks up with AI that will be... interesting..

2024-04-08 18:06:36

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Reminds me of something I've been stewing on lately.. if mass distorts apacetime and light, and we are not Maxwell's demon knowing the position and status of every Mass out there, it makes me wonder how you get a accurate measurement on anything.. I could see things being many orders of magnitude wrong.. but then again I'm not that scientist :-)

2024-04-02 12:51:50

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Couldn't stand it had to go back and beat the last level LOL
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2024-04-02 12:37:11

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That was fun. I speed ran to 7 and then got stuck. For some reason I feel like this is a glimpse into our future..