[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

What I wish existed was a self-hosted version of OurGroceries.

If you want self hosted, I'd second all the Grocy comments. I don't use it because it isn't simple enough for my family, but I did like it.

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

I once heard a consultant refer to it as "The Fog" because it's like a cloud that you're inside of. 🤮

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago

I've told my wife and family that if something happens to me, they need to start migrating all their stuff off my self-hosted services to cloud services because its a matter of time before something fails and nobody's around who knows or cares to fix it.

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Depending on your budget and location, a whole house backup generator can be relatively inexpensive. My family lives in a very rural area in the central US, so we have a backup whole house generator that runs on propane. I chose propane because those motors seem to have less maintenance, plus we have propane for the grill, etc, already on site.

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I'm planning on building a new gaming PC in the next couple of months. I haven't done so in about 7 years, so I'm a bit behind the times on hardware. Is there any special considerations you all would recommend when it comes to gaming on Linux? I already run Linux as my daily driver and have a home server, etc, so I'm mainly looking for suggestions regarding current hardware that I would want to consider for my new build.

I haven't done so before, but I'm interested in running Windows in a QEMU VM to avoid some of the pitfalls for certain multiplayer experiences in certain titles. If anybody has any experience with this also, I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks for any input you all have!

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[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Sure!

For work I attend a lot of meetings, both in person and online. The service takes a recording of the meeting/phone call/etc, transcribes it, identifies the people who were talking and then feeds it into a "ChatGPT" style AI. It then gives meeting notes automatically and lists action items assigned to each attendee along with other pertinent information, like due dates. You can also continue to "chat" with the AI regarding anything to do with the meeting. I often will asked it to expound on various topics, write emails to participants following up on items, give me pertinent information that was shared like emails, phone numbers, etc. You are also able to go back and listen to the meeting along with the transcription. If it was a video meeting, it records the video so you can see what was being presented at the same time. (I think there's some opportunity for OCRing power point slides too, but these services aren't doing that yet)

One specific example was a conversation I had with a customer regarding another company we worked with mutually. The customer went into great detail about their issue with the other company and asked if I could write an email to that company to try and help solve their problem. I fed the recording of the phone call into the AI and simply told it to "write the email referenced in the conversation" and it wrote out a pretty good email with a lot of detail that was shared by the customer in it. A couple of tweaks and I was able to copy and paste it right into my email software and send it.

There's some other features the software has that I personally don't find as useful, like automatic sharing of meeting minutes/notes. My two biggest issue with these services is that they are charging somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 US per month for an amount of "minutes" of meetings. Also, they are taking all of your meeting data and doing who knows what with it? They do meet all the European Union and California privacy standards according to their site, but we're all here on a decentralized self-hostable community, so I probably don't need to expand on my issues there :)

Even if there was just a good "ChatGPT" style AI I could self-host, I could probably transcribe the recordings somehow myself.

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Is anybody aware of any self hosted alternatives to Parrot.ai or Otter.ai? I've tried these services and I'm finding them very useful, but the price tag is a little steep. It seems like something that the open source community could solve. Anybody know of any projects, either existing or upcoming? Thanks!

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 25 points 1 year ago

I told my wife when I die, she's just going to have to throw it all away and start over.

We have separate email accounts and she knows how to get into my Keepass, so she should be able to get into whatever she needs to. I now have a daughter who is becoming interested in how these things work, so I'm hoping to slowly start training/handing off to her.

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

AntennaPod

As a (now former) Pocketcasts user, I thank you for letting me know about AntennaPod!

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[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Never tried to duplicate Dorothy Lynch, although we've made homemade Ranch and French dressing before. I like to put a little Dorothy on my (American) tacos or dip my grilled cheese in it also. 😋

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by colebrodine@midwest.social to c/scifi@midwest.social

If anybody is interested, Amazon seems to be running a sale on my wife's Science Fiction novels right now! I'd tell you how great they are, but I'm probably biased.

EDIT: Also wanted to come back and mention that Kindle Unlimited Users can read her first book for free! https://www.amazon.com/Hellhound-Siege-Engine-Suzanne-Brodine-ebook/dp/B07T57V4YC/

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Tell your friends to send it to my address instead.

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

If I'm putting ranch on a pizza, its because it is a VERY bad pizza. That's a desperation move.

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

In Nebraska we have a hyper-localized salad dressing called Dorothy Lynch, so we are forced to split our time 50/50 between Dorothy and Ranch. :)

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I thought this group might be interested. My wife happens to be a budding Science Fiction writer. We've been hitting up a lot of cons to help sell her books and get her name out there. If you want to check out her book, please do so.

Can anybody recommend some good conventions we could get a booth at? We're located in South-Central Nebraska, so anything in a day's drive or so would be great. (Hard to fly with all the book stock we have to bring with)

[-] colebrodine@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

We have the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha here in Nebraska. It's probably my favorite "close" trip to take with my family.

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