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  • I share your frustration. Both of my parents have multiple sheets of paper next to their computers with “all” of their passwords written on them, but when they need tech support (i.e., me), the password they need is never on there.

    Have you considered the possibility that this could be a subconscious act by your mom to communicate with you, a way to ensure she gets to talk to you more frequently than otherwise?







  • I now see that I expressed my idea unclearly. Sorry!

    I don’t have any RSS feeds specifically for new/good apps. I meant that in my normal RSS feeds, sometimes new/good apps are mentioned that I want to take a look at.

    I get leads from sites like selfh.st, Lemmy communities that discuss FOSS or Linux (or even non-tech-related communities sometimes mention an app that has to do with their domain of interest), and I sometimes search github (FYI, I use github as little as possible - I host my own Forgejo forge for my stuff - but, like Youtube, you have to go where the data is if you’re going to find the data).


  • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlGrapheneos - apk sources?
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    I use Obtainium. It’s not a store or repo, so I have to manually find the apps I want to install. I even prefer it over fdroid: I might search for apps on fdroid but then go to the app’s repo (on codeberg or github, etc) and try to install them via Obt ainium. But 98.6% of the time, I don’t use fdroid to search for apps - I find them mentioned on Lemmy, in my RSS feeds, searching the internet via searxng.



  • I’m my experience, running Ollama locally works great. I do have a beefy GPU, but even on affordable consumer grade GPUs you can get good results with smaller models.

    So it technically works to run an AI agent locally, but my experience has been that coding agents don’t work well. I haven’t tried using general AI agents.

    I think the amount of VRAM affordable/available to consumers is nowhere near enough to support a context length that’s necessary for a coding agent to remain coherent. There are tools like Get Shit Done which are supposed to help with this, but I didn’t have much luck.

    So I’m using OpenCode via OpenRouter to use LLMs in the cloud. Sad that I can’t get local-only to work well enough to use for coding agents, but this arrangement works for me (for now).