And the internet is largely a platform for capitalism, and most available content is from the internet. Capitalism fundamentally relies on the confidence games of profitable pricing and marketing, not to mention speculation on finance.

LLMs and the entire field of reenforcement learning is fundamentally biased towards the production of Influencing Machines. We are training models at the fundamental level to be subtle and devious con artists.

Yes, I’m just pointing out that phones aren’t terrible at acting as servers, it’s a generational issue.

I’m definitely going to give this a try when I replace my current phone next year.

usbc solved a lot of the connector issues, so long as you can get a hub to play nice with Linux drivers.

Thinking about implementation, it seems like tooltips would be a great way to handle this. Linking out from the tool tips to some kind of more comprehensive outside IT/cybersecurity resource would be a good bonus. Tool tip text generated by llm could take some of the heavy lifting.

Could this be the run-up to Apple acquiring Perplexity? I remain convinced that Apple defending their internal AI division shows they are close to a major acquisition and are just waiting for a valuation dip on one of the major competitors. Distribution is a solved problem for Apple, what they need is proven usecases and a competitive tech stack.

That said, search and consolidating multiple model APIs isn’t a great match for what Apple needs, and their optics aren’t great. My bet is still on Apple acquires Anthropic in 2026.

As a non-coder interested in self hosting and somewhat aware of cybersecurity, this is the most relevant take for me.

An application that facilitates safe self-hosting of many different service is great, however for it to be actually safe and useful it must either be a cybersecurity service keeping up with the pace of threats (which is essentially the corporate closed source model) or from the ground up be an educational platform as much as an application. Documentation needs to not only be comprehensive, but also self-explanitory to a non-technical audience. It is not enough to state that a setting or feature exists, it must also be made clear why it should be used and what the consequences of different configurations are.

This approach is almost never done effectively by FOSS projects unfortunately. Fortunately I think we are at the point where it is completely feasible for this type of educational approach to be fully replicable and adaptable from a creative commons source to the specific content structure of the application user manual using LLMs (local ones). The big question is, what is the trusted commons source of this information? I suppose there are MIT and other top university courses published for open use online that could serve as the source material, but it seems like there is likely a better formatted “IT User Guide Wiki” and “Cybersecurity Risk and Exploit Alert List” with frequent updates out there that I’m not aware of, perhaps the annals of various cybersecurity and IT associations?

Anyway I’m aware this is basically calling for another big FOSS project to build a modular documentation generator, but man would it help a lot of these projects be viable for a wider audience and build a more literate public.

awesome! glad to see it.

Hmmm… let’s find the best ways to both make money from this program and yet somehow the targeted individuals manage not to get detained.

It is actually an old and well established britishism

https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng

Welp, looky there, an expansion port right on the bridge of the headset with PCIE compatibility.

aren’t I glad I just bought an Onn instead.

I don’t see it in the hardware design, but from a software perspective the groundwork is there for modularity. Offloading the core compute to the PC frees up onboard processing to run peripherals like full color front cameras (onboard are black and white / IR) and more advance proximity detection, hell hook up lidar and go nuts with full body tracking.

That said, all of that would depend on decent I/O. 2x USB4 ports would go a long way.

It days right in the marketing text that the headset is “a PC” which to me implies full SteamOS distro with no limitations on installing a different OS, if you can get the many hardware drivers to work.

What protocol is it based on?

looks nice, a bit more like discord than Element for sure.

They are working on it, the leas dev is working with the lead Dev of slidge to propose a new Spaces protocol to enable “sub-channel” type functionality.

Houdini M2 over LORA is kind of a replacement.

YouTube video on it

It’s too bad it leaves the door open for age verification requirements, but the language is overall pretty decent.

Its a commercial product fundamentally. Looking at the company’s site its clear this is an attempt to sell their commercial/enterprise “private cloud” node hardware to the general public but they’ve botched the marketing.

Medical and Transport are their core business, and they are a software-first company that has built a hardware solution for ready drop-in of their secure private cloud server software stack. https://www.nexalta.net/blog-news/11

Looking at NAS options is how I found this, I got suggested a few NAS kickstarters, but the hardware on this one seems to be superior over all. Too bad the documentation sucks.