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I still need to spend more time learning TrueNAS and how to get container applications running properly. It's much more complex than OpenMediaVault.
Some applications do just work, but many seem to need a lot more care and configuration to get working as desired.
#trueNaS #selfHosting

Here's a great use of AI text-to-speech generation: preparing for a live pitch.
Instead of reading your pitch a hundred times so you can edit it for time, use ElevenLabs.
1. Create an account
2. Find a voice that matches your own cadence
3. Paste your script and have it generate the pitch
You'll immediately see how long the audio file is and can adjust your script for length.
Then you can spend your time **rehearsing** instead of editing.

Given how horribly my society is behaving I have decided to give at least as much money as I spend on myself to charity each of the next 3 years.
I don't spend much, compared to my middle class USA peers (say $60,000 a year for housing, health insurance, food, car, technology...). Even that is up from what I used to spend and will go higher I think the next 3 years (as I reduce my long time frugality).
I think it is important for us to take action to protect the USA and the …

One other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
#AI #LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble