Tony is a Geek

Okay, so I have resisted the whole drone thing for long enough. I was watching a vanlife youtuber who was comparing 3 drones and this was a cheap version that is basically for people who just want to tinker, use it for 5-10 mins and fly it into things and not have it break - or wound you. Oh ans be <£200. oh and be very light, so it is under the weight for requiring you to do the online drone license exam thingy (not that that is too difficult, more common-sense than anything else). I also kind of need one now for some things I want to do myself, so whilst I was in an Amazon Prime delivery location, purchase it I did. It arrived. It is small! It is quite robust. Those blades are well covered / protected.  I bought the extra gimble protector cover too - as I did see that was a thing to get - there is NO obstacle avoidance on this device, so it will fly into things, so well worth protecting the camera. It did take a bit of faffing about to get the App to install onto my ZFold 4 d...

If you want to unwind, you don't want to play a game, but you want to use technology - you don't want a boring FPS, you don't want to run around an open world "crafting" things. You like the idea of being arty.  You like Warhammer style D&D table top diorama style buildings etc.. but you don't have the time & resources to dedicate 10000 hours to making things like that. Well, fret no more!  This is a "game" with a difference: Tiny Glade:  https://pouncelight.games/tiny-glade/ Grab it on STEAM:  https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/ This YouTube video is a great walkthrough of how how pleasant and pleasing it is to use: End result, no killing, no shooting, just nice day / night / sunrise/set aesthetics, pleasant background music, sheep that go "baa!" and the freedom to be creative.  All the therapy you need in one place! In fact, you can just do what I did - watch someone else building stuff - true sloth mode :-D Ser...

okay, I admit I wasn't expecting much.  I was surprised.  I have ollama running locally, so I just pulled the 1.5b model down over my 4G connection. The token output was pretty fast, for instance, it was outputting at a rate that I would consider equiv. to getting it from a cloud service.  It was as fast as I could read, just, sometimes it was going faster. My 1 minute experiment was this:  I asked for some javascript code to be written to render a 3D world in a web-browser and to explain what was being done. The first section of the output showed the "reasoning" logic and "arguments" that were going on between the internal workings of the model.  Now, I recall doing this myself about 2years ago when I first built E.L.VIS - long story, won't go into it - but I was asked to "stop" as I was getting to ahead of everyone else, including myself.  As it was me, I not only stopped, I walked away & focused on "other things". Now though, it lo...

You are perfect just as you are - but you could do with a little improvement:  can you spare 30-odd minutes for a reminder? of course you can. You are the shift, you are the stillness.  Stop talking to yourself.  Enjoy the mirror.

Interesting title to the video below.   There is an arrogant assumption that "we", as in the human being meat sacks are the "pinnacle" of evolution on this planet.  wow, that is such an arrogant stance.  I shall resist the urge to go on a mega-rant about how massively flawed the human being is & basically how pathetic it is at handling ANYTHING in relation to existing & surviving on this planet, but I'll drop a minor one: strip naked, go into the middle of a wooded area & survive for 1, 2, 3 nights - let's make it fun - do it for 4 weeks.  Let's see how much you eat, drink, keep warm,  - oh you were thinking of somewhere nice like Dorset or the Cotswolds - no, I was thinking more like the jungle, where there is a minute-by-minute fight for survival to exist.  If you aren't bitten by things, eaten by things, infected by things within the first 5 minutes I'd be very surprised - human beings are the worst at surviving naturally. And that...

A little while back - okay, nearly a year ago: https://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2024/01/meconsole-weconsole-uconsole.html I decided to purchase a uConsole device.  I selected to have a 4G internal adapter inside, but for the love of god, I tried everything to get the b*s*d thing to work, I even changed the internal firmware - maybe it was the fact I was using giffgaff? I don't know.  Anyway, I then got some "bluepoints" (some people will know what that means!) and well, I then cashed them in for a £50 Amazon card. Next thing you know, I have 2 x 4G USB dongles coming my way :-D Why two, Tony?  Well, y'know, I either break one, I take one apart, I destroy one or one never does what it says, yadeyadaya... After having such fun getting the UGV Rover working the past few days , I finally got around to having a go with setting up the 4G USB dongles. Both devices came with 02 sim cards from sims4home.co.uk with a discount code - I actually use this in my campervan, works a...