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He's a pretty good example of chaotic good in this case

I'm in that ballpark (ok a bit over).

I'm in that vicinity (ok a bit last) and I think it kinda depends on what you're doing. Talking to anyone about the latest meme/influencer BS will quickly make my head want to explode, but then again so does taking to prior my own age or older who engage in social-media-spawned politics.

But I also host people in the teens to early 20's, and I absolutely love engaging with them in activities. Suddenly, those sites you've already seen a hundred times and stopped noticing become kinda new again.

It kinda goes the other way around too. There are many things I do that may beyond the means of younger people, especially stuff that involves technology which has massively jumped in cost these last few years (thanks AI tech-bros) but I'd already had before. They get to enjoy some of the stuff I like without having to front the cost-of-entry, and I get to enjoy sharing. Heck, even stuff like certain repairs/renos/shop-work can be interesting to somebody whose never had the opportunity to go hands-on.

I might not have the energy to do all the late night social stuff that somebody half my age does, but I do have the resources and energy-drinks to host a periodic late-night movie-watch, LAN-gaming session, aurora-hunting, how-to-do-X or various other stuff that we can all enjoy.

I think the biggest hurdle these days is allowing people across ages to find mentors without running into (or seeming like) creeps.

No, I got an error a bunch of times and it didn't seem to actually post

Yeah, cameras should almost always be on a segregated network, preferably with port-security. The NVR may need to connect to the Internet for updates - assuming one can't just upload that via the UI - but that's about it.

Man, this really makes me wish we had a more modern or powerful successor to the PinephonePro (that I could actually order from outside the EU)

Yup. I wasn't disagreeing so much as pointing out a common failing with AI adoption in general: the number of cases where it's being implement as a replacement for existing functional systems or humans rather than an augment to them. The "additional tool" aspect is 100% my preferred use case (where it functionally makes sense), but many are seeing it as a human-replacement that feeds into their desire for control/subservience, cost-reduction, or rent-seeking.

Local-AI actually has a lot of useful cases, and AI vision is something that in many forms has been around for awhile and is generally fairly effective. It's great as a tool for indexing or enriching visual data that would otherwise at best a slog and at worst improbable for a human. Surveillance video is especially good with this. I see it as an addition to motion detection. Instead of needing to go through hours of footage of video, you only need to go through stuff where movement was detected, and from that you could further search for "frames tagged as having a person/bear/vehicle/whatever". The thing is, I'm not depending on it to protect me from running into a bear when I go out out my trash (although Frigate can do alerting), but I could use it to follow how the bear moved between cameras/zones through my property and possibly use that to better bear-proof the premesi

In this particular case, it might be somewhat useful as an early warning if it can actively detect human+firearm, but there were obviously going to be either a number of false positives or negatives that make it less valuable as such. It could still be useful in reconstruction or actively following some incidents, but we need to keep humans in the loop too.

AI isn't bad/evil or good when used correctly and with knowledge of the limitations in a given use-case. Trusting AI to replace humans/judgement is often very bad, and massive datacenters are obviously a major source of concern, but the issue is again in the use not the overall technology. Just like nuclear fission can produce huge amounts of power to either keep the lights on or blow stuff up, AI can help sort through your album if 5000 photos to find that one shot in a jiffy... or it can be used identify, track and you for a surveillance-state, and false positives in the latter case can make for a very bad day.

The cheap system I have with a Google Coral and FOSS software is pretty good about detecting people and dogs from my camera streams. Sometimes it detects my one dog as a small bear if I haven't cut his hair recently.

Having such systems as a later if defense is good. As the only defense, not so much.

At this point I question even how much is that is really from him. I'd it sounds close enough without even he remember going on a late night rant?

Dude could be dead for weeks and they'd be able to post enough AL generated videos, social rants, and autopen orders that we'd likely never know.

I - way back when - bought a Switch 1 because it played a bunch of the games that I could easily involve my kids/family in, and can come the times I've used it on battery with one hand.

However, that was also before the Steam Deck became a thing and haven't really given Nintendo my patronage since.

The Deck also has an internal-only battery but replacing that at least is fairly straightforward (I have not needed to do so but was in the area when upgrading the storage card).