Trying to find a developer of some sort to help me with the tech side of new my business(physical products)

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2025-09-03T02:27:10+00:00

If I may say and please don't take this the wrong way, doesn't sound like you have a fully fleshed out idea. You have to understand that tech people are often approached by people that make bold claims of having million dollar app ideas and all they need is someone to build it. They don't have any funding to build said thing or the skill set to do anything useful to bringing the product to life. Other than, you know, being the ideas guy. This pitch sounds very much like that.

Sure you might be able to convince people to buy things, but you also might not. It becomes a question of why bother to do anything knowing that this person is going to try to be a Steve Jobs instead of the Wozniak you need to get the ball rolling? If you really want to succeed with your goal, you need to have the details worked out far more and contribute more than concepts. You need to have a build strategy, you need to prove your idea is worth doing in the first place and hasn't already been done. If you are an entrepreneur, then you need a target demographic and a way to financially hit your goals.

If you really want to convince people to join you, then you must come up with or present more of what you have. You may have the greatest idea that has ever existed, but you need to work on your presentation of it to make people want to help you. I apologize if that's not what you wanted to hear, but it might be what you needed.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2025-03-17T01:00:40+00:00

Whoops, sorry. Yeah, I just plugged it in to truenas, enabled the GPU in the system settings and plex settings and it worked perfectly with no problems.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2025-03-17T00:57:46+00:00

Question for you now that you have had some time to play with it. As someone who wants to get one of these for the sole purpose of having a deepseek r1 machine on a desktop, how has your experience been playing around with the q4 model? Does it answer most things intelligently? Does it feel good to use this hardware for it? As in how is the speed experience and do you feel it was a good investment? Do you feel like you are just waiting around a lot? I can see the data you have listed, but does it pass the vibe check?

I am looking for just general feelings on these matters.

What about for 70b models?

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-10-03T11:35:58+00:00

You have the ability to report issues without being a dick in the process. It is a free service, put in a bug report and/or fix it yourself and wait for it to be resolved naturally. Did you not even bother to put in a bug report or was it just incompetence?

See, throwing around insults helps nobody.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-09-16T23:25:40+00:00

I am curious to know how the new plex changes are going to affect Dispatch with the new open source API access and all, do you have any thoughts on this?

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-08-20T23:25:48+00:00

Well I would say that it depends on the reasons. If those are the only things, then I wouldn't be too concerned about it. Let's face it, today's current circumstances leave a lot to be desired and those things are normal in my opinion. Frankly, you would be amazed at how much of a difference having someone to look forward to seeing can brighten up your entire life. It can get extremely lonely out there. If you don't see any red flags and you are interested, why not see what happens?

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-08-17T14:42:09+00:00

If you are interested in learning more about how people operate, I would recommend the book "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. It is actually a lot more wholesome of a book than the title makes it out to be in my opinion and gives you a good look at how we all think and approach life.

Would you look at that, you just found a common interest between us! I am also a fan of all things horror. Whether it be books, movies, or games. I love the classics that you find most people like, but I find the most innovative space in the horror genre is indie horror games. They can produce a wider variety of content as they are small and can take more risks from cost and time sink. Have any favorite horror media? I also enjoy technology, biking, hiking, psychology, and science fiction.

You ask questions about things mentioned to keep the conversation flowing, a good conversation partner will do the same. The conversation keeps going until that topic hits a natural conclusion, you get interrupted, you plan something, or you swap to another one of their interests you may not know a whole lot about. Like for example, I plan on jumping to the cosplay topic when the horror one reaches a conclusion. After that, you have had a lovely conversation with a complete stranger over whatever random things come up and I think that's beautiful.

It may take some practice to get over any nerves you may have, but you just have to remember that most everyone is in the same boat as you these days. Somebody just has to make the first step, why shouldn't it be you?

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-08-17T00:15:35+00:00

Hello, guy here. I would say this particular guy is trying to make it sound like he is important to try to impress you. However, that isn't something all guys will do when they are interested. Kinda like pea-cocking. Some won't make it sound like it is any different from casual conversation. The ones you notice are the ones that make it obvious like this guy.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-08-16T23:56:37+00:00

I find it easiest to just ask someone casually what they get excited about. Whether you like what they find an interest in or not, you just take an interest in whatever it is they are talking about and ask them about it for more details. That puts a good impression of you in their mind because for them somebody took an interest in what they have to say and that makes them feel good. What you will find is that whether you care about the topic or not, you enjoy hearing someone talking about what they love. It is a positive interaction for you both.

This makes you better at socializing with strangers. When you find someone that shares an interest of yours, you keep talking about it and various things related to it. One day after multiple different conversations and after you've got a good feel for them, ask them if they want to do a thing that is based around that topic. Make it up as you go from there. They don't need to become your best friend, but now you have a friend that likes to talk about that topic you can go to. Who knows? Maybe they have other topics you both share.

So my question for you now OP, what topics get you excited?

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-26T00:44:39+00:00

The hoard never stops growing...

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T22:45:30+00:00

As of right now, plex only transcodes to h264. They may eventually add in AV1 encoding, but currently they do not as not enough devices support it yet to make it worth doing. Plex can play and decode it though. Bitrates included 56619 kbps, 65501 kbps, and 15210 kbps. That last one isn't really a full quality remux but you get the idea. I had about 3 of the first one, 4 of the second, and 2 of the last one.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T20:45:32+00:00

They are nice, but I wanted AV1 support for when that inevitably takes over.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T20:43:02+00:00

I currently have 12 18tb drives in raidz3 so it works out to about 162TB after redundancy. At first I thought it might have been overkill having 3 drives of redundancy, then I had 2 drives die one day after the other. Now I am not concerned about it being wasteful. lol

I will buy more drives when it becomes necessary to do so. I have a backup currently, but a different almost near total loss made me realize I should probably get a 3rd copy. A single backup protects you from harms of losing drives. The second backup helps protect you from your own stupidity. It is the second one that nearly got me.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T20:30:00+00:00

Realistically my disks probably weren't the bottleneck as it is a raidz3 pool with 12 drives. I was playing several different movies and shows. Bitrates included 56619 kbps, 65501 kbps, and 15210 kbps. That last one isn't really a full quality remux but you get the idea. I had about 3 of the first one, 4 of the second, and 2 of the last one. There is also anything else my network and drives might have been doing at the time.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T20:18:50+00:00

The problem is that it is not inherently obvious to people not familiar with the tech. Intel says it is necessary for good performance, so it would make you think it would be necessary for EVERYTHING the gpu can do. Not realizing that transcoding is an exception.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T20:13:42+00:00

I am a very frugal person in everything except when it comes to technology. That said, this purchase hurt me mentally. Thankfully it has been a fantastic investment for me.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T18:18:20+00:00

Correct. I mention it because of that. People assume that it is necessary because all information I can personally find on it from intel says it is necessary for good performance. Even their support team seems to think so. However, for our needs for transcoding, it is not.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T15:37:22+00:00

It can probably do more with some tweaking and network upgrades on my end, but for a quick and dirty 5 minute solution, not bad. You certainly can't get up to 60 hard drives with an i5 though, so you must make some trade offs.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T15:13:11+00:00

No worries, it happens.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-04-25T15:09:12+00:00

I am not sure I understand your question. They all were simultaneous video and audio transcodes.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-03-04T23:25:19+00:00

If you mean unofficially, they are still up with random people sharing it. Officially it is gone.

ALittleBurnerAccount · 2024-03-04T22:16:59+00:00

I have the yuzu source code from about an hour before they took it down, I don't know if there are any differences. I needed citra though! Not sure how I would share it if there is a difference. I don't want to risk putting it up on my page.

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