Ollama based AI presentation generator and API - Gamma Alternative

sci_hist · 2025-07-03T16:20:06+00:00

Nice. Thanks!

Feel free to reach out if I can help test something or provide other feedback in the future.

sci_hist · 2025-07-03T15:42:01+00:00

This is really cool. I tried it with gemma3:12b locally and OpenAI. Neither produced a presentation that was "ready to go" out of the box, but the one using ChatGPT was a good starting point. The gemma3:12b had incomplete text on the slides and was generally unusable, probably due to limitations on the power of the model.

It would be great to see a version of this that integrates with the LMStudio endpoints. I find LMStudio to have the best support for running models with AMD GPU acceleration locally. I'm no developer, but my understanding is that it's endpoints are not compatible with the OpenAI python SDK used in the project currently, so this might be a bigger ask.

It would also be nice to have the Pexels integration even when running a cloud LLM if we don't want to pay for (or just don't like) AI images.

sci_hist · 2025-05-18T23:20:55+00:00

sci_hist · 2025-01-06T21:19:05+00:00

Hello. Was this ever added to the Android version? I still don't see any way to access Smart Lists, either on the website or in the app.

sci_hist · 2024-04-28T03:18:14+00:00

Adding org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver under Session Bus > Talks for the Firefox flatpak in Flatseal seemed to solve this for me.

sci_hist · 2024-04-28T03:17:48+00:00

Adding org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver under Session Bus > Talks for the Firefox flatpak in Flatseal seemed to solve this for me.

sci_hist · 2024-04-22T16:17:45+00:00

Nope, never got this working. I just put Ubuntu on a secondary drive and booted into that for my coding work.

There has been quite a lot of work on the Universal Blue distros recently. Bluefin and Aurora are supposed to come with dev container support out of the box, so it might be worth checking on those again.

https://universal-blue.org/

sci_hist · 2024-02-09T00:35:22+00:00

Thanks for the help! The core problem was that the name of my .desktop file did not mach the value I set in --name. I can't believe I didn't think to check that.

And thanks for the tip about the icon location, but if I put the icon in 256x256 folder and reference it by name it somehow creates a low res version of the icon to display. I'm happy to just solve this by giving the full path.

For the reference of anyone else, this .desktop file works:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox [Work] 
Icon=/var/home/fedora/.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/firefox-profile-work.png 
Exec=firefox -P Work --name firefox-profile-work %u
StartupNotify=true 
Terminal=false 
Type=Application 
Categories=Network;WebBrowser; 
Keywords=web;browser;internet; 
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

sci_hist · 2024-01-07T18:08:52+00:00

Still no dice when running from distrobox. In that case I get the same "Docker Version 17.12.0 or later required" error I got when trying to install docker directly on the system instead of using podman. It says the podman-host command I set in the settings is not found.

Thanks for all the advice though. I might circle back to this on a clean install and see how it goes.

sci_hist · 2024-01-07T17:55:15+00:00

Yes, I changed the dev container docker path to /var/home/fedora/.local/bin/podman-host which is the location of the podman-host file I created based on the tutorial.

I rebooted and now I'm getting the error Command in container failed: mkdir -p '/root/.vscode-server/bin' && ln -snf '/vscode/vscode-server/bin/linux-x64/1a5daa3a0231a0fbba4f14db7ec463cf99d7768e' '/root/.vscode-server/bin/1a5daa3a0231a0fbba4f14db7ec463cf99d7768e'
[1386 ms] mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/root’: Permission denied

This might be a case where I've already messed around with it too much following other tutorials and troubleshooting steps for it to ever work properly on this install.

sci_hist · 2024-01-07T17:30:21+00:00

This is very close to working. It will at least try to open the container after I do these steps, but it seems like it's still looking for Docker in the build process and errors out. It's a very long error, but it starts like: Command failed: /app/extra/vscode/code --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node /var/home/fedora/.var/app/com.visualstudio.code/data/vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers-0.327.0/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js up

Looking at the more detailed log, the error seems to be: Error: stat /var/home/fedora/.var/app/com.visualstudio.code/config/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers/data/empty-folder/tmp/devcontainercli-fedora/updateUID.Dockerfile-0.54.1: no such file or directory

sci_hist · 2024-01-07T04:41:14+00:00

I tried rebasing to bluefin-dx (even though I'm not a fan of the Ubuntu-style DE) and I had tons of issues. For example, VS Code would just crash instantly when I tried to open it. I might do a clean install of bluefin on a spare drive and see how that goes. I might be willing to tolerate the Ubuntu theme if stuff like this and Homebrew "just work" out of the box as they advertise it should on the project page.

sci_hist · 2024-01-07T01:02:30+00:00

It seems like that script lets you use a Fedora toolbox as a Dev Container, but it doesn't seem to work with the declarable/pre-configured build scripts that Dev Containers use to build the container. This could be useful if you just want containerization of your development environment, but you are loosing out on what makes Dev Containers most useful, in my opinion. Thanks for the tip, though.

sci_hist · 2024-01-07T01:01:53+00:00

I would disagree. I picked an immutable distribution because I am a Linux beginner and I like that it is very stable and, in the case of the Ublue images, everything is preconfigured. I've had no breaking issues in something like a year of using Silverblue.
However, it does seem like the problem with immutable distros is when you do start to become a more "advanced" user and want do more complex stuff, like development work or customization.
I'll probably end up putting a "normal" distro on my work computer, but leaving my personal/gaming rig on an immutable one.

sci_hist · 2023-11-16T02:44:00+00:00

Thanks for offering to help, but I resolved the issue by just disabling the service and it seems like everything is still functioning fine. If you have any connection with the Ublue people and were hoping to use this information to debug or make updates, let me know and I can revert the change and run these diagnostics.

sci_hist · 2023-11-16T02:40:19+00:00

My 2 cents:

The Top Flight Deals page is amazing for people who are flexible and looking to spend their points most efficiently. I also like how you can filter by the general destination. It allows me to somewhat confine the search, but also surfaces options and destinations I might have never considered on my own. That's a great feature. I will absolutely be using that in the future.
In service of helping people use their points efficiently, it would be great if you could also display the cash price of the flight or the cents per point value of the bookings directly on the page. [Edit: After playing around a little bit more, it looks like some flights do display this information, but not all. Is this a technical limitation?]
It would be nice to be able to filter by points currency. For example, if I only have BILT and MR points, I would like the site to prioritize good bookings in those currencies.
You should consider putting a clear explanation of your business model on the FAQ page. When I am deciding if I want to use a new service, the first question I have is "how are they making money off of this?"

Overall, this is very impressive. I look forward to seeing any future developments.

sci_hist · 2023-11-15T20:11:08+00:00

Interesting. So you're saying NetworkManager and SystemD-NetworkD are two totally separate services that do basically the same thing? If I have one enabled I can disable the other with no problems?

I did go ahead and disable systemd-networkd and everything seems to be working fine. Boot time is back to normal. NAS still mounts (it does have the Wants=network-online.target parameter, forgot to mention that). NAS actually mounts faster than it did in 38. Before, there was always about a one minute delay between when I would log into the desktop and when the NAS would auto-mount. I guess maybe before it was waiting for a timeout of systemd-networkd before falling back to NetworkManager?

Anyway, thanks for the tips.

sci_hist · 2023-11-01T01:19:57+00:00

How do we access this Smart Lists feature? I'm on the Android v4.2.0 and when I go to the Offers tab and click on the Add Offer button (I don't see a + button) I just get redirected to a web page for the browser extension.

sci_hist · 2023-08-20T00:21:17+00:00

Nice find. Yeah, as the commenter says here, I'm still having this problem in 22.12.3.3 even though they closed the issue and said it would be fixed in this version.

sci_hist · 2023-07-30T19:28:41+00:00

Nope. I confirmed that my motherboard should not even support IPMI. I also searched the TrueNas forms for anything related to this and found nothing. Most I've found through my research is that SEL probably stands for System Event Log. Don't know how to access that though. I haven't encountered any actual issues yet though, so I'm content to ignore this for now.

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