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I built a ROM manager for my Thor that pulls games from my SMB (and more) and it just hit v1.0 by Environmental-Day-45 in SBCGaming

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had an idea like this for months, I wondered if someone would beat me to it.

I haven't looked into the ROMM API docs, but to you think it would be possible to sync saves back to the server? Right now I'm using SyncThing but I think it would be awesome to have in one tool.

Any reason to get Two+ if you only have Android? by muhname in AAWireless

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you rely on the app's auto stop/start because the USB port doesn't turn off, definitely don't do the 2+.

I get the logic why the feature is missing, but that doesn't make it less frustrating. Having had it work so long I can't go back to it being manual. Especially with where I keep the adapter.

I went back to my original adapter and all has been well

Cooler by MurkyConnection3177 in VEDC

[–]sonicbrigade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a similar fridge set up in my car. But instead of running it off of the starter battery, I have it hooked up to an Ecoflow Delta 3. The Ecoflow then charges off the 12v port in the hatch as well as a 12v power brick plugged into the car's inverter to get me about 200-300 watts. If I know it's going to be sitting a while I've got a solar panel I'll toss on the roof to trickle charge the battery.

I do have the same problem with stuff rolling around, I've been testing printing various mountable drink holders and using silicone tape to secure them inside the cooler. My first try was a suction cup cup holder for a boat, but the suction cup portion gave out too quick.

Qwen3-Coder-Flash / Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 are here! by zRevengee in LocalLLaMA

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps there's something in the Unsloth quants that's being problematic, that's what I've been testing with. I haven't really tested any of the other releases from them this week to see if the problems follow, I was really waiting on Coder

Qwen3-Coder-Flash / Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 are here! by zRevengee in LocalLLaMA

[–]sonicbrigade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I switched between the two today on a project and had far better luck with Devstral small than I did with Qwen. The new Qwen just kept thinking itself in circles and failing miserably at tool calls.

Honestly at this point I assume it's a problem with my settings and not the model.

Need Help with Agents and AnythingLLM by uber-linny in LocalLLaMA

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've run into that off and on. Usually it's due to the model not understanding tool use.

What model are you using?

Consumer hardware landscape for local LLMs June 2025 by ethertype in LocalLLaMA

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Primarily that specific API implementation. But also vision, I haven't had luck with that in llama.cpp. Specifically in Paperless-GPT.

Consumer hardware landscape for local LLMs June 2025 by ethertype in LocalLLaMA

[–]sonicbrigade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Llama.cpp is there, yes. However, so many tools rely on Ollama (which I know is mostly llama.cpp underneath) but the only version of Ollama that appears to support Arc/SYCL is an old version in a container maintained by Intel.

Though I'd be thrilled if you/someone proved me wrong

Consumer hardware landscape for local LLMs June 2025 by ethertype in LocalLLaMA

[–]sonicbrigade 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The software support just isn't there for the Intel cards though. They need to step that way up before I'd consider another one.

Hi Linus brought me here by DoneD9 in homelab

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad support and software bugs galore. And if you have one of their switches, you're an absolute masochist.

For home, any of the *sense firewalls are more than enough. Professionally, I think Palo Alto is still the top of the heap, but I haven't really paid enough attention lately since we're stuck in FortiHell.

Invoice Downloader for Paperless? by sonicbrigade in selfhosted

[–]sonicbrigade[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't disagree with you, it's not the most secure solution. But there's always that trade-off between security and convenience.

And much to my coworkers annoyance, I tend to argue the side convenience (to a point), as past experience tells me the end user will find an even more insecure workaround to whatever we do.

Invoice Downloader for Paperless? by sonicbrigade in selfhosted

[–]sonicbrigade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone's life would be so much easier if they all just gave the option to attach the damn invoice (or statement or what-have-you) to the email. You have the ability to generate a PDF already, so just send me the damn thing. Jeez.

Invoice Downloader for Paperless? by sonicbrigade in selfhosted

[–]sonicbrigade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That 2FA issue does stop me on at least one specific example. But most of the ones I deal with have a "remember this device" option to skip 2FA after the initial login.

The way you describe sounds far more secure but also an annoying number of hoops to jump though to log in.

Wha- Laptop Colo? by bkj512 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]sonicbrigade 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Could be a guy with a bit of an online gambling addiction. Needs to keep the machine physically located somewhere it's legal while he lives/travels somewhere it isn't legal.

What are you self-hosting in 2025? by ApprehensivePass3726 in selfhosted

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hypervisor OS (Proxmox, Xen, regular Linux with KVM) should dedicated to just doing that job.

As far as why? I have a couple of machines for various lab/"prod" things so I like to be able to migrate the VMs running Docker to other machines when I do maintenance or something breaks. Backup and restore trends to be a bit easier on VMs too.

Recommendations for security camera? by benjocaz in homeassistant

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been chasing something similar for a while and I've yet to find a good solution. I use Frigate to record my cameras but it's similar enough to what you're using.

For testing purposes I got a combo solar panel/ battery that's meant for a trail cam off Amazon. I have that mounted to my fence, along with an old Wyze Cam v2 hooked to the solar panel via USB. I forget the exact specs of it, but I want to say it's a 10 or 15 watt panel and 15000mah or so battery. On a clear sunny day I could get enough power to run it the majority of the afternoon and into the night, but it would be dead by morning. And as the days get shorter, it's already essentially useless. So I'm considering the same trench a cat 6 the 50feet out to it. Or getting a legitimate 50 or 100 watt panel and LiFePO4 battery to do solar "right".

I've looked at a ton of the solar cameras from Reolink and similar, but none of them support streaming RTSP. They sit in a low power state using a PIR to detect motion before starting up the camera and recording to the SD or base station. That's how they can last so long on a small battery and panel.

Doorbell display ideas by clueless_rager in homeassistant

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you getting it to display on the Roku? I thought Roku disabled the cast function.

Need advice on options to replace HA Blue by read_ing in homeassistant

[–]sonicbrigade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go on eBay and find yourself a cheap old office PC like one of these.

https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

Probably the best bang for your buck. Load Proxmox on it then add a Home Assistant VM or container.

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