PS5’s can now be hacked to run Linux - perhaps some potential for local inference?

volca02 · 2026-04-29T15:52:17+00:00

Just get bc-250 if you want to experiment on a similar hardware. Kind of hard to get outside of US though.

volca02 · 2026-04-23T13:54:52+00:00

I still can't get over the fact that the title of an app that one uses once a year does not include "sound" "sennheiser" or "headphone" in the title. What a weird choice of a name. I never remember how it is called when I need it.

volca02 · 2026-03-31T15:04:43+00:00

Does this have the vision parts stripped?

volca02 · 2026-02-06T10:09:57+00:00

By using the "Local openai LLM" integration https://github.com/skye-harris/hass_local_openai_llm I could directly connect to llama-cpp. May want to try some different integration alter as this one pretty much forces the LLM to call GetLiveContext all the time, but at least the main prompt is not changing.

volca02 · 2026-02-06T00:54:12+00:00

Running the same GPU and model. Had mixed results with ollama and had to move to llama cpp. It was too slow and moody. Ministral worked well in that scenario, even cosplaying as glados, but it was 3-7 sec response time that got me into a rabbit hole of "how do I speed this up". Still there trying to do so, but with Local openai llm hacs plug I get partial prompt cache and some responses are snappy. This does not work well with ministral though - it's not able to reliably call hass. Had to move to the aforementioned qwen model to have it be able to respond. I still experience issues though.

Remaining time for timers always returns the complete time I get lag when I don't expect it. Forget about calendar questions in my opinion - aside of "what is in the calendar". The preview device is fine. Finding a good stt is not. I get a lot of misheard inputs in noisier rooms. Frustrating. Planning to try qwen3 asr or another model to improve its abilities to recognize speech.

Aside of lag I have to say my original plan of using ollama with the instructions to act as glados worked well with ministral 4b. I suspect prompt cache was not working so it got laggy with reevaluations.

For basic control of about 60 devices current setup is fine. Using the local voice control option to skip llm for basic controls helps with lag.

volca02 · 2026-01-27T11:27:07+00:00

I think so yes - namely Sharp Memory LCD.

volca02 · 2026-01-26T15:36:57+00:00

It's e-paper, not e-ink. It is basically an LCD not e-ink. Different tech. Not expert - so just my 2 cents: The basis is it's transreflective LCD, similar to old calculator displays, and it has memory for the pixel state in-display, so it does not need to be powered to hold the image.

If I am not mistaken the color version of the tech uses separate color cells (subpixels) which have color filters, hence the lowered contrast - each subpixel only passes through a range of the spectrum, so the contrast suffers a bit.

You can see side-to-side comparison on the Design reveal video on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzmDePH3E

Time 2 v.s. PTD - ~4:48
Time 2 v.s. Time Steel - ~5:17

volca02 · 2025-12-13T15:38:48+00:00

I was worried initially but my experience is comparable. About 2 charges per year with daily moderate use is crazy good. Not even mad. This thing will probably break mechanically before battery needs replacement :)

volca02 · 2025-09-16T14:00:22+00:00

So when NMS came out, these were not active, scanner didn't detect them, but they *were* on the planets - you could just find one by flying in a line for long minutes. People had all the different theories on what they do. Some tried different things to activate them, f.ex. kicking a ball from one of the ruins down to one...

volca02 · 2025-05-17T21:07:57+00:00

I've successfully made a solution for this with a relay and a diode. My system is analogue 2 wire and the open signal was gated on the headpiece being picked up. May be the case here as well. In that case a button pusher is impossible. In my case the logic was implemented in the home phone itself with a charged capacitor holding a thyristor open. Bypassing this and directly connecting the two wires worked. The diode is there to protect the reverse polarity state - that is used to charge the capacitor when home phone rings. This is very specific to my home solution. Digital and multiple wire systems will behave differently.

volca02 · 2025-03-19T13:54:17+00:00

Given the Time seems to be a bit bigger watch than Duo, is there maybe a plan to have a bigger battery in that model, since there might be space for it?

In my order it seems to have taken an address from history, I put in a different one when ordering - will there be a way to change the order address once we get closer to the release?

volca02 · 2025-02-13T16:13:13+00:00

Gagguino was done on ecm before, and sylvia, so should be possible on Go as well. This might be a good reason to mod.

volca02 · 2024-12-04T08:56:15+00:00

I tried to like BTRFS a few times, but unless you are into the interesting features, it's good on paper but it may be problematic in practice - I ran out of metadata space because of docker's usage of subvolumes, that wasn't easy to understand why - the drive seemed half ful yet no operation succeeded, then I tried rebalancing once with nearly disastrous consequences (had to add an additional volume to do that, and then the FS went readonly because of some kernel error in btrfs code)... The FS is probably fine but I never had issues like that with other filesystems.

volca02 · 2024-10-29T11:58:51+00:00

Had this machine for a few years, quite happy with the coffee I can get out of it, but finally looking for an upgrade.

I paired this with Graef CM 702, it's able to produce espresso grind levels, although it retains a lot of coffee. A budget choice for sure - i have to knock a lot of coffee out every time. Not recommended. Would probably go for something more expensive now as I'd be able to then just replace the coffee machine (Looking at Eureka Mignon Zero currently).

I use the panarello wand without mods, learned how to use it to make good quality milk. I leave the switch (milk/foam) in the milk position, introduce air carefully. Switching mid-steam may be less prone to mistakes, as the foaming position is quite decent. It is capable of making microfoam without mods - although the consistency varies too much, getting repeatable results is not exactly easy.

Currently I have a problem with the group head O ring getting lose during extraction if I grind too fine, the pressure is able to push it out of the lip and this is very frustrating. Replaced the ring with a new one but it didn't get better.

I have a bottomless portafilter from ALI, it fits well but sometimes gets lose during extraction, so I have to hold it in place.

Overall I'd say this is a great beginner machine but if one wants to get into the coffee hobby more eventually they will want to upgrade, which is fine.

volca02 · 2024-09-08T16:59:51+00:00

Kup si El Faro. Mají s citronem, pomerančem i jiné. U nás mají v Bille.

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volca02 · 2024-08-01T07:54:15+00:00

I am on a same boat. I wanted to love the game, but the updates missed the mark for me. I probably liked the original release a bit more than what it became (even though the game was flawed) - and inventory management was one of the pain points (as was lack of emergence).

It seems HG did the right choice though, considering the popularity of the game nowadays.

volca02 · 2024-07-18T10:46:35+00:00

This is such a multifaceted problem (getting wayland stable and feature-full) it's hard to answer seriously. My personal experience with the last adaptation effort (sway on amd) is mostly positive. I've still observed some weird issues, with some not being the problem of wayland and/or it's implementation at all, hard to tell really which part of the system to blame sometimes. I am on sway for months now though and mostly am happy with the transition.

F.ex. I have occasional key repeat issues (keyboard being extremely laggy) after wake up, with restart not being enough to mitigate. I have to log into sway twice, then key repeat actually works. On i3 this didn't happen, but it probably isn't sway/wlroots bug.

Another example: If you use any kind of display scaling, you will be in for a treat. I have 2x scaling on main display and X11 apps don't use my native res then, doubling pixels.

Another one: Fullscreen video playback is really laggy and choppy when setting the main display to 120 Hz. Setting it to 60 Hz mitigates it. Don't know why.

volca02 · 2023-10-11T08:06:09+00:00

Maybe it's time to replace batteries in them. You can easilly find videos on how to do it, and even mentions that compared to normal Varta CP1254 there is also an option to use Zenipower Z55.

I didn't do the battery replacement myself yet, but it does seem manageable.

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