So LLMs are simultaneously making new hardware unaffordable, while also making old hardware usable again.
replyThat too sounds like an actually good development all things considered. For the planet, anyway. And with the big caveat of that cloud tether, though just for scaffolding.
Old e-readers were already usable. Generating extruded story-like product on them when they're already perfectly capable of displaying the vast majority of human literature doesn't make them any more usable.
replyRather, the LLMs will make the OS on those old e-readers much more maintainable.
replyProduce rots in the fields because there was no way to get a profit from it
replyAlso making old hardware unaffordable too.
reply> That too sounds like an actually good development all things considered
replyIt would be good if we would use less resources.
But we are not.
It's just that some people don't get the newer resources.
Thanks for sharing, maybe it's time to buy some more old Kindles... I use bunch as smart paintings (with changing pictures generated locally with stable diffusion), and of course Home Assistant dashboard. They are awesome little machines.
replyLook at CrowPanel, you can get nice e-ink devices made for development, at a reasonable price. I have a small 2.13in esp32 board, I spent some time yesterday making it into a pocket flashcard device for my German courses. The energy consumption is minimal, small form factor, easy to flash via esptool or arduino utils
replyThanks for the tip, I've seen those small e-ink display on sale in Aliexpress, but wasn't sure about their quality. Maybe I'll get one for my next project, I can see many use cases.
replyI didn’t notice any quality issue. And the crowpanel docs and demo repos make it simple to quickly get results. Though I had troubles getting macOS to establish a serial connection, no problem under Linux and windows
replyThis is interesting. Maybe add a couple examples of generated stories.
replyPlease. There are so many human stories out there—read those.
replyunlesss it's for children, just read books.
replyand if it is for your child, read them books.
Please don't raise your kids on AI slop. They'll grow up without knowing anything else.
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It's a shame this story isn't better known. I was lucky enough to read it in grade school, just before the first usable 8-bit computers came out.
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