My Linux distro already comes with a PDF merger. Let’s get some PDF files to merge.
$ for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo $i >$i.txt; pandoc -o $i.pdf $i.txt; done
Now I’ve got five PDF files to merge.
$ pdfunite *.pdf merged.pdf
And done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)
For time-synchronized lyrics.
It looks like my Scandroid audio files from Bandcamp have embedded non-synchronized lyrics.
$ metaflac --list *08*.flac
[snip]
comment[12]: UNSYNCEDLYRICS=Beware the shadows of the drones
Destruction wrapped in pretty silicone
They’ve taken everyone I’ve known
And now I walk these empty streets alone
In my memory the past is fading
The future has been redesigned
It’s hard to focus on it when I’m running out of time
Surrounded by streetlights at midnight
My destination is unknown
I walk these empty streets alone
Digital dreams thrive in the moonlight
I’m only flesh, circuit and bone
I walk these empty streets alone
Beware the faces of the clones
Deception sent from Neo-Tokyo
They’ve erased everyone I’ve known
And still I walk these empty streets alone
I don’t know how widespread that is.
Note that lyrics are themselves copyrighted works, regarding simply sharing them. That is, if you want to create, say, “Lyricsnet, the new Fediverse service” or something like that, you may attract attention from IP owners.
You can see every hop an IP packet takes at IP level with traceroute or mtr.
Do you get many hallucinations?
Magewell Pro Capture card
I’ve been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.
All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.
But I’ve seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I’ve had sitting around, and that’s just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.
If you’re willing to wait until 2028 when memory prices are expected to drop, and if you’re willing to get new hardware if memory prices drop, I’d give real consideration to waiting until then. There’ll also probably be better hardware and better models then.
If you can constrain yourself to MoE-based LLMs, they’ll generally deal better from a performance standpoint with not entirely fitting in VRAM better than non-MoE LLMs, as experts may not get loaded into VRAM at all.
Just as a warning, this post is liable to be deleted due to Rule 3. I had an earlier hardware post that I commented on deleted for this reason earlier today.
Why am I not surprised to hear APC is crap compared to Eaton?
Keep in mind that this isn’t my personal experience talking here. I also don’t know if the user in question is correct, or if it might be specific to some portion of the respective brands — both make a wide range of UPSes, from inexpensive to pretty pricey. But I did remember reading that, and it did seem potentially germane to OPs problem, so…shrug
Someone with a multitester or oscilloscope or something and some of those units could probably examine further, see what the actual behavior is for a given model.
My UPS (APC)
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/117oa9i/why_is_eaton_ups_so_much_more_expensive_than_apc/
Why is Eaton UPS so much more expensive than APC and Cyberpower?
In what ways is Eaton so much better that it can demand nearly 2x the price?
UK person here, so not sure how it differs country to country, but every APC UPS we’ve had has excelled in utterly trashing the batteries. Where I have to change batteries in an APC every 18-24 months, an Eaton will go five or six years without killing them.
There’s some further discussion talking about how the APC units hold the charge voltage at a high level, and the Eaton ones, once the batteries reach target voltage, bring it back down and only bring the charging voltage up occasionally for brief periods to maintain the charge in the battery.
I was originally going to use for my important documents
Not quite what you’re asking, but if your concern is avoiding data loss, if you don’t already, I’d set up a backup before I started setting up a RAID or similar setup.
These guys appear to have a global visualization of the Meshtastic network nodes that they can see.
Rule #2.
Rule #3.
Rule #7.
Rule #8.
Like, he literally managed to violate half of the community rules in one post.