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Continue reading →: ai: Roo Code, Claude Code and Open WebUI Missing Manual 2025-07
Wow, what a powerful open source project, this is in the class of seemingly infinite AI Coders, but the use of “modes” (what the current hype calls Agents ), but it’s super great, although a little confusing to use, so here are some notes: Strange asdf and roo code interaction…
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Continue reading →: ai: Open WebUI -1 problems, more ram, $200 plans and ComfyUI URLsOK, some miscellaneous but valuable comments in the AI journey Open WebUI model parameters redux The context length and other parameters of Open WebUI are really low, like 2K context windows. This doesn’t make any sense in the era of AI coding. Some defaults help a bit, which we’ve covered…
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Continue reading →: sw: Passport photo workflow reduxEvery six months or so, I have to get some photos or visa photos, and it is so complicated (and who wants to pay $30 per photo). So here is the workflow that works at home:
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Continue reading →: cell: At&T Hotspot strangeness and the magic of APN profiles and “dun”Long story short hotspotting is great and we had great luck on light speed (T-mobile) on US mobile with Nexus 6 phones but sigh not this time: Net, net, the Android APN defaults are wrong from US Mobile at least for the Xiaomi phone. The APN profile needs to explicitly…
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Continue reading →: edc: Setting Time on Casio Promaster C660I know I’ve posted about this before, but with the very cool looking CITIZEN Promaster C660 ECODRIVE, I can never remember how to operate all the little buttons to change the time, but there’s a manual online: To make the analog hands change time zones, this is a little tricky:…
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Continue reading →: ai: Local Builds and how much VRAMPeter Kukol asked. Great question from months back. How do you run big models like DeepSeek AI or Meta Llama4 on consumer hardware? Should you go big on CPU DRAM or not? Long answer but… Yes, that’s what most people are doing:g buying a big CPU and lots of RAM…
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Continue reading →: ai: Best Local Image Models July 2025 and Comfy Missing Manual AddendumWell, I’ve been keeping track of the latest models in Ollama. This is pretty easy because they have the latest list and we just rotate off old models, trying to keep the total models on the machine to 600GB (wow, that’s a lot!). It is convenient to have the latest…
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Continue reading →: vid: Final Cut Pro fix for glitchy OBS recording with AIFFOK, we are the remote site and needed some audio for a slide show. I then realized that I had an OBS Studio recording so why not just use that. I took the MP4 and put it into Final Cu Pro and the audio started glitching. It was strange because…
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Continue reading →: inet: Saving 20% with a Xfinity ChatThis is my usual annual reminder that you have to check your Xfinity plan, which changes all the time. This year, in 2025, as an example, we were on the 800Mbps/40Mbps plan with $30 for unlimited data at $78. But a quick look shows that the plan is going to…
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Continue reading →: life: Wow Alex is Junior 505 ChampionPeople never tell me anything, but trolling through Alex Tong’s site and he mentions, “He’s the 2019 North American Junior 505 champion”. I’m like, what? No one tells me anything, but being 10 of 40 boats where 5 of the top best boats in the world are sailing is incredible.…
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