Slowpreneur & Technical Generalist
Interacting with AI requires you to consider what role it should play, because the end goal is HUMAN betterment. This can also be viewed as, does the human or the AI decide when it s a good answer? Anyway, here are the four layers of AI interaction that we use with every interaction (and may be [ ] The post Levels of AI Interaction first appeared on Mario Lurig .
I fell for TRMNL on June 2, 2025. It felt fun to transform data with some easy coding and see it appear on a screen beautifully. The dopamine loop was short and the possibilities started flooding my brain. However, before I go too far, let s get two somethings out of the way first. My Biases [ ] The post TRMNL is an E-Ink Screen for Improving Your Habits first appeared on Mario Lurig .
I use Docker Desktop on Windows to run local AI, such as Ollama, Open-WebUI, Portainer, and even SwarmUi and Comfy-UI. Because of that, I m regularly growing and shrinking the number of AI models on my drive and that s a lot of GB of storage! Recently I noticed less than 15% storage remaining on my SSD [ ] The post Recovering Hard Drive Space from Ubuntu in Windows WSL2 first appeared on Mario…
I wanted to learn more about running Open WebUI locally through Docker while also testing out the new Llama 3.2 Vision models (11B and 90B), but my system with a 6GB VRAM video card wasn t going to be able to run the inference model locally, so I needed a free or inexpensive option; enter together.ai. [ ] The post Connecting Local Open WebUI to Together.ai Models first appeared on Mario Lurig .
I need you to listen the first time. Be nice to your brother! If you can t follow directions, we can t go. Can you hear my voice? Any of those phrases sound familiar? Knowing that children respond to games as a way to reinforce behaviors, I came up with an idea recently that [ ] The post A Simple Test: Reinforcing Listening and Kindness with a Child first appeared on Mario Lurig .
Disney s Lorcana by Ravensburger is a popular, though hard to find, Trading Card Game (TCG) that launched in September of 2023. I couldn t find any brand or style guide found the official brand guide, but I couldn t find the hex colors for the different card colors, so I ll start with those and expand this post [ ] The post Lorcana Unofficial Brand Style Guide first appeared on Mario Lurig .
Piwigo is open-source software for sharing image galleries easily. Installing it on Dreamhost (I m using a VPS but any type of hosting works) was super easy, but by default any emails sent would have Mail System Delivery Failure due to email security problems. Luckily, the solution was to create an email account in Dreamhost and [ ] The post Piwigo: Configure Custom SMTP on Dreamhost first…
Castopod is podcast hosting software that allows you to easily serve your podcast(s) from your own server rather than through a secondary service like anchor.fm, blubrry, and libsyn. While I personally use anchor.fm for some podcasts which I wanted to easily monetize, for a new podcast, Story Suggest, I had no desire for it to [ ] The post Installing Castopod on Shared Hosting first appeared on…
While installing Discourse on a free tier instance in a Google Cloud Compute Instance, I was following this discourse install tutorial with only minor adjustments: Used Ubuntu 20.04 LTS minimal Standard Disk (default is Balanced) e2.micro instance However, when I was waiting for Step 9 to complete (after running ./discourse-setup) and everything being built, it [ ] The post Fixing Yarn…
Fatal Error: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available. I lost so many hours to that little error. Here was the problem: I followed the steps in this lovely PyCharm tutorial which walks you through creating your ssh key, saving it to a profile, and applying it to your GitHub account. This was successful in getting [ ] The post Solving “No Supported Authentication Methods” for…