Check if you need a flag when starting it to bind 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1

Depending on the use and the size of your graphics card you might be better of trying Gemma 4 12B too.
On my Nvidia 5060 Ti 16GB I can use either Gemma 4 A4B IQ3_M (larger model but highly compressed) or Gemma 4 12B Q8_0 (smaller model but much less compression) and after a night of testing with the Gemma 4 12B Q8_0 I’d say it’s a better helper when it comes to coding but a worse gm for my dnd inspired fantasy world roleplaying adventure.

I imagine your “setup a selfhosted environment” is closer to the first.

Easy setup would be to use koboldcpp + SillyTavern + Gemma 4 26B A4B GGUF of the largest quant your graphics card can fit together with your context.
Remember to setup SillyTavern to allow network connections and create a user and password, default installation is localhost only.
Set the temperature to 0.3 if using IQ3_M, higher quants allow higher temperature, and make sure all the formatting templates inside Advanced Formatting are set to Gemma 4.

Then use either Gemma 4 itself or the free google.com AI to create some “W++ Denze with Horizontal Lines summaries for Gemma 4” of the relevant documentation of the latest version of the home server apps your friends are gonna install.
You should ensure the resulting lorebook entries are no more than 1k tokens each to leave some context for your friends chats, add it to a character card in SillyTavern and set some keywords to allow them to load dynamically and not stay in context memory all the time.

Regarding the character card you can ask Gemma 4 to write that for you too, I find “Write a character card in W++ Denze with Horizontal Lines style for Gemma 4 with this name, personality, attitude and skillset” works well for that.
Then ask it to write a “First message prompt that starts with X, continues with Y and ends with Z for that character card” and you get a first draft to rewrite and paste into the “First Message” of the character card. The first message works as a template that Gemma 4 will imitate when you chat with it. Then simply try the chatbot out before letting others use it.

I find my own Gemma 4 26B A4B IQ3_M works well for practicing hiragana and katakana, discussing programming or troubleshoot existing code or writing a small function but it can’t be expected to write a correct DatabaseService.cs from scratch and stuff like that.

Oh and forget about finding good cards and lorebooks for SillyTavern use online, most users use it for NSFW Roleplaying chats. It is a very easy UI to use to create harnesses for your local LLM though.

You should add this to your OP, it will definitely give you more test pilots. :)

Searching the www and checking the universal android debloaters .json list.
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/blob/main/resources/assets/uad_lists.json

Yes and no, your average end user trust the Play Store and the promised security which is why an app once it’s inside can get millions of downloads.

Compare this to trying to get your average user to
a) trust your selfhosted app and
b) succeed in installing it.

Also, I can’t find a single malware that has used f-droid as it’s primary vector.

and like the idea that this system is more secure.

*The false claim
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-gb/blog/labs/malicious-google-play-apps-bypassed-android-security

You’ve removed Samsung apps that include stuff to optimize touch and audio among others. Unless you feel that touch/display/audio is bad/wrong then I imagine you can ignore the log spam.

These two are the probable apps to reactivate to remove the Press Timeout Func spam:
com.samsung.android.game.gos (Game Optimizing Service) and com.samsung.android.lool (Device Care)

The cs35l43 is an Audio Amplifier (https://www.cirrus.com/products/cs35l45) so I imagine you have some “Samsung Sound” app or similar that you removed.

The SDE_0 mipi_clk_timing things point towards missing some display frequency info, so if you feel as if the display update rate acts weirdly then that could be the reason. No idea what samsung app you need to get it working agian.

I can agree that an old and buggy version of a game is no fun. But that is as true of Windows versions as Linux versions.

You seem to have much worse luck when starting linux native games than I though. I have no problem with Factorio, Oxygen Not Included or Kingdoms and Castles which I think are the only linux native games I got installed at the moment.
The thing I find much more frequently is that a game released on GOG doesn’t receive the patches and dlc that the developer release on Steam. I always have to verify that a developer actually support their GOG release as well as Steam before buying.

Honestly the thing I feel that kids have in their corner that is really great is a lack of experience.
The kind of awe that I felt when I started up Starcraft or Diablo for the first time just isn’t there now, I have too many reference points from earlier games to get that “new and awesome”-feeling from most games anymore.

New chinese DRAM makers like CXMT are already being used to create DDR5 RAM. They will keep growing production until the prices fall.
I think we’ll see falling prices sometime late next year to be honest.

I know both ASRock and MSI released bios updates for AM4 boards, ASUS didn’t. All three released updates for AM5 with the new 2023 CA certs.

Nah, but there should be a BIOS/UEFI firmware update available and those are always nice to keep up with.
If Secure Boot is the security guard at the entrance then updating the BIOS/UEFI gives him the latest rulebook and will make the process simpler if you decide you want Secure Boot in the future.
The update can also have other fixes that you want.

your source aint a source. Source plz?

There are ton of great selfhosted tools for tts and similar interfaces.
I used https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox to make my own voice read my epubs, albeit with an american accent which I definitely don’t have in real life. It was close enough to put the voice in the uncanny valley according to my wife.

I think most end users will go for a cloud app or website for their needs though, playing around with self-hosting isn’t for everyone.

While it is a bit of work to rename the files that would still be my recommendation. I find jellyfin to be a great match for my anime that way.

While 0% Gin has been way too sweet when tasting it as is it works remarkably well with tonic to make a GT non-alcoholic.

lol, depending on which side of the pond we’re talking about that statement would fit my whole country.

I don’t see any chance of making humans stop using drugs.
I mean it’s not like we’re alone in chasing that high either, you can find dolphins chewing on pufferfish, reindeers enjoying fly agaric toadstools, elks getting high on fermented apples, wallabies eating opium poppies and so on.

I think teaching responsible use and having proper help available for those that need it is the only real way to handle alcohol and drugs in society.

… according to a lawyer in Texas.