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▲ donmb 6 hours ago

I recently reactivated a 10 years old Kindle as an AI-Story-Generator (https://github.com/donmb1/ai-story-generator). Old hardware is valueable and with AI you can do great things with it.

▲hasbot an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is interesting. Maybe add a couple examples of generated stories.

▲rwyinuse 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

▲dgellow 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Look 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

▲rwyinuse 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks 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.

▲dgellow 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I 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

▲hypfer 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So LLMs are simultaneously making new hardware unaffordable, while also making old hardware usable again.

That 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.

▲WindyMiller 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

▲dawnerd 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also making old hardware unaffordable too.

▲OtomotO 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> That too sounds like an actually good development all things considered

It 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.

▲simonklitj 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Please. There are so many human stories out there—read those.

▲PunchyHamster 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

unlesss it's for children, just read books.

and if it is for your child, read them books.

▲mitxela 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please don't raise your kids on AI slop. They'll grow up without knowing anything else.

▲RunSet 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://archive.org/details/Infinity_v01n04_1956-08/page/n25...