Seb Parkitny parkitny

This is a braindump of excellent tools & services that are free or really cheap that you can use to bootstrap something on the side.

I only include services with a generous enough free-tier plan that you can probably use it for a long time before needing to ugrade, reducing the pressure to make money from the beginning.

Email Services

Regular Email Service

Zoho: https://www.zoho.com/mail/ - offers a generious free tier that allows you to connect a single domain name, and a pretty decent user interface. They provide a catchall facility so you can receive emails on many different aliases.

This was tested on a ThinkPad P70 laptop with an Intel integrated graphics and an NVIDIA GPU:

lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 191b (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204GLM [Quadro M3000M] (rev a1)

A reason to use the integrated graphics for display is if installing the NVIDIA drivers causes the display to stop working properly. In my case, Ubuntu would get stuck in a login loop after installing the NVIDIA drivers. This happened regardless if I installed the drivers from the "Additional Drivers" tab in "System Settings" or the ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa in the command-line.

	# coding=utf-8
	# Copyright 2023 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
	#
	# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	# You may obtain a copy of the License at
	#
	# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	#
	# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

	class MaskedConv2D(keras.layers.Layer):
	"""Convolutional layers with masks.

	Convolutional layers with simple implementation of masks type A and B for
	autoregressive models.

	Arguments:
	mask_type: one of `"A"` or `"B".`
	filters: Integer, the dimensionality of the output space
	(i.e. the number of output filters in the convolution).

	# all imports
	from IPython.display import Javascript
	from google.colab import output
	from base64 import b64decode
	from io import BytesIO
	!pip -q install pydub
	from pydub import AudioSegment

	RECORD = """
	const sleep = time => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, time))

	#! /bin/bash
	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: dns-sync
	# Required-Start:
	# Required-Stop:
	# Default-Start: S
	# Default-Stop:
	# Short-Description: Synchronizes /etc/resolv.conf in WLS with Windows DNS - Matthias Brooks
	### END INIT INFO

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Capture sound</title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	</head>
	<body>
	<div id="ask_donate">
	<button id="donate">Donate the noise</button>
	</div>


	/*
	##Device = Desktops
	##Screen = 1281px to higher resolution desktops
	*/

	@media (min-width: 1281px) {

	/* CSS */

	# install dependencies
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
	sudo apt-get install -y cmake
	sudo apt-get install -y libgtk2.0-dev
	sudo apt-get install -y pkg-config
	sudo apt-get install -y python-numpy python-dev
	sudo apt-get install -y libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
	sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libjasper-dev