Not one of my pronouns. Never been in a tank. I don’t even own a tank top. It sounds like a sophomoric pejorative neologism. Why would I adopt such a label? No.

The offline AI that I tried a few months ago probably needed training on the noise environment to get decent results. I forget which ones I tried but likely the ones with extensions already in Oobabooga Textgen. I was messing with text to speech mostly, but some of the ones that do TTS also have packages and examples for STT. Nothing I tried for offline generation was good enough to speak as an AI prompt without manual corrections.

Any word on the next generation of matrix math acceleration hardware? Is anything currently getting integrated into the kernel? Where are the gource branches looking interesting for hardware pulls and merges?

Yeah, but neither makes sense any more. I use yymmdd in my default file naming for natural sorting hierarchy. I just don’t think in that context. I guess that makes this post an interesting reflection from a couple of extra angles.

Our US 3 digit area codes for phone number regions are likely not really paralleled elsewhere in the world either. It’s interesting all the little cultural subtleties that shape the mind.

Like at 7:04 you might think of July 4th. All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock. I’m asking if your pattern recognition software is picking up on such a meaningless correlation and giving it some pleasant side effect or if that is not a very common mental connection.

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I mean, can’t we just stop calling the eGgHeAdS wizards already?!? Like what maga fool wrote this ultra Right script that calls the Pointy hat Devils Wizards?!

I never got the chance to play DND. Sounds fun though.

I really should. How closely do they follow the show? I like knowing what to expect in general. I lack the human-byte capacity to read into something completely blind and stick with it. With a basic roadmap I enjoy the journey.

I don’t know how long the show went on, but when they did the whole wormhole thing I quit watching. It just wasn’t the same show IMO. Is that a book thing or was that just the show? I mean, I read Dune all the way through the wormy All-Stars game of the last two books by Brian. So I’m not too much of a soft-sci snob, but I’d rather know.

The Expanse in the first couple of seasons did a decent job of showing that the characters were flawed and not at the center of the world while struggling against a system that is a more realistic portrayal of what monsters exceptionalism really creates.

This aspect of Star Trek the next generation did a pretty good job of contextualizing the fact that the events on the Enterprise were the stories of one of many such vessels.

I’m so sick of exceptionalism. Every damn thing seems to center around some shitty thinly veiled oligarch, their kids as some hero, or unhappenable origins and an impossible hero. Everything is geared towards cultural acceptance of some authoritarian neo feudal dystopian future.

Stories can be interesting in other spaces. We all exist within those real spaces. We can fantasize about better places and times within similar realities as our own. I view all this exceptionalism like collective narcissism. I can’t tell if it is an universal writing bias or a publishing bias, but I don’t like it.

Not enough cow bell

I don’t think so. I think it is more simple. People buy the laptop because they don’t want to hassle with all the nonsense surrounding all the peripherals. There is no anonymous neutral way to shop any more. If you need to research and buy a bunch of stuff, the predatory nonsense is awful. You can’t search to find honest info as search results are manipulative garbage and nondeterministic. Asking online is just as sketchy, and places like Amazon are strait up privateering (legal piracy) with a categorical system that is an outright price fixing scam. You are far less likely to get scammed by the US neo feudal criminal oligarchy if you simply make a single purchase. And that is exactly what they want as it will allow further consolidation and control in the long term as the system collapses further.

It is a result of all the proprietary bullshit and scams. Like all the HDMI stuff is a closed conglomerate scam of incompatible nonsense. Displays are just as terrible on the high end. It is a ton of research and filtering through the absolute shit ton of marketing departments that are worse than worthless for anything useful, factual, or technical. Most of the time the front page of a commercial hardware vendor might as well be colored drawings by kindergartners on a website for their school. That would have more relevant information.

I think it is likely that most people that buy a laptop like these, see the shit show and the scam market and say fuck that, just give me a single product that mostly works. It is ultimately the result of the failure of net neutrality, the US corporate ownership of all the relevant hardware companies which makes where you are located irrelevant, and failing capitalism. Like deterministic pricing of goods without rigged scales in a market is a social issue that was a problem fit for 2k years ago. That kind of regression with nondeterministic pricing and information access is beyond criminal and a failure of fundamental human rights.

Having all that heat in a laptop sucks bad. Maybe if a person is super into gaming and in a dorm or something they might use one for gaming. The really capable laptop GPUs like a 16GB all but negate the benefits of a laptop. The battery life is terrible, the noise is annoying, and the heat is everywhere, like blowing around the keys onto your hand. Plus you have an even more obscure hardware chain with modern laptops having all kinds of closed source and poorly supported nonsense that sucks.

Your thermals are tied between the CPU and GPU in a laptop. If either is over loaded thermally both will throttle. There are also a lot more thermal interrupt states in a laptop GPU. If anyone tries to hack around with these to push them past their inbuilt safety margins while following guides that are intended for the desktop GPU version of the hardware it can easily lead to failure.

The only real reason to get a gaming laptop is if you travel a lot, if you’re extremely space restricted like sharing a bedroom with someone, or if you’re disabled and need the ergonomics for a specific reason.

I don’t see how any aspect mentioned is regional in nature.

Why aren’t you printing with PETG and a textured sheet for this? You would get the same surface finish quality as that original bezel.

What are you aligning with orientation?

Blueberries, 3% salt brine, microscopic Mason jar deathmatch for a month with burping. It yielded ~600mL of savory, slightly fruity-ish juice.

5lb chuck roast, dry- onion, garlic, salt, pepper, - twice–before and after rubbing in a course Dijon mustard. Then 4 hours @165F on a pellet grill with temp control via a stepper motor auger; mostly just for the bark-ish hardwood flavor. Then the roast was placed in a dutch oven with some old chicken stock, and a cheap beer with some onion, garlic, and a couple baking potatoes as filler to ensure the whole thing was covered. I cooked this for 6 hours at whatever temp my oven calls 250F. That yielded ~1000mL of juice… and some excellent shredded beef BBQ.

I mixed both of those juices and simmered them down to ~600mL total, filtered, and bottled it. The final product is like a smokey Worcestershire sauce with a hint of fruity flavor that is quite weak, maybe on par with the amount of fruity one might taste in a Hefeweizen beer but a more complex savory flavor than Worcestershire sauce.

Overall, I’m just at the initial fermentation experimental phase where I am not concerned with reproducibility, yield, or cost, and am just using everything free, cheap, or about to get thrown out as fodder for low effort experiments.

Disability makes me physically limited but time rich. So this is an abstract exploration of my available resources.

“Brands”

Monsanto doesn’t even advertise but I bet 90% of what I eat is their brand

…made my first fermented sauce as an effective replacement for soy/fish sauce last week… and my first fermented lemon/garlic/ginger spice yesterday. At the grocery store I play a childish game with myself; in the isles, the floor is lava… fuck brands. I’ll make it all, and make it better, by myself. - an American millennial

If it is anything like Linux, those drivers are likely unsigned by the packager and they are a vulnerability for secure boot and your UEFI bootloader.

Like if someone did the same type of attack as the XZ compression utility in Linux recently; where a benign looking file is modified and another is equally altered within the package so that the total file size does not change. That kind of attack is not possible with a signed kernel module/driver.

That is the only thing I can think of that would tie all of these elements together. They could all be accessing something in kernel space using an unsigned driver.

Don’t stress about time. All of that is in your head, I promise. Like, I got hit by a car riding a bicycle to work 10 years ago and disabled in a weird way where my only limitation is holding posture. I’m in near social isolation but home life is almost normal-ish. I know I have nothing to offer anyone so I don’t bother trying. You can function like this. If you were in prison or disabled, you would be forced to make the best of the situation. It is not the end of the world; not easy, but not the end of the world.

I used to say, never ask for what you are unwilling to give in a relationship, and never expect more than you have to offer. It was a brutal perspective for my present circumstances, but it is still just as true. The most loving gift I can give a future potential love is to never go looking for them. To never put them through what I am experiencing and will eventually experience. I don’t know them and never will, but that is the best gift I can give them.

So the question you’re asking is not really the right one in my opinion. You should be asking if you would value the situation and how you would act if the roles were reversed.

I had a partner once that thought she was doing this same thing, about to move away in a couple of months. Then she met me and I flipped her priorities in life completely for the next 2 years. You may find a similar dilemma if you choose to meet someone. So, would you date you even if you baited yourself into a long distance situation?

Depends on how you do relationships. Like for me, I need a long time to really get over someone and like long term relationships, so I wouldn’t.

IMO, I never have looked to date. I don’t even know how that works. I just live my life and if someone I encounter is interesting great, if no one is, that is fine too. I have to be happy as just me doing me things to be happy with someone else that does someone else things and maybe meet them in the middle. Otherwise it is going to end ugly.