IngeniousRocks (They/She)

That’s kinda what I’m saying though. Those aren’t randos! They’re other people taking the same commute as you, every day. Make a connection with one and you might start to notice them more. Maybe you have a similar hobby or interest.

Give people a chance to enter your life and they often become more than randos on the train. Maybe you find a commute partner, someone to chat with or bitch to about Jane in Accounting.

I’m not gonna try to convince you, Clearly you saw my point and chose to reject it, that’s your choice. I’d urge you to give different thinking a chance though.

Its a call to be present.

There is nothing inherently wrong with wearing headphones on the train, but ask yourself why you’re doing it.

If you put on Headphones to keep people from talking to you, you’re making the choice to opt out of the human experience.?Make that choice every day on a 45 minute commute and after only a week 7.5 hours where you’ve opted out of chance encounter, conversation, possibly meeting a new friend or partner. It might not be a bad idea to make the choice to NOT disconnect, actively choosing to engage in the world around us makes a huge difference in how we percieve it, and how it percieves us.

An experiment I’d suggest, if you’re the type to default to using your phone as an idle activity:

Next time you’re idle and get the urge to pull out your phone, instead look around you and find the most interesting thing you can see. Why is it interesting? Is there anything abnormal about it? Is it’s place significant? Take that and note it in your mind, have a conversation with a coworker about it later. Then take note, how did this pointless conversation make me feel?

Being present by choice, especially if done often, will create chances to engage with the World, and its inhabitants.

The other day someone told me life was boring. Put the phone down, make more than the 2 meter cone you can see from around your phone visible, and you’ll find the World has a lot of engagement to offer.

You’d first need to get the flash to store other data, requiring malicious firmware modifications.

Like, its not impossible but I really can’t see anything nefarious happening to make airgapped printer that would be that big a deal.

Recovery mode

1. Follow the instructions as they’re presented and you’ll be fine

2. Installing it will make rooting easier, but afik root is not required (though you will be accessing the device at the recovery/bootloader level, something with far more control than root)

3. Yes, pay attention, follow the instructions and you’ll be fine though

4. Respect your privacy, allow you to sandbox apps which want to spy

5. Everything should work because of the sandbox function, the same cannot be said for most other custom ROMs unless the Google apps have been installed.

If you’re doing a dirty flash, as long as you have the same kernel version between them it should be fine, not recommended though, lots could go wrong.

You shouldn’t need to go back to stock, but make sure the old OS is properly wiped away.

When/If you do, a RTX3070-lhr (about $300 new) is just about the BARE MINIMUM for gpu inferencing. Its what I use, it gets the job done, but I often find context limits too small to be usable with larger models.

If you wanna go team red, Vulkan should still work for inferencing and you have access to options with significantly more VRAM, allowing you to more effectively use larger models. I’m not sure about speed though, I haven’t personally used AMDs GPUs since around 2015.

If you’ve got a decent Nvidia GPU and are hoping on linux, look into the Kobold-cpp Vulkan backend, in my experience it works far better than the CUDA backend and is astronomically faster than the CPU-Only backend.

No no no that’s not what I meant. I ABSOLUTELY see what you mean though.

I was more speaking on the idea that people with similar ideas tend to congregate, but when you’ve got such different places as Florida and California for example, there is bound to be significant infighting. That’s like the UK sharing a tent with Iraq. They’re separated by like 2500 miles, these are people’s with different priorities, different lifestyles, different cultures. Its not to say they can’t get along, but it should be under a federation more similar to the EU, a coalition of independent smaller Nations. NOT directly under the same national flag, and forced to be under the same code of laws.

Like, I get that this is skating the line of being xenophobic, but my intention isn’t to prevent people from coming into a space, it is to prevent the space from expanding to contain people who don’t want to be in it.

Edit: my distance was wrong, its still the same frlm place to place though

If you’re planning on using LLMs for coding advice, may I recommend selfhosting a model and adding the documentation and repositories as context?

I use a a 1.5b qwen model (mega dumb) but with no context limit I can attach the documentation for the language I’m using, and attach the files from the repo I’m working in (always a local repo in my case) I can usually explain what I’m doing, what I’m trying to accomplish, and what I’ve tried to the LLM and it will generate snippets that at the very least point me in the right direction but more often than not solve the problem (after minor tweaks because dumb model not so good at coding)

The fall of america was guaranteed when they made the choice to remain an imperial state.

Like butter over too much bread, the US has spread itself so far, so thin, as to dilute its identity and contain too many, too different ideas.

The interconnectedness of the modern World was always going to result in the downfall of the US as a single entity. California is effected by Florida’s decisions because that’s how this country works. But now they can Fight online about it. Tensions rise. The powder keg will blow.

Edit: spllng

When I suggested the US balkanize I was hoping it’d be the States idea, not that the Fed would just literally crumble in front of our eyes.

🗯️‽#*&

I don’t want free earbuds

My VHS player is HDMI, I feed that into an HDMI splitter (to bypass HDCP) then into a USB capture card.

OBS displays the capture card as though it were a camera input. I record this while it is playing, and export to MKV so I can add web sourced SRTs in after the fact.

I’m sure there’s a better way to do it, but this works for me.

There is absolutely better ways to do it, but I have an HDMI VCR and a capture card from goodwill that was $10 total.

For now its fine, I’m not burning physicals, its just bytes on a platter, I do need a VHS digitizer though.

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Just because VHS goes bad, I’d suggest ripping to dvd or blu-ray (too keep the physical feel) which should get you another 15+ years of storage in a compact fashion, more If kept properly (my ps2 games still work after 23 years, is my source on that).

My uncompressed rips (via OBS) from VHS are around 35 GB, perfect use case for a BD-R.

I know I’ll probably get shit for this comment because “optical media bad” but I don’t care.

Show of Hands:

Who’s heard of “about:profiles”?

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Oh neat. Thank you. I was assuming Singleton was like lambda and it was returning instances of itself.

I didn’t read the code very closely.