I got a little fanless atom PC from work that was being tossed because it “didn’t work.” It did work you would just have to apply pressure to it before boot because the CPU must have been coming unsoldered. I just stuck it on the bottom of like 30 pounds of gear and never had a problem.

Pixel 5 was the last good one.

I’ve got 100tb getting filled. I’m ready. Ok in reality its closer to 60 tb after raid and I’m duplicating the important stuff across 2 devices. But that’s only about 5 tb. But I’m including lots of PDFs epubs and zims as important stuff. The rest is just media.

I’ve dabbled with the ai I get from a kagi subscription its genuinely helpful with some stuff. If I put in a very fuzzy description of something I can write a paragraph about it and it will find it when no amount of searching has been able to turn it up. Its sometimes helpful with troubleshooting, sometimes not. I wouldn’t trust it for any subject I didn’t have some familiarity with and I do go double check some shit it tells me. Over all its fine but I wouldnt pay extra for it outside of my search subscription. I am still opposed to data center rollouts and power use that comes along with it and the lack of data sovereignty but a little box like a strix halo I could see being pretty useful.

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

I’m not knocking it but I don’t consider audiobooks reading. You are using two different input systems, going through different parts of the brain. They both require different skills to process and retain the information.

I mean not 100% obviously but went from going out drinking weekly to going so long without drinking I might not remember the last time I had a beer. Point was pretty much everyone I know.has cut back significantly.

When I hit my late 20s (a decade ago…) I pretty much just upped and stopped drinking. No problem, no real reason just didn’t enjoy it anymore. Now I maybe go through a six pack or two a year mostly when doing yard work, or will have a beer socially once a month or every other month. Its just too expensive and I got better shit to do.

I went on a first date with a woman and she was making the most intense eye contact I’ve ever experienced. It was like she was trying to drill into my soul with her stare. I had to keep breaking it to look away because it was just too much. After about an hour of kinda of awkward conversation because of the staring she asks if I’m autistic… I said no, not that I’m aware of and left to go to the bathroom. When I returned she asked if this was the end of the date and that there probably wouldn’t be another right? I was quite upset at the time and called my best female friend to gripe about it. She laughed and said she had almost the exact l same thing happen to her a few days earlier.

Then there was “secret mom” who we went of a few dates and then she came over one night. She waits until we are both naked and have been fooling around, which is just about the worst time to say oh by the way I have a kid. Boner gone and I didn’t know what to say but I guess she didn’t like my facial reaction and left crying. I felt bad the next day and called to apologize but say it was best if we didn’t see each other. She kept pursuing me over the next few weeks and we ended up sleeping together. After wards she got pelvic inflammatory disease and accused me of having an STD and giving it to her. I was sure I was clean but agreed to get tested results came back good and hers did too. When I looked up PID it said it most likely caused by another STD but like 25% of the time just intercourse can cause it. After both tests came back clean she still kept after me but I was 100% done. Not with being asked to get tested but the way she came at me about it.

As to the walking on the right thing I make people do that too but its because I’m deaf in my left ear. Maybe it was a similar situation for her? I usually tell people why I’m doing it though because I’ve gotten enough funny looks about it over the years.

Tell that to my cousin. He just bought his 3rd…

15 years ago when woke was more a liberal word I just thought it was dudes pretending to be feminists to get laid. Now that conservatives took it over, they seem to use it as a label for anything they don’t like. So that means anything woke is now good.

Its kinda like how conservatives used to call the left snowflakes but now we call them snowflakes because they throw temper tantrums about the smallest things.

Hmm. Well I have classic pebbles that have been in service for 10 years so they should be pretty robust. I had an original time round have issues but I can’t remember what, it was close to the end of pebble and at the time support was great. They couldn’t let on what was happening but pretty much said send the broken one back today and we will send a new one. The replacement still works.

I’m a simple man. Mostly when drunk I want to hug dogs and listen to Guided by Voices. I don’t know if this helps.

Pre 9/11, it was all transparent plastics and physical media. Those were the days.

Yeah they’ve been pushing Claude code at work for us non coders jobs to come up with stuff that would help us. We’ve gotten a few surprisingly useful programs out of it, but our assumption is perfect them now before pricing goes through the roof. We are also only creating programs that do not require ongoing AI use. Just a bunch of relatively simple things that make our jobs easier.

I am still pushing my boss for some local hw as I think as a group we’ve spent a couple grand in the last month and that is the least of my reasons for wanting a local llm vs subscription.

I did the over night shift for 3 or 4 years. Those were lost years for sure. Its been much better doing 6am to 6pm. I still need the first day off to just relax, but it doesn’t feel like a wasted day anymore. Just a lazy one.

I do 12 hour shifts, 3 days on 3 off then 4 on 4 off pay periods. The 3 days off don’t feel like enough so I don’t know how people work with 2 days off. 12 hour shifts do make it hard to do anything when I get home though.

Especially when it builds you up over multiple posts that make it sound more and more like your exact problem.

Tunic is fantastic, but not that chill. Its kinda “souls-lite” So much dying, though punishment is minimal.