Call it a tariff instead and it’s got legs.

Gemma4 e4b quant8 will fit in 12gb and is good

I have a black cat that sits like that too. We also have a green couch… with an orange blanket… next to a woodgrain coffee table! But you uploaded it first so you have dibs. Cute kit.

Most plastics take many decades to break down minimum. The year I lifted my game on my waste was when someone told me that somewhere in my home town’s waste dump today was all the plastic swords and toys I used for a weekend and tossed during the local fair when I was seven. And will still be after I’m gone.

This happened to me last weekend. I finally parted with the device I’d been hanging on to for 6 years a couple of months ago in a cleanout and needed it last Sunday.

I have zero mods. I ran a Ryzen 5 5600x RTX3070 with 16gb ram and I eventually got like 150 ducks or something and every few seconds the computer started to pause and think. It was eventually unbearable. I googled it and thought it was my overall number of beings in the area. So I started wholesale duck slaughter and I think it got better. I have a better computer now haven’t gone back yet. Are you telling me it’s not my PC?

Dual boot Bazzite with Windows Ent IoT? Profit?

I’ve got a decent rig and rimworld chokes at a reasonable farmyard size. What’s your secret?

Use Restic backups to a local drive then sync that with something like rsync to ovhcloud cloud archive (not cold archive but that can work too). You can also skip the local copy but it’s better to have one and if you sync weekly it gives you opportunities to do things like cull photos you took too many of before it slaps them all up. There are plenty of GUI based restic interfaces now if you want a quick check or browse. Use healthchecks.io to monitor the cronjobs and alert you if they aren’t working.

Abefinder/Neofinder is great for cataloging but it costs money. If you do a limited backup it’s good to know what you had. I use tape formatted to LTFS and Neofind both the source and the finished tape.

I had an ex once tell me my own story back to me as if it happened to her first hand. I didn’t tell her and just went uh huh. But I think she was confused why I didn’t find the story funny. Which she thought was hilarious when she had heard the story from me.

Goddammit Donut!

Truly terrifying. But fun to briefly ponder. The book is quite a humbling read and put my mood in a different state for a week afterwards. Among the theories about everything being an accident. There is a chapter about how the Higgs Boson isn’t quite where it should be by our current understanding possibly by accident, and if even one Boson were to correct it’s location by a gigantic energy event there would be a chain reaction that would mean the entire universe would be obliterated.

Yeah. When I read it, my life overall hasn’t been that bad and my immediate thought was a sort of mystical comfort that the end isn’t always an end. Then a few minutes later I thought, what if you had have been human trafficked or some other terrible nightmare. To repeat forever. If there is any truth to it we need to do all efforts to eliminate it today.

I’m not a physicist but I think the physics behind it is that they have observed some atoms instantly revert back to a previous state that they have been in. If it’s possible that given a long enough time line one atom can go back at random any atom can and sort of like a random dice role. When infinity is in an equation anything that happens even in a 1-1billionth chance will happen because of infinity rerolls. That all atoms in the universe at random and at the same time revert back to a previous state they were in. The book doesn’t like to comment too much on whether the theory is viable or not just that it exists.

There is a great book by Katie Mack called The End of Everything. She runs through all the top theories like this. It’s quite enjoyable.

One of the theories about the universe repeating has that ponderous nature that if this moment will be repeated forever any good thing you can do help someone will be repeated forever so if you have a choice to help or not you should think about that action being cemented forever. She doesn’t go into free will and such, there are many other theories.

I’m often surprised how much of an asshat people can be, shouting from what is likely the most valuable portable possession they own. Be a damn shame if something should happen to it.

“…and who’s bringing what.” I love that line.

Hi, I’ve had a good experience with the G6 dome cams. Works well. The door bell has been difficult. It works better on android than iPhone. Talking to people at the door sucks on iPhone (quiet voice from the phone to the door person) it has been a bug for some time they haven’t fixed. Google forums of people complaining about not working or quiet voice. If all you want is video recording on the door bell it’s good enough. But frequently interacting with multiple phones and guests gets frustrating on the G4 Pro.

I was talking to an employee of a drone tech startup recently. Instead of a project roadmap the DARPA rep asked “how quickly can you deliver something, we want asap / this year.”

I wonder why current consumer HDD’s don’t have NVME connectors on them. Like I know speeding up the bus isn’t going to make the spinning rust access faster but the cache ram would probably benefit from not being capped at 550MBps