Blasphemy! It is a great movie.

But do you want to be right out do you want to sleep on the sofa?

I have the opposite opinion. I avoided it for years because of the hype (and not having proper hardware to run it).

Now I have almost 900 hours in it, and sometimes I jump in just to walk around and revisit some places.

The command line is perfect for lazy people like me. You spend a bit more putting together a little automation and shove it in a script in ~/bin and you can forget about how it’s done.

Example: I have a small script that does the backup for me using Borg. It backups only the directories I want, ignores a bunch of stuff and keeps 6 months of backups. I spent some time crafting that but now I just plug my external HDD and type backup.sh. or if I’m feeling extra lazy I just click the desktop link.

Maybe 1985, but 1986 and 1987 were good too.

Keep spreading the good word, brother. Amen.

My suspicion for Nvidia not opening their drivers is that they have something shifty going on, maybe benchmark “optimizations” or some other trickery.

That, and they’re plain evil.

I think it was a Finnish philosopher who once said it best: Fuck you, Nvidia.

Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:

Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.

Thank you for the link, it was very interesting.

Even though analogue neural networks have the drawback that you can’t copy the neuron weights (currently, but tech may evolve to do it), they can still have use cases in lower powered edge devices.

I think we’ll probably end up with hybrid designs, using digital for most parts except the calculations.

Every genre is deeply connected to the time it appeared and the events that shaped it.

I don’t expect punk rock to have a resurgence any more than I expect disco music to come back. They had their time and function. They will influence new things to come as did all the stuff that came before.

Having said that, I expect everything will become a mishmash of AI slop, so who knows?

This was bound to happen. Neural networks are inherently analog processes, simulating them digitally is massively expensive in terms of hardware and power.

Digital domain is good for exact computation, analog is better for approximate computation, as required by neural networks.

It’s a quiet life.

What’s your point? If Windows is working for you, keep using it.

How I’m doing it: setup nginx-proxy-manager as frontend and put all services behind it, using different names (cloud.home, media.home, etc) but with the same IP (the proxy IP).

Sony Black Trinitron was peak TV.

I feel this is true about much of what you see online currently. Videos that could have been an short how-to, articles that contain mostly AI generated filler. Also, if you want support on that you better join our discord.

I have genuine gratitude to people who share their in depth knowledge online using old fashion HTML.

I thought capitalism was about supply and demand. We demand something and corporations supply it. Who demanded this crap?

I’ve been known to say “look, my next desktop wallpaper!” before taking a picture.

Nah, I have nothing to do with this, only a happy gamer.

There are alternatives. I bought a Lenovo direct from their site with no OS installed. The saving from not having Windows was enough to afford double the RAM.