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BeardedGingerWonder

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BeardedGingerWonder ,

Using proton to play cyberpunk 2077

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Counterpoint, sometimes stuff is designed to break so something else more critical of expensive to replace does not.

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I kinda just hold it all in my head and fix stuff when I notice it's broken.

Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)

Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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One of the reasons I use pixel phones, Google already knows everything, no point in Samsung knowing it too

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Anything decent that doesn't require a couple of 3090s?

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Thanks I'll have to check them out - are these going to be gateway AIs that will end up with me talking myself into buying 2x3090s? I'm just asking now to know how much I'm going to test the bounds of WAF in the near future.

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)

Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Aaah aaaaaaaaah aaaAaaaah aaaaaaaaah aaaAaaaah fuck this shit, fuck it all fuck it fuck it fuck it.

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Ha, I recently upgraded to an nvme drive from SATA, cloned the drive and then realised I need to move the windows partition all the way to the end to let me expand the Linux partition. Which broke windows. After about 2-3 hours of troubleshooting it was working again. It was around then I realised I hadn't booted into windows in 2 years!

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Can we disable the prompt?

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

BeardedGingerWonder ,

This would be a decent policy, probably+10% max expected capacity or something and contribute back to the grid.

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Hurd, surely?

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Imagine how he's gonna feel after you have a shit.

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No squeal

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What a bloody stupid take. No one cares about saving humanity unless that's their only pursuit in life?

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We don't even get those any more.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

I wish you were joking.

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At a fundamental level her argument appears to be "I define biological sex and gender as the same thing, no other definition may exist".

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Sorry, I didn't mean to take away from your point at all, you're very much undermining her entire argument.

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That's GNU/Hurd thank you

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Arch?

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No self respecting person would use Emacs.

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It's a lovely OS no doubt, but I just want an editor.

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Just buy a 20TB HDD or two and stock up on every console game up to PS3

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Obligatory FreeCAD

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More cat abuse

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First off, I couldn't care less about ad blocking and I'm not here to moralise what anyone else does.

I do however think your point is somewhat undermined by the fact YouTube have an ad free option. You can legitimately make the ads disappear and YouTube have no issue with it.

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Haven't bought a TV in 12 years, out of curiosity - if you're not using the smart features of the TV would not connecting it to the network not be the best solution?

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You mean GNU/Hurd

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series is a lot along those lines.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Some windowsbros are weirdly aggressive.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Firmly believe we should ban all mention of Scunthorpe from the instance.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Even within the CAD space, I was running CATIA natively years ago under Linux.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

This chair isn't multicore enough for you?

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Except legally the burden is on Samsung to prove you damaged the battery. They don't get to say "oh well you could have done xyz, denied"

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Cool story bro. Now fuck off and learn

BeardedGingerWonder ,

All respect to Steve, but in this regard he's wrong - the parts might be proprietary in a lot of regards, but these machines are repairable af, they're just not aimed at the average consumer. Local site support will rock up to your desk and stick a new display adapter in for some extra monitors or take them away and swap out broken parts and have the same PC on your desk next day. Big enterprises buy these machines precisely because they're repairable and upgradable and getting stock typically isn't an issue.

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You can absolutely repair with off the shelf parts, dell will sell you just about anything and will probably have it in stock for years, that's literally what they do. What they typically don't do is conform to consumer form factors/standards.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Not trying to pick a beef with Steve at all, very much respect his work. Or you for that matter. The question here is about workhorse PCs not gaming PCs. Gaming is a niche. Dell will absolutely sell you parts, or eBay or third party resellers. You've mentioned in your own post you can absolutely upgrade the GPU and PSU with standard consumer parts (even in a custom build you'd need cables specific to your modular power supply), even CPUs are upgradable within limits (again, with the exception of modern Ryzen when have you been able to upgrade more than 1 generation of CPU for a given socket?)

I'll 100% agree Dell don't conform to typical consumer standard parts that custom/small run builders use in a lot of cases, but to say they're not upgradable or repairable just isn't true. If someone was complaining their BMW gearbox wouldn't bolt onto their ford engine without some modification they'd struggle to find anyone who finds that a remotely strange situation.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

If you're getting a new motherboard anyway you might as well give it a go. There are some micro soldering training kits you can pick up for ~£15 to practice.

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Nah, smacks of insecurity IMO.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

People the can't get their point across/accepted without belittling other people always come across as pretty insecure to me. "Do as I say or I'll shit all over you in front of everyone". It's like every bully trope ever.

On the other hand, what does stink insecurity for me is the "I need to carefully pick words to avoid breaking someone else's feelings" attitude.

Yeah you sound like one of those "I just say it like it is" types that never quite grasp that "how they see it" isn't the same as "how it is"

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Lol, yep, bully tropes are based on real life bullies lol. I'm not assuming anything, I'm telling you how you come across, why are you getting all butt hurt and trying to control what I say?

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You're being utterly bizarre and seem to have confused the word trope to mean TV trope. What Torvalds does is literal bullying, he's literally been accused of literal bullying in the past and literally stepped away from Linux to work on it.

Yes, you are being an assumer.

You now sound like a child.

Stop wasting my time with off-topic shit that you make up. Unless you want both of us playing this game.

Playing what game? Why are you so intent on controlling what I'm allowed to and not allowed to say?

BeardedGingerWonder ,

You think anyone's going to read any of this and think you sound like the rational one?

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Or y'know, upgrade the case at the same time.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Look, I don't want to tell you what to do with your money, but I mean if you've got the cash sitting around I could do with some weed?

BeardedGingerWonder ,

OMFG I've watched porn before. Will I get hit by a bus if I step out in front of it?

BeardedGingerWonder ,

It takes at least that long for me to figure out if I was a Lloyds underwriter on the second Tuesday after the third waxing moon every year.

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