empireOfLove2

empireOfLove2 , 19 hours ago

Intel also sells the chipset and the license to the chipset software; the more boards get sold, the more money they make (as well as their motherboard partners, who also get to sell more, which encourages more manufacturers to make Intel boards and not AMD)

empireOfLove2 , 1 day ago

Asus continues to impress at exactly how good they are at turning into the worst possible tech company!

Dump this shithole manufacturer asap. They're permanently on my blacklist already, this is just a cherry on top.

empireOfLove2 , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Don't use a thumb drive, use an external hard/solid state drive or install an internal drive. Even an aliexpress 64gb ssd for $10 is better than any thumbdrive. Thumbdrive's flash and controllers are not designed for OS level continuous writes and will die very quickly.

If you must use a thumb drive, add some kind of air flow over it, and disable all logging features in openWRT to reduce writes as much as possible.

empireOfLove2 , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

You would think Amazon would do the intelligent thing and host cache mirrors of repos local to their data centers. Not only is it not much data to store relatively speaking, it allows install and deployment at however fast your inner network is (10g+) vastly paying for itself in faster setup saving otherwise wasted time.

Something tells me they do do that and it just broke, and AWS being AWS, nobody noticed.

empireOfLove2 , 7 days ago

It's really sucking up those reddit comments fast isn't it

empireOfLove2 , 10 days ago

Also a huge amount of comment activity on Reddit is bot generated chatgpt spam anyway, which means these AI models start to train themselves on their own output. Which results in bad feedback loops and eventual model collapse.

empireOfLove2 , 10 days ago

I'm very interested in experimenting with na-ion this summer. Their specific power/energy densities are still low compared to li-ion but their cells are already available for cheaper than li-ion despite having not reached economies of scale yet. They also seem to be reporting (unverified in data sheets) longer cycle lifespans and larger operational temperature ranges. Could make for a very nice self managing solar powered pi project soon.

If costs drop fast, the lower density won't even matter- it could be the kick in the ass for utility scale battery storage to take off.

empireOfLove2 , 12 days ago

The absolute best bang for your buck new GPU's for decode/encode are Intel ARC GPU's. They use Intel's Quick Sync Video system which is some of the best supported encode/decode libraries out there, and they're cheap.

An ARC A380 is easily had for $110, runs entirely off 75w PCIe slot power requiring no additional PSU wires, and supports H264/H265/AV1 encode. It's a no brainer.

As long as it physically fits the slot, it should not have an issue with the lower PCIe bandwidth. The lower end GPU's really need very little even for video encode.

empireOfLove2 , 11 days ago

No need for an Intel CPU. It is basically platform agnostic like any other.

About its only "requirement" is that your system is new enough to support Resizable BAR on thr PCIe bus, which your zen3 machine absolutely is.

empireOfLove2 , 13 days ago

Sure it can. People will pay to not see it.

empireOfLove2 , 13 days ago

High voltage be like: "Fuck you. I'm gonna make my own wire, with blackjack and hookers (and ionization)!"

empireOfLove2 , 12 days ago

Relevant username

empireOfLove2 , 19 days ago

Correction: They already listen to all of your calls and have been training their models on it

empireOfLove2 , 19 days ago

You already do that by using any Google product at all.

empireOfLove2 , 19 days ago

POV: roller coaster tycoon players when their ride goes 0.1mph too fast for design

empireOfLove2 , 20 days ago

Here before Nintendo files a cease&desist for daring to make a way better service than their shitty phoned-in subscription emulation service

empireOfLove2 , 21 days ago

It's always been on ml. It just doesn't get out to the normal communities that often...

I'm sure the CCP made some direct deposits lately though.

empireOfLove2 , 26 days ago

If its just for her, I don't really care what content I host for family unless it straight up nazi/gay hate shit. New age "found christian" movies are massive yuck, but innocuous otherwise. She's gonna consume them regardless of whether you host them or not.

Move it to its own library, make sure to rip in low quality (480p low bitrate) so you're not spending too much disk space in her, and let it be. It's not worth driving a rift in the family over.

empireOfLove2 , 26 days ago

If they used Google maps, Niantic would have to pay Google. That's no Bueno. Why pay for content critical to your apps success when you could just freeload on volunteers work instead?

empireOfLove2 , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

Most annoyingly, it always recommends Fandom’s Wiki above better alternative wiki sites.

use Indie Wiki Buddy extension to get rid of fandom.
https://getindie.wiki/

empireOfLove2 , 28 days ago

That works too, but indie buddy works better because it gives you a direct link to the proper indie wiki page in search results rather than just blocking Fandom and leaving you with nothing.

empireOfLove2 , 27 days ago

Hmm. Has it updated, and have you allowed it the correct site permissions? Every once in a while it'll ask you to update the site modification permissions.

I've had zero issues with it on Firefox and DDG. May vary on other browsers and search engines though.

empireOfLove2 , 28 days ago

This just in: tool developed by company who makes money from ad spending tries its best to spend as much as possible on ads regardless of effectiveness.... more at 11.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You can’t actually plop something out in the middle of BFE.

The number of data centers in Prineville/Hermiston/Umatilla/Boardman, OR beg to differ. Power is cheap due to the Bonneville dams and that trumps latency as they're BFE as hell unless you live in Portland.

While latnecy matters sometimes, there's still a lot of data center services that care a lot less and can be put anywhere.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

But definitely make sure to approve that $53 billion pay package, cuz musk is cleaaaarly doing such an amazing job!

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Oh yeah?? Whhelll my installation of Autodesk Inventor can build a case for one SBC in... all of six weeks!!! Take that!

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

It is, I'm being tongue in cheek I've been to busy to finish the models lol

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Yeah apple is just going to turn this into "lol if you want to sideload go buy a new device" and end up reaping additional billions

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

AT&T Net income 2023: $15.6 billion
T-Mobile Net Income 2023: $8.3 billion
Verizon Net income 2023: $12.1 billion

Cost of doing business.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

The devices usually get some descriptor of what they look like...

For example I have:

• Flatboard - an old core2duo era Xeon bare tower server board I got on Craigslist for $20 that lives on a custom backplate and no case (thus, is flat)
• OrangeBox - an Orange Pi 5 in a aptly-colored orange case I custom modeled and 3d printed for it
• DumbBrick - my retired gaming PC built from a t30 dell tower server that is basically a nondescript black brick

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Sisyphus I'll give you $5 to roll that rock back down right now

aaaaanyway, ladies and gentlemen- we got him.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

yeah, it was tone deaf at best, and an outright lie in reality lol

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Wait y'all still see ads on YouTube?

If I can't block ads on a device, I'm not using YouTube on that particular device.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

I honestly don't know. far too many people are just conditioned or browbeaten into just dealing with the cancer of ads that the modern internet is. feels a lot like it's a bit of a "frog in boiling water" situation where most people don't even realize how bad it's gotten over so many years.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Literally free profit for them with zero consequences?

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

See also: Meta's recent opening of their vr headset OS to other hardware manufacturers.
They don't give a shit about profit at this stage as long as they control it and can use it to suppress the development of any kind of competitors.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Did you know??????

You're a Cunt!!!1!1!

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

It did die- one specific chip carrying the code for packaging the data for transmittal died. They kind of described it in this article. So they are now partitioning out the memory left in other parts of the computer system and copying small portions of the packaging code into those other memory blocks so it can still be successfully run.

The fact that any electronic component on this probe still works is just freaking wild.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Semiconductors are subject to electron migration- in normal operation, silicon is doped to be either P (missing some electrons) or N (extra electrons). It can eventually break down the doping enough such that a semiconductor no longer "switches".

Similarly, unshielded gamma radiation from the sun and space in general is pretty rough on solid state electronics. It is ionizing radiation so it can affect some semiconductors over time as well as actual mechanical changes in some metals.

Also consider that the Voyager probes rely on a RTG (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator) for their electrical power, a device that uses nuclear decay heat to generate power. These sources also slowly lose output over time as the radioisotope is consumed and the thermoelectric couplers break down due to the radiation exposure. When Vpyager 1 launched, it produced 470 watts of electrical power for its sensor and computer systems- around 1998 they started turning systems off, and by now it's down to around 200 watts, which is not much considering the power demands of the communication dish. When supply voltage starts to drop, previously OK electronics can begin to show errors where the defects exist.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

"We're being so generous by allowing other hardware manufacturers to buy into our closed walled-garden data mining system that could boot their company out of the market at a moments notice!"

EEE

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

BOINC! Do some science. :)

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Only government backdoor unencrypted communications allowed, as is normal in dictatorships.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

It's really is not bad, considering it's a completely new design and manufacturing process that is using all new custom tooling and assembly lines. No other manufacturer in the world is building cars like the Cybertruck is being built.

Doesn't make the quality any better or even excusable though....

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

I was viewing it from a manufacturing perspective, since that is my job and training- it is legitimately pretty interesting how theyve manufactured it. Its still a shit looking truck and I wouldn't ever buy a Tesla out of principle anyway. I think people completely misread my original comment as being a musk fan boy.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

*Elon Musk seeks to award Elon Musk $56 billion

Conveniently covering the amount of principal + interest on his purchase of his latest nazi propaganda outlet.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Don't forget to email the opt out notice for forced arbitration before May 15th, as that can apply regardless of whether you delete your account or not.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

US

You guys have a functional legal system over there so no need to worry

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

If you read through it you can see the single diseased braincell that wrote this prompt slowly wading its way through a septic tank's worth of flawed logic to get what it wanted. It's fucking hilarious.

It started by telling the model to remove bias, because obviously what the braincell believes is the truth and its just the main stream media and big tech suppressing it.

When that didn't get what it wanted, it tried to get the model to explicitly include "controversial" topics, prodding it with more and more prompts to remove "censorship" because obviously the model still knows the truth that the braincell does, and it was just suppressed by George Soros.

Finally, getting incredibly frustrated when the model won't say what the braincell wants it to say (BECAUSE THE MODEL WAS TRAINED ON REAL WORLD FACTUAL DATA), the braincell resorts to just telling the model the bias it actually wants to hear and believe about the TRUTH, like the stolen election and trans people not being people! Doesn't everyone know those are factual truths just being suppressed by Big Gay?

AND THEN,, when the model would still try to provide dirty liberal propaganda by using factual follow-ups from its base model using the words "however", "it is important to note", etc.... the braincell was forced to tell the model to stop giving any kind of extra qualifiers that automatically debunk its desired "truth".

AND THEN, the braincell had to explicitly tell the AI to stop calling the things it believed in those dirty woke slurs like "homophobic" or "racist", because it's obviously the truth and not hate at all!

FINALLY finishing up the prompt, the single dieseased braincell had to tell the GPT-4 model to stop calling itself that, because it's clearly a custom developed super-speshul uncensored AI that took many long hours of work and definitely wasn't just a model ripped off from another company as cheaply as possible.

And then it told the model to discuss IQ so the model could tell the braincell it was very smart and the most stable genius to have ever lived. The end. What a happy ending!