Well nuts I was considering Ireland as a nice place to flee Canada for. Shame to hear that they’re doing the same to you. I know there’s a demographic issue but I don’t see why they couldn’t have made the countries livable enough that the people living there could afford to have children, instead of importing people en masse from regions with little education.

We are just creating another demographic problem anyways as at least here all of our migrants are suspiciously young working age men. We don’t see many families “fleeing regions in conflict” which seems very odd, doesn’t it.

I should probably clarify what I mean by that. Unlike most countries, most of Canada is probably best described as “a barely habitable hellscape”

Even the pioneers relied heavily on existing supply chains, and in most regions aside from southern BC and Ontario the natives lived an unenviable hand to mouth existence.

So while working harder for the same cheque is a bad idea, if everyone stops working at all (which feels like it’s on the brink of happening, some days) the collapse of our society actually means losing our ability to survive in a country that actively wants to kill you on most days.

I live way out in the country in a mostly self reliant community, but the amount of material and energy we need to bring in just to survive always worries me.

Gut an AC from the dump. Replace the condenser with a tube in tube heat exchanger, using your cold water as a heat sink. Brazed plate HX if you’re feeling rich. Replace the cap tube with a TXV for better load tracking. Recharge with R290.

T Sure this is even further beyond your skill level but is the best possible way to use a source of cold to chill your apartment. You can locate it anywhere convenient, not just by the window. You could likely get a COP over 5 and be discharging the water in a fairly modest stream at around 30-40C.

Looks at what happened in Canada too, we had big structural problems with our economy so our government dumped a huge volume of immigrants into the country, almost entirely from a group known to not integrate well and who share little values and culture with the existing citizens.

Now everyone blames the immigrants for everything. Success! And wages have also been depressed, and housing and rent prices elevated. The rich get richer and the poor get a scapegoat. Everyone… wins?

And there’s literally nothing we can do about it, except effectively the whole country has taken on the “lay flat” movement as a protest after Covid pulled the mask off the villain. Very few working class people put any effort into their work anymore, figuring to collect their check but not generate any wealth for the robber barons.

The trouble is we will burn our country down while we do it, because ultimately some work does need to be done to sustain our society.

Off road gasoline is rare and varies by district, here in Canada I grew up in BC and we had “purple gas” and “red diesel” but purple gas was only sold at very specific stations, usually near parks where people would put it in ATVs and boats.

Now I live in SK and we only have “dyed diesel” which is your standard red farm stuff. You can get a discount on gasoline delivered to a farm tank, but there’s no colorant added and almost nobody does it anyways, since gasoline goes stale and isn’t used in farm equipment.

Myself I converted my remaining gasoline equipment to propane and run heating propane in it. The only gas burners left are lawnmowers, quads and a farm truck.

Is goatse.cx still up? I would check but growing up with the internet as it was, I’ve seen enough Goatse in my lifetime that I really don’t need to see it again.

He just said “hairy ass”, well after hearing that I hope it’s “he” anyways for his own sake

They’ve been claiming things like rice cookers had AI for decades, so at least this isn’t part of the current AI hype.

To be fair proper integration of an aftermarket VoIP app requires almost every permission a phone has, especially if the app wants to mirror your caller ID, and supports SMS and attaching various media.

Digital ownership, not storage. As in DRM, GaaS licensing and always-online launchers.

A ROM cartridge was physical ownership, if you had the cartridge, you could play.

A CD-key was also a form of physical ownership, install the game and type in the key from the case, you could play.

All the tradesmen in here to bootfuck this guy with our steel toes

Even with external volumes, I don’t think there should be any mechanism where a container can escape a bind mount to affect the rest of the host fs? I use bind mounts all the time, far more than docker volumes.

99% of audience dozing off, 1% fascinated by the mystical art of antennas and radio waves. I know the science behind it, but I still don’t know how you guys came up with some of those designs.

True survivalist/libertarian types have always loved solar power.

I don’t know how solar lost its space age coolness, though, aside from active lobbying from the fossil fuel industry to try to kill it. For awhile solar was undoubtedly the power source of the future, the same thing that was on our space probes and satellites.

I have old oil-crisis era books and magazines on my shelf which absolutely loved solar power and billed it as the cheap energy solution for the common man. Somewhere we went wrong, and I think it was Reagan (in many ways…)

Diverting attention from other nerdy/niche groups who don’t seem weird at all in comparison?

To me, it’s as useful as a toy is.

This used to be my opinion, then I started using local models to help me write code. It’s very useful for that, to automate rote work like writing header files, function descriptions etc. or even to spit out algorithms so that I don’t have to look them up.

However there are indeed many applications that AI is completely useless for, or is simply the wrong tool.

While a diagnostic AI onboard in my car would be “useful”, what is more useful is a well-documented industry standard protocol like OBD-II, and even better would be displaying the fault right on the dashboard instead of requiring a scan tool.

Conveniently none of these require a GPU in the car.

In the case of an LLM-type AI though, the bars can be swapped in a sense. LLMs are strange, because they can talk but not feel.

You can’t argue that a series of tensor calculations are sentient (def. able to perceive or feel) - capable of experiencing life from the “inside”. A dog is sentient by most definitions, it could be argued to have a “soul”. When you look at a dog, the dog looks back at you. An LLM does not. It is not conscious, not “alive”.

However an LLM does put on a fair appearance of being sapient (def. intelligent; able to think) - they contain large stores of knowledge and aside from humans are now the only other thing on the planet that can talk. You can have a discussion with one, you can tell it that it was wrong and it can debate or clarify using its internal knowledge. It can “reason” and anyone who has worked with one writing code can attest to this as they’ve seen their capability to work around restrictions.

It doesn’t have to be sentient to be able to do this sort of thing, even though we used to think that was practically a prerequisite. Thus the philosophical confusion around them.

Even if this is simply a clever trick of a glorified autocomplete algorithm, this is something the dog cannot do despite its sentience. Thus an LLM with a decent number of parameters is “smarter” than a dog, and arguably more sapient.

VPN and have them punch in to a cheap or free cloud instance that acts as a hub router.

You give them a config file and they feed it to their device or router, use a private subnet in the 10.0.0.0/8 range because everyone is on 192.168.1.0/24 and then they just hit it at 10.0.0.1 or whatever.

I like Wireguard but you might have to use something with layer 2 support if you want service discovery to work for true zero config.

Install a modchip, or as we used to call them a “remote starter” lol

I’m sure someone still makes a product that you can splice into the wiring harness. And if they don’t… There’s a market for it

My Chevy is like a rock, I have to farm around it