Sure. Keep your phone until it’s dead, I’m all for that. Same with cars. But when it goes, what do you replace it with?

Are you going to build your own car? That’s awesome if you can and have the time. Otherwise, you’re going to buy a car, hopefully used, that was still built by EvilCorp.

Same with your phone.

I drive a Tesla; bought it used. Elon is a shit human. Know who else is a shit human? Literally every CEO of every car company in the world.

I have an iPhone. Bought it used. Tim Cook is a shit human. Know who else is a shit human? Literally every CEO of every major tech company in the world.

I work for NVIDIA. I make them a lot of money and they pay me very well. Do I think Jensen Huang is a shit human? Fuck yes I do, he exploits people the same way every other CEO ever does.

But what can I do? I self-host most of my services and pay for privacy-respecting ones that I don’t. But I’m a career IT worker; I know how to do that. Most people don’t even know what Linux is.

Sure, I could just move to Baja and live a Mexico beach bum lifestyle. Doesn’t sound so bad until one thinks a little deeper about it.

And Samsung is a shining star of a tech company? Google, too?

I work for a large enterprise and build ML model monitoring pipelines fairly frequently—this will be a more in depth but similar use case to what you’re asking.

We use Grafana (visualization) and Prometheus (timeseries db)—they’re built for this use case exactly. Tons of info out there on how to build, configure, connect to your sensors, and deploy it.

I call it N Jinx. Always have and I’ll never be convinced otherwise that it’s not.

I miss the supreme.

If you miss the expanded pizza toppings offerings they used to have, write an email to [email protected]. Not only is he the head honcho, but he’s been through all levels of the company, including EVP of merchandising for a time so he has a unique perspective on what Costco’s customers (members) value.

Here’s a template (AI gen’d, but it’s good.):

Subject: Request to Return Supreme Pizza to Costco Food Court

Dear Mr. Vachris:

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing as a loyal Costco member to express my sincere request for the return of the Supreme (and other toppings selections) Pizza to the food court menu across all Costco locations.

The Supreme Pizza has been a favorite for many members, including myself, due to its delicious taste and variety of toppings. Its absence has been greatly missed, and I believe reintroducing it would be highly appreciated by a significant number of members.

Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to the possibility of enjoying Supreme Pizza at Costco again soon.

Best regards,

[Your Name] [Your Membership Number] [Your Contact Information]

I don’t think an SSD is the right choice here. SSDs have a limited lifespan that’s majority driven by the number of writes that happen to a certain block. Reads are cheap and near infinite though.

When you’re talking about a Lemmy instance, mail server, etc. my mind thinks this is likely to be many writes with several read-once ops. This is a better use case for a HDD.

A media server that oriented towards most consumption (reading) would be better for SSD.

I like draw.io for process diagrams.

You mention ThePicardManeuver but leave out [email protected]???

LoRA models still have the underlying fully trained base model underneath; it is not a complete replacement or complete modification of the model weights.

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Have you taught them any tricks?

I work with Linux and computers professionally. Documentation is written but almost nobody reads it. I can’t count the number of times I’ve bailed out colleagues stuck on a problem by spending a few hours reading the docs and then like magic some parameter in the API solves everything. I’ve been bailed out countless times in the same way. Software and computers are complex and even those who do RTFM miss things, because documentation is information dense, often written as an afterthought to the code, and APIs are not always even internally consistent with the documentation.

But the toxicity culture around that needs to go. I love it when people geek out over distro-hopping and whatnot, but superiority complexes over what distro you use (“Arch, btw I’m so much better than you”) is fucking stupid.

It gets stuck in my head. Wriggling around my brain and corrupting my thoughts. It eats. It devours. It consumes. Less and less of me remains, until there is no thought but to have faith that I can do anything, to get through the fire and the rain, that I can touch the sky and reach any star. My corruption is complete. Please turn it off.

Telling people to suck on Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls was one of my favorites parts of my fucked up childhood.

I learned that with Solidworks and other engineering simulation software. Now I am Philosophy Derp.

Drive while sleeping. Fast travel mode unlocked.

Link to AI upscaled vsn?

It’s part of Vegas’ branding strategy.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

You were always cool.