IngeniousRocks (They/She)

Yes it is. I only use it from a TUI when trying to kill distractions.

Links2, lynx, offpunk are all good browsers for the TUI each serving somewhat different purposes

Coding, taking notes, searching the web, sometimes playing dungeon crawl stone soup. Basically everything you do with a DE.

Didnt read the whole list, stopped at microcontrollers:

Absolutely recommend everyone and their brother get an arduino learning kit or something similar. Being able to make your own devices is liberating. Learning to make custom IOT devices is even moreso.

The rapid prototyping/learning kit it less than $100, once you’ve prototyped your projects and want to move them to a soldered breadboard or a PCB the microcontroller itself is about $3 on digikey. Cheap cheap cheap stuff considering what you can do with it. Obviously parts can add up but, c’mon Michael, there’s always money in the banana stand.

Same.

I think my school might have had a local mirror of their d2l brightspace instance though because it miraculously was still up, but taking multiple minutes to load pages

They are disconnected. Everything is cut from “clancy’s” podcast. Irl clancy is Duncan Trussell, his podcast is the Duncan Trussel Family Hour.

Its ok, I listened to a couple episodes after I watched Midnight Gospel and it didn’t scratch the same itch

I’ve been using flying Toasters as my screensaver since 2001, I never see it anymore because the display turns off, but its there!

I highly recommend unplugging all network cables from your smartTV, disabling its wifi, and using a cheap PC as a streaming box. Adblockers, media ripping (is possible), it can do more than smart tV, you can play games on it.

If you haven’t yet, question what being a man means to you, and what being a good person means to you.

You will, throughout your life, find those definitions challenged. How you respond to the first will help you to develop a stronger sense of how you relate to your gender, and how it effects the way you interact with yourself and the world. How you respond to the second determines your character, which is how the world will see you as a person, and with sufficient introspection how you will see yourself.

Keep growing. Keep learning.

When/If you do, a RTX3070-lhr (about $300 new) is just about the BARE MINIMUM for gpu inferencing. Its what I use, it gets the job done, but I often find context limits too small to be usable with larger models.

If you wanna go team red, Vulkan should still work for inferencing and you have access to options with significantly more VRAM, allowing you to more effectively use larger models. I’m not sure about speed though, I haven’t personally used AMDs GPUs since around 2015.

If you’ve got a decent Nvidia GPU and are hoping on linux, look into the Kobold-cpp Vulkan backend, in my experience it works far better than the CUDA backend and is astronomically faster than the CPU-Only backend.

If you’re planning on using LLMs for coding advice, may I recommend selfhosting a model and adding the documentation and repositories as context?

I use a a 1.5b qwen model (mega dumb) but with no context limit I can attach the documentation for the language I’m using, and attach the files from the repo I’m working in (always a local repo in my case) I can usually explain what I’m doing, what I’m trying to accomplish, and what I’ve tried to the LLM and it will generate snippets that at the very least point me in the right direction but more often than not solve the problem (after minor tweaks because dumb model not so good at coding)

🗯️‽#*&

I don’t want free earbuds

My VHS player is HDMI, I feed that into an HDMI splitter (to bypass HDCP) then into a USB capture card.

OBS displays the capture card as though it were a camera input. I record this while it is playing, and export to MKV so I can add web sourced SRTs in after the fact.

I’m sure there’s a better way to do it, but this works for me.

There is absolutely better ways to do it, but I have an HDMI VCR and a capture card from goodwill that was $10 total.

For now its fine, I’m not burning physicals, its just bytes on a platter, I do need a VHS digitizer though.

Just because VHS goes bad, I’d suggest ripping to dvd or blu-ray (too keep the physical feel) which should get you another 15+ years of storage in a compact fashion, more If kept properly (my ps2 games still work after 23 years, is my source on that).

My uncompressed rips (via OBS) from VHS are around 35 GB, perfect use case for a BD-R.

I know I’ll probably get shit for this comment because “optical media bad” but I don’t care.

Looks easy but is incredibly difficult to get perfect?

Oh neat. Thank you. I was assuming Singleton was like lambda and it was returning instances of itself.

I didn’t read the code very closely.

Is… Its that a fork bomb…? Stored inside a class?

Edit:

Nah I’m a dummy it don’t do that at all.