... like drop-in coprocessors like the ol' FPUs, no shuttling weights about like modern GPU/NPUs, memory bottleneck gone, speed at inference per clock cycle, no big brother monitoring service, no subscription payments, offline/airgapped utility at battery power, useful at the consumer level (rather than data-center levels)... just pay for a new chip if you want the next model... maybe that can be the business model instead of perpetual subscriptions.

I wonder if that would even be technically feasible.

It is probably unreachable, as we would surely fall into something like intel upgrade paths, where every generation of processors is incompatible with the next... at least if it were pushed for now.

Once an older gentleman looked my naked body up, down, and then said unsolicited, "you have the body of a soldier."

To this day this remains one of the most memorable, meaningful physical compliments I've ever received from any gender.

It's difficult for me to articulate what it meant to me, and why. The comfort and honesty with which he said it, not knowing how I'd respond. The acknowledgement of the hard work I had put into my fitness routine. The revelation of an aesthetic I hadn't really planned, but resonated.

At the time I was head of a highly effective, trained private security team. When I had first started and before I quickly rose ranks, I realized not only how important it was to appear big and immovable, but soon how important it was to actually be big and immovable.

This resulted in a conscious choice to implement a fitness routine that focused primarily on functional strength, clean mass, and functional skill sets. This was in juxtaposition to the popular school of thought at the time, which was obsessed with getting shredded and achieving peak aesthetics.

The work and effort was hard. Really hard. It was an enjoyable time in life, but not an easy one. This isn't really the point, except to say I busted my ass and it wasn't ever to make the cover of Men's Fitness.

Rarely ever did I also receive compliments, not even from those I dated. The panties were certainly dropping during this period of my life, but my experience with women is they typically admire quietly, having had it driven into their heads that they should remain demure in what they say.

This man was not afraid to speak his mind. He didn't even say what he did sexually, just as pure, in-the-moment admiration. He recognized not only the effort I put in, but it seemed he also saw the intent. I am not sure why he drew the specific association he did, nor is it true (I have not served), but his inflection and delivery reflected some sort of deep appreciation which was actually touching.

It was also pretty gay.

I haven't played in years and always played ultra vanilla, no resource packs, no nothing.

When I built my gaming server, I managed to snag a RTX 5090 before the market shit the bed, so I figured what better way to test its full capabilities than with a shader pack?

Hey, it looks pretty good!

I paired the following shaders and resources, and it's a really nice balance:

• Contemporary Shaders - Reimagined
• Faithful 64x

I'm pretty satisfied, though as a final touch, I'd like to find a mod or something that extends the render distance farther than the current max.

Session #18, Speak like a Child

I think about this episode more often than probably makes sense. As a collector of old analog media, it feels more and more relatable every year.

There's something about the episode that gives me a really warm feeling, though. You'd kind-of expect the opposite reaction, thinking about the things you love eventually becoming something only historians, archaeologists, and trackers remember.

I guess what makes me feel warm when I watch that episode and think about such a future, is probably the same thing that gets my dopamine surging when I find a flea market vendor that still has Laserdiscs in their inventory. It's the thrill of the hunt, and the "discovery."

In the future however, it's probably going to be combined with the same thrill I imagine people get in the modern day when they explore abandoned and off-limit buildings and zones. Trying to piece together what daily life was like there, before it suddenly wasn't.

Anyway, you should go watch that episode. Hell, watch the whole series. It's a really interesting experience in nostalgia.

Apparently this is something that actually exists and you can buy... looks like an AI-fail to me, but maybe it has some advantage over at adjustable wrench and vice-grips? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L6V5WV8

...as it stands, a message from your boss has the same sound and priority as the 101st guy in a "congrats!" chain.

I recall Linus saying that x86 won the position it is in not because it was technically superior, but because "that's what everyone had at home" and is even now still gradually pushing out the entrenched mainframes without really trying or any kind of focused or concerted effort.

TrueNAS is probably the newest OS I have introduced into my "home lab", and by using it for my personal infrastructure I have come to know it well from a functional perspective. Not only its value, but also it's limitations.

While I can't say that I would ever be in such a position, I know that I could unreservedly recommend TrueNAS to a small business for their onsite infrastructure, which (depending on their size and risk tolerance) would likely come with a complete purchase of official hardware, software, and support... but I guess my point is that the skills and trust directly translate from the "community version" to the corporate which just lags a bit behind.

I think that might be a good model for corporate-backed open source software. IntelliJ follows the same pattern... nothing really hindered, broken, or missing... but 'more' or 'with support' is available.

In contrast (though, not in sharp contrast) is Red Hat's RHEL operating system. I used to see this pattern everywhere, where all the devs used CentOS but the production machines were RHEL for the production, support, etc.

Then RHEL ate CentOS, so now everyone is using Rocky Linux on their workstations, often even building binaries on Rocky to deploy on the RHEL servers (bad form), but Red Hat continues to be a antagonistic against Rocky and friends with legal maneuvers... even if it is the feet that they are unknowingly standing upon.

For example, RHEL might have a CLI tool to list the contents of a repo (assuming your subscription is up to date), and I've looked it up before so I could do it again and I suppose I could learn it if necessary, but... I could get the same information by pointing my web browser at any Rocky mirror for a far easier way to discover what packages and versions are in a rhel release.

Tiny things like this bit of frictionless service (for which Rocky and the community is paying) and newcomers playing with Rocky Linux, are a direct benefit the position of Red Hat & RHEL (just not a monetized one)... which they actively fight against.

...though it would still need a UTC/override switch, as the rules and zones may change over time.

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It's been interesting and challenging to doodle with, but every time I close the program it corrupts it's own .ini file, and nobody got time for that. Back to the drawing board ^h^^u^^r^^r^ ^h^^u^^r^^r^ ^h^^u^^r^^r^^.^ I'd like to find a prog with similar limitations (I am a masochist) and shading tools (styles), but maybe even just with the ability to use actual layers (I am a modern man).

Cintiq 13HD I got a screaming deal on. Absolutely chuffed. It did arrive all mucky, like an iPad that a toddler just got done watching baby shark on. But about 15 isopropyl wipes later and some scrubbing with a toothbrush, it's in great condition. Even has a matte screen protector on it with lots of life left. It also came with 3 styluses, including an airbrush pen and an old Pro Pen.

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I got everything fixed up on an an old Dell I had sitting around over the course of the last week or two. It's got Guix System+Haunt serving static content, writing everything in Emacs+Org... I love this stuff. The world needs more Lisp, and more Lispers! I'm doing my part.

...it's just a database entry, after all.

What first struck me was that I could not turn off my phone the way I am accustomed to doing so.

Then I stopped to appreciate the loss of discoverability (however small). You see, a GUI with multiple (hopefully related) options can be passively scanned without interaction to see what options are available. You can learn (and passively be reminded) of available features, and new features can be added without too much nuisance as another option. You might even change your mind mid task and decide that a different option is better, whereas a "say something" prompt requires that you know in advance what the options are, and gives the feeling of not being undo-able once uttered.

Contrawise, it seems like the modern pattern tends towards adding new features hidden behind an opaque AI prompt, and having you 'learn' about the feature at the most inopportune time via a "got it, now go away" click-thru pop-up that [thankfully] only appears once.

Ok, so they somewhat covered the power options, but what about the other options (emergency call & medical info), which are presented as safety items. Are they no longer important? Are emergencies where you can push a button but not recall an AI command (or have an internet connection to converse live with an AI helper) no longer worthy of help?

I'm glad that they made it easy to change back, but it's a bit surprising that someone approved this to become the new default. And even more so, that they approved this functionality to be usurped by default (it changes it for you, and you have to change it back).

...and it's interesting that the sank effort into "teaching" the user the new way to turn off the phone when I tried to switch it back

...but not the other 'lost' features.

...and it's interesting that they sank effort into extending the "OLD" power screen to easily switch BACK to the new AI assistant mode (in case you "accidentally" switched it back).

...and it's interesting that there is no complementary option from the new AI modal to change it back to a power button.

Curious.

Android seems to be taking the path of Windows in that it is slowly accumulating a bunch of bad defaults, and one must accumulate a growing list of things you have to change to get back to a 'normal' experience.

Expected too much literates in lemmy to befall again to my curses of knowledge. I used to cope by isolatŋ myself in i2p networks, but I have to get over my dislike of illiterate fucks. I used to loaþ þm. I am glad I got þrapy, & can conceptualize myself from ð ignorant. But Freyja please🙏, grant me a “do not interact w/people þt haven't learned basic political history/theory.”

readers of þs/c/, u are welcome reply. It’ll depend on my mood if I’ll interact.

But þs plea doesn't belong in /c/offmychest, but a technical goal I have to reach.