[–] 1 point 5 hours ago*

I had to look, I have the APC-Surge Protector - PM6-GR.

Do you mean read up on surge protection for the phone line? I think it does make sense in general, I've seen more damages through there than through power lines in my life in Germany. However it's mostly not (only) for the broken devices (which might often be insurance covered) but also against fire due to that, which could be the worse problem as a consequence.

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago

    Being old and tired. Sorry I had to, but it's really true.

    But for some mroe helpful input I would always recommend background noise. Water, wind, thunder, trees, rain etc. Can really recommend mynoise as web or app paid with all content (worth it!).

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    I had one for my nas and lab. 0 times save and the maintenance (usually battery change ever or every second year) made me realize it's not worth it.

    So I use journalling Filesystem (as are many nowadays) which should cope with sudden stops. The next risk to minimize are surges/lightning so I bought a appropriate protection and also surge protected the dsl line (with proper grounding).

    Anyhow, back to the question. 0 times. It really depends on where you live.

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago

    I actually had this person approach me and emphasize about stuff, getting to dm. Then at some point moving over to a messenger.

    At some point he/she just vanished and all communication was deleted as far as I could see.

    I think it might've been social engineering and scam but being aware I never gave away more than I would more or less publicly anyway. That might have been the reason for giving up.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Quality post. Thank you.

    I only had a regular life with an European NES in Germany, but if you want to know anything please ask!

    From our perspective that story is very interesting, although we are aware of clone consoles and games and they have a very special reputation to say the least 😁. Germanys connection to those shadier things mostly swept over from eastern Europe as far as I could see.

    How did using the basic work? I only know the standard NES/FC behaviour. Was there a menu, or just start without module to get into basic? Etc

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

    The sad part is how easily people are blinded. The emperors new clothes is really the best story there is.

    Even worse if it's malicious of course, weaponizing this.

    It's alive! It fighting for survival! It's doing things on its own! Sigh

    We have had better games doing this.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Yeah, the shutter hz/fps halving. I was on the 60 -> 30 route I think, which was still bearable to me, at least at that time.

    But all in all until now I accepted that "3D" output will always be niche for a lot of reasons. But it pops up every 10 years or so.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Ah, thank you for elaborating!

    Though I have to say, this seems to be a thing I also created tooling for in the past.

    So what I did for clusters was create an optional script where servers could drop a healthcheck if they're member of a cluster.

    The idea was that they are able to check their cluster status, do actions and check if they're OK again.

    So basically a simple framework for what you've described and that also was long before llm.

    I'm not saying this to discredit, but to add more perspectives.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Could you tell which field that job is in?

    What I've seen so far is a lot of people basically getting good starts with something AI but mostly still having to correct too much so that either the prompt takes more work than the actual task or the work thereafter is more.

    And I have seen some situations where llm also really made sense and was helping in general, but that was far and in between.

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