You should be proud of yourself indeed

I’m an IT guy and I get mad anxiety with anything soldering, welding, …

I am incompatible with anything less digital than a PC so I got mad respect for this sorta stuff.

I watched quite a few videos and read some articles on this.

There are multiple things at play.

1. Protests make opinions known. This is basically what you outlined.
2. Protests make the government and / or the police blink. If a protests picks up enough steam, it puts governments and military and police on notice that any escalation might be dangerous. It signals volatility, and this is basically a dare against a government, and it creates rifts of dissent within government.
3. Protests signal power to a populace. Imagine you’re at home, you hate the government but you feel unsure about making your opinion known. Some part of it is personal consequences, but some part is also just that you wanna know if others feel the same. Imagine a crowd of millions of people outside saying what you thought all along. Even if you’re not joining, you sure as hell feel strengthened in every small thing you do against the government, even if it’s just talking about it with your friends an family.

Especially if there’s still such a crackdown on protests, the second and third point are valuable goals. The point of a protest is almost never immediate action but an intentional display of pressure. Everything suddenly becomes high stakes and another opinion enters the streets, disinfecting the halls of power one sun beam at a time.

Yes it is.

If it’s not, that has to do with you becoming an explicit target of 3-lettter agencies beforehand. Look, it’s legally risky and expensive to collect data from people, evaluate it and draw conclusions. You can become a big enough target for those agencies to reason that it’s worth it, but you gotta work really hard to get there.

In fact, the most likely thing for any given random person is either getting caught up in phishing attacks or getting chased by a PI at the mercy of family or a former partner that is holding grudges.

What I’m saying is yes, there’s a tiny chance that it’s not safe but if it really was dangerous for you to speak, you would probably already know.

Famously at Edward Snowden’s first interview the NSA was tapping him and he was chased around right up until they lost jurisdiction and so every TSA checkpoint became dangerous for him. But everyone who thinks they are just as endangered as Edward Snowden is most likely just paranoid.

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I rendered a 5min 4k60 video in blender / octane for a month, which suggests modern cards should easily do more chill tasks. And if you genuinely need the setup I did, you have 10x the work just taking care of modelling,particles, vfx afterfx, composition cut, …

Either you reached that level or you didn’t

I was gonna say, I used to render pretty sick Videos on a 1070, I think you’ll be fine unless you work at Pixar.

Bunch of reasons, few people have pointed out in other comments already, including:

• text =/= dialogue
• LLMs train on the average guy, not good actors or only well done plays
• AI models are statistical approximations of patterns that emulate behavior of the real world. It’s gonna take shortcuts wherever it can
• maybe there’s specific tricks for positive or systems prompts that will improve quality in your case / on you model
• the model you are using could be bad for the task
• some of the points you are making strike me as personal preference; they could just as well apply to non-AI written series

Those are some things that play into why it feels like it’s awful at it. Some of it perception, some of it is true.

yeah that’s the one

Literally today Chris Titus released a video where he emphasized that no one should be using secure boot because the default backend is Microsoft and no one changes their secure boot config.

If that’s true there’s an argument that the name “secure boot” is hardly detachable from the defaults and thus that name is kid of burnt and shouldn’t be recommended out of an abundance of caution for new users.

Alright fk EA with a rusty spoon

The point might be injunctions and judicial record, they might know they’re not getting their money back.

Ok so when you’re talking about xmpp as a discord alternative, basically movim is kind of what people should be paying attention to.

I’ll def check that out. I am also passively observing progress on stoat.

Now this is a question: how far can you get with xmpp? Could you build an interface on top of it to look exactly like discord with all of it’s functions? Or does something like that already exist?

My first instinct with these older protocols is that there’s no way they could support 10 people in a voice call with concurrent camera streams and 3 screen captures. I’m genuinely curious how far xmpp goes.

Because the people make the platform, and not the functions, and for lots of people you need a lower entry barrier, and the entry barrier for both of those is a good bit higher than fluxer.

Don’t get me wrong, if matrix was a bit more convenient (easier to understand and to use like you would discord, and less bugs of which there are still a wide range of), I’d 100% advocate for it. But I can only tell my friends to use something if it’s convenient enough that they will genuinely avoid a degraded experience.

To further discourage you from dual booting: there’s a long tradition by this point about your windows OS swallowing your Linux OS or taking over your bootloader and not giving it back. This has only gotten worse with time and there’s basically no surefire solution.

Another approach is always a VM but for graphically intense applications or things like music production, you’ll spend lots of time making passthrough of your audio or devices work. That said, it is a great solution for these oddball apps that you just can’t get to work in Linux.

It’s only a meme if it’s funny

• a new job
• more news about the downfall of Trump’s administration
• me making more music (and collabs)
• making and playing on a new Minecraft modded server again
• watching closely to see if the matrix protocol becomes more widely adopted against censorship
• some PC parts becoming cheaper because of China’s more competitive industries (not gonna be ram prices though)
• buying and testing hytale
• broader adoption of Linux, specifically how well different government entities of different countries can establish work processes in it
• sensible AI regulation regarding specifically defamation and identity theft
• more competition in various industries
• maybe some kind of resolve in the Ukraine war?
• new anime series & movies

Here’s some things (sorry for the little bit of orphan crushing machine in the middle)

McNally v Proven Locks

Is probably what you’re talking about. And apparently Proven Locks is mostly a shit show with one ok product and full of “hurrdurr American patriot” marketing.

I mean he did go off the deep end but it seems he’s taking a different route now.

Because he specifically argued in his divorce that he suffers cognitive impairment and therefore he projects less future earnings. So he himself basically argued he is not smart enough to earn even as much as the average guy.

So in his own words, he has a cognitive impairment that will not go away. Now either you trust his advice (which assumes it’s good advice, and kinda goes against him saying under oath he will have cognitive impairment) or you think he was saying the truth under oath and now his advice is not worth too much.

Basically you have to decide which version of his you wanna trust. And if I have to decide between “he is dumb” or “he lied under oath”, I know one thing for sure - and that is to be very skeptical of anything he says.