There have always been fuel stations that get shut down and you see them around town already either abandoned, repurposed (often hand car washes) or demolished and built over.
As these gradually shut down in the future, I wonder if some could just go straight to becoming commercial charger stations. Or if anyone can think of a better use for a large outdoor covered parking area + large underground storage tank + small convenience store.
I still like tech and like making things too. Really glad I made my gaming PC and server before this current hardware crisis. I keep to areas not affected by AI or hardware problems. I made a bunch of mechanical keyboards/macropads, hitbox leverless fight controllers, etc. I want to make an emulation arcade machine for my kids but AI induced RAM crisis has made that difficult. Want to dabble in home automation too but I’ll wait till I have the time to take that on. The more hardware modding I can do and the more woodwork I can incorporate, the better.
What a fucking horrible disservice to people with autism.
Keeping an eye put for deals on older models. This seems like such an ideal emulation gaming device. OLED screen would have really nailed it.
Is there a good alternative that you would recommend?
I needed to make a chat server for a bunch of normie extended family members. They need an easy to use mobile chat. Registering on PC complicates things. Then adding the mobile client for authorised encrypted messaging wasn’t really going to be realistic for everyone to do.
If anyone knows of a chat/voice/video self hosted app thats easy to deploy and use, I would be very interested in any suggested solution. Vocechat was not easy to deploy or get voice chat working…and the app sucks.
“It finished too early”
Yes, you do need to teach people all of that. Tech bros have sold LLMs as if they are AGI…and people have eaten this up.
The general population is literally ignorant of the fact that these word guessing machines do not have human values or cognitive skills.
Yes, using Element X. I haven’t been able to figure out the problem yet.
I am also interested in the answer. I’ve tried Conduit and it was easy to deploy, but I had trouble with search and new user registration. Now I’m trying Continuwuity and new user registration still isn’t working for some reason.
This seems to be a phenomenon I’m coming across increasingly frequently in real life. People outraged about “how dare you think that…”.
This has always been quite common online, but I never saw this much IRL. Sometimes I have to shut down a conversation with someone because they’re getting too worked up to talk about the issue.
Good read. Thanks.
Well if we’re out sharing unpopular opinions then here are mine:
Add spoiler warnings if you want, but there should be a statute of limitations and every discussion regarding movie and TV can’t consider if everyone present has seen it or if they plan to. Most references are to memes that are so ingrained in culture now anyway. Darth Vader’s “no, I am your father” is hardly a spoiler anymore.
People are over concerned about spoilers generally. The surprise element is a very tiny proportion of the value of the art. You could literally tell me the ending of Se7en or Sixth Sense and I will argue that my enjoyment of good art is not affected at all. Everyone doesn’t need to be as extreme as me, but the over reliance on the surprise element of art is bordering on absurd now. Even saying “there is a twist” is considered a spoiler.
The Closer Look channel has an excellent video on how spoilers make a movie better (on Nebula currently, will take another week to get onto YouTube)…although he is talking about the intentional use of spoilers by the creator, I think the message carries over to all media.
I’m also interested in this, but with the added requirement of “no politics”. There are meme communities but people are hell bent on posting political absurdities everywhere as if they are flag waving for their team. I just want dumb jokes about dumb shit without hearing propaganda.
They’ve also done a cover of The Trooper. Some of their best ones also include Shoog Shoog and Yuve Yuve Yu.
Thats taken me down the rabbit hole of other Mongolian throat singing songs. These will start playing in the car and my wife is like “WTF is this”.
You’ve got it backwards. Rich countries have the infrastructure for networked solutions.
Developing countries don’t have reliable fast internet or reliable power to rely so heavily on cloud services.
No need for me to comment. This guy has me covered.
Except I can drink caffeine in the evening too, IDGAF