theneverfox

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Oh, things will get worse... We haven't actually felt hardly any of the effects. When someone loses their job, it sucks, but it's not actually that bad until they're getting evicted or can't buy food. Cutting public health and research isn't bad until we have the next pandemic. Cutting all these government subsidies isn't that bad until the farmers go under and we can't find healthy food

I don't see that as defeatism, I see it as the working class is about to be very, very angry about the same things at the same time, and that means opportunity for change

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It was their fucking bill... You realize literally ever republican except rand Paul voted for it right?

I could exploring why it makes complete sense but holy shit, take a second to think post the talking points or you're not worth the time it takes to lay it out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

His owners called... That's it. His owners picked maga, and they've been desperate to win them back, even at the cost of giving up any and all power for the next 6 months

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Easy. You put it in your backpack under the seat in front of you with a long cable. Now no one knows it exists, but your bag is within arms reach so the battery is too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Okay, so Musk's children show up at the department of XXX. There's no one there, the building managers who hold the keys could hand the keys over, but they don't know who they are because the chain of command is at home.

Also, the Marshalls are at home, so the doge children are showing up alone to navigate this problem. So they break the door down?

But there's no one there, so they search the building door by door for a server room. But they encounter a secure area, which they have neither keycards or associated pins for. So they break down the door?

And now the local police are alerted, but they continue on. They break down a bunch more doors, and find the server room. They proceed to hack random servers in the hopes of finding what they're looking for

No, no... Shutting down the government would create endless hurdles for doge, each one that is difficult for a competent person to navigate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks, I thought so but it's good to have confirmation my fantasy could play out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Especially because they apparently improperly searched him, which could make it all inadmissable

It's amazing for quick everyone was to talk about him like he did it

Like, he can get acquitted, do a press conference and say "guys the police tried to frame me. It really wasn't me" and no one would believe him. People would go "riiiight" winking at him and doing finger guns

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You act like we're saying different things...

But history rhymes, it doesn't repeat. We're in uncharted territory... The final outcome will probably rhyme, but there's endless differences from anything humanity has ever experienced before

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

No, it'll throw them for a loop. Fucking musk got social security records and thought every entry was getting payments, despite many being dead. The dumb fuck didn't even check their status before crying fraud - which is a serious crime that must be investigated

The records contain everyone who ever got it, dead or alive

These people are imbeciles. These chuckle fucks are struggling to accomplish their goals with unlimited power, you think they could navigate a shut down government?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Oh, they know. They just lost the oligarch vote, and now they're simping to get them back

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nope. Luigi is clearly innocent

And turning off the sarcasm for a moment... They found a manifesto and a murder weapon at McDonald's on a guy who dropped a backpack full of Monopoly money in central park? Then got away? He doesn't even look that similar to the security cam videos... It's too convenient, I have legitimate doubt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He doesn't though... He's still an independent

On November first, 2024, what do you say? Vote blue no matter who, don't let the fascists win.

On November 12th, 2024, what do you say? The Democrats are dickless fucks who handed the country to a fascist to court the billionaires

What do you think Bernie said? And when? What is he saying now?

 

Between wanting to do more with local LLMs, wsl annoyances, and the direction tech companies have been going lately, I think it's time I start exploring a full Linux migration

I'm a software dev, I'm comfortable in the command line, and I used to write the node configuration piece of something similar to chef (flavor/version agnostic setup of cloud environments)

So for me, Linux has always been a "modify the script and rebuild fresh" kind of deal... Even my dev VMs involved a lot of scripts and snapshots. I don't enjoy configuration and I really hate debugging it, but I can muddle through when I have to

Web searches have pushed me towards Ubuntu for LLM work, but I've never been a big fan of the window Managers. I like little flourishes like animation and lots of options I can set graphically, I use multiple desktop multiple monitors

I've tried the one it comes standard with, gnome, and kde (although it's been about 5 years since I've last given them a real shot).

I'm mostly looking for the most reasonable footprint that is "good enough", something that feels polished to at least the Windows XP level - subtle animations instead of instant popups, rounded borders, maybe a bit of transparency here and there.

I'm looking at Ubuntu w/

  • kde w/ plasma (I understand it's very configurable, I don't love the look and it seems to be a bigger footprint

  • budgie (looks nice, never heard of it before today)

  • kylin (looks very Windows 10 which is nice, a bit skeptical about the Chinese focus)

  • mate (I like the look, but it seems a bit dubiously centralized)

  • unity (looks like the standard Ubuntu taken to it's natural conclusion)

  • rhino Linux (something new which makes me skeptical, but pretty and seems more like existing tools packaged together which makes me think the issues might not impact actual workflow)

  • anything the community is big on for this, personally I'd pick opensuze, but I need to maximize compatibility with bleeding edge LLM projects

My hardware and hard requirements are:

  • nvidia 1060ti
  • ryzen 5500u
  • 16g ram
  • 4 drives nearly full, because it's a computer of Theseus running the same (upgraded) vista license that came with the case like 15 years ago
  • multi desktop, multi monitor
  • can handle a lot of browser Windows/tabs
  • ideally the setup is just a package mana ger install script with all my dependencies
  • gaming support would be nice, but I'll be dual booting for VR anyways

I've been out of the game for a while, I'd love to hear what the feeling is in the community these days

(Side note, is pine as cool a company as it seems?)

view more: next ›