I make it a point to post a few articles every day.

Not a firehose, but I’m doing my part.

There are older models you can get that work that way. They’re just less convenient in that you have to clean them out yourself. I had one for a long time, but I wanted one that is self-emptying.

Yeah, mine has it. I have to go into the app once a week and manually delete it.

I am really, really glad I replaced my PC’s a year ago.

This is insane. I’m kinda sorta rooting for the crash now. These unregulated billionaires are ruining all the things.

IT has been an interesting ride the last two months, encountering some of the weirdest bugs I’ve ever seen, after two decades of Windows working just fine for the most part.

Love how they’re pretending that an LLM is useful for any task that needs precision.

Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.

I have a dual-boot with Linux Mint. I don’t access anything personal from my windows installation. It’s just for games that don’t work on Linux.

My plan is to stay invested until dividends hit in December, and then I’m going to evaluate moving my investments into a money market or bonds. Amazon’s numbers show that consumers are still buying, and my assumption is that consumer spending will hold off the pop for now.

I 100% expect a massive crash, and when it’s just seven companies propping up an entire economy, the pop is going to be very bad. I’d rather lose a little value in the short term than have my portfolio drop to a calamitous degree and have to wait 5-10 years for it to recover.

*not a FA, just my personal plan

The wrong founder died, unfortunately.

There are going to be so, so many false positives.

Not that it matters. The shitty data LLM’s produce hasn’t stopped them yet.

These fuckers need to stop using LLMs to generate code when they need things to function with precision.

You could build your own spreadsheet using LibreOffice Spreadsheets.

I’ve been meaning to do it because my diet doesn’t change much, and it would just be easier to track it myself.

Good to see you get some good utility from it. 💪😎

That’s awesome, but I don’t need it. :)

I’m kind of glad that I don’t mind flipping switches and pressing buttons. I’ve never felt the need for a smart home, so this stuff hasn’t affected me much personally.

And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.

It’s not meat.

It’s cars and planes. We know this because we observed a drastic drop in air pollution in both 2008 (following the financial crash) and March 2020 that can be attributed to basically the entire planet no longer commuting and traveling.

That said, LLM’s water and carbon footprints are likely going to be far more devastating than meat consumption, not that it’ll matter. Everyone is still going to vote Democrat and Republican and things will steadily continue to get worse.

The key with a VPN is to buy long term. I got a black friday deal for Proton last year that comes out to two dollars and pennies a month.

These are not the people who raised me or the values they raised me with.

Agreed. The version of my parents that I loved is already dead and gone.

Anytime they bring up politics, I just tell them we can’t discuss it.

If they press the matter, I say the same thing, except the second time I add: “…because it’s going to make me hate you.”

They’ve been borrowing my car to drive for DoorDash since April 2024 and still haven’t figured out that this government they voted for is really fucking shitty.