I don’t know if the GUID Partition Table fuckery is better or worse than what I was originally expecting when I thought your title meant you’d replaced your filesystem with ChatGPT and just let it hallucinate files in and out of existence for you. 🫠️

Ctrl+Plus/Minus and Ctrl+Scrollwheel (on mouse) adjust the font size in Firefox on my system.

LLMs don’t really know the subject matter they talk about in the same way a person does. Whatever you feed as input biases the responses towards and away from certain sequences of words. If you put in something about Star Wars, it’ll weigh its output in favor of saying things like “Luke Skywalker” and “Darth Vader” and away from things like “The best way to use a crockpot is…”. When you’re trying to get it to recall facts about things that aren’t extremely famous, it will jumble some parts or just make things up that sound plausible.

As an example, I liked to prompt them with “Tell me about ‘A Valiant Effort (1989)’” as a test – it doesn’t actually exist, but they’d often tell me it was a painting or a movie or an obscure book with hallucinated details until very recently; newer models seem more likely to say “I don’t know what that is” or similar, but that’s not guaranteed.

To get better results, try feeding it a passage you’d like it to work on directly in the input instead of assuming it just knows the story already, and you’ll get output weighted by the actual text (and whatever else you put in context).

I ran a 3x3 grid configuration for a long time as well – until I finally realized I needed more than that and upgraded to a 5x3 grid! 😅️

I use the center desktop for a maximized browser window and the most important stuff is usually in a plus shape immediately adjacent to that with less important things further away.

I have nuanced opinions about AI and, personally, I don’t really care how you make your memes if they’re interesting – though I will strongly discourage you from paying anyone for AI as a service to do it…

The “in 10 seconds” bit makes it really easy to flood communities with slop though, and that’s one of a number of reasons why people push back on it. There is a lot of boring AI generated stuff out there. Repetitive, same-y content is not fun – novelty is fun. If you can figure out how to push AI to do something unusual or amusing, I say have at it… but the haters are going to hate here regardless.

We had a subculture here for a while back in 2023 or so that played with AI memes. Someone would come up with an amusing idea – like Sailor Moon as a giant insect – post an AI generated picture of it, and then people would riff off it with variations of the idea until it became stale. I think those comms are basically dead at this point – and if you tried to revive them back you might get shouted off the platform given the amount of toxicity around AI now 😔️ – but there was some genuinely entertaining stuff in there occasionally!

RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX

If I understand correctly, does that mean you had two GPUs in the system? (Integrated GPU in the AMD chip + a separate NVIDIA GPU?) If so, were you maybe running on the wrong GPU? Also, did you install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers or just use the out-of-the-box open stuff? For NVIDIA usually you want the proprietary ones, and for AMD open is fine, but the kernel you’re running really matters in my experience…

I’ve seen the word “shimeji” around a bit recently (e.g. fanart of Shimeji Simulation) but it hadn’t connected in my head that shimeji is a mushroom until just now. Do these things pop up like mushrooms?

The narwhal bacons at midnight; the lemming beans at dawn.

Seems like the easier option is to get another SD card and switch out cards depending on what set of games you want to play. A 256GB micro SD is ~$40 US right now.

The Steam Deck already has a built-in microSD card slot – are you having problems with it or something?

Factorio - Every so often I still get a craving for this even if the space age release really took a lot of the shine off it for me personally.

I played it about six months ago and sometimes get the craving too. Does Satisfactory scratch that itch or is it too different? (Haven’t played it but was thinking of picking it up next time it’s on sale – or the itch gets itchy enough…)

!! We’re not friends? 😭️

(Image Src: pixiv - danbooru – by rui tamachi)

Tornado-kun, no! I’m not ready to go to Oz yet! 🌪️

I believe the intention of DMs is that they are supposed to be accessible only to the sending/receiving server admins and sending/receiving users – but given the many ways that distributed systems which are not built specifically for secure comms can go wrong, you should simply assume anything you transmit through Lemmy is or will eventually be public, period.

If you are concerned that some information you transmit through Lemmy may be exposed the correct security stance is simply: DO NOT SEND IT.

Kiki and Bouba

I usually make quick sauces with my pasta and use whole canned peeled tomatoes. To alter for fresh, I’d score the tomatoes with a knife, then blanch and peel the skin off as the first step.

My default tomato-based sauce is:

• olive oil
• a few whole tomatoes (peeled) – maybe about ~3 decently sized ones?
• garlic (either fresh minced or garlic powder)
• dried basil
• salt
• 1/4 tsp or so of capers
• a few kalamata olives
• pinch of MSG
• pinch of cayenne pepper

When using fresh garlic, I add it to the pan first – with garlic powder I add it with the other seasonings. I basically just combine everything, break up the tomatoes with a spatula, and let it cook down on medium heat (stirring occasionally) while I boil my spaghetti – then finish the spaghetti in the sauce.

I usually make this just for myself and eyeball the ingredients – so unfortunately, I don’t have exact measurements for most of it.

This is basically a variant of spaghetti puttanesca without anchovies – feel free to add those instead of (or in addition to) the MSG if you’d prefer.

I couldn’t see the cat in the picture at first and was like “There’s no way you’re fitting that dog in that carrier…” 😅️

On 196, there’s a rule to post before you leave (see the sidebar/community description depending on which UI you’re using). “rule” means they couldn’t think of a good title; i.e. they’re just following the “post something” rule. It’s popular to come up with something punny though involving “rule” if you can.

Personally, I think it’s particularly stupid that you can’t use it for GLSL shaders from external files…

Microsoft had a Visual Basic variant (VBScript) in IE that got some attention back in the 90s; it’s probably just as well that JS won instead of that…

In modern webdev type="module" is used to indicate an ES6 module and type="importmap" to include a JSON table of paths to modules. Still basically JS, but the parameter is still used in a meaningful way.