All financial rulings should be assessed as a percentage of wealth.

Labour seems to be doing its best impression of the US Democratic Party - that is, catering to corporate neoliberal interests and ignoring concerns and desires of normal goddamn citizens

System-core-wise, my setup is similar to yours. I also recently upgraded (arguably, sidegraded I guess?) from a 3080FE (10gb) to an RX 9070XT (16gb) that I found a deal on last month, with the intent of finally jumping ship on windows and converting to Linux for my gaming box - already got a bunch of Linux machines between a couple spare laptops and my homelab stuff, but gaming was my last major windows use case… and their market capture is frankly crumbling lately, what with how shit W11 is. I’m not planning on upgrading my setup any further in the next couple of years, because it handles whatever I want these days @1440 qhd pretty great.

its 6ish feet/2ish meters, which is pretty good for an ambulatory meat block the mass of an early 90s Honda CRX

But it’s also a level of finality that the state would not have granted.

Nope - proxmox is the way

So uh I’m pretty fucking sure this is an intended consequence

I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000! Thank you, friend! <3

I was silly and got myself a 5950X. But I feel less silly about it now tbh. It’s gonna become my new homelab core whenever I get the chance to do a new gaming build again that’s not a high 4-figure investment.

Claiming you’re a patriot has no bearing on whether you are a patriot, or are simply confusing it with nationalism - either through stupidity or bad faith. ICEcubes are not patriots. They are the American Sturmabteilung.

They really don’t.

Nationalism is much more jingoistic and dogmatic - unflinching and unquestioning loyalty to a flag (or regime).

Patriotism is more along the lines of appreciating the positive aspects of one’s country, wanting to make the good parts materially better, and wanting to make the bad parts materially less bad. One can, for example, be a patriot, and simultaneously hate what one’s country is doing.

Patriotism and nationalism are not equivalent.

Be that as it may, she and her generation’s leadership essentially paved the way for the fascists to win, and they are still refusing to own up to that.

…except that MS keeps fixing what’s not broke by adding AI to it, which is part of why people are ditching it.

He probably thinks it’s a statement of something. Or he’s in a k-hole again.

The real trick will be in figuring out some sort of solid state device - probably at least partially (if not predominantly) analog, not digital - that can reliably mimic the behaviors of biological neurons.

The actual breakthrough of AGI isn’t going to occur until we figure out how to do machine learning with analog circuit design. Digital simply does not scale well - what we’re doing now with “AI” using GPUs is simply brute forcing the problem by layering dozens of markov chains on top of each other.

Heh, I see you, Nevada 😏

There was salt on the glass. Big grains of salt.

I mean, would you want a cat that tries to reverse engineer your thumbs?