All modern chargers are made to negotiate with the charging device for power and voltage, including sending none because the device is full.

Definitely not. Even if no device is plugged in to a charger, the circuitry in the charger still uses electricity. Even a basic transformer with no control processor will still use electricity because they, like all machines, are not 100% efficient.

You plug it in when you aren’t using it

I would never leave a device on charge permanently. That would use excess electricity.

So to be clear about what this article is about: someone bought an x86 machine from China and installed Linux on it. Is that right?

🎉

devout Christian

this might be a good opportunity to engage

Ha ha! The only time to ever engage with a devout Christian is never.

I’d also appreciate any general advice on how to proceed.

Don’t proceed. Give up on the idea that you’re ever going to get what you want from this relationship. Write it off. For your mental health.

OP never questioned whether the friendship would be a success.

Them trying to make a friendship work

OP never questioned whether they could make a friendship work.

This really depends.

What does?

Depends

What does?

Typical advice

OP didn’t ask for advice.

Downvoted for equating Linux gaming and Steam

Are you able to explain succinctly what you mean by “selected” so that we can communicate? That page is pretty dense and opaque.

selected

What do you mean by that? What does it mean to “select” something in the context of a neural net with input nodes and output nodes?

the model was planning

How have you come to that conclusion?

LLM limitations like “they only predict the next token” and other things that have already been falsified

What do LLMs do beyond predicting the next token?

Yeah don’t really need to see graphic, bloody pictures of roadkill. We all know what it looks like and how it gets there.

Like a Transformer…?

I don’t have to get a lawyer involved

know more about mobile nuclear reactors

create marketing materials and personal profiles

write a message to a friend who lost their son to cancer

answer questions here on Lemmy

Everything you’ve written here has confirmed that I should avoid LLMs. And, to be frank, avoid you.

a movie to return them to Pegasus, which never happened

It happened in comic books instead.

what makes me different in my account activity than other users?

Your trolling.

I’m not a “troll”

You definitely troll.