downhomechunk
@downhomechunk@midwest.social
40 / m / chicago / bass
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 4 days ago:
I use unbound with pi-hole inside an Ubuntu lxc container. No additional device needed.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 1 month ago:
I think it’s a delusion of grandeur.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 1 month ago:
Gas like natural gas? Or gas like gasoline? I’m sure it’s the former, but I take nothing for granted anymore.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 3 months ago:
Does Phoenix have a big enough local talent pool needed to staff this kind of operation? Or are they counting on attracting talent from other places in the US?
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
Ddg shows bing results. Are we sure they won’t regurgitate hallucinations too?
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns 4 months ago:
My crippling adhd would like a word
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
It’s not much of a gamble. Most of their users won’t notice or care.
- Comment on 'One of the wildest Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding 4 months ago:
Overclockers:
“Give me some liquid nitrogen and I’ll make that 102x.” - Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 5 months ago:
Me in the 90s and 00s: yarrrr!
Me in the 10s: it feels good to be legit
Me in the 20s: YARRRRRRRRR!
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 6 months ago:
Streamio and RD are so easy that even my luddite wife can test all the linux distros she wants without my help.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 6 months ago:
Everything has some sort of top:
Slacktop, craptop, proxtop, oldtop, wifetop, and batocera (because I keep forgetting to ssh in and change it).
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
IRC
- Comment on Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC 7 months ago:
Hi floor twin!
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
My home instance is taking a wait and see approach. If we get a bunch of ads or hate speech then they’re out.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
Was about to say inverter until I saw your comment. I think the robot meant to call out AC vs DC.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
I bet these ads will be very well moderated
- Comment on Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready 9 months ago:
Where would one find a list of these repugnant corners of the dark web of which you speak? For research…
- Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton 9 months ago:
I’m happy to support these guys, and I feel like I pay a fair price for the services I get.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 9 months ago:
Don’t most reviewers get their sets for free?
- Comment on AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source 9 months ago:
Oddly enough, I’ve been trying to build rocm on slackware for the past week. It keeps failing out somewhere and throwing a HIP error that I can’t figure out. I wonder if this has anything to do with it.
- Comment on Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ 9 months ago:
F’real, my house just had it. My wife still can’t smell.
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 9 months ago:
I didn’t watch this, but i bet technology connections video about blue Christmas lights is more entertaining!
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 9 months ago:
They don’t make it easy, but it’s not hard either. Flauncher + adb to change the default launcher ftw!
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 10 months ago:
I don’t think dubious scrappers taking obviously stolen copper are paying fair market value. You’d have to throw in a vcr or two amd haggle a bit to get enough for a dub.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 10 months ago:
Red raspberry is a pretty weak flavor of the day. Midnight toffee or caramel cashew ftw!
- Comment on Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000 10 months ago:
Just like leasing a fancy Mercedes to keep up with the Joneses when you’re already approaching six figures of credit card debt.
- Comment on Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake 10 months ago:
Think of the quarterly profits, won’t someone please think of the shareholders?!?
/s
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
In a word: yarrrrr
- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 10 months ago:
Armbian is a really cool project. So is batocera. I have a few SBCs to play with.
- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 10 months ago:
How can it be both the year of ARM and the year of the linux desktop?