CompactFlax
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- Comment on Trouble selfhosting iocane 19 hours ago:
Caddy is a proxy
Your router is almost certainly a firewall.
- Comment on "I hate this place even more than I did before" 1 day ago:
I visited a country with functioning infrastructure and beautiful scenery for a week and returned to a new assignment at work which was absolutely dreadful and this hits home.
- Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount 2 days ago:
Running out of cash for the AI runway are we?
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 days ago:
Swap isn’t terrible though, a lot of current gen mac hardware has very fast SSDs and very low latency controllers so it’s pretty transparent in normal use.
They do typically have good hardware that works well together. It’s a ton of work replicating that level of hardware compatibility. Apple catches a lot of negative feedback and some of it deserved but they won’t be caught dead shipping a wifi chip as shitty as the one in my Surface.
I think if you are on a website like this, this computer isn’t for you
Probably. I’m in the minority on an iPhone.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 days ago:
Yeah, conceptually it’s good, but the free up is important and seems to be a secondary concern. Perhaps it’s the third party devs.
Wasn’t super fetch what they called the high speed usb flash drives you could use as swap? That reminds me of a time I was optimistic about technology. Vista RC and Office 2007 on my MacBook Pro.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 days ago:
XP used to just have ram sitting there empty waiting for something. Then over vista and 8 and 10 they started more and more preloading because hey if the ram is empty it’s wasted. Like database servers, they always suck down all the RAM possible. Problem is windows doesn’t release it when the cache or whatever isn’t useful and something else wants it.
It’s been a while but I think macOS is considerably better at both parts of that equation.
There’s no reason that computers need to be so powerful other than MBAs saying “optimization is too expensive, just push the feature.”
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 6 days ago:
Good point.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 6 days ago:
It’s not discriminatory. They don’t have any legal obligation to serve citizens of foreign countries. When they do serve American citizens it triggers a whole lot of regulatory work, and it’s understandable they don’t want to do that unless you’re a high net worth individual (ie they make enough profit to cover that cost)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They’re both seafaring Europeans and got around.
Also, the Spanish Netherlands and Norway aren’t far apart, along trading routes.
- Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives 1 week ago:
Only AI companies is going to see the things, the way things are going.
- Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant 1 week ago:
Depends on what you’re controlling and your geographic location.
- Comment on Finally, taxpayer dollars put to a good use 1 week ago:
If this were the case, the goon squad would have showed up.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 1 week ago:
Good idea.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 1 week ago:
Some can be converted to EV chargers. It’s considered contaminated ground, so the options are limited without expensive remediation. Depending on the economic situation they may just be abandoned.
They won’t all shut down at once. The ICE cars won’t all turn off at once; they’ll fade.
- Comment on Can I assemble a metal building by myself? 1 week ago:
I think it depends on the size of the building more than anything, and your ability to creatively lift things. If there is sheet metal involved in the roof or siding, wear heavy pants and gloves with wrist guards and cut resistance.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
A renewed interest in competing with Chromebooks?
- Comment on Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microsoft 1 week ago:
They’re within their rights and it’s definitely not something they want to have take off.
But apparently their brand management doesn’t know who Barbara Streisand is.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
cheap, reliable CVT
I may be out of date but Nissan’s CVTs self destruct very effectively and Subaru’s don’t handle the torque of the H6 so well. They’re still unpleasant to drive.
- Comment on New OS on ugreen DH4300 2 weeks ago:
I have one of their devices with an intel CPU. I didn’t even boot the OS. Just popped in the firmware and told it to boot proxmox. But it’s an i5 with 32GB RAM so a different scenario than you’re thinking of.
- Comment on Blockade Bread 2 weeks ago:
The Siege of Leningrad, based on the mention of the Leningrad bread I situate
- Comment on Jack Dorsey’s Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake 2 weeks ago:
If they didn’t have AI to blame, they’d call this a pivot (and the subtext would be they’re running out of funding). It’s not about AI.
- Comment on Marijuana is the opposite of Ozempic 2 weeks ago:
There’s other [experimental] drugs like that, but they don’t work as well. They do keep you sober though, but on chemo the painkiller and dissociative effects are a huge plus.
- Comment on Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools 2 weeks ago:
To be clear, Muskrat blew holes in the hull of a sinking ship when he took over, but they absolutely had too many people.
- Comment on ‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies 2 weeks ago:
HIPAA governs how the data is held, but individuals can consent to sharing. Even with OpenAI.
- Comment on YSK that treatments for back pain can cost thousands. But some of the best fixes are actually free 2 weeks ago:
Then you see a physiotherapist, not a chiropractor. The difference is significant. One believes in visions; the other believes in science.
- Comment on YSK that treatments for back pain can cost thousands. But some of the best fixes are actually free 2 weeks ago:
The first thing you need to know is that chiropractic is not a medical practice, it’s spiritualist woo-woo derived “from the other world”.
Save your money and see a physiotherapist instead, preferably one who knows who Dr Stuart McGill is.
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 2 weeks ago:
What a dummy.
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 2 weeks ago:
A cheerful chirpy yes-we-can attitude is the last thing my inbox needs.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
By driving down the street before clearing snow you are driving with snow on it. Don’t do that. Not for 500m or 5km.
They need to remove snow because it could clog up the drains etc. If everyone did what you’re proposing it takes a lot longer to prep cars and they’ll need to shovel frequently.
Just scrape your car.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
People of all political stripes travel around the world.
There are a lot of Americans who are republicans because they’ve always been republicans and their dad was a republican. They read and travel. They’re slowly realizing that their vote has enabled the current regime. However, there’s also educated people who are still very much right-wing for many reasons.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that all right-leaning people are ignorant.