renegadespork

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Flowers like this reminding us that they are, in fact, the plant’s sex organ.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Also: Valve is so obviously cooking up new hardware.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (7 children)

That's right, a Star Wars meme in Ten Forward, I await my sentence.

This seems like something you could organize.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

There’s nothing particularly “smart” about machine learning models. They are still programs that run on computers, the only difference is that they are made by another program rather than by a human, so they are too complicated for humans to meaningfully read.

Also, the meaning of digital hasn’t really changed. It still refers to information that is represented in bits rather than some analog format.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I finally switched to full-time Linux last year and I haven't missed anything. The only stuff that doesn't work (and doesn't have a good alternative) are games with invasive anti-cheat that I wanted to boycott anyway.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Brain hack: Go stare at a wall for 5-10 minutes and try again, repeat until the game/activity seems fun. Your brain will start to crave any stimulation when faced with unbearable boredom.

Note: This may cause emotions you were suppressing to surface in the absence of stimulation, which will likely be uncomfortable, but also might be the reason you were struggling to enjoy things in the first place.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I really hope more GPU compute workloads would support VAAPI, because these Intel cards are easily the best value for things like self-hosted AI models--especially since they're offering more VRAM than some high-end Nvidia cards.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Free" platform run by a for-profit company: enshittifies
Everyone:

Kinda wild it was ever closed-source, but credit where it's due, I guess.

 

Disclaimer: I'm referring the the US medical system, but I imagine people in other countries may encounter similar things.

I cannot be the only one who has had this experience, but all my dealings with the medical industry feel like they were refined by a group of psychologists to exploit the weaknesses of those with ADHD.

The volume of calls, appointments, and paperwork I had to full out to get a diagnosis and prescription for treatment is completely unreasonable to expect someone with poor working memory and attention issues to navigate.

Then, to stay on medication, you need to schedule and make appointments with a psychiatrist every month, for the rest of your life, and if you miss a single one, you will run out of meds (and likely charged a fine), which will make it even harder to remember to make the next one. If you miss too many, that psychiatrist will refuse to see you again and you have to go back to your PCP to get a new referral.

Look, I understand that their time is valuable, but this system couldn't be designed any other way to be more accommodating to people who clinically forget things?!

It's like designing a wheelchair ramp that's actually just stairs that are 3x as steep as the regular stairs. Also, if you fall to the bottom, someone takes your wheelchair until you can climb back up.

 

For the curious, this is the Ducky Origin Vintage.

 

I'm configuring a Framework 13, and while selecting the ports, I came across a question that I couldn't determine from the pictures, product pages, or configurator:

Is there a dedicated USB-C port for docking and charging? That is, to say, if I don't choose USB-C for at least one of the expansion ports, will I still be able to plug it in to a USB-C dock? If not, how will I charge the laptop? Is there a dedicated charging port?

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