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  • idk why, but everytime I try archinstall it breaks in one way or another. I'm sure it works perfectly well for everyone else, I'm just cursed

    note: not seeking advice, I prefer my manually installed FDE + secureboot EFISTUB setup anyways

  • How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?
  • The Sennheiser Momentum 4s are great, though a bit expensive

  • If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?
  • Not to mention the privacy issues, sending every word I ever write directly to a corp datacenter for any reason is one of the last things I'd ever want to do. Though as it always seems to be, most people would probably not care and just think "cool AI in phone? omg yes violate my privacy harder daddy Google"

  • If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?
  • You can run an LLM on a phone (tried it myself once, with llama.cpp), but even on the simplest model I could find it was doing maybe one word every few seconds while using up 100% of the CPU. The quality is terrible, and your battery wouldn't last an hour.

  • Business Rule
  • "How to get a job: have work experience."

    "How to get work experience: get a job."

  • usb formatting
  • I admire your dedication, but you really could've just done this

    btrfs fi mkswapfile --size 16G /swap
    swapon /swap
    
  • Sending incremental memes
  • zfs send -I

  • Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch
  • Buying the music and selfhosting a streaming server is an option, though obviously not for everyone

  • X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns
  • Restricting the internet based on where you happen to live can only end badly.

  • Once a pirate, always a pirate
  • YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR

    (but I would)

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  • Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere?
  • A study from 1989 doesn't apply to modern plants built 35 years later, it really doesn't make sense to extrapolate it like this.

  • I’ve got this worldbuilding project where a big chunk of land is cordoned off. I’m not sure what’s inside.
  • Also my first idea, but I think that'd only make sense if it's a few centuries old and completely forgotten about creating weird superstitions. There's nothing actually dangerous about long-term nuclear waste storage, all of these markings would exist mostly to prevent people from digging in the area and potentially uncovering the waste.

    Not to mention that it'd have to be a very small area, nowhere near the size of a single city – nevermind a whole US state.

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  • I do, actually

  • Gamedev and linux
  • BG3 did everything well, no surprises there

  • Destigmatize Bankruptcy.
  • ...for a few hours, until you need water. And food. And shelter.

    Please don't tell me that you think people living in the woods by themselves because our extremely advanced modern society with practically limitless resources compared to nearly all of history can't provide basic needs like that for everyone participating in it is a-okay.

  • Its getting old.
  • Exactly, automation shouldn't kick some people out of jobs and leave others just as overworked as before, it should automate things that don't absolutely need humans and just decrease the workload of (currently) irreplaceable people so that more people can work as much as one did before and still get the same salary.

    Hell, unemployment as a whole should not exist in the modern era. If there's "too few jobs", decrease working hours and increase wages accordingly so the total monthly/yearly/whatever pay is the same. And if there just physically aren't enough resources to accomodate so many people having decent salaries (which is absolutely not the case right now), then we should start talking about overpopulation.

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  • How feasible would it be to use one computer as a combined server/desktop with virtualization?

    I currently have a 24/7 linux old-office-PC-turned-server for self-hosting, and a desktop for mostly programming and playing games (linux as a host + a windows VM with a passed-through GPU). The server's i5-3330 is usually at ~10-15% usage.

    Here's the actual idea: what if, instead of having a separate server and desktop, I had one beefy computer that'd run 24/7 acting as a server and just spun up a linux or windows VM when I needed a desktop? GPUs and USB stuff would be passed through, and I could buy a PCIe SATA or NVMe controller I could also passthrough to not have to worry about virtualized disk overhead.

    I'm almost certain I could make this work, but I wonder if it's even worth it - would it consume less power? What about damage to the components from staying powered 24/7? It'd certainly be faster accessing a NAS without the whole "Network-Attached" part, and powering on the desktop for remote access could just be a command over SSH instead of some convoluted remote WoL that I haven't bothered setting up yet.

    I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

    Edit 2 months later: Just bought a 7950X3D and use the 3D V-cache half of it as a virtualized desktop with the other cores used for running the host and other VMs. Works perfectly when passing through a dedicated GPU, but iGPU passthrough is very difficult if not impossible since I couldn't manage it.

    Edit even later-er: iGPU passthrough is possible on ryzen 7000 after all, everything works great now.

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