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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • The user who tweeted the take is a political commentator, or maybe influencer would be a better term. There’s a Wikipedia page about her that explains it better than I can.

    Basically she rose to fame as an anti-feminist during Gamergate, but kinda also seems to have progressive views on some other topics which have given her a weird platform because basically no matter what side of the political spectrum they’re on there’s something for anyone to agree with her on, and something they’d want to cancel her over.


  • That setup sounds great. The system I’m working on putting together is similar to your secondary setup. I picked up most of the equipment after Huricane Helene when we had neighbors who were without power for a couple of weeks (we’re kinda lucky where we live that we’re about 200 yards from the local fire department and on the same trunkline so they got our power back within a couple of days), but I have around 1.6 kw worth of panels and 2400 Wh of battery. Have a cheap 500w inverter for now, but will probably upgrade when I can afford it.

    Mine will also be entirely off-grid. Hoping to get it installed soon now that the weather is getting better. Spent most of these colder months working on lowering my power use requirements - like moving a bunch of services off my more power-hungry (~60w average) homelab/NAS onto a Raspberry Pi and another ARM SBC that combined pull around 7w.

    At this point, I’m not going for being able to power everything through an outage. Just trying to have enough that we can keep some essentials and some basic comforts like lighting in the evenings. My roommate has some off the shelf Eco-flow batteries and panels that have been able to keep our small chest freezer powered, but A/C and water heating will be things we’d have to go without, and we’d have to move cooking outdoors until we can get our old fireplace/chimney remodeled.






  • I saw a tiktok of a Brit talking about this with the upcoming ban in the US, and he made an interesting point. The Americans who can afford to travel and take time off work, are more often the ones who have lived privileged lives, and as a result act more entitled than the average American. He commented how interacting with regular Americans on tiktok changed his perception of what they are like, because only interacting with the tourists makes it seem like there’s a higher percentage of entitled a-holes.



  • This article seems more written from the perspective that AI is bad because it doesn’t work. And while I don’t know what kind of Photographer this was who had this happen to him - maybe he’s just a hobbyist - so I’m trying not to judge him too harshly.

    But as someone who went to school for photography (technically cinematography but we still did all the photography classes the school offered), it bothers me that the art of even doing your own edits in photoshop is being replaced by lazy use of AI. Why give up control of your art, and turn it over to a guessing machine?

    Anyway, probably just having an old-man yells at cloud moment, but real artists who use “professional” software like this don’t want the AI in there either. It’s not a tool I’d ever want to use.





  • There are some differences between distros as to whether TRIM is enabled by default or not (I’ve read Ubuntu enables it by default, but Debian does not). That said, depending on what file-system your ssd is formatted with it may be enabled by default at that level. The most-often recommended file-systems for SSDs are Btrfs and F2FS, both of which support and enable TRIM by default (as of Linux 6.2 for Btrfs, so if you are running an older kernel version you might need to manually enable it). I think most distro installers support using Btrfs as the main file-system, but F2FS is a bit more hit and miss I think. Safest bet would be to investigate once you settle on a distro, but support should be pretty standard, even if it’s not enabled by default.