What I haven’t figured out is this…

If we’re all going to LLMs instead of asking each other for help (or providing help to others), then how do the models learn new things? Aren’t we no longer generating the same volume of consumable data?

I suppose we can provide feedback to the models to tell them if their solution worked, but I can’t tell if that sort of feedback is more useful than just crawling forums.

At the tail end of my last job I was saddled with a massive project to migrate a client to a new version of an application. We did this by standing up the new version, copying over their current data, asking them to test it and then cutting over when they were ready. This was a huge undertaking because most clients had one or two environments but my client had 18 different environments so the workload was way higher and everything took way longer.

On top of the scope they also took updates to these environments almost every night which meant it was a full time job just to keep things in sync, setup a testing window and then try to get them to approve the new state of things.

I was already burnt out before this all started, but thanklessly maintaining 18 non-production environments by myself for an application that no one could commit to testing or cutting over was driving me insane. I felt such a weight lifted off my shoulders when I quit. It came at the end of months of stress and wasted effort. I couldn’t imagine a reality where anyone else would put up with that work or have a better chance of success.

Anyway I caught up with some coworkers and asked if that project ever got done. Apparently it got passed to a small team of three to manage and after getting jerked around for months themselves the whole thing fell apart.

So glad I didn’t waste any more energy on that shit.

This is my exact concern.

If I pay for the lifetime pass now, what’s to stop them from restricting even more features behind new types of subscriptions and paywalls. “We’re adding back the ‘Watch Together’ feature but it requires a Platinum Plex subscription and will not be a part of Plex Lifetime Pass users.”

Seems kind of inevitable honestly.

If you mean that you are using Proton VPN on your Raspberry Pi to mask your downloading traffic, then no that same VPN will not help you access services like Jellyfin on your home network while you are remote.

Instead you’ll want to use something like Tailscale (or Wireguard). You run it as a service on your home network and it then becomes your own VPN that you (or others) can use to connect to your home network when you are remote.

You could run Wireguard on the same RaspberryPi that you use for downloading but I would recommend against it assuming that you’re running Proton VPN right on the host itself (and not inside a container).

I ran a tabletop game of Scum and Villainy and one of my players (our pilot) picked Dick Bong as his name both as an homage to this man and because it resulted in all the silliness that you’d expect when trying to refer to each other by character names.

I did specify that he is a legal resident and not a citizen.

Important to note here that the he has not been charged with a crime.

If a legal resident commits a crime there is a process to detain, try, sentence, and (potentially) deport them. It happens all the time. But that is not what is happening here. They arrested and detained an American without due process.

I’m assuming your phone has to be rooted for this right? Or is docker running without root? I didn’t realize anything like this was possible. This is interesting.

I don’t know the details but I’ve had to ban her account several times (from a number of different source instances) for sending everyone the exact same unsolicited private message.

I never bothered to figure out of if it’s actually malicious or just some nonce trying to drive up engagement. Either way it’s a weird quirk of Lemmy right now that she’ll eventually DM you…

This is basically how I do it too.

I used to be more creative but then I got in the habit of running more servers and swapping hardware more frequently so it got harder to remember what hardware I was actually connecting to. Now they get hardware based names and everything else is named by service-based Ansible roles.

I go “Gray Man Theory” with my car and try to blend in as much as absolutely possible. I drive a popular reliable car in a popular color with a standard license plate and no stickers. I figure there is no reason to stand out and cars are some of the easiest ways to waste a ton of money.

I’ve genuinely considered putting a ‘Thin Blue Line’ flag or MAGA sticker on it just because it’d make cops in the area think of me as a friendly but I don’t think I could live with myself.

It’s frustrating that the last bastion of hope against total Google dominance of the browser market has no sense of direction at all and is constantly tripping over rakes.

Not trying to change your mind on giving money to internet grifters but having a cell phone is pretty much a basic tool of survival these days even if you’re destitute. Phones more than a couple years old are basically e-waste and cost nothing or are donated/trashed all the time. Even a WiFi only phone can be the best tool someone has to find shelter, food and get important weather updates.

I’ll admit my fondness was more about her character being interesting and I don’t remember much of the mechanical aspects of the way the game handled relationships.

all the ones from DA:O

You underestimate the power of my crush on Morrigan.

I decided to go ahead and install KOReader and check it out. It’s pretty neat although I can’t find what you’re describing in the settings.

In any case I was hoping to find a way to do this without having to switch to a separate user interface.

How did you set the custom screensavers?

I ran the jailbreak on my Kindle PW6 following the instructions linked here but everything I’m finding when searching how to set custom screensavers is extremely out of date.

Anyone know how to set custom screen idle images after doing this? I’ve been wanting to put ‘Don’t Panic’ on my 6th gen paperwhite since I got it but it’s so locked down that wasn’t possible.

Offline Steam is a pretty inconsistent experience.

I use this extension to get SSH support for VSCodium It works great!