Ok you got me there

I would be shocked if this isn’t a spam bot.

I did my switchover of GPU and power supply for my server on the weekend. Just swapped them, turned it on, it worked first time! I didn’t even give a blood sacrifice!

Of course I am now dealing with a Linux Mint machine with a 2025 GPU (AMD RX9070) which meant I needed to follow some instructions to support it, but it seems to be working well now. Only thing not working is hardware acceleration for Frigate, I had to fall back to CPU (I have a Coral so the GPU wasn’t doing much anyway).

This was part of my plan to build a PC for the kids to use, I get the nice GPU as the server has struggled a bit with transcoding (not the speed, but the age of the GPU doesn’t seem to be well supported across codecs). I also wanted more VRAM for playing with local LLMs (I’ve gone from 6 to 16GB). The kids get some new and some old parts.

It’s a struggle trying to decide whether to wait for black friday/cyber monday to get marginally (if at all) discounted parts, or just do it and get Christmas sorted.

Question 38!? What is this test supposed to be?

If it has autopilot and autobrakes, surely all those other buttons aren’t needed?

Nice, so you’re still getting good use of it and not sick of all being crammed together after you big trip then?

Damn, that’s where the water is supposed to be!

Procrastination protecting them from losing their money! Is there anything procrastination can’t do?

What happens when the use of petrol is harming animals (global warming, air pollution, etc)?

Do (virtually) all vegans consider petrol to be vegan?

Allocating $30 million over four years to increase the services available to communities hardest hit by meth, within the Vote Health mental health and addiction budget.

Oh yay, their idea of mental health and addiction support is to take money already allocated to this purpose and spend it in the communities that would benefit the most. Ok but where was this money going before? And why does this government have a habit of announcing spending where the money was already ringfenced to spending on that thing?

You’re supposed to empty the bag/catchment.

Which is your favourite of the set?

Is there an xkcd about warning labels on things where they are warning that the package contains the thing that the package is selling?

I couldn’t find one, which makes me question whether there really is an xkcd for everything.

Don’t forget unique email addresses. I’ve had two spam emails in the last 6 months, I could trace them to exactly which company I gave that email address to (one data breach, one I’m pretty sure was the company selling my data). I can block those addresses and move on with my life.

My old email address from before I started doing this still receives 10+ spam emails a day.

Can someone tell me what this means for GPU and DDR5 prices?

I may have misread but it seems the article says the records are qualify as public records and so can be requested by anyone.

That’s not the same thing as public domain, unless I’m mistaken.

Yeah but the advertisers don’t want to be associated with that language so he’s gotta censor it.

I’m guessing he went on to call the Democrats fascist and other projecting like that. From what I’ve read of Steve Bannon, he’ll be teaching the devil how to be more evil when he finally gets there, there’s no way he thinks he’s doing anything wrong.

We must have had different experiences 😅. In places I’ve worked with contact centres, they didn’t want too quick of a wait time because people are more likely to call. Typically targeted 10 or 20 mins wait.

However, places are also likely to have long waits at the time you call because you are most likely to call at the times that other people are most likely to call too, so controlling those peak demands without making it shit for the staff can be hard.

Yes of course they want them to be moved elsewhere, but those people elsewhere aren’t going to be happy with them there either. We can’t solve problems by making them someone else’s problem. We need to solve to root cause of the problem.