Andres

@riskable Justify using an unethical technology however you want, but it’s still the same basic argument that drivers often make (which is what I was pointing out). There is always some worse impact to the environment, and that is why we don’t need to change our behavior.

Ethics are for suckers, I guess?

@FauxLiving @YeahToast “I’m sure my driving to work will doom the world” same mentality.

Also, it’s not so much use of a model as the creation of the model. Training is expensive in terms of resources and energy. Using the model and normalizing AI usage leads to more AI usage and more AI normalization, which leads to new models being trained…

@Guiorgy @shadowtofu That’s not how embargoes work. If “the big guys” release, everybody releases. There have clearly been leaks, but afaik no patches made public yet.

@Hal @nik282000 Some private trackers function as recommendation systems, too. It’s sort of like having a netflix account where you can see what they’re recommending (or what’s popular), but instead it’s your fellow pirates talking about how much they loved or hated a show or movie.

You use them long enough, you also learn which users prefer absolute garbage and which ones have solid recommendations. Much better than paid ads or some easily-gamed algorithm, imo.

@EmilieEasie I have two physical devices, both running OpenWRT. One is a Linksys MR7350. It is only doing wifi; no dhcp server or dns or anything. The other is an old Rock64 board with a usb ethernet adapter plugged in; that’s the router connected to my ISP and handles dhcp, dns (w/ adblock), and so on.

At one point I had set up two raspberry pi 4s to act as wifi access points running debian (with hostapd manually configured, and various wifi usb adapters plugged in), but I got sick of Pis.

@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai Yes, your 3,000 comments on here have made it abundantly clear what you’re looking for.

@northertech “bland buttehole designs” accurate 😂

@cadey @Ek-Hou-Van-Braai Normally I’d frown at AI usage/vibecoding, but this is delightful trolling of the OP and I absolutely love it.

@Zwuzelmaus @Cyber Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. Even when they are, you’ve still got smart self test log and error log histories. So Power_On_Hours might be “0”, but also might show a short offline test completed at 33,000 hours giving you a hint as to the drive’s true age.

Anyways, I buy used/refurbished ones w/ 5yr warranties from goharddrive, and when one failed this year they honored the warranty and sent me a replacement despite current drive prices… so I’m a happy customer.

@toddestan @SpatchyIsOnline If it does run warm, and since the display is dead, there’s nothing keeping you from removing the motherboard from the case and setting up your own cooling. If the crappy little laptop fan isn’t up to the task, put the motherboard in a larger box and hook up a few USB-powered CPU fans to move a lot more air over the CPU/GPU’s heatsink.

@Fenyx @gaiety Are Kitchen Aids dooming us to levels of climate change that will doom society?

@Joelk111 @drive_desaster I don’t own any cars, but I kind of want try this out for my bikes and ebikes 😂

@Arda @lambalicious because the experience is truly garbage. Not only does it not scale and is slow (I stopped running a server years ago, but the resources it consumed was obnoxious), but the clients often do silly things like say they’re waiting for a key refresh so it can’t decrypt the message yet. I still have to use it for work unfortunately.

@possiblylinux127 @lambalicious jmp.chat, the only real google voice alternative, is bringing it back.

@jj4211 @german Be sure to take a big swig of coffee first!

@curbstickle @Epzillon What’s the “overly expensive video switcher” that you’re using? I have an android TV with broken CEC (a Pi running Libreelec works fine one my other tv, but not this one).

@BarHocker How are you powering the fans? It almost looks like they’re plugged into the 12V/5V sata power converter, but there’s no 3/4pin connectors there obviously.

@mlg @leanleft otoh, it could be argued that widespread usage of NATs kept people from actually hardening their software stacks. For servers, admins moved from hole-ridden garbage like sendmail to stuff that was designed with security in mind like postfix. However, for desktop software and home stuff, there was never much of a need, so a lot of the biggest companies have cultures of extremely sloppy security practices in shipped software. And it’s slated to get worse with AI adoption…

@runwisp_com @lime Psst… it’s not a “him”, it’s a piece of software. 😏

@cmnybo @DanKhramov Doesn’t even need to be a newer CPU. I’m running Immich on an ancient dell laptop w/ i3-4010U. Not efficient in terms of CPU-per-watt these days, but that i3 chip isn’t putting out much heat either.

As far as backups - snapraid sync runs nightly to ensure that accidental deletions or bitrot is caught. Restic backs up to a drive on a separate machine (in a different room of my house). I still need an off-site backup, but the hard drive shortages messed up my plans there…