Jake [he/him]

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Cake day: April 3rd, 2024

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  • The offline AI that I tried a few months ago probably needed training on the noise environment to get decent results. I forget which ones I tried but likely the ones with extensions already in Oobabooga Textgen. I was messing with text to speech mostly, but some of the ones that do TTS also have packages and examples for STT. Nothing I tried for offline generation was good enough to speak as an AI prompt without manual corrections.






  • Having all that heat in a laptop sucks bad. Maybe if a person is super into gaming and in a dorm or something they might use one for gaming. The really capable laptop GPUs like a 16GB all but negate the benefits of a laptop. The battery life is terrible, the noise is annoying, and the heat is everywhere, like blowing around the keys onto your hand. Plus you have an even more obscure hardware chain with modern laptops having all kinds of closed source and poorly supported nonsense that sucks.

    Your thermals are tied between the CPU and GPU in a laptop. If either is over loaded thermally both will throttle. There are also a lot more thermal interrupt states in a laptop GPU. If anyone tries to hack around with these to push them past their inbuilt safety margins while following guides that are intended for the desktop GPU version of the hardware it can easily lead to failure.

    The only real reason to get a gaming laptop is if you travel a lot, if you’re extremely space restricted like sharing a bedroom with someone, or if you’re disabled and need the ergonomics for a specific reason.

    I don’t see how any aspect mentioned is regional in nature.



  • Blueberries, 3% salt brine, microscopic Mason jar deathmatch for a month with burping. It yielded ~600mL of savory, slightly fruity-ish juice.

    5lb chuck roast, dry- onion, garlic, salt, pepper, - twice–before and after rubbing in a course Dijon mustard. Then 4 hours @165F on a pellet grill with temp control via a stepper motor auger; mostly just for the bark-ish hardwood flavor. Then the roast was placed in a dutch oven with some old chicken stock, and a cheap beer with some onion, garlic, and a couple baking potatoes as filler to ensure the whole thing was covered. I cooked this for 6 hours at whatever temp my oven calls 250F. That yielded ~1000mL of juice… and some excellent shredded beef BBQ.

    I mixed both of those juices and simmered them down to ~600mL total, filtered, and bottled it. The final product is like a smokey Worcestershire sauce with a hint of fruity flavor that is quite weak, maybe on par with the amount of fruity one might taste in a Hefeweizen beer but a more complex savory flavor than Worcestershire sauce.

    Overall, I’m just at the initial fermentation experimental phase where I am not concerned with reproducibility, yield, or cost, and am just using everything free, cheap, or about to get thrown out as fodder for low effort experiments.

    Disability makes me physically limited but time rich. So this is an abstract exploration of my available resources.





  • Thanks so much for all these details. I wouldn’t have seen the info otherwise.

    I know this is not technically the right place to mention, but why not whitelist a USB connection like whatever the equivalent to a /udev rule is in Android? It certainly doesn’t bother me to unlock my device, to then plug in USBC headphones if that is the easiest setup and interface for users.

    The use case I am thinking of is while riding a bicycle. I’ve ripped my helmet off in a hurry many times to avoid a bee sting. Stuff like that tends to unplug headphones. Or like comminuting home as it gets dark and I throw on a jacket and need to unplug and get situated. I’ll have to unplug with half damp gloves. I’m probably not going to get it unlocked without taking off my glove. Again, it is no big deal. It would be nice though if there was an advance option to whitelist a specific vendor ID and device ID, either by entering it manually or a more streamlined way of capturing the info after the device has been mounted.

    Thanks for all the work you folks do!





  • It was things said in the comments of that post and reading between the lines. I think the change is inevitable and already decided. The main active admin of .world is working on sublinks. That is enough for me to view time spent on building community on .world as a waste. If it was the other way around and they were coding in Rust and the Lemmy base was in js or whatever, maybe I’d think differently, but everything I’ve seen is a massive red flag saying sinking ship, or at least I’m on the wrong ship and regret the time spent there now. A lot of people left already. I have my other accounts, but had never made a .ml until recently in an attempt to start making sure communities were shared across larger instances, but I guess it was well timed to make the shift.