Now that is a shitpost.

Puuuuurge

I hear this all the time.

Yet when I bring up features that don’t work at all on X because it’s ancient, “no, thats superfluous. No one needs that.”

I used to do this, but literally just switched to discrete Nvidia yesterday.

Zero issues so far. TBH it actually fixed issues I had with HDR and video decoding on my AMD IGP.

Tech Bro.

That’s the popular term. It’s most often applied to tech billionaires, but it covers those who idolize them, too.

I think my favorite tangential application is when Sam Altman had a meeting with some TSMC executives, and they allegedly dismissed him as a “Podcasting Bro”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-electricity.html

Depends how much you have to pay attention.

First off, I am not a fitness expert. YMMV.

But sometimes I do variations of bodyweight exercises in front of a TV, yes.

One day, for example, might be arm day. I sit and do leg curls for biceps. I straight pushups or tricep dips, use a pull-up bar if I have one; even just hanging is great.

Another day might be push up variation day; wide, narrow, inclined different ways, push up and “reach to the sky with one arm,” knee pushups at the end.

Yet another is leg day. Squats, jumping squats, lunges, butt kicks, heel lifts, other positions to get different muscles. Another day may be core, another day is more shoulder/back, and so on. And all this is without weights, or with at most like a dumbbell or a pull up bar, and some kind of chair or bed for certain positions.

Your eyes will drift away from the TV, and you get exhausted doing this stuff, but you can keep up with a show if you want.

Yeah I was being casual, and I’m not an expert by any means.

I bring it up because, for me, sets of specific bodyweight exercises (like legs one day, shoulders/back another, and so on) is just more time efficient. It gives enough resistance to get sore, and gets me exhausted, all in one setting, instead of running separately. It’s easier on my knees, with no risk of shin splints and less risk of injury than heavy weights.

Come on, you know what I mean. It’s an indicator exerting yourself. Your blood vessels dilate when you’re hot to try and dump the heat, just like they constrict in parts when cold to save it.

Sweat is not a bad thing. It means your heart is pumping; what you want for weight loss.

That being said, I love exercising in cold weather, if you’re somewhere where you get any. Warm up a little inside, go out, and it just feels fantastic.

And that doesn’t just mean running a marathon. It can be calisthenics in a back yard, or garage, or even just walking out to a spot where you can jog.

While I’m here, let me glaze bodyweight exercises, like push ups, squats, kicks, core stuff, and all the variants. Do them in sets, one “group” a day.

It’s amazingly efficient. It gets you out of breath like running, but gets muscles sore like a weight machine, all in less time. And it’s waaay less stressful on your body than running or big weights.

Yeah, I’m not against the idea philosophically. Especially for security. I love the idea of containerized isolation.

But in reality, I can see exactly how much disk space and RAM and CPU and bandwidth they take, heh. Maintainers just can’t help themselves.

I find the overhead of docker crazy, especially for simpler apps. Like, do I really need 150GB of hard drive space, an extensive poorly documented config, and a whole nested computer running just because some project refuses to fix their dependency hell?

Yet it’s so common. It does feel like usability has gone on the back burner, at least in some sectors of software. And it’s such a relief when I read that some project consolidated dependencies down to C++ or Rust, and it will just run and give me feedback without shipping a whole subcomputer.

I’m extremely enthusiastic about used stuff.

Folks who buy new products will buy them anyway, and it’ll either end up in a landfill or used by someone else. Mind as well use it.

And, think of the opportunity cost. Your fast fashion presumably replaces “budget” new clothes you’d buy instead, which shrinks sweatshop market demand as a whole.

Also:

• If you’re feeling guilty about skipping “sustainable” brands, a lot of those are cons anyway. Some are fine, but there’s a good chance you’d just make some lying jerk richer.

• For heavens sake, if you like fast fashion, enjoy your passion.

The problem with Davinci I encountered was that very common encodings like x264 or x265 don’t work with the community edition and I can’t justify getting the pro version from an economic standpoint

vapoursynth

It’s basically video editing in Python, that can be piped directly to ffmpeg or whatever encoder you want.

…It’s finicky. And poorly documented.

It’s not fast and does a lot on CPU, but it’s extremely powerful. As an example, I have a script for transcoding high ISO footage that, frankly, blows Davinci’s filters out of the water. And I have another for fixing up an old DVD that I just couldn’t have done with Davinci.

Davinci resolve has acceleration support on Linux, but it’s not for the faint of heart.

Doubly so with vapoursynth.

Honesty, Windows sucks too. As sad as it is, I color grade some video on my iPhone because it just works with HDR, in basically any format.

It would be embedded. Not on sticks.

It costs more to carefully cut the memory ICs off a motherboard and repackage them than to just buy RAM.

In rare cases it can be done (like how Chinese shops resolder GDDR to make 48GB RTX 4090s), but I don’t see EV RAM being worth it.

But to answer your question… some self driving systems or even infotainment systems do have a somewhat substantial amount of RAM.

Pro tip: go for the motor. Or the battery, if you can swing it.

The source, 2024 apparently:

https://www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000/

Translation:

https://translate.kagi.com/www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000?ref=frankandsense.io

Yes, that Nikkei, like the stock exchange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nikkei

Though it does feel like one of those “listicle” chum articles. The image feels a bit AI generated, whether it actually is or isn’t.

Home security.

Get a basic gun. Practice at a range. If you can afford it, invest in security cameras.

I guess you could involve a lawyer if the situation becomes untenable.

Don’t panic; theres a 99%+ chance you’ll be fine.

But don’t ignore the 1%. To all the “it’s just an internet troll” folks: see Jonathan Ross, where one such angry troll shot him dead, just because:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss

May he rest in peace :(

Be aware that with eBay, shipping times can vary.

The seller has a grace period to pack stuff up, and even once it’s handed off, shipping can take longer than the estimate, especially with USPS.

Not conservative Millenials/Z. Apparently.

Judging by slices I see on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter, they are in alternate reality where all this is hysteria. The plan is to settle down with a tradwife and smile into their Rumble podcasts, I guess?

You’d gain HDR!

Windows is nearly effortless to maintain if you only use it for entertainment.

Maybe we just have different priorities, but right now, I’d be miserable and wasting so much time if I was stuck on Linux only, even though I use Linux like 90% of the time. Some media and some games just won’t look right.

And to emphasize, it would take sooo much time to massage this issue on Linux. Dual booting saves me a ton of maintenance and tweaking.