I took 5 years to consecutively not get a degree and I’m about to go back to finish 5 years later.

Yeah it sticks not graduating with the people you started with, but that really isn’t any more of a signifier of success or failure than graduating at all.

Sometimes things happen and at that point everyone is mature enough to but be a dick.

I voted for Harris

It is the DNCs fault Trump won.

The DNC has spent years kinda sorta offering enough social and popular policy. And then half heartedly pushing it, but ultimately giving up when there’s resistance because it’s better to promise those changes then actually do them.

Abortion rights for example. That’s been a carrot on a stick for decades and it ultimately was attacked and the Biden admin didn’t get it codified or push for a new federal legalization.

Or student loan forgiveness. He kinda pushed it and then the courts said nu-uh so it died.

I’ll admit they did do lots of cool stuff but they didn’t do anything that an actually progressive candidate would do, but they promised they would. This has kept an actual lefty progressive candidate off the ballet for decades and this cycle of ineffective, dispassionate campaign apathy has failed to get anyone enthused to vote.

“People should just vote! It’s their duty! They shouldn’t need to be excited to vote!”

Okay but consider. They weren’t enthused. They didn’t vote for another useless Democrat. Trump won.

It’s the DNCs fault because this is the second time they’ve ran a candidate less progressive then Obama and just hoped the strategy of “You should want to vote for the first Woman president! Please ignore she did terrible in the primaries or all why we didn’t do another primary”

I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

Are you using LLMs as search engines?

Bold.

I use Gemma, LLama 3.2, and Deepseek to either fix formatting, summarize documentation to give me commands for Linux software, and write simple code structure for me to refine into working code.

Sure it takes longer to generate than a cloud compute would, but

1. privacy obviously. I know you dismissed it but that’s really the biggest reason anyone will have.

2. this feels better environmentally. I actually don’t know if that’s true, but it objectively touches less computers for such simple tasks. It would be wasteful of infrastructure to do it over the web.

3. it’s just cooler to have a conversation with my computer. I’ve learned a lot about how the whole process works and that’s more valuable to me as a non dev than just getting the end results.

It’s unfathomable to me how someone could spend that kinda money without talking to an expert or a government surveyor or something!

I spent a month considering if I should get a $500 GPU and I still fucked that up as it isn’t even working on my Linux server yet.

Couple things

1. Start applying for things you’re not sure and you know you aren’t qualified for. Often recruiters or HR people don’t actually know what the fuck the job needs and just sorta copies similar job titles recs. Once you’re able to talk to the actual hiring manager, then you can see if you’re a good culture fit and if they can give you some on the job training.

2. Get a job at something not really what you wanna do but feels related enough. For me, my big break into my career was working at a call center for a hospital. It was not IT related, but it got me office experience that I spun into IT experience.

My “production” home lab is 3 Optiplex 3050 with i7-7700. They work great and are pretty low power.

Noods of shame

You got into Self Hosting for unreasonable ideological reasons

I got into self hosting to avoid AWS Fees

We are not the same

Odd since it’s arguably just as easy to make a new reddit account

They didn’t say they’re poorly dressed. Just ugly

I wish I had this rizz

Twilight Zone music

I was promised SHIT POSTS and now I get one! Thank you!

Got any recs? I can generally talk my company into paying for most anything education wise, but Udemy style courses work with my ADHD the best.

Thanks! I’m still on reddit brain.

Yes! Gods damn it. I had that up an everything on my second monitor.

Enough that there’s a serious spike in VPN sales during the porn age restriction wave.

I doubt NordVPN and friends would see that if EVERY single lemmy instance got banned.

Texas wants what the EU and California have so bad.

The best punishment is undoing their damage and teaching their sins to future generations as a warning.

And using their Graves as a gender neutral bathroom when we wanna scratch the sadistic justice itch

Beautiful redundancy. My one true love