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CosmicTurtle

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  • Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions

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  • At least Amazon is thinking of the shareholders.

  • Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now

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  • I tried a bunch of questions. It seems okay on giving you instructions on forming a union at Target, Starbucks....but not Amazon.

  • Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025

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  • The hardest thing about Linux Mint is installing all of your software. It's daunting even for very established users.

    I moved from Ubuntu to LM a few months ago and I've enjoyed it.

  • TIL: The ancient Greek philosopher Plato has a IMDB page and is credited as a writer (and actor for some reason)

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  • Oh snap. He's got something new in the works. I hope it's a banger.

  • Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs

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  • I've requested confirmation and have only gotten it once or twice.

    What I've started doing is actually just sending them their same exact terms via their corporate registered address (regardless of their instructions) with the arbitration clause and jury trial waiver and just about anything I don't agree to removed. I tell them so long as they continue to provide the services to me, that they implicitly agree to the terms I'm sending them, with any further updates requiring them to send a registered (not certified) letter.

    I intentionally do not provide any way for them to identify my account except for the return address.

    I figured if I ever had to go to court, one of these things would happen:

    • judge finds that the original terms are enforceable, which means I'm no worse off
    • judge finds that my amended terms are enforceable, which means it worked
    • judge finds both terms unenforceable and I can continue to sue them

    So far, no company has ever written me back or turned off my access to the site.

    I suggest everyone do this because these forced arbitration clauses are very anti-consumer and we need to start clawing back our rights.

  • Rivian Follows Tesla’s Lead, Opens Charging Network to Other Brands

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  • Car companies have definitely imagined this. And if they could, they 100% would.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • I typically code a lot of back-end and processor intensive workloads. The issue I have with i5s is that they don't seem to be as "snappy" as i7s. I've worked with both for good long periods of time. When I had an i5 laptop, I had to off-load a good majority of my development to the cloud because I couldn't do containers and listen to music and run two monitors at the same time. I never had the same issue with i7 processors, even on a laptop.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • Oooh, I had not considered that but thank you for the recommendation. The only thing I don't like about these PCs is that they all have RGB lighting. I really don't need this and I don't get their appeal.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • Are CUDAs something that I can select within pcpartpicker? Or is this like a cloud thing?

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • With the conversations I'm having here, I'm leaning in the direction of integrated video (assuming I can get one with display port) and a discrete card just for AI work.

    I use VirtualBox for VMs. I'm assuming there are instructions on how to give the card to the VM? My cursory google search came up with dubious results.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • I just checked the specs for the M.2 NVMe drive that I pulled from an old laptop. It's read speed is 3000mbs so it looks like I'm good there. Thanks for the heads up though.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • I know that this is the self-hosted community but I very much agree. The way I run my desktop is that I can, in most cases, lose my primary hard drive and I'll survive. It won't be pretty and I might have a few local repos that I haven't synced in a while but overall, it ain't bad.

    Now, that doesn't mean I don't want my primary hard drive restored if I can do it. I've been lucky enough to be able to restore them from the drive. But if I can't, the most I lose is some config files, which I should start to version control but I get lazy.

    I can't back up my media. It's just too big. But yar.

    My greatest fear is losing my porn collection. 😅 But not enough to RAID.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • I actually did. And the quantum twin that succeeded is now solving global warming.

    I am the twin that didn't succeed.

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • And if you want to join the “I use arch btw” crowd...

    I may be a linux nerd and pedantic, but not that pedantic. 😅 I've looked into Linux Mint and not opposed to an distro switch. I've been very happy with Ubuntu over the years. My first distro was slackware, then Fedora. Settled in Ubuntu and haven't turned back.

    if CUDA should be part of your calculus or not.

    Probably not, if my cursory google search is correct. But happy to be convinced otherwise.

    Though another nicety for my latest builds, is multi-gig nics (though 2.5Gb was my ceiling, since you’ll also need the network gear to utilize it)

    I've had the benefit of laying my own CAT-5e in my house. Given the distances, CAT-6 was going to cost twice as much with a negligible increase in bandwidth. That said, I'm restricted by the narrowest straw, which is wifi (when streaming media to my phone) and ISP (which taps out at around 300mb/s). My current PC has 1gb/s card and I've only occasionally had issues.

    I use newegg for its reviews of items, specifically so I can search for the term “linux” in any given product’s reviews.

    Oh that's a good tip!

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  • I was really hoping to cannibalize the 32 GBs of DDR3 RAM but I couldn't find a MoBo that supports it anymore. Then I saw DDR5 is the latest!

    I don't really do any gaming. If I wasn't going to tinker with AI, I'd just need a card for dual DisplayPort output. I can support HDMI but...I prefer DP

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  • I've gone back and forth on whether I need RAID locally. Giving up at least a third of your storage capacity (assuming RAID 5) for the off-chance that your hard drive dies in 3-4 years seems like a high price to pay. I had two drives fail in the lifespan of my current desktop. And I had enough warning from SMART that I could peel off the data before the drives bricked. I know I got lucky, but still...

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  • Two GPUs? Is that a thing? How does that work on a desktop? Honestly, if it wasn't for my curiosity into AI, I'd just go with the onboard video though given my need for specific resolutions, I find comfort in having a dedicated card.

    I've been using ubuntu exclusively for 10 some years and don't use snap at all. tbh, not even sure what snap is.

    If it's not apt, then I don't use it.

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  • is that really a concern? 2 cables vs. pushing a card into the mobo?

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  • I for one would not purchase any Intel hardware as long as AMD is around. Not that they’re bad or anything, but AMD gives me much Kore “bang for the buck”.

    If you have a processor line in mind, let me know. Happy to give them another look, given my experience with AMD is 30 some years old.

    And then there’s the cooling. I see you went with a radiator and fan, but I strongly suggest getting some type of liquid cooling. The prices are not that bad anymore (unlike about 10 years ago, which was insane).

    I'm not tied to the cooling solution I picked. I just picked something that looked affordable and did what I wanted. I'd love to do liquid cooling so long as it isn't a pain. I helped my friend back in high school do liquid cooling and it was a proper mess. We came close to shorting his entire rig.

    As for the board, you’ll get all kinds of different suggestions. Some people swear by Asus, I’d rather go with Gigabyte (love the Aorus line), so it’ll come down to brand trust at the end of the day.

    I have zero brand loyalty here. The boards I'm looking at right now all have embedded wifi with the annoying antenna...I really want bluetooth embedded so it seems like I'll have to have wifi but just not use it.