I live in a big city in the US and the best internet option I have is 1Gb through Verizon, and my apartment complex is making a deal with Comcast so that’s going to go away leaving only 100Mb. I have a homelab setup which is why I was willing to pay more for the 1Gb.

The MacBook Neo is for people who use their computer for email and web browsing and not much else.

It’s copied from another site where it was copied from another site where it was copied from another site…

I’ve gotten some good stuff from https://handheldlegend.com/ before.

Voyager is fantastic, but it’s still way, way closer to the solar system than anything else.

An excerpt from Wikipedia:

At this rate, it would need about 17,565 years to travel a single light-year.[78] To compare, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is about 4.2 light-years (2.65×105 AU) distant. If the spacecraft was traveling in the direction of that star, it would take 73,775 years to reach it. Voyager 1 is heading in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus.

I have a metal Apple Watch band that has started filing away the edge on one side of my MacBook just by accident.

To be fair sometimes if you update Linux too sparingly it results in conflicts. Of course the likelihood of that happening depends on the distro. Also the vast majority of Linux updates don’t require a reboot.

I did some googling and it seems you are right, at least for now. I expect Linux support for ARM macs will continue to expand.

As far as I can tell it’s a limitation if moving from the more popular x86 to ARM with some other hardware related caveats. Importantly, the macs are aren’t locked from booting other OSes, its just the hardware support hasn’t caught up yet.

Strictly limited to MacOS, no Linux no nothing.

You can run Linux on the ARM MacBooks.

Qwen 3.5 can be run via ollama

Qwen 3.5 is one of the best of the open-weight (self-host able) models right now. It’s not as good as some of the extra massive proprietary models like the bigger Claude models.

These days we have websites for exactly that purpose.

A lot of the major furniture in my apartment came from people getting rid of stuff that I found via free-and-for-sale pages.

Sure, but to get the communication started you would start with facts you’d agree on, like the positions of stars or basic chemistry.

The model we currently have for the universe goes well beyond anything we could learn with our natural senses and the way we intuitively think about the world because of those senses.

It’s true that we keep refining our models and it’s very possible that an alien would have slightly different models, but at the end of the day, we are trying to describe the same universe and those models are going to overlap a lot because of that.

First of all, there has been a lot of research into what the minimal set of assumptions you need is to reproduce what we consider “basic math” and also what happens if you tweak those assumptions.

Second of all, the main goal for science and the type of math we use for science is to effectively model the world we live in.

Any aliens that live in the same universe are subject to the same physics, and any civilization advanced enough to detect our messages will know some basic universal facts about the world, and those facts are what we hope to use as the basis for starting communication.

Just make it “dee” like how people pronounce “D20” and it can keep “dice” as its plural.

Signal already has that setting. It’s up to the user to decide their level of convenience vs security.

NileRed is basically an actually skilled scientist trying to do alchemy with the vibes of a high school student.

data security in that case had nothing to do with the llm

That’s kinda my point.

“I don’t trust companies to hold their promises” is a very different argument from:

LLMs are inherently bad at data security and there is no way these companies can, in good faith, promise HIPPA compliance

It is certainly possible to implement a secure LLM service.