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invalidusernamelol [he/him]

@ invalidusernamelol @hexbear.net

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  • Sending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensions

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  • I can understand not choosing ODT since they can be opened by Windows now. If the message was to make it so they needed to use non-Microsoft software using this makes sense.

    But yeah, still prefer a GPL licensed format

  • We have been owned in the free marketplace of ideas

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  • Is this one of those Prager U rags?

  • Why Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

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  • Laid off is a job title right?

  • Folks I made a huge mistake.

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  • I love dropping a diatribe in the comments, then muting notifications and never looking again

  • Ya know, in all my years here, my contribution to Hexbear that I'm most proud of is this:

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    Got bored during covid lockdowns and was playing with GIMP lol

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad?

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  • I've disassembled and reassembled my LG washing machine like 8 times now replacing different parts every time.

    Even the "complex" ones really aren't that complex, you just need to know how to order parts and put them in. Each re-assembly added 2 years to the life of the washing machine and none of them took more than 45 minutes with the most home gamer tools from harbour freight

  • What's a show you've never watched and never will because people keep telling you. "You HAVE to watch it!"

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  • I just have a couple friends who are way too into Shane Gillis lol

  • What's a show you've never watched and never will because people keep telling you. "You HAVE to watch it!"

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  • Tires, and anything by Taylor Sheridan

  • What's a show you've never watched and never will because people keep telling you. "You HAVE to watch it!"

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  • Hampsterdam was a fantastic subplot

  • What's a show you've never watched and never will because people keep telling you. "You HAVE to watch it!"

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  • What's a show you've never watched and never will because people keep telling you. "You HAVE to watch it!"

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  • I feel like all of this has happened before...

  • How some so called leftists act when they find out that you cannot have a revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory.

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  • I feel lucky to just be able to do this

  • Breathing life into some disposed of ChromeBooks

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  • Providing minimal support is a huge aspect. It's a small shop and large orders like this aren't uncommon. I'll definitely look into optimizing the emmc, as that's a huge bottleneck. The primary goal is always to eek out as much life from devices that were slated to be landfilled as possible and provide minimal working solutions for free or as close to free as possible.

    These Chromebooks are veritable e-waste and making it so we can get some last mile usage out of them while having a system that's moderately fault tolerant (btrfs is good for the unreliability of the emmc) is key. Plus the AB updates mirror normal Chromebook functionality.

    The atomic style with flatpak also makes it really hard for an inexperienced end user to fully bork their system as the base image and root is read only. Having all the user files in a separate volume also means it's trivial to migrate them to a new machine or wipe an old one. This is essentially an experiment at this point, but we've had a ton of very positive feedback from people about Linux. All the elderly people find it easier to use since they aren't constantly being pushed notifications and spyware. Plus the atomic updates mean they don't have to worry about manually running apt/dnf upgrade to get updates and the whole process is just handled automatically in the background.

  • It's kind of hilarious how trump is killing energy projects while the broligarchs are trying to deploy their AI data centres.

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  • Yeah, it's really easy to accomplish with some basic tensor flow models. The only upshot of large hardware is being able to have a plethora of models.

    Plus looking at the Chinese developments, they're focusing on model distillations which are orders of magnitude more efficient than generalized LLMs.

  • A reminder that the US is run by religious fanatics

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  • Straight up the bad guys in Raiders of the Lost Arc lol

    Also love that his book list included One Piece for some fucking reason, I can't believe people paid $200 to listen to him talk about manga in a religious context.

  • A reminder that the US is run by religious fanatics

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  • Just because the biblical antichrist is total hogwash, doesn't mean some delusional fascist billionaire can't become their version of the antichrist. He's basically just made it clear that he wants a diffuse genocide while he locks himself in his bunker.

    He's not actually the religious antichrist, not he's gonna do everything he can to replicate the myth because he's absolutely nuts and has control over the largest military industrial state in history.

  • A reminder that the US is run by religious fanatics

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  • When reached for comment, Thiel’s spokesperson, Jeremiah Hall, did not dispute the veracity of the material given to the Guardian. Hall did correct a piece of the Guardian’s transcription and clarified an argument made by Thiel about Jews and the antichrist.

  • It's kind of hilarious how trump is killing energy projects while the broligarchs are trying to deploy their AI data centres.

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  • Yep, a Markov chain solver that's the size of a city is massively useful for a lot of specific planning cases. Especially once you're looking at large quantities of data. The actual use case for the US is kinda moot though, since the markets aren't structured. They're controlled entirely by the whims of a couple people which isn't predictable by a Markov chain.

    China will see a lot of utilization and benefit though, Gosplan used hand computed Markov chains, but an already centrally planned economy with tons of historical data and predictable, mostly bubble free history will actually be able to provide useful planning outputs.

    The US I think knows this, and isn't planning on using this machine to stabilize the economy, but instead as a weapon of war. Domestically, they'll use it to pre-crime and mass arrest people that they don't like. Abroad they'll use it as an inverse planner to give them targets that will specifically destabilize the economy.

  • Breathing life into some disposed of ChromeBooks

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  • Totally agree with you there. The atomic stuff is new to me as well, but after seeing the weird compatibility and stability issues that these things had with a regular install, I figured it was worth the plunge to have the A/B update system. Also means installing a bunch of stuff is harder for the end user unless they know the 3 commands you need to bypass the ostree lol.

    I wish people would just natural have a better time understanding technology, but reality is that 90% of the people we distribute computers to barely know how to use a keyboard and many don't speak English. These machines are single purpose devices, and any additional security we add will just make them toss it in the trash.

    We do have education sessions where we teach people how to use a browser, how to open Gmail, how to identify a scam, etc. I've been wanting to expand those classes to have some basic Intro to Linux, intro to Python, intro to Bash, etc. type classes that teach people the bare minimum so they can start learning. But that's only gonna work with the kids. Any older person that gets one of these devices needs to have it work as frictionless as possible with a minimal amount of interaction.