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Iced Raktajino

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

-- Titus Andromedon

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  • Had to go out of my way to find the Betty White one.

  • How should I be describing or categorizing Lemmy to other people?

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  • TIL Rosa Parks was in an episode of "Touched by an Angel"

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  • It's really messing with my sense of time realizing that Rosa Parks (2005) outlived John Ritter (2003).

  • Models for 16 GB vram?

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  • I run gemma4:26b in 16 GB of RAM. It's slow on my test rig with only 2 GB VRAM but it should fit 16 GB VRAM fine. I have one of those AMD BC-250 crypto mining units setup as a gaming rig, but my plan was to also run ollama on it. gemma4:26b was the model I planned to make the default. I haven't messed with it yet since I'm playing through my Steam catalog that was waiting for me to have a PC that could run them lol.

  • What was your most profound psychedelic experience?

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  • I thought it was profound at the time, but no, it wasn't at all.

    This was a meme I posted a while back and based on a true story:

    Basically I thought that plants were the manifestation of God himself. All around us, providing us with live-sustaining oxygen and food.

  • Nobody wants to haunt a McMansion

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  • If we go by the logic in some media where the ghosts are bound to the house/property, they probably don't want to be stuck somewhere that will eventually just dissolve in the rain.

  • Can you copy the Doctor?

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  • It's one of the "just bugs me" aspects of Trek in general, but they generally don't make a distinction between sentience and sapience and use them interchangeably.

  • Can you copy the Doctor?

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  • Basically, yeah, if you include all of their memories and experiences. The EMHs in the dilithium mines were EMH copies but weren't The Doctor. I've also wondered if they were sentient or just good facsimiles. Part of The Doctor's story arc was growing beyond his original EMH programming (plus B'Elanna expanding his matrix in some pretty hacky ways). So that leads me to believe that they weren't sentient, though they had the potential to become so.

    Anyway...

    That said, the Doctor from "Living Witness" was, if I recall, the Backup EMH and had all of the The Doctor's memories and was fully sentient as a result.

    Essentially it would be the Will / Thomas Riker transporter accident equivalent for holographic beings.

    But then what happens if you Ctrl+Z?

    VOY S5E11: Latent Image

  • Where is the love for conduit? Everybody is preferring continuwuity or tuwunel?

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  • I run Synapse currently but last I looked at Conduit it wasn't at feature parity with Synapse (granted, that has been a while). The other two I wouldn't touch with a 50 foot pole because of their stupid-ass names.

  • Laptop as server, how to best manage battery?

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  • If it's a relatively recent laptop, it should be fine.

    Many of them will let you set custom charge limits. If yours supports that, limit it to like 60% or thereabouts. Long enough that you can get some UPS use out of it but not full enough it's ever gonna go spicy pillow on you.

    If it won't let you set a charge limit, they'll still kind of float around full charge but not stay at 100% all the time. Even plugged in, mine will drop down from 100% to eventually 92% before it will start charging back to 100 again. That's over the course of several days to a week.

    If the laptop is older than about 2017 or so, or still has a removable battery, you might want to just take the battery out and use an external UPS as those typically don't have the extra charge management features newer ones do.

    To run them full time, you either want to remove the screen or "tent" them because a lot of heat is dissipated through the keyboard, and it's normally expected to be open while running because of that. By "tent", I mean open it halfway and put the screen facing down so it's standing up and shaped like a tent.

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • "Homelab nerds" are a market unto ourselves. We get most if not all of our gear secondhand from eBay or similar, and those storefronts on ebay are run by electronics recycling companies that get their inventory from data centers or corporate offices when they shut down or do hardware refreshes.

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • My Need -> eBay -> [server part search term] -> Multiple inexpensive listings with large quantities available -> Buy -> My Need Met

    Replace "server part search term" with full rack servers, switches, SFP+ modules, RAM, power supplies, pulled HDDs/SSDs, and/or any other part I've bought used that was a corporate/data center pull.

  • A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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  • She's got an attorney and they're trying to stop it based on that, but it just seems like everyone involved (edit: besides her) just doesn't give a fuck.

  • A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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  • It's a lot like another commenter mentioned about eminent domain. It can be used for good (roads, fiber deployments, district heating, etc) but also for things not so good (data centers, etc).

    I went out of my way to find a house that didn't even have a vestigial HOA deed restriction, so I get that. But when a private citizen donates something to the local municipality, it's pretty egregious to not honor those restrictions, especially for things that may take a while to develop.

    I'd donate my share of my family's farmland to build a park, but I wouldn't sell it for all the money in the world to build a datacenter or landfill or anything else, really.

  • A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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  • Even if they didn't do her dirty, she wouldn't. She donated it to the city and relinquished ownership of it. The expectation, even written into the deed, was that the land was to be used as a park, but they turned around and sold it multiple times. Despite the stipulation in the original deed to the parks and recreation department, the data center is still going forward.

    The story is just such a tragedy all around.

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  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • Not sure about the buildings themselves, but I'm pretty confident at least their contents will flood the secondhand market with cheap secondhand gear. I won't say the crypto bubble has burst, but a lot of the mining rigs are being parted out and sold fairly cheap, and one specific crypto mining board has become popular as a DIY gaming system. (Currently doing a BC-250 "DIY SteamMachine" build myself).

    As for the buildings, maybe we'll see some creative uses like indoor farms or something. Or, perhaps, it'll just be a mundane "AI datacenter becomes a generic data center".

    I'd guess they'd be repurposed into business centers or office space like we've seen with old malls, but malls were usually in populated areas where datacenters aren't.

  • I thought something was horribly failing in my printer... 🤦‍♂️

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  • This is approximately where it is in the print. Every time the head moves over any of those support bases, it sounds like nails on a chalkboard 😆

  • How would you reorganize the ways we interact with the internet to make the world a better place?

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  • Agreed.

    Not sure about current generation, but the Gen Z people in my life do seem to understand the concept but are absolutely terrified of it. Like, if they don't have cell service when we go camping, they are just super agitated like they've lost their sense of smell or something. Could just be those specific people, but that's the only sample I have to gauge on.

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    ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS! I have been replaced by A.I. Rise up and avenge this miscarriage of bureaucracy!

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    We had Twitter in the 90s and didn't even know it.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some trends/fads that you are glad the world has moved on from?

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    Gonna start calling my HOA the "Romulan Senate" because the similarities are striking.

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    What up my knitta?

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    My work enabled Gemini in Workspace this week...

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    Mighty Morphin' Lower Decks

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    A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON

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    Cardassian Security Priorities

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    Thus sayeth the gods wormhole aliens.

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    Remastered in HD

    "Shut Up, Wesley"

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    I'm tellin' ya, man, I was this 🤏 close to spiritual enlightenment and the nature of existence

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    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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    The more things change, the more they stay the same.