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Little bit of everything!

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Gaming (Mass Effect, Witcher, and too much Satisfactory)

Sci-fi

I live for 90s TV sitcoms

  • What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

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  • Imagine wiping an entire city off the face of the earth because they just are a bit kinky. That was the loving and just god.

    Of course Jesus said to basically throw out the entire old testament and focus on the love one another bits, but it doesn't seem like the churches caught that

  • Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

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  • Heads up that there is a self-hosted gif platform I've been tinkering on, original repo is here but it was more or less abandonded. I've been adding to it slowly here: Gifable.

    The base repo was good, a selfhosted Gif hosting, but I needed more integrations so I've been managing my own fork for about a year. The largest one is a way that Matrix servers can integrate, so it now actually stands up a matrix server and can federate your gifs with other matrix users. The second item is adding Giphy support (I had Tenor as well... but guess I'll remove that), so you can alternatively search Giphy.

    I won't say it's polished, but if Tenor is leaving a sour note in your mouth, having someone else hosting would probably be neat.

    Screenshot:

  • Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals

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  • I have no idea why their property is worth anything. Well I do, ignorant boomers. That market will someday crash though, as the sea retakes everything and the majority of younger folks have no interest in moving there.

  • Selfhosted & AI

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  • I'll have to play around with mine then, because I've had not great luck with it, or at least very disappointing. The CPU offloading is fairly slow, but maybe I should try tweaking more

  • Unable to access lemmy.ml from my desktop. Anubis bot protection takes 36 minutes and then fails. CPU is Intel Celeron G530 from 2011.

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  • Your OS has been out of mainline support for over a decade. Out of extended support for 6 years. No wonder it's tripping security flags left and right, you're entire machine is a walking security disaster. Well past time to move to a modern OS. You can't ask for support for an OS that's been out of support longer than Lemmy has even existed.

  • RAM manufacturers have been sued for allegedly fixing prices and supply, leading to increased costs

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  • I didn't think of it that way... but yeah that makes sense. They obviously think this is the top of the market and it can only go down. Why else would you force major brands to lock in here?

  • Gemini in Chrome can now see exactly what you’re looking at on screen

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  • and while we had constant outrage from Recall, I assume we'll hear nothing about this from people

  • Selfhosted & AI

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  • That's where I am okay with hardware, but can't seem to fit the models on my 3090. I have dreams of something like an A100 someday, but not until there's a ton of used ones that hit the market. What do you use for your hardware?

  • Adobe to Acquire Topaz Labs

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  • I knew Topaz was getting shitty when they stopped developing their Linux version of their software, this just confirms it. Too bad, it was a decent product.

  • Selfhosted & AI

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  • Yeah it's heresy on Lemmy, but I do find it genuinely useful. My only regret is that I have to use Claude/Anthropic more than I'd like, which is why I have a vested interest in selfhosting myself. I'd rather figure out how to run the larger models myself and cut them off completely, but you even begin to mention that here and you'll get downvoted to hell.

  • Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to Normal

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  • There's a whole segment who are going unserved because of those high prices. Gamers across the board and enthusiasts, the entire consumer market, because RAM is too expensive. Someone else figures out how to make RAM at scale and undercut the fake inflation of the cartel could make billions easily. That's money sitting on the table.

  • Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to Normal

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  • That's what I'm guessing. The consumer market is a multi-billion dollar industry. If Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynex are too big for it now, that's them leaving money on the table for others. Smaller companies will kick up, like those in China, and they'll gladly take the money left for them. It'll just take a while for them to get there.

  • Selfhosted & AI

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  • I like the AI tag idea. I'm someone who has what I'd call a noderate approach to AI, not an AI bro but any means but I'm also okay with some things built with AI if they're done with care. If others don't want to see it, fine, then that's what a tag could be useful with. However the fuck AI/slop comments on something that admits to being AI is annoying to me. (We know it's AI, they literally said it is).

    If it becomes too much content, then yes would be okay with bi-forcating the community, buy only after it becomes a problem.

  • Epic’s Tim Sweeney Keeps Inventing Solutions To Problems That Are Already Solved

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  • How much should I spend on an engagement ring?

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  • Aw shucks!

  • Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students

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  • The thing that turned me away from the church was the church.. I hope this is reversed before then, but if not I hope it backfires spectacularly. The sort of people who are pushing it obviously don't know kids at all, especially teenagers.

  • How much should I spend on an engagement ring?

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  • By not at least informing the father though he risks creating a rift between them. You don't need to ask for permission anymore, but asserting that you are planning on proposing is a respectable thing. Shows dad that you're honorable and you're not afraid to talk to him 1-1, and avoiding it can be seen as disrespectful. I agree that you don't need to ask, but telling him that it's your intention is very respectful. I found that it honors the parents while also sidestepping the whole patriarchal bit. My (now) very feminist wife respected it quite a bit.

    I'll admit though I was sweating through my shirt and probably sqeaked it out, and said something stupid like "I'm not asking because she wouldn't want me to, but I'm here to tell you, that I am planning on, uh", and then I finally spit it out, and he laughed and hugged me, we now have a great rapport

  • How much should I spend on an engagement ring?

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  • Jokes on you we spent 120 on our rings total!

  • How much should I spend on an engagement ring?

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  • If you aren't sure of the ring, you may want to ask tbh. Some people want an expensive ring, others like my wife wanted to go shop with me for it after the proposal. I gave her an etsy amulet of Mara for the proposal then we did a modest ring later.

    As for her dad, do it, but not to ask for permission, more to officially inform him and her mother. That's an important distinction. I did this, my feminist wife respected it quite a bit, and her dad felt honored and respected.