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Dran

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    Dumb electronics

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  • Also, if you run anything reasonably hobbiest+ for your home network, you could create an iot vlan that blocks any outgoing traffic and connect it to that. That's what I do for all my things so I can still control them with home assistant but they can't call outside my network.

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  • Which brand is this? so I know to never get one lol

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  • Do they make anything in the 80+ inch range you would recommend?

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  • Until it needs a factory reset to fix something and the manufacturer no longer maintains the activation server. I would never recommend buy a TV that requires internet for initial setup. The last thing you want is for it to turn into a Spotify car thing, humane AI pin, etc.

  • Can I just... run it off the USB? (any downsides?)

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  • +1 to all of this.

    For ~3 years I ran a Debian system off of a raid 1 of 2 USB drives. I didn't have the spare drive bay slots in my cs24-ty and I didn't have the room for an expander.

    SanDisk apparently didn't consider my use case "warranty-voiding" and were content to replace them whenever they failed. (I was honest during the first warranty inquiry about how they were used; I doubt you could get away with this with modern SanDisk though) I had a 3-year warranty on the drives, and checking my email, I replaced a total of 11 over the 3 year period. The first 7-8 were before I moved logging to a zfs dataset on the spinners, which helped a lot as those 7-8 failures were all in year 1 with the constant journaling, writing, and syncing of mostly logs.

    TL/DR: great for testing if drivers and hardware work; don't do this in production

  • Here's an exercise in extreme masochism: The Linux Ship of Theseus

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  • When I started learning Linux at work, the game I played with myself was i'd install Debian stable minimal on my primary workstation and I would not reinstall it ever. No matter what happened, I would always fix it.

    I learned to install the basic subsystems to get a GUI and audio, learned the fun of Nvidia drivers to get xinerama and hw decoding working. In retrospect it seems trivial but as a new learner it was challenging and rewarding.

    At one point I was trying to do something, and a guide online suggested installing some repo and installing newer libraries. I did so, and a week later I did a dist-upgrade (because I didn't know any better) and when I rebooted I was presented with a splash screen for "crunchbang" linux.

    Figuring out how to get back to Debian without breaking everything probably taught me more about packages, package managers, filesystems, system config files, init (systemd wasn't really a thing yet) than everything else I had done combined.

    For anyone wondering: 12 years into the project I had a drive from the mdadm mirror die, and while mdadm was copying to another mirror, the other drive died. I considered that a win but y'all can be the judge (no files were lost, 12yr into my Linux journey I had long since figured out automating NFS and rsync).

  • Harvard announces it won’t charge tuition to families with incomes under $200,000

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  • Can you think of a better proxy for financial stability that isn't obtrusively invasive?

    I'm not saying it's perfect; I'm just saying I don't have a better idea. The intent is certainly reasonable.

  • Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI

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  • "Open source" in ML is a really bad description for what it is. "Free binary with a bit of metadata" would be more accurate. The code used to create deepseek is not open source, nor is the training datasets. 99% of "open source" models are this way. The only interesting part of the open sourcing is the architecture used to run the models, as it lends a lot of insight into the training process, and allows for derivatives via post-training

  • How many days can I go consuming only soylent?

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  • There's nothing magic about Soylent for weight loss. It's a simple equation of calories in and calories out. The advantages that Soylent offered me was convenience for counting said calories, convenience for meal prep, and being reasonably certain my body was getting a decent distribution of micronutrients

  • How many days can I go consuming only soylent?

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  • Yes, 375 -> 250

  • How many days can I go consuming only soylent?

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  • I did ~1.5 years of only Soylent, then transitioned into 2/3 meals per day being Soylent, which I've done for the last ~6-7yrs.

    I'm the healthiest I've ever been, but it does require discipline, exercise and attention like anything else. Calories are calories and if you consume more than you burn, you'll poop a lot and gain weight. If you drink at a significant deficit (my 1.5years was at 1200kcal/day) you will poop once or twice a week and it will take a few months of your body getting used to it for it to be more than liquid.

    As others have said though, it's a deceptively dehydrating liquid. You absolutely still need to drink water, and your water intake will largely dictate how much you pee.

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  • It's a little deeper than that, a lot of advertising works on engagement -based heuristics. Today, most people would call it "AI" but it's fundamentally just a reinforcement learning network that trains itself constantly on user interactions. It's difficult-to-impossible to determine why input X is associated with output Y, but we can measure in aggregate how subtle changes propagate across engagement metrics.

    It is absolutely truthful to say we don't know how a modern reinforcement learning network got to the state it's in today, because transactions on the network usually aren't journaled, just periodically snapshot for A/B testing.

    To be clear, that's not an excuse for undesirable heuristic behavior. Somebody somewhere made the choice to do this, and they should be liable for the output of their code.

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    There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

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  • I cut the sleeves off of mine, that was probably my crime. Sleeves are like pants; the fewer you wear the better your day is.

  • Can I try an alternate android version without nuking my phone?

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  • If your bootloader is unlocked, you can fastboot boot an image and that will only run in memory the one time, however, it will share a data partition (apps, preferences, etc) so it might not behave as well as a native install would have.

  • When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well?

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  • I think you've convinced me that it's a slightly more complicated problem than I initially gave it credit for; thank you for that!

    I think you could solve for the disparate community theme problem by also requiring title match for mergers. You could probably also solve for it by having a 2-way merger whitelist on links. E.g community A and B both maintain lists of "similar" communities and then if A's list contains B and vice-versa they would merge.

    Comment moderation I got nothing though. That's a tough one.

  • When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well?

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  • Oh weird, I would not have expected to be in the minority there

  • When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well?

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  • It's about halfway there I think, they still show up separately in clients and have separate comments threads.

  • When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well?

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  • Lemmy needs some sort of built-in way to merge them. That'd be the best solution I think. Then you could just pick a list of relevant communities and it'd be pretty seamless

  • Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items (187 digital games) for $10

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  • Octodad is unironically worth $10