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Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

astrsk ,

Yes. It’s a viable way to save money if you use a site like https://shucks.top/

Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho ( ktvz.com )

On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho.  The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.

astrsk ,

Let eastern Washington split off too and call them East and West Cascadia.

astrsk ,

I prefer the soundtrack version of this classic. https://youtu.be/bSiEB64FyF8

astrsk ,

Shrodinger’s cat wasn’t some simplified lesson for the layman. It wasn’t even an explanation. It was a commentary about the quantum model itself and how the current state of the model is laughably incomplete and unable to adequately answer or predict anything of value (yet). It wasn’t until more recently that some Newtonian physics might be explainable as emergent properties of quantum mechanics, but we are still a long ways away from a unified or blurred model.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/gotcha-shrodingers-cat/

How can I use a local LLM on Linux to generate a long story?

I'm interested in automatically generating lengthy, coherent stories of 10,000+ words from a single prompt using an open source local large language model (LLM) on low-spec hardware like a laptop without GPU and with i5-8250U, 16GB DDR4-2400MHz. I came across the "Awesome-Story-Generation" repository which lists relevant papers...

astrsk ,

GPT4All

astrsk ,

Keep letting them sell stores until they’re small enough to no longer want to merge.

Jack Smith: False elector scheme saves Trump obstruction charges ( www.politico.com )

“Donald Trump’s effort to assemble false slates of presidential electors in 2020 may wind up shielding special counsel Jack Smith’s case from a Supreme Court ruling that could sharply narrow the obstruction law at the heart of the indictment against the former president,” Politico reports....

astrsk ,

House rule, stacking +4 until someone can’t.

astrsk ,

What the fuck

astrsk ,

Just use accelerometers to measure specific gravity and have time be a function of that measurement. Problem solved!

astrsk ,

Any WiFi 6 or 7 router in which you can install openwrt and set as a dumb AP connected to an x86 machine running OPNSense or openwrt itself. The redundancy and enhanced control are 10/10 worth it, along with security and stability.

astrsk ,

While a nice sentiment, we are organized social creatures by nature. It’s always going to end up in a small amount of larger groups and that’s just how it goes. No matter how well or bad a system works, the system is still made of people and we will congregate into specific roles and ideologies just as the very cells in our bodies group together to perform larger functions.

astrsk ,

Yup. 16 years ago as I was finishing high school, my friends and I would have a solid 2-3 month window of going to play in the snow on a nearby stretch of mountains. We’d go several times a year every couple weeks. Now, the ski resort there is lucky to have 2-3 weeks of usable snow.

astrsk ,

Honestly this would make for a neat project — build an esp32 or rp2040 based punchcard reader / printer and then print out all your backup codes (encrypted of course by some hardware based code like a set of dip switches) onto custom punchcard tape.

We May Finally Know How The First Cells on Earth Formed ( www.sciencealert.com )

The prebiotic emergence of protocells is an important part of chemical origin of life. This study shows that cyclic-phospholipids formed from fatty acids and glycerol could have played a role by generating a heterogeneous library of vesicles with diverse morphologies and tolerance to a range of metal ions, temperature, and pH....

astrsk ,

I think the difference is they actually made the protocells for real? Not sure.

astrsk ,

sniff

astrsk ,

Oh come on, you can’t post that without the updates in the comments! We need to see the rest.

astrsk ,

Hopefully it’s not built into a rom chip on any number of custom components in these mini PCs making it software independent.

astrsk ,

what.cd was the best.

astrsk ,

Some extensions don’t work but many do, you just have to download the extension files from the marketplace website and tell VCCodium to install the extensions from those files.

I've recently turned 20. What highly specific advice you, lemmy users, would offer me?

A lot of people answering this struggle to understand what highly-specific means. I'm looking to, for the sake of experiment, highly-specific advice that gives a reader clear understanding of what they should do. Unlike the vague advice, on the contrary, that may be too abstract to get implementing it right away....

astrsk ,

Your 30s will be better. Don’t get hung up on thinking your 20s are prime.

astrsk ,

I should reread House of Leaves.

astrsk ,

If you can, a physical copy will be much better. It’s one of the few books that doesn’t translate as week to e-reader/digital for [redacted] reasons.

astrsk ,

The moon photos they’re talking about are specifically the AI enhanced zoom moon photos of previous Samsung models that caught controversy because taking a picture of a marginally round object against a black background with their zoom enhancement would produce a moon photo even if it was in someone’s dark basement and the object was a dimly lit bottle cap.

astrsk ,

Doesn’t help that El Niño is currently in effect, with the next several seasons predicted to be affected by it. Muddies the data, so to speak.

astrsk ,

Is the research only new because we didn’t test this before? The number one advice to learn a language fast is to be totally submerged into the language and its culture. Seems like that would extend to just about any skill.

astrsk ,

I gave it a try on my bare Debian 12 (kernel 6.1) install last week and a 3090.

KDE Plasma, on Wayland, worked out of the box but with poor performance. After following the official guide to installing the proprietary drivers, the Wayland session no longer works. After entering my password in SDDM I get a blank screen with a solid text cursor in the upper corner until I forcefully power cycle the machine.

I’ll stick to x11 for now, which works flawlessly with great performance in games (~200fps in Baldur’s Gate 3, max settings 1440p @ 240hz).

astrsk ,

Jetbrains Rider is fantastic and .net 6+ is native to Linux now. You can even get by with VSCode (I prefer VSCodium) with their improved C# tools.

Depending on what you do, there’s also cross platform UI libraries like Avalonia-UI that can fully replace WPF.

astrsk ,

There’s some truth to underestimating the equipment for PR, it certainly has a huge positive PR spin to last 3 years off 5 flights estimate. But at the same time they are spending a lot of their budgets on projects that need to collect data. If 5 flights gives them the guarantee of solid data, then it was a justified project. On the other side of this, it was the first powered flight in any atmosphere outside of earth. There’s no way we had enough data to know just how long or how many flights it would do. Being this far off is reasonable. Same for the previous rovers, their estimates were low and far exceeded. The rover this time around got a much longer estimate, even if it’s beaten it already.

astrsk ,

I would reasonably expect an increase in expected life / flights of a future model for sure but it will be highly dependent on what’s being tested. NASA aren’t making tools, they’re making instruments, if that makes sense. They aren’t producing a rugged tool for accomplishing a mission that someone buys to use, they’re making scientific equipment that carry out experiments and collect specific data. Even the instruments themselves are experiments, such as the durability of joint designs on the collection arms, or the roter materials selected all have a purpose and associated datapoint.

All that to say, the expected lifespan / flights on the next model will reflect the mission goals and budget / cost of the project and not necessarily an accurate expectation of the system. More or less “we designed this instrument to deliver x amount of data” not “we designed this tool to survive y number of uses”.

astrsk ,

Now you know about the command and can alias it to whatever floats your boat!

‘open .’
‘exhume /my/file’
‘liberate my.site’

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