theneverfox

joined 2 years ago
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

I think it was more of a crazy story tattoo than a Nazi tattoo to him

This guy was listing wars he'd like to fight in, because they were against civilians. This guy does not see the world in a normal way set all

But hey, his positions are on point. I'm not going out on a limb for him, but maybe chud-coded progressives are a viable strategy

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Surely for $350 million you could design a ball cleaning system under the floor... Just capture them from one side, put them through a quick rinse and dry under UV, and then you can have a ball waterfall on the far side

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

They don't even have coherent plans yet... There's stairways leading nowhere and windows facing walls

The point was the demolition, I'm not sure why but someone has been talking to Trump non-stop about the ballroom to do it

Maybe it's some weird sexist thing, maybe it's just because they hate America... But the demolition was the point here, someone wanted to get rid of the east wing

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Collateral murder. Not a massacre, not a genocide, just random death from afar

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

It won't be a war. They're baiting out a response and might respond to that with a decapitation strike... There's no shot this turns into a war, it's Venezuela

Realistically, they're just creating instability with this while unleashing the CIA to do their things

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 21 hours ago

Uh... Trump doesn't really criticize China on that, he's made it clear he understands/believes they're just representing their interests

Trump has been pretty consistent in thinking countries should be able to do this sort of thing, at least before his brain totally melted

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Well, that's held up by Johnson refusing to do his job and swear someone in. It's still coming, whether the government reopens or not - the shutdown would be a delay tactic on the FBI side

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 22 hours ago

I remember living in France during a movie theatre shooting, and they were like "how do you live like that? It must be horrible". It was also like 2k miles away from anywhere I'd ever been

Meanwhile, in the few months I was there someone decapitated a clerk in the nearest post office (just walked in during working hours) and my host found a human torso in the park like a mile away

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 10 points 22 hours ago

They destroyed a national symbol for no reason, and now they're going to build a gaudy barn on the ruins that will be bigger than the white house

Yes, snap matters more. A lot more. But it's not as immediate or visceral

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 22 hours ago

Systems stutter, then fail all we once. And there's a lot of systems stuttering these days...

You're not wrong, but there's going to be a lot of specific moments too

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yep. The anticipation is killing me, I'd love to get to it already

 

For the last week or so, I've been waking up several hours earlier than normal and not being able to get back to restful sleep. I've never had this problem before, I'm just getting more exhausted by the day because I'm not getting to sleep much earlier

Then I find out other people are experiencing the same thing, same timeframe - around a week ago it just started for seemingly no reason

 

Between wanting to do more with local LLMs, wsl annoyances, and the direction tech companies have been going lately, I think it's time I start exploring a full Linux migration

I'm a software dev, I'm comfortable in the command line, and I used to write the node configuration piece of something similar to chef (flavor/version agnostic setup of cloud environments)

So for me, Linux has always been a "modify the script and rebuild fresh" kind of deal... Even my dev VMs involved a lot of scripts and snapshots. I don't enjoy configuration and I really hate debugging it, but I can muddle through when I have to

Web searches have pushed me towards Ubuntu for LLM work, but I've never been a big fan of the window Managers. I like little flourishes like animation and lots of options I can set graphically, I use multiple desktop multiple monitors

I've tried the one it comes standard with, gnome, and kde (although it's been about 5 years since I've last given them a real shot).

I'm mostly looking for the most reasonable footprint that is "good enough", something that feels polished to at least the Windows XP level - subtle animations instead of instant popups, rounded borders, maybe a bit of transparency here and there.

I'm looking at Ubuntu w/

  • kde w/ plasma (I understand it's very configurable, I don't love the look and it seems to be a bigger footprint

  • budgie (looks nice, never heard of it before today)

  • kylin (looks very Windows 10 which is nice, a bit skeptical about the Chinese focus)

  • mate (I like the look, but it seems a bit dubiously centralized)

  • unity (looks like the standard Ubuntu taken to it's natural conclusion)

  • rhino Linux (something new which makes me skeptical, but pretty and seems more like existing tools packaged together which makes me think the issues might not impact actual workflow)

  • anything the community is big on for this, personally I'd pick opensuze, but I need to maximize compatibility with bleeding edge LLM projects

My hardware and hard requirements are:

  • nvidia 1060ti
  • ryzen 5500u
  • 16g ram
  • 4 drives nearly full, because it's a computer of Theseus running the same (upgraded) vista license that came with the case like 15 years ago
  • multi desktop, multi monitor
  • can handle a lot of browser Windows/tabs
  • ideally the setup is just a package mana ger install script with all my dependencies
  • gaming support would be nice, but I'll be dual booting for VR anyways

I've been out of the game for a while, I'd love to hear what the feeling is in the community these days

(Side note, is pine as cool a company as it seems?)

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