@YourMom No other industry is allowed to sell a product then arbitrarily take it away from the user without warning or compensation.

If you want to sell a service that you can unplug at any point, you must properly market it as a service and warn people that they are gambling that their money wasn't just put into something you plan to unplug in 16 months.

On top of the consumer protection angle, there is a lot to be said about the negative cultural impact of games and other types of media just disappearing into the ether at the whims of people that can only see one quarter in front of them.

It's high time the games and software industries be treated like every other industry.

The corporations that spew hundreds of years of one person's pollution per day per vehicle are the ones at fault. Not the average Joe going to the grocery store or work.

The average Joe is also not the one responsible for the entire planet being saturated with forever chemicals and microplastics. They are also not responsible for the entire countries made unlivable due to nuclear and chemical contamination.

They are also not responsible for decades of pollution spewed into the air by volcanoes and naturally occurring wildfires.

But God I hate the sound of engines of any kind ruining my peaceful days, so I'm all for abolishing them as soon as possible.

There is going to be a massive overcorrection of this kind of thing in the next decade. We are seeing the beginnings of it now.

People that just want to live their lives, (read: the vast majority of people) are fed up to the point of taking action, which does not bode well for the ones that have steered society into the dysfunctional mockery that it is now.

Jobs being easy to lose and hard to find were the only thing keeping otherwise docile people from acting.

The best thing you can do in the coming years is blend in with the crowd and not try to force whatever your thing is on people.

@CaptainRant I'm not sure. But the filesystem has also started switching to readonly at random and my audio crackles when I start it up. It's getting real annoying. If wsl worked, I'd be golden.

@LillianQuinn Are you a real person or a spambot? No one having heard of whatever that is might be one of the reasons.

@antigermanist There are people not living lavishly that also don't die in the streets, so I fail to see how that matters. You need some vitamin d or something.

@jestdotty lol no. I keep that in my 4k square foot Morton building as printed hard copies.

One drive is full of LLM/SD models. One full of VM images. Two are full of pictures and movies and videos. One is an archive of old computers and hoarded assorted data. One is the system drive.

@tosensei Virtualbox. HyperV's performance is awful. I tried WSL2, but I couldn't swear hard enough at it to get phpfpm to work.

@rootshell Oh boy trying to get that going originally was a huge headache. For some reason, during the install it would reset the nginx service file which would show the placeholder site for new installs instead of the sites I expected to run when the service restarted. That cost me a couple days.

I imagine he had his hammers and wrenches modified to accommodate his refusal to learn how to use them as well.

@iSwimInTheC To do actual work

@BordedDev Enabled nginx caching, opcache, gave more resources to PHP from, cleaned up a slow shortcode used multiple times on the home page, started using webp, and added placeholder elements and size attributes to images to keep the page from jumping before js kicks in.

I also changed the init script for nginx as part of some TLC that seems to have helped for some reason.

It took weeks because it's something that has technically worked without issue since I started working here 10 years ago so I haven't put a lot of time into it. But the performance was actually affecting the clients so I had to get it figured out.

@kiki Ticktock literally makes me feel uncomfortable when I watch it. Like I'm looking into a 4th dimensional shape or something. YouTube shorts doesn't though, which is strange.

I'd consider most code ever written to be neutral in nature.

It's easy to be a chemist. It's just that staying alive as a hobbyist chemist is pretty difficult.

I have long ago stopped looking very far into anyone involved in anything I enjoy or need. It's just seems like creative types always have skeletons in their closet that I'm not interested in being made aware of.

The first year at my job, I woke up with a solution to a problem that had been haunting me for a week and it actually worked. It's happened a handful of times.

@atheist I get 4 to 6 prompts at most before it starts repeating itself. This is with relatively straightforward PHP and nginx stuff. Is it just that Claude is no good?

In Black Mesa's defense, they were doing pretty well until gman got involved.

@rootshell I would never make such a foolish error.

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@donkulator Well, this one is pretty shiny.

I don't really care about the politics of the situation. If the current owner disappeared right now, there would be new maintainers by lunch. It's as good as it gets when it comes to what it is.

The widespread infantilization of everything is violently disgusting.

Woopsie doopsie. You have a bwue scween of unalive :3

https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

Pit bull Chihuahua mix

@retoor LMStudio. It works well with the API server. I use Ruby as the language I use to call the API mostly out of momentum since that's what my personal monolith app is written in.

@retoor I also love the image processing. It makes certain kinds of tasks that would normally require an API as trivial as taking a screenshot.

@retoor I love gemma 27b qat. It's accurate and fast and pretty good at general conversation.

And whether it was a wise financial decision or not, I got a 5090 so I could run things as fast as possible. I'm not regretting it.

This feels like something a q2 1B LLM would generate.

You know what definitely doesn't help?

Finally moving the stuff that bugs you to the back of your mind and being able to function for the first time in months, only to be helpfully reminded about those things for your own good.

Found a task to consume you so your mind quiet? Well, too bad. We're having a pity party ...I mean a seminar... about mental health that you must attend.

Not thinking about it is a valid way to deal with your problems. Not everything needs attention.

Being moved to a position you weren't hired for and aren't being properly paid for sounds like they planned to do this from the start. Find new employers.

Since it takes wordpress itself seconds to load no matter what I do, I decided to set up nginx caching and crawl the entire site and see how that works out.

With limited testing, the times go from 2+ seconds to .2 seconds. I can't image this is scalable, but I really need to prove it's even possible.