ProllyInfamous

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by ProllyInfamous 29d ago
I'm still nervously holding my breath for the first disclosure that a TV manufacturer is using Amazon's distributed Sidewalk Network (or perhaps mobile vehicles, cell-SIMs, LoRa) to remotely gather all that viewing data they&#x2
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by ProllyInfamous 29d ago
The major problem with the (low) payout on Storj is that 29/54 node requirement is still too high for reliable long-term data retention. Also, even if you live in the least-expensive electricity places in the world, residentially it
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by ProllyInfamous 29d ago
>>We get wise too late... >>...and old too soon. >>–Danish Proverb ---- At early-forties, I don't think I count as "young" anymore. Definitely: growing up without a cell phone was beautiful. I still remember
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by ProllyInfamous 29d ago
Thank you for writing this. I've added: >> Lashing out at events you cannot control is a form of stupidity ...added to my bulletin board of motivational flashcards.
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by ProllyInfamous 29d ago
>people who couldn't afford to answer questions they've long wondered about can afford to answer them. If the software isn't downright free – today, you can slap a $349 RTX 5060 [†] into any POS surplus computer and h
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by ProllyInfamous 29d ago
I have another suggestion which doesn't contradict yours: This is only a small part of it (tech addiction 24/7 via phone); certainly there is something bigger at play, here (e.g: "the brain isn't the same anymore;"
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
Thank you for sharing your extensive perspective. The main element missing from my previous comment (which you responded to) is my failure to convey that my two expert brothers' "assholeishness" stems from having to deal with
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
>don't go around talking about how you're lazy Yes, this is how I observe my Truth; but also, what I'm trying to share/convey is that these "high functioning" individuals (e.g. two of my brothers) view almos
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
What I meant was Jobs paid to buy his way to the front of wait-lines, in states he was non-resident (including Tennessee), for a replacement body part (liver); every Tennessean he eventually $"cut"$ had to wait longer (or die) for
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
>do we want them being arseholes to us My hypothetical argument (based on forty years with these two humans) is: the opposite would be worse (for these rare mental powerhouses "to not care," to not produce). The bigger concern
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
>No one has been remembered for being extra nice alone. RIP Dolly ---- [meme:bobbyHILL@classroom_window.jpeg] "Thanks to Dolly, these kids can read , and they are very upset..." ---- Long live the Queen['s Imagination Lib
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
Is this the bit where he talks about Steve Jobs getting onto several states' organ-transplant registries (simultaneously) so he could eventually "cut the line," using trafficked Tennessee bodyparts, to get his replacement liv
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
I grew up in a one-highschool Texas town, a notorious football powerhouse. The brainwashing we received as players was incredible, and we were definitely respected members of our community (e.g. newspaper would interview us; girls; getting
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
My father knows a guy that financed a Texas mansion, for $2MM, using the collateral from his decade of running a very large technical document translation service (US resident, using foreign workforce from his homeland), popular throughout
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
I've been ignoring Linux since the early 90s. Would always install some variant, think it was "pretty cool" for a few days, then revert back to "whatever MacOS was offering" (for my daily driver). ---- 2026: I just
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
I've been using Macs as my primary machine for over three decades – but in the past year a Microcenter-Prebuilt (with a 5070Ti) has helped make Ubuntu my preferable computing environment (I have three Silicon Macs with similar access
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
His autobiography is [en]titled `DANGEROUS` so... (I read it... it's on my bottom shelf labeled "don't waste your time reading..." I keep it for comic relief/perspective). ---- A very good homosexual friend (in coll
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
I've had similar residency issues, albeit at a city/county level: my previous residence was not in any city, but the same street continued into a nearby city which stupidly repeated the numbers on same-named street (different ZIP
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by ProllyInfamous 1mo ago
Google Earth is a fantastic computer program (which is being retired June 2027; stupid IMHO); Alphabet, Inc., wants you to instead "use the in-browser version of earth.google.com for a better experience." When I attempt to load ea
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I was at the Marietta Microcenter, yesterday, and truly experienced sticker shock on the DDR5 aisle. hlyfcknsht I'll just stay with 32gb RAM on my main machine (6000MT was a few hundred dollars I don't even remember because it wa
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I don't run them sudo , friend.
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I purchased a 5070Ti (16GB nVIDIA GPU) a few months ago, and it is absolutely incredible what can be accomplished on local hardware (whether offline or not). Don't forget `mistral-small` (Apache's LLM), which to me is equally as i
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
Thank you for writing this; I have delayed 3.8:27b because my ollama needs to be updated (and I'm too lazy); but if I can save thousands of dollars not buying GPU hardware – for Top-10 performance – yes I will unlazy myself and updat
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I spent half my day today in Atlanta's inner loop... soooo many Nissans just don't even have license plates, anymore (and other cars, too; but all other OEMs summed == Nissans). It makes me want to purchase a beat-up silver Niss
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I have a degree which allows me to work in few fields, but wastewater management is one of those fields (which I have worked in, front-line (directly) >gross<): no water is "clean" — it's varying shades of "accepta
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I worked for a charity a few years after the PPP bamboozle (at the time, equivalent to outstanding student loan debt ~1.7TT iirc). We pulled annual funding from something (which we were initially really proud of ) after we discovered one
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
>how do you tell [...] ? You look at the proposal/RFQ/zoning.. ? Are you asking something else (that I am "missing")?
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I'll add mine: Dr. Seely's Honeybee Democracy , which I read in 2022 (during my first GPT-2 experiences). The book discusses basic bee dances, but then expands much further into Seely's own research discovering how simple ru
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I would have paid $19.99USD for this. For serious. Seems like an obvious fundraising avenue (for Ubuntu Foundation).
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
That's funny because this still tracks when you use the Craiglist-interpretation of "Tina" – still, there is no alternative when you're smoking it [0]... [0] I do not recommend smoking it, with well-over a decade &

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