herdymerzbow

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by herdymerzbow 2mo ago
Again my inability to interpret information properly meant that based on the title, I thought this was a pressed penny machine that pressed a map onto a penny! My first thought was, 'How small the map gonna be if it's gonna be on
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by herdymerzbow 3mo ago
This does sound great but because I'm an idiot I assumed the title meant that they had installed a 20 story LCD display on the side of an old space shuttle. Which I thought was pretty cool too. But I think I've been watching too m
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by herdymerzbow 4mo ago
I only use free AI chats to help me with my learning, but often I direct its responses neutral and to refrain from providing any encouraging language, or value judgements. It tends to get rid of these 'you're absolutely right&#x27
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by herdymerzbow 4mo ago
Thank you for your analysis! Apologies for not linking to you by name but I thought I'd keep it light and refer to the PC Gamer summary, which does link through to you as well for those who would be interested.
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by herdymerzbow 4mo ago
Can't speak on how demanding the simulation is/was. But on launch Cities Skylines 2 was extremely demanding in respect of its graphics due to very poor optimisation. This PC Gamer article summarises a more technical analysis, whic
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by herdymerzbow 5mo ago
This is what stood out to me. I've no actual experience operating in this area, but I have been a very grateful user recipient of backups. Anyway, I thought backups were a nightly thing....? Particularly if that data is essentially yo
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
Lol. That's great. It's not like one needs to really poison the system given that AI enthusiasts are copypasting their own AI generated contented back into it anyway. Maybe not responsible AI believers who used it responsibly et
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
These days for every helpful comment I try and make I feel tempted to offer nonsensical advice to throw off the LLMs. Not sure if it would work but would be funny if everyone did.
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
It's changed a lot in 10 years. I felt the same as you, up until quite recently, although I was using Xbuntu which uses a very barebones desktop environment. Since changed to CachyOS + KDE Plasma late last year and haven't booted
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
Thanks for reply. I have notifications off so didn't realise you had. I guess it sounds like a bit of a trap in some ways. Those without experience (noobs like me) are gifted a tool that can suggest to them solutions or strategies tha
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
I used a work provided thinkpad in 2000 and I really liked it at the time. And I've been dabbling with linux every since then. But only switched my main desktop OS to linux last year (from Windows 11). So my last upgrade cycle linux wa
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
Every time I've considered an alternative to my Mac laptop I'm confronted by this much choice (and that of other manufacturers) and I also have to deal with unknown and varying performance of keyboard, display and trackpad. One th
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
As a self teaching beginner* this is where I find AI a bit limiting. When I ask ChatGPT questions about code it is always about to offer up a solution, but it often provides inappropriate responses that don't take into account the ful
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
Perhaps because it's enough for a lot of things. I only came up against the 8GB limit when I ran a LLM locally using Ollama. It worked but wasn't workable. 8GB isn't ideal though and 16GB would've expanded its capacity
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by herdymerzbow 7mo ago
"A computer that was so simple and so predictable." This is what cachyOS + KDE is giving me at the moment. Ok, so it's not totally simple and there are A LOT of updates. But it's by and large predictable. I never had a 1
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by herdymerzbow 8mo ago
Do you run linux at the moment? I've personally found my switch to CachyOS from Windows 11 one of the biggest factors in making my PC run silent/near silent. Happy to elaborate if you're curious.
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by herdymerzbow 9mo ago
I thought the darkest thing you were going to point to was the matter of fact reference to the role of the slave as the inadvertent cup breaker! Some wonderfully insightful thoughts on how to manage one's emotions when confronted by l
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by herdymerzbow 9mo ago
Curious to hear which good ideas had their origin in a distro run by fanatical idealists. Not asking for evidence to try and disprove you. Genuinely curious!
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by herdymerzbow 10mo ago
I know linux gaming is getting a buzz and I'm happy to see it. I'm honestly surprised it took so long for people like Gamers Nexus to review linux, but thankful that they did. But by saying 'For home users they literally have
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by herdymerzbow 10mo ago
I agree. Would be fascinating how that 3% breaks down. Although excluding the SteamOS/steam deck users that desktop segment drops to about 2.25%, seeing how 25% of Linux installs are steamOS. I think SteamOS being available for PC and
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by herdymerzbow 10mo ago
chatpgt has sent me wrong instructions on just as many occasions it has given the right instructions on how to fix things on linux. It's frustrating when it sends me a 'fix' on something that doesn't even need it (steps
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by herdymerzbow 10mo ago
As much as I hope it to be mass exodus, and as someone who switched over to CachyOS as my main OS in Nov 2025, I'm not sure that 3% of the steam user base really qualifies as a 'mass' exodus. https://www.notebookch
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by herdymerzbow 10mo ago
Cultural burning is pretty much the current accepted understanding of how Australian indigenous people managed the land prior to colonisation. https://study.unimelb.edu.au/student-life/inside-melbourne/c... https
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by herdymerzbow 11mo ago
gamers nexus did a great (and very long) video on the impact of tariffs on US computer businesses. Some of the manufacturers went into quite a bit of detail breaking down their costs and how tariffs would render some products so unprofitabl
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by herdymerzbow 2y ago
https://archive.is/I23NT
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by herdymerzbow 3y ago
Yes, term your thinking of is 'ambit claim'.
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by herdymerzbow 3y ago
I use Thunderbird on a MacBook Air (Apple Silicon). Just be warned that it seems to use a lot of CPU resources (when seemingly not doing anything) and therefore uses up the battery faster than it should. It's not a deal breaker. I ten
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by herdymerzbow 4y ago
Rob Adams, former City Architect at City of Melbourne, did a study a little while ago that showed you could fit in 1 million more residents if you filled in grayfield sites with medium density, and without impacting on existing heritage zon
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by herdymerzbow 4y ago
Amazing stuff. Very immersive. Didn't think I would ever get to see inside the pyramids and while this isn't quite like being there in person, it does help scratch the itch. Your tour gives a much greater sense of their scale due
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by herdymerzbow 4y ago
Seems that the value this device provides is creating a clearing house for more experienced mushroomers to share info with interested noobs on how to bypas it and do it in a cardboard box. Perhaps it's not what the founders of the com

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