ruralfam

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by ruralfam 5mo ago
We have a lot of swallows (mostly barn and green) on our rural property. Wife is currently battling a pair that wants to build a nest above the back door. Anyway... In the evenings and mornings there might be one dozen or more contstantly f
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by ruralfam 5mo ago
It appears MSFT never wanted to see the image used outside of Windows. Would be interesting to know if had been sold as a stock image by either Westlight or Corbis, and if so what the licensing terms were. Let's assume someone did pay
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by ruralfam 7mo ago
Wow gotta agree. It was satire I think, but... not sure. Also the below link to the Oslo ad was also great. Thx for this, RF
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by ruralfam 9mo ago
Been following/hoping for the ultimate battery for... a few decades now I think. Donut reads as a home run of sorts. However... during those decades reading about "new tech" that promised great gains, all ended up in the dust
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by ruralfam 9mo ago
When Coffee People was just one shop in Portland, went there every day before work. (B4 internet or phones.) Loved the shop, but they played pretty aggressive rock. Not adverse to it, but first thing in the morning... Anyway was a regular.
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by ruralfam 9mo ago
1000% agree with this. Been using Macs for decades, but now prefer Linux. But Mac hardware is just so much better. Funny note: Sorta just for fun I bought an old Mac Mini ($25) and installed Mac, Windows, and Linux Mint on it. Fun device th
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
M$FT increased 365 student monthly charges from $7 to nearly $20 per month automatically to cover CoPilot for 2026. Evidently did not inform the college about this. Just sent yearly charges for nearly $200 to gob-smacked parents. We cancele
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
Daughter in the Material Science Phd progam at major state university with "world class" MS program. Vast majority of her peers are from abroad. Met some. All were the nicest, smartest folks you have ever met. I guess a benefit is
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
I get so frustrated with the damn "are you a human" checks for Google search. My default search tool from Brave. I had gotten in the habit of searching quickly for something while reading a web page, etc. Worked find for years. No
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
"Hey iyO, can you help me load your page faster?" Incredible (on an older MBP).
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
Imagine William Shakespeare wearing a black hat. Yikes.
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
Welp Gemini got me. Using G3 to improve what I write, generate specific images, and use NotebookLM to dive into some research materials. Tried to do a bit each day with my free credits, but hit the limit too often. G2.5 was not nearly as us
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
I agree completely re: mev-13 == optimal solution. But the word "pragmatic" hits me hard. Merv-13 when new/clean start out with pretty restrictive flow. They catch a lot of particles so restriction increases rapidly. At some
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
Thanks so much. The merv-8 to HEPA discontinuity is a great insight. RF.
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
I use a bank of eight Noctuas to vent from the rooom with our wood stove to the main hall. Then use more units with two sets of Noctuas ganged to move from the hall to various remote rooms. Been using them for more years than I can remembe
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
Thanks. However note that the site dropped electrostatic filters to simplify things. My understanding is that for non-static-affected particles merv-13 would obviously out perform merv-8 for smaller particles. However the promise of electro
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
Appreciate any thoughts you all have re: this post. For years I have been using Noctua NF-P14 fans to circulate air in house to distribute heat in the winter from our wood stove. E.g. cut holes in the walls, and circulate remote rooms using
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
We were not in the service bay. Our Maverick was outside. The Service Guy said they had to download the update to their servers. From there it was a quick trip to the service bay for the updates. That is the reason I had asked in the first
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
Not just the ads. They are likely tracking your location, and drive events. These can be sold to your insurance company who may adjust your rates, or even drop you if they consider your driving patterns to be risky. When we got our Ford Mav
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
I have had a FOSS web app for learning arithmetic for quite a few years. I occasionally review it, and make changes. Each year Chrome and Safari both nip at the edges of what allows a PWA to be OK. No one really cares until one has to write
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
We live in Western WA. Mostly Rufous and Anas. Used to feed them, but had to stop as the battles over the feeder got very scary. Plus if the feeder was empty (it was located outside our kitchen window), they would hover outside the window s
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
"It's omnienshittified, a partnership between the enshittified search giant and the shittiest parts of the totally enshittified health industry." Omnienshittified: May go down as the most hilarious - yet prescient - new word
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
My reaction also. 80K payroll rules!!! Without much prompt effort, I got about 350K Canada Federal Service employees (sorry if not correct).
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by ruralfam 10mo ago
I recently (last week) used Nano Banana Pro3 for some specific image generation. It was leagues ahead of 2.5. Today I used it to refine a very hard-to-write email. It made some really good suggestions. I did not take its email text verbatim
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by ruralfam 11mo ago
Just last night I was using Gemini "Fast" to test its output for a unique image we would have used in some consumer research if there had been a good stock image back in the day. I have been testing this prompt since the early day
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by ruralfam 11mo ago
Agree with the other reply. Great read, although very disturbing. Very.
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by ruralfam 11mo ago
Surprised no one has mentioned that Private Equity has rolled-up most HVAC operations. Not sure about Dallas, but what he describes certainly suggests that the Dallas market is controlled by PE. E.g. https://prospect.org/202
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by ruralfam 11mo ago
Not disagreeing re: vision for quality software and new products. However this segmentation is pretty good. Most everyone buying a Macbook today wants "M" performance. Most everyone who does not care about "benchmarks" a
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by ruralfam 11mo ago
Used it to capture respondent data for a unique research tool we run. Got good results. Had to custom-code all the server/client interactions to handle MTurks' requirements. Went well. Still use the content from MTurk users as dem
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by ruralfam 11mo ago
I had a 20 minute appointment with a doctor at Kaiser in WA. I thought I had set up a free, yearly wellness meet. However due to Epic's really epically bad UI (they provide Kaiser's online presence), I had setup a standard meeting

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