I am happy to hear that people say please and thank you. When Siri/Alexa came out, we taught the kids to always say please and thank you when addressing them. If you can be polite to an AI, then you can be polite to a human.

Why did Ohio state accept that invitation?

It is a lack of empathy and personal responsibility. They aren’t happy with their life so they must either 1) blame it on someone else 2) hurt someone else so they feel they are doing better (everything is relative).

They literally cannot fathom that helping someone else doesn’t make you worse off, even if that person is now doing better.

I expect in a patch release that nothing has changed and I can blindly update getting minor bug fixes and security fixes. In a minor release I expect to review the changes for configuration changes or any minor UI changes. For a major release I expect to read docs on how to upgrade and prepare backups and downtime.

Evolution does.

This is all part of the push to eliminate public education and replace it with private education funded by tax payer money but without all the oversight and regulation. Expect what has happened with charter schools but 10x.

It means GNU Image Manipulation Program.

I also recommend audio bookshelf but am using ShelfPlayer on iOS

The board needs to remove Elon today.

Of course it was. Niantic came out of Google with Ingress which was designed to collect data for Google!

Arkona - the best folk metal Hulder - great black metal

I’ll be seeing Arkona again in < two weeks!

We used covid money to build a new private prison named after our governor!

As someone who lives in an ex-industrial city (Birmingham Alabama), I’ve always been worried about air pollution and tainted soil (there are superfund sites nearby). I feel like every thing would have to be above ground and covered. That seems like a lot of work. Should I be worried?

Is this a common map projection for Canadian maps? I’m so used to the Mercator Projection this just naturally felt “off” to me.

Futurama (original) Psych Star Trek TNG/DS9 X Files Twilight Zone

All these are on continuous shuffle in my Jellyfin server.

Yup. Just the original series for me

The goal for management is to pass the blame on to consultants. “We” didn’t make this choice, the consultant did.

“There’s a couple kinks in that slinky” 😭

How’s battery life?

I am also interested in an egpu but not for gaming, just for running local AI models. Has anyone had any experience with this?