towelie

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[–] towelie@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Narrator: the infrastructure was not there

Voted liberal, ndp, and green my whole life btw, and spent a decade as a public servant; im not a hate filled person who shits on immigrants, I just want responsible immigration policy, and McKinsey Consulting is evil.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Both Jason Kenney and Andrew Scheer, the two prior Conserrvative leaders, also completely blew their chances of winning by relying on the rightwing outrage pipeline and by being completely unlikable as a human beings.

Side story, I worked in government and received an MP complaint against me by a client, and the MP was Jason Kenney. I had to talk to him a bit everyday for a week or so, and he came off as incredibly stupid. Blew my mind a year later when he was on a ballot lol.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)
[–] towelie@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When's the last time you tried? I had a hell of a time dual booting in ~2016, but as of the last five years or so I've set up half a dozen dual boots without issue, and Windows (LTSC) hasn't messed up any of the partitions.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What is this disclaimer warning about? I have used LTSC exclusively as a desktop OS since 2019 and everything works. I have not had an instance of something not working that would have otherwise worked on Enterprise or Home, etc. I game in 4k, edit videos, run a jellyfin server, mine monero. I'm confused about what you mean

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 35 points 2 months ago (4 children)

For $7.50 I'd unironically use a walking buddy at least once

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm rocking a kei truck for landscaping and home reno projects, and it still uses more gas than I'm happy with. I'd love for someone to make an electric truck that isn't a massive behemoth intended to prove something about my masculinity. Just give me a clean energy box bed to haul my lumber and dirt.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah mine was called the [City Name] Tool Library, and it was a non-profit that was independent of our local library. I imagine that they receive donated tools from contractors and companies around the city.

As an example, I googled a random city name (Calgary) and found one for them as well: https://calgarytoollibrary.org/

There are likely tons of similar organizations throughout Canada (and probably your country as well!)

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Have you looked at local LLMs? You can download and run them off your own machine - no connecting to an external server. They aren't any more power intensive than a lot of video games. I downloaded a DeepSeek model and I use ComfyUI to operate it locally

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

On a whim I googled my city's library and "tools" and I found a non-profit society that specializes in lending of hand and power tools! This is incredible and I wouldn't have known about it without this prompt: thank you!

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure what the google maps export looks like, but no matter how it's formatted I'm sure that a simple Python script will be able to transfer the map markers over to openmaps. I'll look into making this if it doesn't already exist on GitHub. I'd like to transfer my stuff over too.

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I genuinely find LLMs to be helpful with a wide variety of tasks. I have never once found an NFT to be useful.

Here's a random little example: I took a photo of my bookcase, with about 200 books on it, and had my LLM make a spreadsheet of all the books with their title, author, date of publication, cover art image, and estimated price. I then used this spreadsheet to mass upload them to Facebook Marketplace in bulk. In about 20 minutes I had over 200 facebook ads posted for every one of my books, which resulted in getting far more money than if I made one ad to sell all the books in bulk; I only had to do a quick review of the spreadsheet to fix any glaring issues. I also had it use some marketing psychology to write attractive descriptions for the ads.

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