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oaththrowaway··on Blue-Recorder, a Simple Screen Recorder Written in Rust
The GNOME screen recorder works the best out of all the ones I've tried. It allows you to record a selected part of the screen as well, which Blue Recorder doesn't
oaththrowaway··on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
It happens on meme pages all the time
oaththrowaway··on White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)
I loved that book
oaththrowaway··on My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian
No, that's a common misconception. Faith in the context of religion requires or enables action. It's taking your belief and acting on it.
oaththrowaway··on LineageOS 21 review: Smartphone sustainability starts with software [video]
I've been using Lineage+MicroG for the past several years and I won't buy a phone that isn't supported by it going forward: https://lineage.microg.org
oaththrowaway··on The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US
Off topic, but does anyone know if Ute tribes share money with each other for big projects like this?

I'm pretty sure this tribe has a casino on their reservation, but I know the one in Utah doesn't, both get money from oil extraction, but I'm not sure if they are totally independent from each other?

oaththrowaway··on The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US
IIRC this tribe has a casino
oaththrowaway··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
I grew up 2 states away from my parents siblings, I couldn't pick out most of my aunt's/uncles from a lineup let alone my cousins. My kids live close to the same distance away from their cousins, but we make a huge deal to make time to see them.

My kids and their cousins are all great friends and it's well worth the sacrifice

oaththrowaway··on Fedora Atomic Desktops
I never tried Fedora before, but a few weeks ago Bluefin got mentioned here and I went down a hole reading about Universal Blue and ended up making my own spin. Love it. Immutable is incredible
oaththrowaway··on Fedora Atomic Desktops
Try using the flatpak version of browsers. Acceleration should work ootb
oaththrowaway··on X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency
Written by...?
oaththrowaway··on X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency
It was clearly a joke about Vice's finances. Keep downvoting though
oaththrowaway··on X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency
Vice mad it can't afford $8 checkmark and algorithmic boosting. Better?
oaththrowaway··on Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)
Sure if I want to hear a generator running 6 hours a day
oaththrowaway··on Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)
Propane
oaththrowaway··on Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)
EVs have bigger capacity than my off-grid house. No way I could keep one charged while also trying to power my house. In the winter my standby generator has to kick on just to keep my house powered. It's not even a matter of adding more panels, just living in the mountains I only get so much sun in the shorter winter days... And that's if I have clear skies and without snow covering the panels
oaththrowaway··on Google podcasts is shutting down
AntennaPod is what I use as well, but it does really kill my battery for whatever reason.
oaththrowaway··on Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author
Last Ringbearer was a decent read
oaththrowaway··on Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
I had a boss at Yahoo who gave our QA to another team because "Facebook doesn't use QA, we shouldn't either". I can't remember if it was Facebook or MS, but he was willing to buy all of us a book talking about how amazing it was.

Long story short, it wasn't. It was like taking away a crutch. Of course we could have been more diligent about testing before having QA validate it, but it slowed development down so much trying to learn all the things we never thought to test that QA did automatically.

oaththrowaway··on Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools
Maybe Refact? They have a self hosted version that can index your repos. They have their own LLM or you can use others. Nice tooling for VS Code as well
oaththrowaway··on Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?
4060Ti w/ 16GB VRAM or 3090 w/ 24 GB VRAM

Of course with those you'll also have to spend some money on motherboard, ram, SSD, PSU, CPU, ect.

I think the best bang for the buck is probably a Mac studio with as much ram as you can afford.

I bought an RTX A2000 (12GB VRAM), and it's fine for 7B models and some 13B models with 4 bit quantization, but I kind of regret not getting something with more VRAM.

oaththrowaway··on How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox
I actually just bought a 6th gen ipod classic. Converted it to flash and put a new battery in. It's definitely an experience, but it's been a fun ride so far
oaththrowaway··on X is now licensed for payment processing in a dozen U.S. states
I guess they can go build their own payment platform?
oaththrowaway··on Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
I hope you aren't insinuating election fraud!!!
oaththrowaway··on Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
I have used Yabai + skhd previously solely to allow me to "cycle" my virtual desktops. Disabling SIP to make this happen was always a fun challenge on my work Macbook. Is there an alternative at this point in time?
oaththrowaway··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
/s
oaththrowaway··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
Nothing I just said is inconsistent with what I posted earlier. I have no desire to hurt them, but I'm not going to pretend that anything I do to them is immoral or tips the scale from what they've stolen from me over the years
oaththrowaway··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
Come and take it
oaththrowaway··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
I don't want targeted videos. I don't even want them to know I exist. Even if I never used YouTube, that is impossible.

Their tracking is all encompassing and invasive, even without a Google account. They are a menace to the world and it should be an obligation to block their ads. If Google disappeared tomorrow the world would be better off.

oaththrowaway··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
> Drink verification can
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