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@DanOpcode@mastodon.social yeah, I meant to order a month of so ago so would have caught the Dec/Jan preorders, but missed that.
It will be a nice surprise in March anyway 🤣
@orbitalmartian@polymaths.social probably get storage, power supplies and cooling fans new.
Everything else is probably OK second hand. Especially memory right now!
CPUs: I'm still working and gaming on an i7 gen 6 CPU which has been heavily used for 11 years now - I'm sure you can get a 8th or even 10th gen for a good price right now too.
Thermal paste: I'm sure some elite gamers are going to say there's a difference but honestly for most tasks as long as there's something it's fine - the worst you'll need to do is take the heatsink off and replace the paste. No big deal. Normally a heatsink will come with some anyway.
For the actual heatsink and cooler - if you're doing intensive stuff probably get a third party cooler, but generally stock coolers are OK.
3 fans is fine.
Forget everything Linus has taught you, he's an idiot. You're probably better off listening to Henry Cavill 😁
@rl_dane@polymaths.social yup. Me too, hence me bridging it to at least get some distance, but still yuck.
In the UK SMS is generally free (or at least, so many per month) but we're stuck in the "everyone uses WhatsApp so I must too" fallacy.
My wife and I message over XMPP so our communications are unaffected 😆
Tentatively connected...
my wife this week got banned from WhatsApp until she can "download the official app"
Thing is, she is using the official app, downloaded from the play store.
Now it could be due to googly play integrity failing due to...well, it's a cheap unbranded phone, you may connect the dots there. But still, it is official play store downloading official WhatsApp.
Frankly, if anyone in this house is going to get blocked from whatsapp it's me - I got WhatsApp from aurora and use an XMPP bridge to use it in an XMPP client instead of their shitty app. But no I'm fine apparently.
Totally not OK, greedy capitalists. Not OK.
@YouAreCarrying@mastodon.gamedev.place @Binder@petrous.vislae.town throw strong box at boarded up window
@victoria_venery@kinkycats.org oh come on, I am literally about to go to bed. Now I'm going to have bad dreams!
@sotolf@polymaths.social absolutely agree.
I told the owners of the business yesterday that I understand they are finding it fun, but if they don't understand it they are playing with fire. They could go to sleep one night and their business is gone in the morning because AI put a private key in the JavaScript.
Noting all of this is being done with personal accounts, so isn't fit for business use anyway, let alone proper development processes. I showed them the actual prices and recommended, if they want to use AI, they subscribe to an enterprise plan in the full knowledge the bill will be higher than that expect, and then we have another discussion later.
We know we do that whole "replace billionaire with oligarch to make the headlines read better" thing?
Try it with "AI" and "handful of white billionaires in america"
"A handful of white billionaires in america hacks Australia's Medicare"
"A handful of white billionaires in america in healthcare: what are the risks to the NHS?"
"Epic used a handful of white billionaires in america to write a new game store interface"
Or even... "i used a handful of white billionaires in america to write me some code because I couldn't be bothered to care enough and I'm only in this for the money anyway. I love a handful of white billionaires in america"
@sotolf@polymaths.social one of my clients is starting to pretty heavily create "apps" using AI - basically visual interfaces that do some calculations with hard coded data than actually connected to anything.
But this causes me two problems -
- they're hosting them on personal free tiers of "hot-hoster-of-the-mobth.com" so their respective businesses have no control over them
- for the proof of concepts that have been designed with hard coded data, there is absolutely no allowance for the actual back end work and connectivity to data sources. It's all just "look! Pretty buttons!".
I had to say yesterday in an AI policy meeting that, the same as with needing a human to check the accuracy of AI "facts", they also need to prove they understand every line of code in the output - they won't of course because then they need to put in effort an actually learn something 🙄
Just ordered myself a #Dumberphone
https://dumbermini.com/products/dumber-phone
Won't arrive for about 5 months, but still, it's a start!
#Dumbphone
@greylinux@mylittlefedi.capella-ember.uk modern laptops are going to be a struggle for now I think. I've generally been OK with FreeBSD on my framework, though I had to put an old WiFi card in to get some connectivity
My struggle is with S0ix states though which FreeBSD doesn't support yet, and my laptop doesn't do S3 sleep so I have no lid close actions.
Note: this isn't a complaint, it's an understanding, and quite frankly we're all going to be buying older stuff anyway as no normal person can afford new laptops any more
We had a "cyber correspondent" that didn't know what PHP was.
The media needs to just get experts in sometimes, their staff suck.
@homegrown@social.growyourown.services you're right about the paradox - SSGs are simple, so by definition putting a GUI on top makes them complex.
Basically it sounds like they're after a desktop application that can output a bunch of HTML files...like Dreamweaver 🤣
Not sure what there is today that does the same. Must be something. Isn't there that Zim wiki thing that can output HTML? Technically that would do it, but probably lacking theming.
EchoesOfTheEye comments - MAYBE SPOILERS!
@joel@fosstodon.org I am done as of last week.
I basically stumbled across the glitches. I was putting the lantern down all the time anyway to see if I could pick stuff up, just happened to walk outside the bounds at a point where I was near an invisible bridge which was useful.
Then I started looking for other glitches as I would in anything else - a transition process seemed like a useful thing (Although I did jump looking for something above, then missed the boat on the way back down 😆). I actually didn't go to the 2and lock the first time I did this and went to the archives instead but couldn't find anything to watch there first time.
Finally, I was low on health after a nasty ship crash, and burnt myself in a fire. Notified I didn't hear the alarms and, well. There we go.
Basically I got into the vault without finding any of the archives. I have since gone to get them.
The ending was superb!
Fun other note: I watched the DS9 Sanctuary episode the other day and the skreeans speak of the "Eye of the Universe" 😄
Imagine if we paid just a fraction of the money spent on AI for this to the actual #PHP team... none of this may have even happened!
@sotolf@polymaths.social same here, mostly intranet. There's some stuff that could be accessed over the internet but those will be fine on the intranet or only via a specific IP range for the time being. If people get some mild inconvenience then so be it.
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ah, I heard that but didn't look into it.
So specifically in 8.5.12? Or did it exist before? Does it exist in the 8.4, 8.3 and 8.2 latests as well?
Very interesting if fix by AI! Verrrry interesting.