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ashitlerferad

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ashitlerferad··on What Dolly, then it's remnants (AL97), taught my weather site about wind gusts
Author here. Self-funded weather tracker for 18 Eastern Caribbean islands, one year old this month. TL;DR: our provider's "gust" estimate was inaccurate for our region, and on a squally morning it put 45 mph on islands whose airports had measured nothing close to that. Happy for suggestions or feedback.
ashitlerferad··on Show HN: built my 15-year-old game idea
Thanks for the feedback!! Sounds like you tried the one-off Arcade or vs. game modes. But what you described is the WARS beta mode. As you mentioned:

"each representing their own operating system." = yes, and also DE/WM. "Each OS can have its own power ups." = Yes, via Linux packages in the game along with distro specific perks.

Give the beta a try. Hope that's what you had in mind. <3

ashitlerferad··on Show HN: built my 15-year-old game idea
Haha thanks. Especially for those older gamers it really should bring back memories. Did the beta key link work ok?
ashitlerferad··on Azure Linux Desktop
AI slop
ashitlerferad··on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
AI Content Found Percentage of text that may be AI-generated. 100% AI fatigue is real and nobody talks
ashitlerferad··on [dead]
A personal story about childhood places and how time, memory, and slow change alter what once felt permanent.
ashitlerferad··on How to Run WordPress completely from RAM
And pagespeed score reflects that. It does not matter if it’s in ram, most of the pages/load will be on the CDN and caching anyways.

Servers put the most requested into RAM also.

ashitlerferad··on My Quest for the Ultimate Home Office Firewall
Sounds interesting. Can you point me to link(s) to reading about that and the pros/cons etc.? Or can explain to me like a noob why this would be better? Took me 3 years just to figure out this far lol, so any guidance would be appreciated.
ashitlerferad··on Merry Christmas Everyone
As a JW I never celebrated either. It’s strange because my wife is Lutheran and she’s probably the most excited adult about Christmas I’ve ever met. Bakes the Ham, turkey, Christmas PJs, Love Actually, Home Alones and gifts Christmas morning.

I love seeing her happy as much as I love food. So it works out. I don’t get involved beyond what I would do on a regular day which is be happy for her, have good conversation and banter and eat a lot of food.

People will say well if you are not active, what’s the big deal? Well, It’s like how parents might give advice when you’re younger and some of it you outgrow or choose not to follow as you become an adult, but certain lessons stick with you for life because they feel fundamentally true. They become part of who you are. For me, not celebrating Christmas is like this. Even though I’m not actively practicing as a Jehovah’s Witness, that teaching still aligns with my values and feels like the right thing to continue avoiding it. It’s also a sign of respect and a nod to my beliefs.

ashitlerferad··on Ask HN: What Happened to G-WAN?
well yes it was abandoned many years ago.
ashitlerferad··on Linux: We Need Tiling Desktop Environments
Upvoted! Never any harm in more options, especially to include more people.
ashitlerferad··on AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
Honestly, I keep secret some of the amazing uses of ChatGPT. I feel selfish but also I feel as if everyone is respsible for what they get out of it. We have many people and the media spending hours and tons of prompts trying to create funny or eyebrow raising headlines. I just keep my head down an marvel at the growing array if uses, many complex, that chatgpt can perform. It has been making me tons more money for just $20 a month. I could hire 10 developers and assistants and they would not be able to come close to it's technical, coding and general abilities and in 1 to 5% of the time it would usually take!
ashitlerferad··on Why AI and Chatbot Developers Rely on Linux
Yes true about hardware support. But Linux is advantageous for many reasons that made it the standard in large-scale cloud environments in the first place; largely because it offers much greater customization and control in just about every aspect. The cost/open source advantages as well.
ashitlerferad··on Show HN: My $900.00 12 Tflops Gaming PC Build
~ $400 to $500 now, but PS% is not upgradable and if the PS6 is anything like 5, it will be over $1000 for the first year+
ashitlerferad··on Show HN: My $900.00 12 Tflops Gaming PC Build
WSL is a breeze to use: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/
ashitlerferad··on Show HN: My $900.00 12 Tflops Gaming PC Build
A gaming PC that like everyting else ended up being used mostly for work.
ashitlerferad··on Show HN: My $900.00 12 Tflops Gaming PC Build
Indeed! I was going to dual boot, but Windows 10/11 now has WSL (Windows subsystem for linux). So I've been using Ubuntu, Debian, and other distros and also can launch (Wayland and x11) apps natively like Remmina and other Linux only apps: https://i.imgur.com/299XJvv.png
ashitlerferad··on The Two Generals Problem
It's probably because the ads are in-house from the root domain and not 3rd party ads with a bunch of tracking nonsense.
ashitlerferad··on Ask HN: Is it safe to remove snap from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS completely?
Thanks. This is mostly what I thought. Thanks for clarifying and adding details.
ashitlerferad··on Ask HN: Is it safe to remove snap from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS completely?
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam
ashitlerferad··on Ask HN: Is it safe to remove snap from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS completely?
I had no issues when tested. But still wanted to CMA lol
ashitlerferad··on Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
Salaries about to go through the roof. Time to be a nurse more than ever.
ashitlerferad··on How is this possible? (Google Analytics screenshot)
Thanks a ton.
ashitlerferad··on Show HN: Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library
I would like to invite you to share Datagridxl here: https://forums.haydenjames.io/c/showcase/21 (will be suggested to subscribers)
ashitlerferad··on 78% of the Web Powered by PHP
So 78% by PHP but 77% below PHP version 8. OK
ashitlerferad··on 78% of the Web Powered by PHP
Yet HN removed from the front page. Why the hate for PHP.
ashitlerferad··on 78% of the Web Powered by PHP
Also, HN removed it from the front page despite the upvotes. After, November 28 it may be more worthy
ashitlerferad··on Free vs. Available Memory in Linux
quote: "this number should *almost always* be small". "case by case" basis. What use case have you have this 4GB calloc requirement?
ashitlerferad··on Self-Hosted Homelab
Zabbix 5 lts
ashitlerferad··on Self-Hosted Homelab
Zabbix 5 lts
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