You'll find the video in this submission a fun watch if you want to learn a bit about optimization and AVX-512.
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Goats, chickens, ducks geese.
Had the most success with goats and chicken kept behind an electric fence at night.
Everything else ends up eaten by the wolves/coyotes within a year.
Luckily the eagle populations less than 50 miles away have not yet noticed us.
We're more of a target of opportunity for the wolf population due to the abundance of whitetail deer.
Those deer provide an excellent source of inexpensive protein from hunting. We can have one of the local butchers process the entire deer for under $200. The usual agreement is that the meat from the first deer of the season goes to the landowner(they pay for processing). The rest is up to the hunter.
Most years we end up with enough extra that we donate the processed meat to local churches for distribution to their congregation.
It gets a lot of use in my household. I have my server (a headless Intel iGPU box) running it in docker with the Intel iGPU encoder passed through.
I let the iGPU default encode everything realtime, and now that plex has automatic subtitle sync, my main source of complaints is gone. I end up with a wide variety of formats as my wife enjoys obscure media.
One of the key things that helped a lot was segregating Anime to it own TV collection so that anime specific defaults can be applied there.
You can also run a client on one of these machines directly, but then you are dealing with desktop Linux.
Recovery from a lost drive would be slower, for sure.
I only came across the existence of this CPU a few months ago, it is Nearly the same price class as a N100, but has a full Alder Lake P-Core in addition. It is a shame it seems to only be available in six port routers, then again, that is probably a pretty optimal application for it.
One curiosity for @geerlingguy, does the Beelink work over USB-C PD? I doubt it, but would like to know for sure.
Until there is something in this class with PCIe 4.0, I think we're close to maxing out the IO of these devices.
Beavers are one of the sadly misunderstood creatures and are almost entirely responsible for all the good valley farmland we have thanks to their thousands of years of terraforming.
If you can afford the medium term loss of land, a beaver setting up a dam on your property is a good thing. Unfortunately, most cannot, or are unaware of the benefits they bring and only consider them pests.
I am only aware of a single modern-ish motherboard with ISA, the MS-98A9, and it only supports Intel 3rd Gen Core series CPUs.
That said, if it was a large enough project, reverse engineering and re-implementing using modern components would likely be feasible. Turning each of these into network services handled by something more akin to a RaspberryPi could modernize the data sources while providing a sustainable and modular replacement strategy. The problem is that its not "sexy" enough to get a major government project, and it would not grease the correct palms that a multi-billion dollar next-gen complex proprietary replacement would.
I removed the 3G modem when I replaced the battery to prevent it from being turned on and draining the battery as it constantly tries to connect. The microusb port is not in great condition and only works with the cable at certain angles. On the bright side, that's only an issue every few weeks when it gets charged and a new load of books.
My wife has the newest basic Kindle because she prizes light weight over any other aspect.
They are also quite good at translating poorly written and only semi coherent writing, which can be incredibly useful if the person you are communicating with is quite sloppy.
I no longer shy away from writing <500 LOC utility/glue scripts in python thanks to uv.
I'm often traveling outside of the US, and my AT&T prepaid line most definitely does not roam outside of CAN/US/MEX. I spend the bulk of my time in WiFi calling mode. I have never had any issues receiving or sending SMS over WiFi, including to short codes.
But as more details come out about the current admins use of signal, this appears to not be the case.
They are using a shitty third party patched version of signal specifically designed to archive messages.
Leaving aside the security issues with the version they are using and the lack of public facing policy, the use of a Signal variant that archives chats is a reasonable compromise.
Instead of walling off users, creating a barrier to use and therefore extensive bypassing of the security standards, they have met users where they are and provided them with what the user cannot distinguish from official signal. This allows them to interface internally and externally through signal, preserving records and maintaining a much better level of security than the other options.
This represents a huge breach of trust between external parties and government signal users, but most of the government signal users are probably completely unaware that it's being logged.
My issue is not that they are using Signal. I think it's one of the better options. My issue is that they use a shitty version of it when there should be an in house maintained version for government use.
I was in the market in Mexico last year, just looking for a cheap city car with a warranty for when I am there. I test drove half the cars on that list, the other half I immediately eliminated after sitting in the driver's seat for under a minute.
You can think of those base models like MSRP GPUs right now. They exist on paper, but good luck actually getting one for MSRP.
In the end, I didn't purchase any of those and got a two year old certified preowned vehicle with the top trim and comfortable seats from a dealer with a warranty for about $3000USD more than the cheapest actually available model of those linked in your post.
0: https://www.gmktec.com/products/prepaid-deposit-amd-ryzen™-a...
Then again, if the tokens/s of digits is comparable to a M4 Max 128GB, then I'm getting a MBP instead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1f9s8kk/comment/luquux...
I have been unable to locate anything even remotely reliable other than the AMARS[0] report that shows that between August 2023 (two months before Musk) and July 2024 the EU user base dropped from 111M to 106M. That hardly seems like load shedding to reach sustainability.
I would like to see global and up to date data, but it does not seem to exist in public.
This is especially useful because link-rot means that resources I was able to uncover might not be available in the future. A few years ago I did a massive amount of research into internals of old unixes for data recovery and maintenance of said systems in the modern era(machines attached to million dollar pieces of testing equipment go away when the machine does). I was maintaining and upgrading(mostly scsi2sd) and backing up systems that all predated y2k. Most of my research references are now dead links to nowhere. I now print to pdf as well as take archive.is links of all my referenced sources.
I'm generally terrible about blogging, but I'm changing that for 2025. I'm now in a position where I'm solutions architecting a lot of things as my primary day job. This makes easy blog post subjects that not only clarify my thoughts and understanding, but end up being the basis for the internal documentation on the subject.
A lot of what I now do is in terraform, cloudformation, golang, or Python. I make sure when I publish my blog post, I include a complete working example. For all my terraform, all one has to do is clone and run terraform apply, after satisfying the barebones prerequisites.
That is to say, the release version of ChatGPT GPT4o seemed much better than the version today. This does not apply to the API.
A super is a like Kroger's or Walmart Express.
A hyper is a Walmart Supercenter.
Apple Intelligence looks very meh.
I tried reels when it first released, and gave up after an hour of constantly being shown videos of scantily clad women.