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vizzier··on How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi
https://www.minisforum.com/pages/n5_pro

Minisforum sort of working on it, I'd imagine the AMD "AI" processors are pretty low power at idle as they're mobile chips. Obviously has the downsides of other minipcs tho (high cost, low expandability)

vizzier··on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
The easy answer to this is the same reason Teslas have "Full Self Driving" or "Auto-Pilot".

It was easy to trick ourselves and others into powerful marketing because it felt so good to have something reliably pass the Turing test.

vizzier··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Can you even compile an iOS app without registering with apple?
vizzier··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-flag-burnin...

You can't even make this shit up.

vizzier··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
This looks a lot like tyranny to me. Small scale and many may feel its justified but ICE appears to be acting repeatedly in defiance of lawful orders here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04ryk6ed5lo

vizzier··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
It is worth noting that the principles behind the online services act are still broadly popular in the UK

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/britons-back-online-safety-acts-...

vizzier··on The Coming Robot Home Invasion
Not parent, but I've had good success from our Roborock Q5pro. Previously had a Ecovacs T9 aivi.

The Ecovacs died twice, each just after a year (ie just out of warranty) needing to have main board/motor replaced. The bells and whistles didn't seem to be worth it. Self emptying station barely worked in an apartment with two people with long hair. Needed a lot of disposable replacement parts (main brush, side brushes, filters). Mopping feels like a bit of a gimmick.

The much cheaper Roborock so far has been solid but we've only had it for 4 months. Mapping is marginally better (it is FAR less likely to reset the map on you which is a real annoyance). Filter is washable, main brushes need to be replaced less often. Has a better mechanism for collecting long hair off the brushes. Mop attachment still feels like a gimmick.

vizzier··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
4k80 was finally released last year as well. Some notes on why it took so long: https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/
vizzier··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
Its worth noting of course, that this is Tory law which was given a grace period before implementation. Labour have chosen to continue its implementation and not repeal it.
vizzier··on I Created a Pop Star Using AI, and She's Dropping an Album in 2065
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/196ikpo/wh...

From what I've seen LoRAs tend to focus on styles, characters, hand fixes, face fixes, clothing. They're quite adaptable.

vizzier··on Confessions of the Working Poor
Sure, but the material demand on almost everything is now driven by 3B people across the east of asia, no longer just the 1B or so people in the anglosphere/western Europe.
vizzier··on .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution
https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet
vizzier··on Doge Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting with Lobbyists
This is true with the caveat that some special cases (like filing UK tax from overseas) isn't supported, or wasn't last time I attempted to use HMRC's site directly. You can use things like gosimpletax.com for that though.
vizzier··on US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders
Two reasons I'd guess: Trump has signed as many EOs as biden did in his entire presidency already [1]. Presumably when your executive order contradicts existing law you're more likely to be hit by an injunction.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/execu...

vizzier··on US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders
I feel your points are valid but don't really express enough detail. The supreme court in the UK though named the same doesn't really hold anywhere near as much power for the following reasons:

1) There is no written constitution, the supreme court in the UK is only there to interpret existing laws as written not to interpret differences between "tiers" of law

2) The UK has a system that can pass new laws, generally by simple majority so any decision rendered about existing law can be made obsolete generally fairly quickly (In contrast to the current intransigence of the current US system where it is hard to pass primary legislation and virtually impossible to modify the constitution)

3) the court was only established in 2009, and evidently we haven't done much to empower it

A better comparison country might be places like Canada or Australia who do have a written (and harder to modify) constitution.

vizzier··on Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and Framework Laptop 13 in-stock
Not entirely convinced its just hardware as we're seeing from the now direct comparisons between windows and steamos. [1] Linux based SteamOS is thrashing windows in both gaming performance and using less battery to do it.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108059-steamos-significantly-i...

vizzier··on Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals
> The guard deters thieves by mere presence - just like how an apparently-locked door, even if unlocked, deters more thieves than a wide-open door.

I don't really have any point to make, but it is fun to note that you can buy these.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secured-ADT-Alarm-Window-Stickers/d...

vizzier··on Google restricts Android sideloading
And yet we're all fine with

> https://trustmeitsfinebro.com/install.sh | bash

:D

vizzier··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
Aye, to some degree they are, but I'm also glad that android is open/hackable enough that goodlock lets you add these additional preferences. (I also use it, for me it was for ultrawide resolutions)
vizzier··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
> Dex is annoyingly close to being really useful.

I feel this a lot. I use it daily, mostly as a thin client for remote desktop use but there are little niggles that would make it better. Examples:

- Let me control how the top bar and taskbar are viewed

- Let games capture the mouse in remote desktop (for fps type games)

- Fix the small issues that cause the mouse capture to fail on steam link occasionally

- Fix rendering issues with firefox while in desktop mode

- Let the youtube UI work in a more "desktop" way while in dex mode

These might be mostly app responsibilities, but if they could fix some of this stuff dex would be a dream instead of just being mostly useful.

vizzier··on Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
Seems doubtful. Trust is earned slowly but spent quickly.
vizzier··on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees
Un-sarcastically though, you're also describing the windows 11 settings pane. Which arguably has settings (new style) control pannel (old style) and various *.msc management consoles for managing things like users and local security policy
vizzier··on Tailscale is pretty useful
Probably the closest to tailscale, optionally selfhosted, and using wireguard meshing would be https://netbird.io/
vizzier··on How about trailing commas in SQL?
People seem to think nothing of putting all other syntax on a new line (+, -, ||, &&, AND, OR are all fine) but as soon as you put a comma on a new line everyone loses their minds.
vizzier··on NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV
> Obviously not all government agencies provide comparable amounts of value to the general public based on the resources they consume.

This doesn't seem obvious to me.

vizzier··on I'm Done with Ubuntu
As an additional data point, I work in an office of 5 who all run ubuntu laptops as developer work stations. None of us had any problems migrating from 22.04.x to 24.04.1 when it became available.
vizzier··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
collusion. noun. col· lu· sion kə-ˈlü-zhən. : secret agreement or cooperation for an illegal or dishonest purpose
vizzier··on What's Going on at the FBI?
The worst part is, how do you even counter the injected rot? If they demand loyalty tests and infest your institutions how is it countered? do the other side also have to do the same (assuming they have the opportunity)?

All feels incredibly illiberal. I hope for the best that the oaths of office specific to these institutions hold.

vizzier··on Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry
You remind me of the bill hicks bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY

vizzier··on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
Respectable outright, but 450W -> 575W TDP takes the edge off a bit. We'll have to see how that translates to at the wall. My room already gets far too hot with a 320W 3080.
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