What’s on your bedside table?

The other day I was looking at a guy who made a “cheap build!” for his homelab, to play with around AI models. The guy had 4 (FOUR!) 4090s with a 2kW+ PSU in some run of the mill case.

I have a 1Gb Pi 4B that hosts my critical network infrastructure (DHCP, DNS, cloudflared), a 20 year old laptop that I brought back to life with an SSD and some cheap RAM for mostly everything else, and the only thing I splurged a bit was a NAS with 2 drives for proper RAID, for the family photos and docs.

But I started with the cheap Pi, and built up from there. Don’t start from the top :)

Wait what’s arcane? Like portainer, but good?

An AI will contradict and correct you. They’ll just act all subservient when doing it - “That’s a very common point of confusion!”

No AI I’m sure it’s not, it’s just me who said a dumb thing.

KOTOR is such an amazing game… I’ve replayed it recently hoping it would ruin my childhood recollection of it being god tier. It didn’t, it’s still an amazing game after all these years

Just how strong was that wind…

I AM GANESHA!

That is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.

That’s not how this is meant to work. The courts shutting down a law is a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell’s about to break loose.

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Vance is a puppy, maga will tear itself apart.

That’s the correct approach. Keep calling out the obvious dementia, the guy’s barely a vegetable. Just look at the recent speech with the generals , the orange turd is unrecognisable, he barely moves.

Sir YES SIR.

Plus we were playing Mario Kart at the time. Where was Rittenhouse at that time though, huh?

I’m confused with ages here, have we standardized this?

• Greatest Generation (born roughly 1901–1927)
• Silent Generation (1928–1945)
• Baby Boomers (1946–1964)
• Generation X (1965–1980)
• Millennials (1981–1996)
• Generation Z (1997–2012)
• Generation Alpha (born around 2013–2024)
• Generation Beta (2025–2039)

Like how we used to do it back in the day! You’d Google for stuff, can you imagine it kids?

One of the reasons I think the game Alters is very good, it goes into this exact topic.

Nah it’s fine, the jobs are gone anyway because China used to buy monstrous quantities of soybeans from the US, and will buy 0 in the last trimester - here’s a link from Reuters. Brazil, Argentina, Chile have ramped up their production massively to accommodate the demand.

Since the jobs are now in other places, no point migrating to the US.

That’s one way of solving the migration issues - nuke the economy and destroy the jobs, so people no longer come.

For all we know, it’s a 50/50 that the customer service guy receives back an email back from that email that supposedly is not accessible saying “WTF I have no idea what you’re talking about, was my account hacked?”

But since you’re that gullible - hey bro, that wallet in your back pocket is mine, I put it there when I washed my jeans. Hand it back now, I paid for it and I’m 100% entitled to it!!

Yeah, I agree with all of your points.

I’m not American, but my understanding of the system is that the long term plan for the country isn’t meant to be set by the president, but by the legislature - passing laws and creating federal bodies that steer the country.

Instead, there’s absolutely no laws being agreed upon, only presidents that try to impose their view for a while until they’re replaced by whoever’s next who then breaks everything.

The courts are then thrown on to the spotlight and asked by the country to fill up a role who’s not actually theirs, and I don’t even want to go into the issues with appointment of judges.

Not that the system in China is any better, they just happen to have a guy who’s ruthless enough to hold onto power with no opposition, and seems to actually care about his country - but he isn’t gonna last for ever, and there’s zero guarantee that the power struggles after he’s gone won’t tear the country to shreds, or that the next up isn’t a fucked up moron like the orange…

The worrying part is that they kinda seem to be implementing good policies for (at least some of) their people.

There’s a lot of disturbing stuff, and probably a whole lot more that we don’t even know about, but social security, education, healthcare - my impression is that they’re going the right way, while the US looks eager to go back to the Dark ages.

Just with STEM degrees, they’re producing almost 5x more graduates than the US, and they’ve surpassed the number of doctorates a long time ago too.

The current world balance won’t hold one more generation.