They are confident that the massively overpriced vehicles they are making, that have an order of magnitude less parts on the bill of materials, are funding their lobbyists and political bribery machine to prevent any chance of open market capitalism.
By no means are you restricted to such images as these. It could mean anything you chose. You have absolute artistic freedom that is unconstrained. This is about art and creativity, not just novelty. Heck, you can even abstract my abstraction and call “Down Under” upside down and go Aussie. My point is that there are absolutely no limits, just that the theme must convey “The Up Side Down” in whatever way you imagine.
This is also an opportunity to show off skills with LoRA’s and such. In the last challenge several entries showed a desire to explore the edges of complexity and possibilities. I hope this challenge pushes those buttons and scratches that itch.
I currently have a low end Windows gaming laptop that I was planning to upgrade to Linux before Win10 goes end of life, but my HDMI port stopped working, so now I’m debating buying a new Linux laptop instead. Can anyone provide any recommendations?...
The best deal is probably going to be looking for a used machine with a 3080Ti. There were several of these made with Intel 12th gen CPU’s. That is probably the cheapest way to get a 16 GB GPU. They can be found for considerably less than $2k. Anything with a “3080Ti” where the “Ti” part is super important, has a 16 GB GPU, (the “3080” is 8GB). That was the only 16 GB laptop GPU until the newer Nvidia 4k stuff.
That can play any game, and can run some large models for AI stuff if you become interested. On the AI front, you want maximum system memory too if possible. My machine can only address 64 GB of sysmem. Some go up to 96 GB. I wish I could get like 256 GB.
Just because a machine comes with Linux does not mean the problems are solved. You will find many times when people buy machines that have peripheral kernel modules that are orphaned and not part of the kernel. Orphaned kernels are not real Linux and are like phones. Indeed this is the exact mechanism used to steal your phone and prevent you from using it for its true hardware lifetime.
The real solution is linux-hardware.org. Use that to see what works where. You also need to understand modern secure boot with the TPM chip and package keys. These exist outside of the Linux kernel. If delving into this system is too much for you to deal with or of no interest, just stick to using either Ubuntu or Fedora. These both have a special system outside of Linux that will handle the keys for you. Presently, these are the only two distro choices that do this; not derivatives either, it must be vanilla Ubuntu or Fedora. You won’t be able to change anything in kernel space when going this route, but if the keys issue is unimportant, that probably won’t be an issue.
You would be immortal and all basic amenities essential for physical survival would be provided. You can have the age of your body according to your choosing and your mind won’t blow off by accomodating endless amount of memory....
I would need a life without the human animal nature to be such a god. I would tire of the hormone cycle. I already find it stupifying to some extent after less than 4 decades. Free my mind of this burden and give me perfect recall to expand my human memory byte. From there I will explore the universe, within the galaxy and beyond.
What is there if not the journey. I still choose life.
Even after being partially disabled for a decade and in near total isolation presently, I still choose life now, as I would then. Boredom is a lack of creativity. Perhaps the entire universe becomes the slow moving simulation of my mind for the Postbaryon.
You eat the same repetitive foods in a cycle just beyond conscious awareness, and yet you do not tire of eating. I can dance to life forever, despite the rhythmic procession, or effrons quale.
Has Muscovy been anything other than backwards; wearing a cape of ideology? I see the threaded simulacra from the con of khans to Putin as a consistent parade of the Terrible’.
Subreddits got banned for being unmoderated during the third party app transition. I used to love IdoitsInCars. I’m currently looking for Car Audio advice and I can not find them. Did they just die on Reddit or am I having trouble using Lemmy search engine? I really love the idea behind Lemmy, but I just can’t get it to work...
Just ask your questions. We don’t need the micro filters like reddit did. The same people are here. You just need to be a bit mindful of global timing and day of the week. Reddit had a similar but less pronounced chrononormativity.
Someone a few hours earlier asked, what would you do if you found porn after a family member passed. I am asking, what kind of porn did you get, just to be found after you’re gone? For better or worse! What is your last way to get in a dad joke or eye roll?
Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I've seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It's always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it's been a thing....
No console went for $100 new when it first came out. Those were the prices long after the economy of scale made it a profitable gamble to sell the hardware at a loss to drive game sales and make up the difference and then some.
I remember Super Nintendo games at ~$60-$70 at first release. They quickly came down in price to ~$40-$50 after a month or two.
I’ve lived under a rock for 10 years. I did Metro ages ago while most were still on contracts. Surely we’ve reached true capitalist open market freedom by now. Is it still total closed market, noncompetitive, privateering corruption?
An old friend from the UK moved to the States for awhile. They used to reminisce about buying sims at the corner store in Scotland and having reasonable rates for what they used instead of all the contract focused exploitation in the USA. IIRC they said that they had no periodicity to their purchase.
I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.
For me, it is not about “lost history.” It is about contextual history and knowing if some tool I built in a distrobox uses only dandified, pacman, aptitude, portage; or if it also uses venv, conda; or if there was some install script.
It would be nice if I was on a stable kernel to avoid such a dependency salad, but that is not within the scope of playing with the latest AI toys where new tools and exploring new spaces is constantly creating opportunities to explore.
It would be nice if I was some genius full stack dev that could easily normalized all the tools under a single dependency containerization scheme, but that is not within my mental scope or interests at the present. For most AI tools, I follow the example given and only add a distrobox container as an extra layer of dependency buffering from the host. The ability to lazily see the terminal history for each of those containers is a handy way to see exactly what I did months ago.
Instances can have different visible votes based on federation. The only two that I see with down votes are my own and Ziggurat’s with one downvote for each of us. I mention because the community host instance does not show downvotes by default. I can see them on the default dot world interface. Thanks for hosting. Sorry you hated it. Fortuitous, though, he’ll be wearing this in prison for rule 34 games!
Was referring to the likelihood that your instance was influencing your view on votes. I have several accounts on other instances to propagate new communities but I don’t have one on mander.xyz, so I couldn’t check how you see the vote counts by default.
It’s me making assumptions, thinking ahead, and wondering why you might say “it was a tie” initially. It wasn’t that I thought you hosted it. I thought your view from your account likely sees a different vote count, that is all. No big deal.
You “hating it” was a reply to your original comment right after I posted. I ‘hate it’ too. No worries.
Cause for celebration (lemmy.world)
Caption This (hilariouschaos.com)
GM claims its new Chevy Bolt EV will be the most affordable on the market by 2025 (electrek.co)
[Community Challenge 37] The Up Side Down (files.catbox.moe)
The Up Side Down...
If Trump’s Conviction Lands Him in Prison, the Secret Service Goes, Too (www.nytimes.com)
Laptop Recommendation for Light Gaming
I currently have a low end Windows gaming laptop that I was planning to upgrade to Linux before Win10 goes end of life, but my HDMI port stopped working, so now I’m debating buying a new Linux laptop instead. Can anyone provide any recommendations?...
What are the minimum things you need to be willing to live for eternity?
You would be immortal and all basic amenities essential for physical survival would be provided. You can have the age of your body according to your choosing and your mind won’t blow off by accomodating endless amount of memory....
30 May 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
"Socialism is when LGBT folk are given human rights" (lemmy.world)
Reddit subs that stopped being moderated went where?
Subreddits got banned for being unmoderated during the third party app transition. I used to love IdoitsInCars. I’m currently looking for Car Audio advice and I can not find them. Did they just die on Reddit or am I having trouble using Lemmy search engine? I really love the idea behind Lemmy, but I just can’t get it to work...
What's your best last prank?
Someone a few hours earlier asked, what would you do if you found porn after a family member passed. I am asking, what kind of porn did you get, just to be found after you’re gone? For better or worse! What is your last way to get in a dad joke or eye roll?
What do people today act like is new, when it's already have been a thing or already been around?
Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I've seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It's always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it's been a thing....
What's the closest any animal species has come to evolving to have telepathy?
Donald Trump Says He'll Stop All Electric Car Sales (gizmodo.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15958124
Easy Vegan Moussaka - Full of Plants (fullofplants.com)
Ruleprint (pawb.social)
Image transcription: a caption reading “my digital footprint looks like dis [sic]”. Below the caption are two cartoon pawprints. End transcription.
what's better to manage ports? ufw or firewalld?
I’m trying to open a port for transmission but before I get to know either of the 2 options I’d like to know what you recommend and why....
Does the USA have any open market cellular options that are legitimate pay-as-you-go and only for what you use options like Europe yet?
I’ve lived under a rock for 10 years. I did Metro ages ago while most were still on contracts. Surely we’ve reached true capitalist open market freedom by now. Is it still total closed market, noncompetitive, privateering corruption?
Do you have a more complicated shell history scheme than the distro default?
I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.
[Community Challenge 36] The Wrong Sailor Moon (mander.xyz)
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