Hard Pass

What's your favour American food?

Can I get a smug lecture on how you're choosing the third, disconnected track?

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11432803

Consider this your official notice that the 21st night of September is nigh. ì̷͔̞͇̭̌̆̕͠ͅt̵͈̍̑ͅ ̸̜̜͋̒͆͝͝ç̷̞̣̝̀̀̆̕ͅo̵̰̿̒̏ḿ̸̝̳̰̱̝ȇ̶̘̒̓̎s̵̩̠͇̠͛̋̐̎̋

I was shocked when I couldn't switch back to Google Assistant today. I had tried out gemini for months a while back, and it does not control my phone well. I don't need advanced AI to remind me to move the laundry in two hours or remind me of my mother's birthday each year. Or to queue up a specific song on spotify. Also, advanced AI is cumbersome at those things. It's a real bummer.

I'm assuming this is a way to artificially inflate user numbers to shareholders.

This sucks.

Consider this your official notice that the 21st night of September is nigh. ì̷͔̞͇̭̌̆̕͠ͅt̵͈̍̑ͅ ̸̜̜͋̒͆͝͝ç̷̞̣̝̀̀̆̕ͅo̵̰̿̒̏ḿ̸̝̳̰̱̝ȇ̶̘̒̓̎s̵̩̠͇̠͛̋̐̎̋

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/1186439/protect-people

Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole break down what happened at the summit and on the streets

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/42928083

We ain't gonna die because we're too pretty

It is Unification Day, time to waltz into an Alliance friendly bar and start a ruckus.

It is also time for my yearly rewatch of Firefly.

Karl shut down a popular GOP talking point in defense of Trump's ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico in an interview with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.

The post ‘That Did Not Happen!’ ABC’s Jon Karl Nukes GOP Talking Point on Trump’s Press Ban in Testy Exchange With Steve Scalise first appeared on Mediaite.

Good news selfhosted crowd! I pitched the idea of setting up a server, and she is down with the idea!

I want to run Linux and host things like Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Navidrome, maybe Plex (I currently host it off my Mac desktop but would move it to a dedicated server).

I know you can host Plex et al on something like a Raspberry Pi, but I want a bit more power. I want something that can push at least 2-3 4K streams.

I'm considering targeting 12th gen i5 with 16GB DDR4. Maybe 32GB if I can swing it. Is that overkill? I know you want 8th gen Intel for hardware transcoding of either x265/HEVC or AV1 (probably the former as the latter is newer).

There are other projects I'd like to run. I'd like to be able to host my own LLM/AI but I'm not trying to go performance overkill here. This would be my first server.

I am somewhat comfortable using the command line, and I would be remoting into the server via my Macs (I have a desktop and a MacBook). However, Linux can run Windows games via Proton and that's something I'm interested in for some older titles that aren't on Xbox (like Deus Ex, which came out in 2000 and should run on integrated graphics). I'm not inexperienced with Linux and have been using it off and on (mostly off unfortunately) for over 30 years. My go-to would be Ubuntu, but I've heard great things about KDE lately and I know the Internet is in love with Mint these days. Would the distro really matter all that much as long as I have the required services?

I'm not the artist, LFontrie is. Source