OpticalMoose

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Ator: I’m off, to rescue my fiancee and my sister.
Bystander: Wait, you have to rescue 2 people?
Ator: No

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Sounds awful. I wonder how many drag queens work there.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I wonder how many offers he’s gotten for it so far.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

It’s out on Ollama already. I’m downloading it now. Can’t wait for the uncensored versions.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I’m pretty new to C&H, but after the maternity dress one, I’m prepared for anything.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I’m not sure how these links work, but here goes
sh.itjust.works/post/8591125

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Nah, it’s the second to last. OP knows something we don’t. Oh well, it wasn’t that good of a life anyway. See you on the other side.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Will this help? ‘Every time I buy more, the price drops more’: Truth Social backers baffled by stock woes

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I’ve started a website to try to document my family history from my great grandparents on down. So far it’s mostly been digitizing obituaries and VHS tapes, and putting them in a wiki style format. I haven’t figured out the best way to scan thousands of pictures. Overall, it’s been fun so far and I’m learning a lot about web hosting and video hosting.

Most of my hobbies so far have just been time-wasters. It’s nice to be involved with something that’ll (hopefully) be around after I’m gone.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Yes, my scanner works fine for the few pictures I’ve done so far. The only problem is that there are tons more to do. Plus some of them have been in photo albums for decades and I’m afraid to peel the plastic page cover off because it could peel a layer off the photo - I’ve already had it happen. And my scanner is a cheap all-in-one model designed for documents, so when it feeds anything in, they curve around a pretty narrow roller, which could damage some older photos.

I’ll probably send the albums off to a pro, since they have large format scanners. They can just scan a whole page at once and crop out the photos individually, that way they don’t have to worry about damaging anything.

I’m not too worried about the money, the toughest part is figuring out how to organize and catalog all these pictures of mostly people I don’t know. AI would be a huge help with organizing the images, but I can see a lot of people having a problem with it.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I’ve already got a setup for tagging my own images, working on getting it GPU accelerated. But my family (us being people of color) are really adverse to anything involving AI, even if it’s local and right here on my own computer. No worries, though, I can make do without.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

In addition, manufacturers will make a smaller and easier to lose format.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

You probably don’t want it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2jKKFUnycA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3frnBoqqI_Q

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I know right? It’s like he and Linus(LTT) are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Long story short, it’s not worth it.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Wait, God “asks” people to do things now? What, is he getting soft?

Moses didn’t receive the 10 requests, or the 10 suggestions.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

That’s not hard to believe. My parents (Silent Gen actually) passed away with their house paid off, but left about $60k of nursing home and medical debt. So, in order to close the estate, we had 3 choices: pay off the debt and keep the house, sell the house to pay off the debt, get a mortgage to pay the debt and keep the house.

We kept the house, but if they’d had like 150k or more in debt, forget it.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Using a phone sounds inconvenient to me. I usually just pull my card out of my wallet, wave it over the terminal until I hear a beep and that’s it. Worst case scenario, I have to insert it into the chip reader or God-forbid swipe it through the slot like some kind of Neanderthal.

I’m kidding, but seriously, that’s easier than screwing around with a phone, to me.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Same here. I guess I should have pointed out that I’m not really much of a phone guy to begin with. I don’t install many apps, and I stay logged out of Google. To me, losing a phone really just means losing my pictures and videos. The most expensive phone I’ve ever had was $200.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I guess “It’s not for everyone” is the real takeaway here. I’m not a phone guy in general, but I’ve been using cards since BK was still selling 99¢ Whoppers. I’m guessing both of us are ready to pay before the cashier has our order rung up.

To each their own. (I’m finally admitting that I’m fighting a losing battle on writing checks though.)

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

I’ve been having a blast playing around with AI these past few months. I mostly use it to write NSFW fiction, but also for programming and web development stuff. It’s made my transition over to Linux a lot easier, having a place to ask all my dumb questions.

OpticalMoose, 1 month ago

Have you tried the guide on AMD’s site? It looks like it’s for Windows, and I don’t know what you’re running. Plus, I use Ollama, so I probably can’t be of much help.

For programing, my favorite is Dolphin-Mixtral, but I’ve had good results with Dolphin-Mistral and Llama2.