jcarax

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jcarax,

Check the status of Asahi Linux, they’re making a lot of progress on Apple silicon, but it’s very early. I wouldn’t recommend it, at this point.

Do you actually need 64GB of RAM? The Thinkpad T16 AMD would be a good choice, but the T14s AMD has just stupidly low fan noise in Notebookcheck’s review. You definitely want to focus on AMD, Intel’s efficiency is… not great right now. As an added benefit, you get AMD graphics from the APU, so none of the Nvidia driver fuckery, and better performance than Intel.

Personally, I’m waiting for the T14s Gen 4 AMD. The 7840u is zen 4, GCN 3, and TSMC 4nm over the 6850u’s zen 3, GCN2, and TSMC 6nm. The T14 and T16 just hit Lenovo’s model database ‘psref’ earlier this week, so I’d expect them out in the next couple months. The T14s hasn’t been seen yet, I’d guess it hits psref in the next couple weeks. But, I’m prepared to wait into Q4, if need be, and some think I will be.

jcarax,

Ah, I think to get 64GB from a Thinkpad you’d have to move up to a P series, and even the P16s and P14s that are based on the T16 and T14 will be significantly warmer and louder than those others. They’re very much tuned for performance. Unfortunately, Lenovo is soldering RAM far more on their AMD models than the Intel models, so you won’t be able to run above spec.

jcarax,

I don’t think it’s an indictment of the concept, but rather a failure to realize it. I think there are two big improvements to be made, that would solve the author’s issues:

  1. Seamless user switching, with user recognition by fingerprint and voice
  2. Make the dock function like a nest mini when the tablet is not present

Pence says abortion should be banned for nonviable pregnancies (thehill.com)

Former Vice President Mike Pence has taken a hard stance on abortion, saying that abortions should be banned even in cases of nonviable pregnancies. Pence is the only GOP presidential candidate to publicly support a national abortion ban at six weeks. Medical experts have criticized Pence’s pledge, noting that forcing women to...

jcarax,

I’d say at least he only has 7% of the GOP vote, but the alternatives are so much worse. He’s pretty much their Biden, at this point. Hell, we don’t even know if he believes this garbage. The fact that so many people are beating the drums about things they don’t even believe, for the sake of winning over demographics, is truly terrifying.

jcarax,

1/4" slices spread in a pan with butter on high medium heat, adding water 1/2 up the slices. Cover with black pepper and savory, maybe a little thyme, some chili flakes if you like, and a good amount of thinly sliced shallots. Cover until the potatoes are mostly soft, and remove the cover. Once the water evaporates, cook until the potatoes are fairly browned and flip. It’s perfectly ok for them to break apart some, but try to minimize it. Once the second side is nicely browned, deglaze with brandy. Flip one last time as it evaporates.

Ohio remote work amendment removed from state budget (www.wdtn.com)

During the week of June 12, the Ohio state budget was approved by the Ohio Senate. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal years on July 4. The controversial amendment regarding the limitation of working remotely was removed during the budget’s conference committee....

jcarax,

removing the ability for an aide to read and summarize legislation for an incumbent.

Make the fuckers pass a comprehension quiz before they vote on anything.

jcarax,

I absolutely agree. I used to (still do, somewhere) have a Panasonic water boiler with just a few temperature settings. When I got into pourover coffee just before the pandemic, I ended up with a stove top Fellow gooseneck kettle that really changed things quite a bit. About a year ago, I got an electric kettle from Fellow, and having single degree precision was surprisingly impactful to tea. It was no surprise with coffee, where I tweak grind, agitation, and temperature to get right up against where there starts to be negative astringency. But I’m finding myself tweaking brewing temperatures of teas as well, though not to the same extreme as with coffee.

Goosenecks do pour rather slowly, though, so for anyone who doesn’t brew coffee as well, Fellow makes the Corvo that trades precision for flow rate. Though, I do like having a gooseneck around the ktichen. It’s nice having that sort of precision when I add water to something I’m cooking.

jcarax,

Yeah, it really doesn’t bother me, but about the most I’ll brew is 14-18oz. If someone is making big pots for the family, I could see it being annoying.

jcarax,

Oh geez, as soon as he shows the cheeses he’s using, it’s so obvious it will never melt. What the heck was he thinking. And if you’re talking up the spiciness of the pepper berries in the one cheese, why totally overwhelm that with kimchi.

jcarax,

What’s wrong with raisins in bread pudding? Some people prefer without, like nuts in banana bread, but it’s pretty common here in the states.

Or did he just pile dried raisins on top? We usually mix them in so they rehydrate during the cooking, or I like to rehydrate in some booze for stuff like that.

jcarax,

Man, I wish I could play Journey for the first time, again.

jcarax,

Mama World

Now I’m imagining an MMO built around an expanded Teeheeti, from Ni No Kuni.

jcarax,

But now I get to chuckle at fairy shenanigans, so it works out.

jcarax,

Julian Carax, a character in The Shadow of the Wind.

jcarax,

Any dan cong oolong, really. I also love Yunnan blacks, and a good keemun is something special. It’s been awhile since I’ve had a truly good keemun, though, I’m afraid it might be a casualty of climate change at this point.

jcarax,

I don’t know, I usually get 4-5 steeps out of them. Though they do end up closer to a nuttier oolong by the end, they taste distinctly dan cong for the first three.

Opinion | Nothing about Moms for Liberty is new. That’s why they’re effective. (www.msnbc.com)

Moms for Liberty, a conservative group founded in 2021, aims to reshape public education by taking over school boards and banning books they view as inappropriate. Though new, the strategy of focusing on education issues to advance conservative goals is not novel. The group seeks to influence the 2024 Republican presidential...

jcarax,

Nah, this is something new. We don’t know what the authoritarian capitalist endgame is going to look like, yet, but we likely will soon.

jcarax,

I imagine they see a world where ActivityPub is meant for federation between services from the likes of Twitter, Meta, Google, and other big players with maybe a large open source project that gets defanged.

jcarax,

I don’t think they’re necessarily against federation with others, now that I think about it more. We’re just content for them, to promote the endless scroll for their own users to get trapped in.

I don't think we should strive to have as big a userbase as reddit.

Many of us have seen it happening in the last 4-5 years. reddit subs, and reddit in general has become a bit s***. Of course there are still good subs, especially the truly niche ones can often have a small helpful crowd. But with 100s of thousands of users, some sub drown in hate and negativity....

jcarax,

I think that’s the potential beauty of the fediverse. We can have some redundancy across instances, as users and communities sprawl across them, developing cultures and ideologies.

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