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major

@major@social.lol

🫡 Major is my first name, not a rank.
🤓 Engineer @ Red Hat, Fedora contributor
💸 Novice stock & options trader
📻 Amateur radio operator (W5WUT)
🤠 Texas, USA

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major, to ai
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I've found that getting an model deployed locally was pretty difficult, but then I gave a try last week. It's awesome!

I was able to test out plenty of natural language questions and do a tiny amount of training on my home computer.

https://github.com/instructlab

major, to running
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It looks like this week is going to be on hard mode. Highs around 100⁰F. 🥵

major, to random
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Sheesh my local Dodge dealer has so many cars and trucks that they had to park a ton of them across the interstate in a pasture. 👀

major, to politics
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I have plenty of complaints about the Democratic Party but, boy, I have no idea what the policy is on the Republican Party side.

They seem to reject conservative and liberal (big L and little l) ideals equally. As Charlie Sykes said years ago, the right really has lost its mind.

major, to running
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My #run today felt pretty awful. Then I realized just how humid it was:

(35°C == 95°F)

#running #fitness #keto

major, to random
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Demographics around access to abortion in the USA has some unexpected correlations.

(Not intending to start a ruckus on either side of the debate. Just sharing some data.)

major, to running
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It's that time of year in Texas again where it's time to sweat. 🥵

#running #run #fitness #keto #garmin

jwildeboer, to random
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Having a little ice machine in the office adds quite a bit of comfort to long hours of typing and talking :) m#LifeAtRedHat

major,
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@jwildeboer Hey, what is that Motorola device? 🤔

major, to random
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You know why car dealers charge these insane markups?

Because people get in line to pay them. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.reddit.com/r/Toyota/s/29MOmrZm63

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    major,
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    @chris Moved all of my domains (30+) over a couple of years ago and they are great.

    Wrote some posts about it, too: https://major.io/p/caddy-porkbun/

    major, to random
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    I have a mechanical keyboard with cherry mx switches and one of my keycaps (the "U" key) keeps flying off a few times per day.

    Does anyone have a good remedy? 🤔 ⌨️

    major, to running
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    Feels like 92F/31C and humidity is over 75%. Gross.

    #run #running #keto #fitness

    Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/lo4OgFQNsJb

    major, to Finance
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    Spending on Social Security + Medicare exceed defense spending in the USA.

    At some point, we will have a reckoning here. Politicians keep kicking the can down the road.

    #markets #finance #economics #health

    major, to Economics
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    Selling a home right now in the USA sure is difficult. Property values are up, interest rates are high, and mortgage applications are very low.

    To make matters worse, more mortgages in some areas are "underwater" -- the value of the home is well below what is owed to the bank on the mortgage.

    #economics #markets #finance

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    major, to random
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    Wow, if you hop on a Mullvad vpn endpoint that exits in Switzerland, the YouTube ads are WAAAAAY more entertaining. 👀

    major, to fedora
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    If you use on cloud, amazon-ec2-utils is headed your way with some helpful udev rules and tools.

    Now you can manage block devices using the same "sdX" conventions used in the AWS console and API. 😉

    It's on the way to for users, too! 🥳

    major,
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    I wrote a quick post about how to set up amazon-ec2-utils on @fedora and how to see the differences after installing it:

    https://major.io/p/amazon-ec2-utils-fedora/

    major, to Economics
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    Used car prices coming down in the USA. This isn't great for new car buying as dealers will offer less on a trade. Dealers still aren't moving much on new car pricing (yet).

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    major,
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    @stevensanderson I see your point, but there are serious economic consequences either way. More people will be underwater on auto loans and new cars will feel more expensive.

    major, to random
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    If you're looking for a little more processing power at home, there's a good deal on the Cheyenne supercomputer:

    https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996

    major,
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    @vwbusguy That's an interesting question. 🤔

    major, to running
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    DISTANCE RECORD for me! 🎉

    Almost hit the 11km mark but I was SOAKED. Heat and humidity are back.

    https://strava.app.link/ocK5rryJaJb

    hl, to Parenting
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    Put the baby monitor next to the sink, and the empty beer bottle on my bedside table. Definitely bedtime.

    major,
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    @hl We've all been there at least once.

    major, to random
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    I totally missed this development, but systemd allows you to set environment variables across the whole system in: ~/.config/environment.d/*.conf

    This makes it easy to apply environment variables in wayland/sway.

    https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/environment.d.html

    major, to IBM
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    Whoa, and ?!

    I have zero knowledge of any of this other than what popped up on Fidelity:

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