I’m beginning to plan hosting a monthly dinner for friends, maybe starting in the fall. I’m excited thinking about having people I love gather over food regularly
I repurposed my 2008 ThinkPad as a server, saving it from the trash for yet another year!
What do you run on it?
Running Zoneminder so my GF can keep an eye on her shop from her phone (without paying someone a subscription).
My sister gave back an old hand-me-down computer that I had given her years ago, and I did the same thing. It’s not the best or the fastest, but it has an ethernet port!
Currently got it set up with a (somewhat jank) Jellyfin setup, as well as hosting some of the Discord bots I create.
My excitement is maybe small, but I’m excited about the 5-ish hours of sleep I’ve just had, which is such a gift after weeks of pain waking me up all the time
That doesn’t sound small at all! Wishing you more restful sleep in the nights to come. 😊
Thank you so much!
I dont know why im struggling with this question. Work is going well, but I don’t really have much I’m looking forward to, atm. I feel like everything I have planned is more stressful than fun.
Sometimes I pick something arbitrary to look forward to. Like, make a reservation at a restaurant with great desserts for 3 weeks out or something and look forward to that. Or decide I’m gonna be excited about Amazon announcing new hardware in September because maybe we’ll get more kindles with USB C charging.
Hmm, this is actually a good idea. I should write down some ideas.
I feel that too. Only thing I can think of is that I’m going to add a could ssds to my home server.
Today I’ve ordered the parts for my new PC, which will be a lot faster than my current one
Neat. Did you come up with the configuration yourself or did you use some reference, e.g. Lemmy?
I plan on doing the same in autumn/winter and I want to make sure everything’s compatible.
I have a friend who knows more about hardware than I do, so he helped me and we used https://PCPartPicker.com
Thanks! The page seems to put more focus on “custom builds”, whereas the other page linked has more granular presets for the builds. I’ve bookmarked them both and will try and cross-reference my selected hardware and compare suggestions.
You should check out Logical Increments! It’ll help with your budget and provide compatibility for every part in the system. https://www.logicalincrements.com/ Good luck!
Wow, that looks awesome, thanks!
I was super excited for my Transformers Legacy Skyquake to arrive today.
It didn’t arrive, which is a bummer.
But I get to look forward to getting it tomorrow, and I’m still really excited for it!
Hello fellow transformers collector!
I, too, collect transformers!
I went hiking on Saturday and I took a fuck ton of pictures, I’m really looking forward to editing the best shots from the trip. The hike was so beautiful it’s probably going to be pretty hard to pick, and honestly that’s the best kind of problem to have.
Also I have a bunch of miniatures that are at the point of needing a final pass of paint before being done, that I’m really excited to finish up.
Where (generally) were you hiking? I live near the Appalachian Trail & I love to get out for a good hike every now and then.
I live in the PNW so I usually hike around Mt St Helens, Mt Adams, and Mt Hood.
This last weekend though I went to a little place called Black Hole Falls
Making music with my fucking band WOOOOOO
Share a Bandcamp/Soundcloud link if you’ve got one!
Shit that’s not a bad idea setting that up thanks dude
Have fun!!! 🤘 :)
My wedding in 11 days. Even though I’m somewhat stressed because I’ll have to travel for it and there are some moving parts, I’m excited. Wife is taking it pretty well and she is excited as well!
Make sure to make a conscious choice to stop every once in a while and take the moments in, otherwise you might not remember anything because things are happening so fast on the day
When I got married I made the decision to avoid going around to all the guests and make sure they were happy/entertained etc. At the reception I basically stayed near the main table and just enjoyed the night. If people wanted to come and chat then they could.
Remembering that it was mine and my wife’s day took a real load off and helped with a lot of the pressure of the event.
Did the same thing with my wife! That was 9 years ago today 😋
Happy anniversary!
Thank you for this. Exactly what I’m planning on doing. I’ll just dance the night away basically.
I can’t recommend it enough. I spent our engagement party running around making sure everyone was having a good time, and didn’t enjoy it at all. Enough was enough. Hope you have a great time!
Thank you!
I literally made a comment saying the exact same thing some 10 days ago! i’ll make sure I take a second and take it all in. Thank you!
Good luck it’ll be a blast!
Here’s hoping!
Everything will work out perfectly, congratulations!
Thank you <3
The last 10 days leading up to my wedding were my most stressful but come wedding day it was gone all I cared about was being married to my favorite person. You’ve got this and CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yes, of course. I realize it is normal, especially seeing my wife taking it in great stride.
Thank you <3
Hope you have a great day! Wishing you two all the best!
Thanks <3
wishing you all the best!
thanks <3
Something will go wrong, but it won’t matter. Focus on the important things
That is the plan indeed! thanks!
Congrats in advance brother/sister! I literally just got back from mine and it went perfectly!
Thank you! and that is awesome! Congrats <3
grats!!
thank you!
Congrats on the wedding, and I wish you a beautiful future!
Thanks!
Congratulations!
John Green posted a video about a week ago calling out Johnson & Johnson for extending their patent for Bedaquiline, a medication that treats multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. The extension would prevent inexpensive generic versions from entering countries that are being ravaged by TB. After the video received critical reception and with John’s call to action, the public pounced on J&J. This led to J&J announcing they would allow the generic versions of Bedaquiline to be produced and shipped to the majority of low- and middle-income countries hit hard by TB, including countries where the patent is still in effect. We still don’t know which specific countries those are, but it’s still great news!
Plus, Hank Green is done with his chemo and seems to be mostly cancer-free for the time being.
This is the most unethical thing I have ever heard. Well, almost.
I read the first half of this wondering which of us misread OPs title
The possibility that things might one day get better for humankind. We’re long overdue.
If you look at overall worldwide poverty and starvation numbers, coupled with medical advancements and indoor plumbing, now is a pretty good time to be a human. Yes, there are lots of problems, but the standard of living (for the average person) has gotten so much better in the last 200 years
Absolutely agree!
I’m currently midway trough Peter Zeihans The End of the World Is Just the Beginning and just started Yuval Noah Hararis Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, he even cites a statistics which is that more people die from obesity than starvation each year, so we have that going for us. So far these two books are a nice contrast. I’m painfully aware of our currently novel situation and hoping things are gonna keep heading in the right direction. Actually would really want them to, trying my best to make them: https://sturlabragason.github.io/blog/2023/07/04/Decentralized-Autonomous-Communities.html
Great links and recommendations.
I have not read Peter Zeihans’ book, but going only by the blurb, I do take issues with the notion that global supply chains are only working because of the US Navy. That seems a wholeheartedly American view - as if China, or India, or the EU wouldn’t be able to trade unless the US Navy existed. If the point is one about piracy, then I certainly believe the fight against it, where it occurs, is deeply multinational and not dominated by the US Navy. Will have to read the book to understand his point, I think.
We’ll so far it’s been quite US centric so far, but I feel he has some solid arguments for most of his points. What’s been intriguing to me is his economic history. It’s presented in an engaging way.
Definitely reading it and thanks for the recommendation.
The fediverse is something I’m excited for and it’s still in it’s infancy so it’ll be intersting to see how it plays out as it starts getting more polished and user friendly.
Despite the doom and gloom of AI I think it’s been really cool, and one area I’ve seen it help is for my relatives where instead of me having to solve basic tech issues AI has helped. When it develops into a full on companion that will do things it asks them to I’ll be bothered less and less.
It’s frustrating to see peoples’ imaginations run wild with AI. They’re not building “sentient” machines. There will never be machines that are sentient in anything other than appearance, and we’re notoriously easy to fool in that way.
My favorite way to describe AI that I’ve heard is “applied statistics.” It’s basically just processing huge amounts of data, very fast, simultaneously, and then presenting conclusions that are usually very likely.
Yes, it will be used to make weapons that are horrifically efficient, but likewise it will be used to make defenses that are equally efficient.
I think the good will ultimately outweigh the bad. Hopefully by a long shot.
LLMs are spontaneously developing theory of mind and nobody knows why or how, meaning that now ChatGPT and the like are able to consider what the user is thinking, opening some avenues for actual manipulation. GPT-4 can solve 95% of ToM tasks that a 7-year-old could.
Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
100% with you, but it needs to find a way to make itself more accessible to the average person. It’s a bit of a learning curve and there are a lot of people who won’t jump ship from the simplicity of Reddit because of that.
For me I have been having fun testing novel ai and trying tk play pseudo rpg adventures alone, I will probably never share anything but it has been really fun to try AI as a single player experience.
This is something I’ve wanted to try. I still want to have with people but I can’t always. I think it could help me flesh out a campaign too.
I watched this AI npc in Skyrim and the level of interactivity it brought is amazing. So often in games characters quickly run out of lines, and feel like dead mannequins in open world games. Having a game world where there are lasting consequences because NPCs remember what you did is going to be cool. As opposed the same lines being recycled over and over.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=AQq8M88s3BU
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
The company I work for changed their policy on paid vacations. Starting in August I’m going to have a lot of vacation days and I’m going to use them.
It’s my anniversary, so I’m looking forward to having a nice dinner.
Happy anniversary 🎉🎂
Thanks stranger!
Having an early morning swim in the sea every morning for the next few weeks.
