Instead of assessing compatibility I assume it would include ideological purity tests.

Yeah, what you described is how it should be.

Each person:

1. What I did yesterday.
2. What I’m working on today.
3. Briefly describe obstacles or assistance I need.

That could be as little as 45 seconds per person if done properly.

Someone tell remote managers that daily status meetings for teams of 5-10 people should never be more than an hour long.

In person, they are “stand up” meetings to encourage them to be as uncomfortable and short as possible. Over web meeting, that convention tends to fly out the window.

It’s triangulation.

The plans Mamdani campaigned on are going to cost billions, and will require state and federal support to have any chance of success. He said as much himself and I imagine that’s why he agreed to the meeting.

Hochul supported him verbally and now Trump has too (words are free).

From Trump’s perspective, if he had done a presser where he immediately shits on Mamdani to his face, and vows to oppose him with the entire Federal apparatus, then that adds fuel for more people to potentially support Mamdani-like figures if for no other reason than opposition to Trump. It also gives Mamdani an easy target to blame if his policies ultimately fail in NYC.

In contrast, Trump comes out and says “NYC is great, it’s gonna be great under his leadership, he can do it” etc. then later when things don’t go so well in New York (which Trump is betting on) then it’s easier for Trump to say Mamdani owns the failures.

Its the same thing as building up a debate opponent prior to the event and then it becomes easier to suggest they underperformed expectations.

Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, etc. all inking new partnerships to generate a headline and valuation increase. Meanwhile AI companies PE ratios creep upward.

The top few companies can only helicopter cash at eachother for so long before the bubble eventually busts. That’s not new income being generated, it’s more akin to check-kiting in a public trading context.

I think we need some kind of limiting principle applied to restrict what individual jurisdictions can do to fuck up national or global systems.

Overzealous lawmakers in Michigan or Wisconsin shouldn’t be able to force global companies to operate their websites differently.

California shouldn’t be able to force Glock to discontinue and re-tool its entire product line, etc.

I have some aging hardware (approaching 10 year old desktop PC) and I switched to Linux. I have to still use Windows at work but none of my personal computers are Windows anymore.

Microsoft can go kick rocks.

I mean, the bug and the feature of an Apple Airtag is the ubiquity of their devices and their ability to backchannel BLE over cellular networks using millions of end user devices with their pseudoconsent.

Just by the nature of how that expansive network functions, there is no similar alternative that you can control the privacy of.

The alternative would be a GPS transponder intended for vehicles, such as LoJack, or something similar. They are going to have power and subscription requirements, usually cost $1000 for the hardware etc. And in that scenario you still have to “trust” the vendor to a degree.

The law of unintended consequences says that this will just result in more douchebags buying $3 mil houses because they can “afford the payments” and plan on dying before they ever fully pay it off.

Finally it will be easier to search my vast catalog of memes.

I would say this and also if you live in almost any medium sized place in the US, also try the local community college. You may have to bid on bulk lots but they sometimes sell individual PC hardware too. You may have to show up on a certain day that is usually advertised months in advance, online or on physical signage on campus. You might as well participate, since your county and local taxes likely subsidize the institution to begin with.

I didn’t “have to” but, a few reasons…

1. Swapping the drive created a pretty easy rollback path that was just “put original drive back”

2. The drive was ~10 years old, and was in the range of recommended replacement for an SSD with the amount of TBW and age it had.

3. Original drive was kinda small and a new larger drive was available for not very much money.

Microsoft literally wanted me to convert my desktop to e-waste as it lacks the magical TPM chip that Win11 demands.

I said “fuck that” and pulled the Boot SSD, kept the existing non-boot drives for data, and put in a brand new SSD, encrypted it and installed Pop OS in one shot.

Not only was it easy, I lost literally zero critical functionality vs. what I had with Win 10. There is a Linux app equivalent for everything I had before. I had a few driver issues but most were auto-discovered including obscure ancient printers and scanners on my network.

Those who run immich, how have you been backing up your library?

My deployment isn’t anything fancy, it is currently a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 2TB external drive for the photo library. Been running for more than 6 months with minimal issues. Now that we are at a stable release I need to get some kinda backup going for the photos themselves.

If I had to come up with a steelman argument for small “AI focused” systems like this, I’d say that the more development in this space, makes the cost of entry cheaper, and actually eventually starves out the big tech garbage like OpenAI/Google/Microsoft.

If everyone who wants to use AI can locally process queries to a locally hosted open-source model with “good enough” results, that cuts out the big tech douchebags, or at least gives an option to not participate in their data collection panopticon ecosystem.

And they wonder why some of us are still using local installed and firewalled Office 2007.

Doesn’t seem like a good long term career plan to be a warehouse-store-sized fence for Jordans.

Bring back Crystal Pepsi, you cowards

It would be a clusterfuck. Especially since the type of violence some have advocated for recently is more akin to political assassination. We need to push back on the false equivalence of “person X says stuff I don’t agree with about perceived identities, therefore that speech ‘unpersons’ me, therefore it’s tantamount to a death threat, therefore actual violence against that person is justified.” You can literally find examples in these comments here.

If you have thousands of lonewolves each deciding unilaterally to assassinate (insert political opponent or public figure here) based on their own subjective perceptions, that no longer resembles a civil war, it more resembles a free-for-all hellscape.

I’d suggest a more useful concept is to form strong local communities committed to their own well being, mutual aid, and defense. Whatever that looks like for you in your area. Your mileage may vary. This is not legal advice.

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