Tom Scott - Blocking People in Real Life

Since this community has very few subscribers, you may also want to cross-post to a more general community like !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world or !justpost@lemmy.world

If you need or want to run an LLM on limited hardware, you may want to look into so-called bitnets with ternary connections. These should be efficient enough to run an OK LLM on a CPU with 16 GB of ram if not less. Unfortunately they’re barely out of the experimental stage, so you’ll probably have to compile BitNet.cpp yourself or wait a few months until full support lands in Ollama.

I haven’t run a bitnet myself yet, so I can’t personally vouch for their effectiveness or usefulness.

TV gave me the impression a lot of American kids have to read it in highschool.

Edit: No, I was thinking of On the Road

Sounds like you’re looking for something like archivemount.

So apparently telling your friend or acquaintance you don’t share their particular sense of humour is worse?

I guess I shouldn’t overthink a shitpost, but is it really such a social faux pas to tell someone your tastes are different from theirs? I just wonder if this is a cultural thing that I’m too Dutch to get, or if it’s more of a I’m-too-socially-awkward-to-have-an-opinion-of-my-own kind of thing?

I don’t think you need to hide your IP address, but if you really want to I guess you could try I2P.

Point-and-click adventure games can be played with just the mouse. Full Throttle is about bikers.

The 90s had so many great cartoons: Ren & Stimpy, Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory, Simpsons, Duckman, Dr. Katz Professional Therapist, Eek! The Cat, Animaniacs, I Am Weasel, Beavis and Butt-Head

I do, but (in my client) messages are still displayed if I report them. That’s why in this case I also needed to block the user.

The only person I’ve (reported and) blocked was posting csam.

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unless you actually work in the rare field where your industry is being totally disrupted right now.

This guy sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. So what industries or fields are being disrupted by LLMs right now (with positive results)? The fields where I can imagine LLMs and generative AI might be profitable is scamming grandmas, producing clickbait slop, porn and fake boy/girlfriends. Are there other, perhaps less dodgy ones?

Be supportive and openminded, even if their interests or choices might be a little unconventional. Establish clear rules and boundaries, but try to give them as much freedom as they can handle. Life with you doesn’t have to be a party 24/7, but make sure they always feel safe and loved. Teach them how to think, not what to think.

My German is not very good, but I think “bruchstellen” basically means “yo mama!”

I’m not a big fan of the Gnome DE myself, but I hear it’s the best choice for tablets and touch screens. Perhaps you could try a distribution that uses Gnome by default like Fedora or Ubuntu (or you could try installing Gnome on another distro).

Yeah, ideally the Mint installer or Driver Manager or whatever would be smart enough to tell you “some of your hardware is not supported by the default kernel, click here to install a kernel that will support your hardware”. This is definitely a shortcoming in Linux Mint.

On the other hand, it is worth noting that it is possible to get Mint running right on most hardware without touching a terminal.

Personally I’d recommend a beginner try running Mint or another stable distribution with a newer kernel before trying some sort of cutting edge rolling release, which might be buggy. But that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

It’s possible to install a newer kernel in Mint using the Update Manager. This might have solved your hardware issues. Admittedly, though, this option is not very easy to find if you’re not aware of it.

Me and my brother combined our money to buy Cyberia (1994). This was a fmv (full motion video) game, which still seemed like a pretty cool concept at the time. We bought it because we were really impressed with the demo, which came on a CD-ROM that was bundled with PC Gamer or some other magazine.

The demo was a section of the game where you were flying around in some sort of aeroplane. The only thing you controlled was the gun. The enemies were superimposed on top of the video, which was fixed.

I enjoyed the flying sections in the full game, but there were also parts where you controlled the main character on the ground. You could only move him between fixed positions and postures, because fmv. In some places you had to shoot enemies, which required very precise timing. This was too hard for me at the time.

I think I kind of regretted spending my money on it at the time, but only a little.

You could try contacting your country’s embassy over there and ask if there is anything they can do or whether they can offer any advice.