I’m not advocating for ignorance. We should still be as informed as we can be. Optimism and pessimism show up when there are unknowns.
It’s ultimately best to be correct and happy, which is achievable, just not if you’re pessimistic.
Because it’s all for you. You’re protecting yourself from disappointment.
Time almost always proves you correct, and very occasionally, you’re pleasantly surprised!
But what about everyone else around you that you care about? Being pessimistic tends to wear on them and simply for personal gain.
I’d rather be wrong than unpleasant.
Pretty selfish outlook, wouldn’t you say?
Yeah, the ISP cartels sucks. I’ve been stuck paying $170/mo for uncapped 1000/35mbps connection.
Thankfully, before the end of the year, a local ISP is moving into my area. They offer uncapped symmetrical gigabit, for $75/mo… I’ll be saving $95/mo for BETTER service.
The longstanding ISP cartels should seriously be punished for the abuse of their market positions and failure to appropriately use government funding they’ve been given.
It’s a little more than that. Felons in Georgia can apply for a pardon after fully serving their time, paying their fines, and then waiting 5 years without committing additional crimes. There are additional requirements, but those are the big ones.
The RICO charge alone carries a minimum sentence of 5 years. Trump is looking at 5-20 years if convicted.
So really, at best, Trump could be pardoned in 10 years.
I feel you, man. 🍻
I like video games, goofy stuff, and tech. So lately, it’s been:
Sampling is just how many passes Stable Diffusion makes to generate the image. It makes noise based on the seed and then diffuses it with the prior image in “latent space” as many times as you select.
The first few samples are going to be pretty abstract, but with each pass it can add more detail. At a certain point, additional passes aren’t likely to get much more detail, though, I think primarily due to the limitation of the resolution (512 for 1.5, for example). Instead, the new noise basically pushes the image in a slightly altered direction.
There’s no right answer to how many steps you should use. It’s going to vary between models, seeds, and your prompt. I find 20-40 works best in Stable Diffusion 1.5 based models.
If you generate an image that looks great other than some minor oddities, try adjusting the steps up or down a bit and see if it resolves it. If not, use a seed variation (the “Extra” checkbox next to the seed number in AUTO1111) to keep the original seed, but introduce slight alterations.
Relay. And I still miss it. Better than any of the other apps I’ve tried for reddit or lemmy. Very smart design and UX that made it far more usable and enjoyable.
Gotcha. If the m.2 is cheaper (and consider additional HBAs or Adapters or chassis you’d need), then I’d go m.2 still. Just figured SATA might be a little more straightforward and is typically cheaper. Seems reasonable enough.
Never tried a build withe M.2 drives, but unless you have a workload that actually needs that kind of speed, SATA SSDs might be better bang for the buck (especially if those m.2 drives aren’t nvme). If you’re just storing media or something, hard drives are probably still the way to go.
The $160 is a lifetime pass… I pay $20/mo for Netflix. That’s $240/year. So, if you think it’s worth it for even one year, compared to something like Netflix, then it’s a pretty solid value proposition.
I bought the lifetime pass in 2014 when it was $75. Been more than happy with that decision.
Light roasted coffee has more caffeine than dark roasted coffee.
Technically, per bean, more of the caffeine is cooked out of the dark roast. However, other things are also roasted out of a dark roast to the point that the individual beans are also lighter and smaller. When brewing coffee, usually you either weigh your dose of beans out, or you use a scoop for some consistency. Either method will result in more dark roast beans ultimately making it into the brew than would with a (larger, heavier) light roast.
Typically, this more than cancels out the reduced caffeine content per bean, so a brew of dark roast coffee still typically has more caffeine in it.
Any reason to use PiHole over something like Adguard DNS?
Oh boy, how much detail do you want? 😅
I have a TrueNAS Scale server in my closet that I built with my old desktop’s 9900k. Mirrored SSDs for app data and a 3x raidz2 volume with 6 16TB disks each (174TiB). Using quicksync for transcoding performance when remote. I have Plex installed with the official charts App in TrueNAS.
I used Kodi for a long time, and it still does certain things better than Plex (as a media player), but Plex does everything I want it to quite well. I’m running it on my TV here using a Shield TV Pro, but I use it on my android phone, Roku, browser… Always works great.
😆 Yeah, I’ve been pretty audio obsessed lately! I’ll probably change out those cheap acoustic foam panels for some nicer looking wooden paneling or something soon. The 85" TV makes those speakers look a bit meager…
Even though my girlfriend is over here most of the time and I have an PC setup for her, I think this still counts as a Male Living Space since she has her own house, too (on the same block as me lol).
SFF is a lot of fun. The case way in that corner is actually a Cooler Master NR200P: https://files.catbox.moe/k7jpq1.jpg
The case in my post description photo is a Fractal Torrent with the grill painted gold. 😎
Thanks. Awesome show! Don’t know how I feel about how it ended. 😅 I won’t spoil anything, though.
Should be fine. All the memory will just need to run at the speed of the slower kit. Make sure you put the sticks in the correct channels for dual channel support. But yeah, maybe only do so when you actually need the memory.
Based on my research, the first season of the Netflix live action show (8 episodes) covers the first 61 anime episodes. At this rate, the live action show could still continue for 17 more seasons.
In all seriousness, the more I think about it, the more perfect this anime was for adaptation. There’s a ton of filler in the anime, but otherwise good story beats and character development. When you condense that down, you get all the good and leave out the cruft.
I watched all of the live action show this weekend, and really enjoyed it. I figured the anime tone and goofiness that they clearly baked right into it would work against it like all the other live action anime adaptations, but it feels like it’s a lot less of a quick cash grab than the others. Some real love and attention went into it and it’s a lot of fun.