A push notification from copilot: A Poetic Start to Your Week See your name transformed into a poem by M365 Copilot.

my corporate dystopia now gets copilot-induced whimsy

Flying sucks just as much as I remember.

I'm an indie dark romantasy author! The first book in my Plague and Magic series is now on #kindleunlimited and book two will be released March 6th. #romantasy #darkromantasy #morallygrey #sdgredell #plagueandmagic #whisperedcurses #whisperedsecrets #indieauthor

Been a bit since I dropped in here, but life is... busy. We had a lot of company over the holidays and the family's school/work schedule got kind of out of balance. We're getting re-centered and ready to take on 2026!

Whispered Curses (The Plague and Magic Series Book 1) Amazon.com: Whispered Curses (The Plague and Magic Series Book 1) eBook : Gredell, S. D.: Kindle Store

My wife's book is now on Kindle Unlimited and is now available in audiobook format, professionally narrated! Check it out!

P.S. The second book is coming out in March!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRSXG75Q

#fantasy #darkfantasy #romantasy #lovetriangle #audiobook #kindle #ebook #sdgredell #booksky

corntab is how you schedule feedings for the localhorse

Great, now Udemy is being enshittified by AI-powered interests. This has zero benefit for the users at all.

#udemy #coursera #ai #aislop #slop #learning

World is ending, but gold now!

MAGA keeps sharing this fake tweet to attack Rob Reiner

The same issue with confirmation bias in AI is that it will remove any uniqueness over time where most GenAI outputs of “concepts” will look very similar with little variation. There’s no creativity in that. Just repeating something over and over again until it becomes muscle memory for the AI.

I absolutely LOATHE this self-perpetuating "logic":

"Does AI make us more productive?"
"No."
"Does AI make us more happy?"
"No."
"Does AI do anything well?"
"No."
"Is AI making us money?"
"No."
"Why are we using AI then?"
"IT'S INEVITABLE! D:<"

Emperor's New Clothes to the Nth degree.

I don't think I am going to buy a smart watch again. I am so tired of this thing buzzing for my attention non-stop even for apps I have clearly turned off push notifications for.

But thanks for pointing that out. I would have been blissfully ignorant xD

I might be mis-remembering (that happens a lot), but I swore the manual that came with the board (physical) shows the channels in parallel pairs, not staggered like it shows in the other documentation I just looked at online. I'll have to play with that tomorrow.

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I think so. I initially thought my red kit was another 32GB but I was mistaken. I just haven’t felt like opening it back up to remove them yet lol

Computer case: Fractal North CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT RAM: 48GB SSD: 4TB NVMe, 512NVMe, 2TB SATA SSD HDD: 1TB WD BLUE GPU (Top): RX 9060XT GPU (Bottom): RX 5600XT PSU: Corsair 1000w PSU

The only thing that sucks is that anti-cheats don't allow you to run some games in VMs because they are afraid you'll use some kind of shim for memory access on the host.

Also added a new 4TB NVMe SSD and RX 9060XT. This allowed me to use my (now older) 5600XT in the PCI-e 3.0 x16 lanes. With some work, I now have a working and stable VFIO GPU Passthrough setup! It's been ages since I did it (old 6700k build), and it runs awesome.

Been a minute since I updated this. I bought new(er) parts for my PC. Memory spiked right when I was looking to build an AM5 setup, but was quickly deterred by almost $1k price tags on 64GB kits. I decided to upgrade the CPU to a 5800XT, upgrade my board from the B550-I (mITX) to the B550-F (ATX).

iTunes from 2023, if music library didn't give it away

Jessie, the Team Rocket Diva 🚀🩷
#pixelart #ドット絵 #Pokemon

Nope. I shucked the drive from its original enclosure and put it into my known-good one. Drive is dead. RIP (You were a bastard)

Update: the USB to SATA controller in the enclosure (?)… died? I will hook it up to another system and see what’s up but I may have to schuck this drive and put it into another enclosure. Seagate quality. 👌

Life is really kicking my ass.

I blacklisted the uas module from the equation just to rule that out entirely. Now we wait.

This is likely a problem with Seagates choice of USB-to-SATA controller and the uas kernel driver and I would need to fall back to the usb-storage driver.

TLDR something to do with writes hitting a timeout and error handling.

If I could have a single day where a disk or file system issue doesn’t plague my life that would be great. This in particular is a dirty journal for an external drive using ext4 on Linux Mint. Machine is an iMac18,3.

#linux #linuxmint #imac #mac #linuxonmac #storage #ext4

This might be my favorite JWST image from the nearby Universe so far. You’re seeing the late stages of evolution of a star like the Sun, after it’s exhausted its nuclear fuel. This is a transient phase where it’s ejected its outer gas layers, which are then irradiated by the hot stellar remnant.

Twitter post from a grifter: CO2 healed or improved all of these, even homosexuality. ® 4 Anxiety? CO2 Alcoholism? C02 Allergy? CO2 Anorexia? CO2 Asthma or shortness of breath? C02 Compulsion? CO2 Constipation? CO2 Concentration difficulties? C02 Cephalagia? co2 Cardiac disturbance? CO2 Depression? CO2

New wellness grift just dropped