I’m not even sure Tiananmen had a square back then

Having Children, One Left… (HCOL) /s

What’s pinpod?

EDIT: Someone else mentioned PinePods which seems great. Is it that one? If so, do you then subscribe to RSS feeds of local files from PinePods in AntennaPod, or how are they connected?

I like AntennaPod too.

Invidious instances probably became too unstable too often…

Does it work now with or without API key or logged in user? I tried installing the YouTube addon and sending a URL through the Kore app, and it tried playing it but failed resolving it.

Are we talking OpenCore Patcher? I was actually planning on trying that for my Early 2013 MBP, but I’m leaning more towards some Linux distro now, for the longevity of it, though I haven’t yet figured out which distro supports my MBP the best. Got any recommendations to share on some of this?

Yes, but why? Are they in place to protect the spinning rust when you hard drive the car? Or has it something to do with cracked Windows and a missing driver?

I’m always being extra careful around those computers on wheels, since most of them have a built-in backdoor!

Fuel for thought…

Time is funny

I’ve figured out the swimming again, but I still don’t fully understand economics…

Paywalled

Kvaesitso has tags. Each app can have multiple tags, and selected tags can be pinned (somewhat like a tab) to favorites, possibly resulting in something a bit like drawer tabs? You can also use the search bar to search for a tag and list the tagged apps.

I use tags like #stream #media #video #audio #download #p2p #torrent #tools #navigation #maps #transport #social #chat #messenger #sms #appstore #files etc. and often I add multiple relevant tags for better brainless searchability, though only a few general useful tags are pinned to the favorites section (e.g. #stream #files #chat and #tools).

Since we first got easy access to various LLMs, I’ve been doing the opposite, asking obscure questions I know the answer to, trying to get a better understanding of what various models are really (not) capable of, and what data they’re (not) trained on, but it seems that you’re right and I’m in a minority. Most people treat the only LLM they know of as an oracle, and don’t seem to understand that it can write with confidence and still be incorrect. I’ve seen countless examples of just that, some funnier than other, so to me it has always been very obvious. It’s possible that using GPT-2 (back in the talktotransformer days), which was not configured for chat-style conversation but rather just to generate a continuation to the user’s input text, has actually helped me understand LLMs better and avoid using them in that common naive way, but I’m not sure how to make it just as clear to everyone else…

Thank you, you really didn’t have to. That cupcake is truly the icing and it’s almost too much! I’ll give you this giant egg of unknown origin: 🥚 in return, as long as you promise to use it for baking and making some more of those cupcakes for whoever else needs or deserves one within the next few days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds and 999999 bananoseconds 🍌

I want a free cookie emoji!

I didn’t ask an LLM, no, I asked Wikipedia:

The mean month-length in the Gregorian calendar is 30.436875 days.

Edit: but since I already knew a year is 365.2425 I could, of course, have divided that by the 12 months of a year to get that number.

So,

1041 ÷ 30.436875 ≈ 34 months and…

0.2019343313 × 30.436875 ≈ 6 days and…

0.146249999987 × 24 ≈ 3 hours and…

0.509999999688 × 60 ≈ 30 minutes and…

0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 35 seconds and…

0.9999988768 × 1000 ≈ 999 milliseconds and

0.9999988768 × 1000000 ≈ 999999 nanoseconds

34 months + 6d 3h 30m 35s 999ms 999999 ns (or we could call it 36s…)

Edit: 34 months is better known as 2 years and 10 months.

Or really, fuck it 3 y

Seems about right! But really, it often seems pretty useful to me, since it removes a lot of unnecessary information thoughout a content feed or thread, though I usually still want to be able to see the exact date and time when tapping or hovering over the value for further context.

Edit: However, the lemmy client I use, Eternity, shows the entire date and time for each comment instead of the age of it, and I’m fine with that too, but unsure what I actually prefer…

The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.

Which client and how?

You forgot doing the years, which is a bit trickier if we take into account the leap years.

According to the Gregorian calendar, every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s divisible by 100 – except those divisible by 400 which are leap years anyway. Hence, the average length of one year (over 400 years) must be:

365 + 1⁄4 − 1⁄100 + 1⁄400 = 365.2425 days

So,

1041 / 365.2425 ≈ 2.85 years

Or 2 years and…

0.850161194275 × 365.2425 ≈ 310 days and…

0.514999999987 × 24 ≈ 12 hours and…

0.359999999688 × 60 ≈ 21 minutes and…

0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 36 seconds

1041 days is just about 2y 310d 12h 21m 36s

Wtf, how did we go from 1041 whole days to fractions of a day? Damn leap years!

Had we not been accounting for them, we would have had 2 years and…

0.852054794521 × 365 = 311.000000000165 days

Or simply 2y 311d if we just ignore that tiny rounding error or use fewer decimals.

Attach some dangling USB modem with a data SIM, or just keep a mobile router with a data SIM in your backpack, for 3G/4G/5G data connectivity over WiFi. Then, use some VoIP provider if you actually need a phone number as well.

Everytime is hammer time

Buying and owning something like a house on a piece of land, though, is very different to paying for a service with artificially limited monthly usage, a short limited lifetime and probably no repairability once it for some reason “stops working”.

However, in this specific case of a house, you will probably still be forced by some state or another to continuously pay property taxes etc while owning it, but blame them for that – it’s not the house or the property’s fault. They’ll also take a cut whenever you buy your bread (unless your friend is a baker) and every single time you pay your monthly/quarterly/lifetime subscription to some ISP.

Let’s not dig much deeper than this, though, since this is turning into a yet another discussion about rulers, taxes etc, which is interesting enough, surely, but I’d rather discuss it with someone else, to be honest. All I wanted was to let you know that you surely have an IP address if you’re connected to the internet, even without paying extra for a static one, in case you didn’t know that. Now we’re here, and your lifetime subscription to my limited comments service is just about to expire…