I’ll never buy a ThinkPad again after the T16 Gen 1 that I have at work. That thing was overheating from day one, absolutely terrible for a 3000€ business laptop.

Besides Lenovo’s shitty BIOS issues (which they have tried to fix about five times in the last 3 years), sometimes boot-up still takes a minute to get past the Lenovo logo.

I don’t even have a lemon or anything, several coworkers have also complained about the same issues. One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage) and forced IT to give him a different more powerful model with better cooling.

Yeah, I stumbled over that when I wanted to charge my phone while I’m away in a meeting. Plugged it into the USB-C at my desk, suddenly the content of my phone opened up on my two office monitors, lol.

Whoops, you’re right, I meant light novels :)

I did try to read “Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 1 (light novel)” and had to give up. Like the most the author could use to describe Emilia was “she’s beautiful” about three times on a page. Overall it could just be bad English translations and the novels are totally fine in Japanese.

This is not about Toradora, but general visual light novels: I quite liked the Re:Zero anime, so I thought I’d read the visual light novel as it’s much further ahead (and I actually love reading). But the quality of the writing was so damn bad.

Are all visual light novels like that? Simplified English to get the point across, but not a good read overall?

Sent this to my PO, he replied that’s exactly how we’re working 🙃

No domestic mass surveillance. So fuck everyone not from the US.

C# in Excel

What is this abomination you speak of? Are you creating your reports by going C# into Excel? O.o

I’m running LTS versions of Ubuntu server (and Windows 11 on my PC). Debian would be more stable, but then it’s so far behind that it’s a pain to use at times, especially for running any kind of game server. Ubuntu has been pretty good so far, but LTS to LTS isn’t always easy.

Step 1: ah so glad this setup is complete and fully tweaked. So let’s leave it as is.

Step 2: but then again maybe I should try out this little extra thing I just found online that might not work…

Step 2: Why is x broken after an update!?

…

Step 99: ah so glad this setup is complete and fully tweaked. So let’s leave it as is.

Is it just me? I’ve had more issues with Linux updates than Windows updates at this point. Don’t get me started with major distro updates.

Red/green isn’t really a good combination due to color blindness. Either go blue/orange or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.

I honestly care less about the war mongering and more about the “domestic surveillance” part. Like domestic just counts for US citizens, which I’m not. So fuck him too (:

It’s Iran, not Iraq.

Just calm down, I’m not pro AI, but we can still be positive about someone making the right choice for once.

Throwing enough money around there’s plenty of other options for the DoW, be it Microsoft, Google or even hosting their own LLM (open source models are pretty much on-par now).

Dario Amodei is busy calling out the pile of shit that’s the US government. Fighting Altman doesn’t get him anything right now.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Okay, so listen:

The DoW offered Anthropic the contract and they declined, as it has clauses that would allow the government to do whatever they wanted.

Then OpenAI signed the same contract.

How can you say they are the same, when the first company refused the contract? I’m not even from the US and definitely not pro Trump. But there’s things besides black and white.

I still don’t get your point. Anthropic didn’t sign the contract, OpenAI did.

The contract is too loose, it pretty much allows them to do whatever they want.

They literally didn’t sign the new contract and now they are getting punished for it. What are you even talking about?

Don’t ruin my Sunday, now I need another shower.

I’d bet a lot of money if there was an election right now they’d still vote Republican.

I got a 3 day ban on Reddit for saying I’m team blood clot (:

He looks like shit, but somehow evil keeps crawling on. Best example for why I continue to be an atheist, if god existed Trump would have been struck down by lightning a million times already.

I missed when sucking up to the Trump administration and echoing Cold War style nationalism was “fair”. If that’s the case, OpenAI’s behavior is fair.

It’s just capitalism. Anthropic pushed against the administration and now they are about to be branded as “supply chain risk”. OpenAI bent over and are going to get billions in funding that they sorely need (and hopefully don’t get, let them fail).

You miss the mark though: Anthropic only praised the administration, but that’s just words to give the Twitter pedo in chief a pat on the head. OpenAI actually signed a contract and they are providing their service. Massive difference.