Militants

I'd love to live in a place with workable public transport, but where I live it would add an hour to my commute each way; effectively an extra 10 hours a week at work

One of our cats kept getting out of our old house - took us a couple of weeks to work out that she'd found an access hatch into the subfloor that we didn't know about in the back of a cupboard and worked out how to lift it up

One of the single greatest things that happened in my lifetime imo. Without the breakup we'd be in a similar situation as the US - crappy service, sky high prices, no incentive to invest in maintenance or upgrades

3D TV

I'm going to use that next time I need to bail out of a story I shouldn't have started telling

~2kg/month, currently spending ~$60NZD/kg - anywhere between 1 and 4 espressos a day for me depending on if I'm going into the office or not, and my wife drinks a jug of cold brew every ~week

In Germany (and other parts.od Europe as well to be fair) carts need you to put a coin in them to unchain them from their bay, which you get back when you chain them back up - so yeah, kinda, if you don't put it back you loose your euro

As an additional point; "weird" isn't a slur. A slur is an expression where the very words themselves are considered obscene - a slur is offensive, even when it is used to describe someone or something according to its strict definition.

There is no context where describing someone as a "removed" or a "retard" isn't offensive. "Weird" isn't like that, as you've pointed out - it's being used as a simple insult, and it's persistent because it seems to really annoy the people it is directed at

Edit: to further my point, one of my examples is so objectionable that it was automatically filtered from my post

Meanwhile, JD Vance sits in the corner sweating

And not just cos he's sitting on a particularly sexy couch

Digging into it a bit more, it seems like I might be better off getting a 12gb 3060 - similar price point, but much newer silicon

8700g

Hah, I've pretty recently picked up an Epyc 7452, so not really looking for a new platform right now.

The Arc cards are interesting, will keep those in mind

Thanks for the tips! I'm looking for something multi-purpose for LLM/stable diffusion messing about + transcoder for jellyfin - I'm guessing that there isn't really a sweet spot for those 3. I don't really have room or power budget for 2 cards, so I guess a P40 is probably the best bet?

Personally I can't wait for a few good bankruptcies so I can pick up a couple of high end data centre GPUs for cents on the dollar

Good on you for taking her in, but I'd suggest keeping her separated from your other cat until you can get a vet to look at her - there are a few nasties that feral cats tend to carry that you probably don't want your other cat to catch

Won't somebody think of the giant corporations!?

sigh guess I need to go write another letter to my MP

Tbh, given how out of their way IBM went to enable the holocaust, I don't think they really should be weighing in on this one

If only we lived in a world so simple as to allow the whims of managers, customers and third parties to be completely definable in UML

Good thing there hasn't been any remotely exploitable security bugs in any of the mail system components in the 6 years since Debian 7 went EoL