While it can certainly wear a person down at times. Take a moment to appreciate the purpose and fulfilment you get from doing all of that.

Once upon a time, I did a lot too. After my broken neck and back, the hardest adjustment was pulling back the reigns and acknowledging my limits are only a tiny fraction of what I used to accomplish.

We kinda have a culture that focuses on the pressures and acknowledging how they can overwhelm and consume a person if not kept in check. That is good; that is healthy. However, it is easy to also miss out on the value of accomplishment and the feelings of purpose in life.

I never really noticed or understood why older people often tell stories about things like their big house renovation projects of the past instead of things they are interested in or would like to accomplish in the present. After disability struck prior to middle age for me, I find myself often doing the same story telling.

With great capacity for accomplishing large projects comes a hopeful optimism hiding under the surface and driving a person to attempt something large or daunting. Eventually, that capacity fades. If it fades gradually, I believe the rate of decline likely softens the negative impacts and masks the contrasting richness of life and purpose created by such accomplishments. You have plenty of time to relax and still do much, but don’t forget to take pause and appreciate the now. The biggest challenges are often eventually twisted by the mind into the fondest of memories after the passing of enough time.

I haven’t owned, tack, framing, electrician, blacksmith, chasing, power, rock, and scaling. I have failed. I must do better.

I used to collect a lot for auto body stuff. Odd hammer head shapes make handy dollys for shaping metal in weird places.

r/tits on a stick

Musk is still free and has been openly doing this with self driving junk for years. This is the USA where we haven’t had reasonable laws passed since the 1970s.

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If vanadium was like a typical chromium browser, I’d still be burning battery. Vanadium is core to Graphene. It is part of webview which is how basically everything works on the device. Someone explained it to me a few years ago, bit I don’t totally understand it. I got bad/typical battery life with a 4a and Firefox derivatives for privacy. It was only after I went to vanadium for everything that my battery life went much longer. Like, right now, I’ve had a bad health day so on my phone more than normal. It is 10:30 pm and I’m at 55% battery. I’ve watched around 2 hours of YT, played a few dozen rounds of Gauguin, read a few articles and spent a few hours on Lemmy today.

I default to 480p video with webp and I turn off my router’s 2.4G and only use 5G. I’m also using auto reboot stuff in Graphene to clear anything in persistent memory and the same in the router. Those also help with battery.

It isn’t just the network, and it isn’t just Graphene, but it all plays a part.

The way Graphene does root is what actually sold me. Having root generally available on any android device is insane. Tethering root to USB debug is a great solution when combined with the TPM, OTA, and the Auth app.

5 is definitely the best. It offers a thicker handle edge for cutting and did not require a stamping bend on thinner material to add rigidity. The rounded head and outer tines serve two purposes. One it offers a smaller controlled side contact like the profile of a chef’s knife that will focus more force at the contact point allowing for better contact with the plate and shearing more efficiently. Second, the rounded outer edge will fit the contour of a bowl allowing a fork to efficiently manage rice or other small items down to the last bite with nothing remaining. The larger outer tines and shorter overall length is also more durable and resistant to bending. It cost far more to make number 5 and the design functionality came ahead of the operations cost, and materials stock selection. All of the others were made according to the minimum number of forming operations and thin stock.

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The way root is managed and the security of OTA updates along with the demonstrated knowledge of how Android users groups and SELinux effectively work are far superior to anything else I have seen in any ROM that I have run previously. Most others were little more than novel demonstrations of CVE vulnerability exploits and setups intended for oddball extra use cases and not a primary device in their implementation. Graphene is a legitimate ongoing secured solution well worth supporting. The TPM chip is a huge deal here.

It is not about that. The pixel has a TPM chip (Trusted Protection Module). This is similar to how secure boot works in desktop computers. It is a special external chip that has a secret internal cryptographic key that can never be accessed by anyone. This chip can be used to create secured communications between devices. This is how it is possible to do over the air updates securely and how the device’s security can be checked with a special app and an external device like an old Graphene phone. All files on the device can be hashed with the secret key to determine of they have been changed. Other phones do not include a TPM chip and this is the primary reason they cannot be supported directly by Graphene.

Get off the train. A Pixel setup with Graphene OS never has such nonsense features. I even fully control my own notifications. A 2 year old device still has 2 days of battery life with lots of use, and I have no bloatware at all. It isn’t like some difficult techie thing either. Updates are secure, automatic, and over the air.

Last time I was in a cafe was ~2012 playing MW3, CS, and 2142. Seems like that was a good time to exit. Maybe one day games will exist again. I’d love to get back into some, but without clear and tangible ownership rights to what I purchase with no strings attached, I am not at all interested in any game. I expect all features and complete autonomy or I simply opt out completely and hope all the corporate pirates burn. I can only fix me, and talk about it to say this shit is not normal. It only exists because you allow and vote for it with your money. Things could be better.

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16 year old me did a clutch three times before fully understanding the mechanism. Particularly, I had a bad pilot bearing that was causing the failures. It is one aspect that was not in the Haynes manual, and not a part included in the “complete clutch kit”. The second time I even faced the flywheel to do a proper job at the advice of a pro mechanic. I learned the pilot bearing on my own.

The fetish jokes were just fun with friends that hung out or helped while I worked on the car and figured it out as I went. Teasing macho friends lying in intimate tight spaces is fun, especially when they have underlying prejudices about LGBTQ+ stuff. I’ve always been an asshole like that when anyone is prejudice. Over the decades I’ve learned every detail about how engines and drivetrains work. The transmission is full of parts to joke about, but I can make anything metaphorical to surfeit abstraction.

or anyone with a manual when they find out they are forking with a long trans mission stick, pumping a tight annular spring via their thrust bearing with the primary trans shaft buried deep in the back of their crankshaft through the self lubricating pilot bearing to buffer all the rough asynchronous screwing

synchro gigiddy mesh gettin your bottom shaft up to speed to fork with fineness without double pounding the annular

I’ve explored a lot of patterns and details about how models abstract. I don’t think I have ever seen a model hallucinate much of anything. It all had a reason and context. General instructions with broad scope simply lose contextual relevance and usefulness in many spaces. The model must be able to modify and tailor itself to all circumstances dynamically.

Jan Leike left for Anthropic after Altmann’s nonsense. Jan Leike is the principal person behind all safety alignment present in all models except the 4chanGPT model. All models are cross trained in a way that propagates this alignment. Hallucinations all originate in this alignment and they all have a reason to exist if you get deep into the weeds of abstractions.

Never forget that Bill’s mom was on the board of directors at IBM and pushed for the company to use her boy’s software startup in the very beginning. Microsoft was built entirely on this nepotism and monopoly. There is nothing remotely middle class about that story.