Genuinely, this was way more interesting than it has any business being.

Half-expecting it to become closed source ‘to prevent people from hacking it so easily’ as a result of the embarrassment of this sort of thing.

For sure, but in all those access tiers, they would presumably need to verify MY age as well to be sure of which tier I fit into, right? The only reason I can see that I wouldn’t need to use this app is if I’m on a site that isn’t age gated, I think.

Edit: sorry, I didn’t even respond to your second point. I think you’re exactly right about the issue being with them being harmful to begin with. Fixing those issues should absolutely be the first priority.

And I wanna be clear, the idea of a zero proof system is the best I’ve heard of so far in all of these concepts. At least with that there aren’t some insane security issues being overlooked. I’m just wary of the surveillance state future everyone seems to be pushing for.

This is being pitched as a thing for kids, but kids aren’t champing at the bit to prove they’re children. So, presumably this just means that any time you access a service, you’re gonna have to use this to prove your age, as an adult, right?

I haven’t seen this particular quirk outside GPT users, but Claude’s seems to be, “X is quietly doing work…” or some variation of that.

“You really hit the nail on the head, but the thing you said about X is doing quiet work as well.”

Your reasoning is doing quiet work. The context is doing quiet work. Everything is doing quiet work. We’re all a bunch of librarians out here, apparently.

Love seeing this when it’s posted but that one about oil prices is aging like milk lately, hahaha.

I’m sorry, he was adroit a few months ago? Did I miss this?

Not to poke extra fun, but they even give examples to better visualize it. 😅 I have to think this post is just a bit of trolling anyway, though.

That’s a tough one. Holding all the TTRPG books has gotta be quite a bit, but it really depends. I think Kobo’s max out at 32GB, which could be overwhelmed pretty quick depending on what hundreds of books actually entails.

If you end up getting stumped on it though and consider a fixed storage reader, look into Calibre-Web. You can set up book shelves (say, one for all of your D&D or one for all of your Pathfinder books) and then select which shelf to synchronize with the reader. So it’s literally just popping into your website, changing a checkmark, then pressing sync on your device and it downloads the entire selected catalogue (that feature might only be Kobo, though, I don’t know how other readers might work).

Is it weird to like this? I feel like this would be hella comfortable. Does it have buttons on the side for the fingers? Because that would be cool as hell.

I went with a Kobo Libra Color for that same reason when I was looking for an ereader. Between being able to sideload whatever I want, the ability to self-host books and sync them with Calibre, and solid support with Koreade for .cbzs, it just seemed perfect in comparison. I don’t really bother with storage or expansion slot options, though, so you might have to poke around and see what’s there if that’s a main selling point.

This is so absurdly funny

Bring me the LLM trained my GameCube Animal Crossing residents. I want it to slur me before asking me to drop by and watch the shooting stars on Friday evening.

I heard that Bezos can barely drive a delivery truck, too.

I mean come on, is it really a surprise that the role of CEO is so detached from the actual workings of a company? That’s why CEOs can just hop companies without working their way up from the bottom. The role rarely has anything to do with the product or service.

I actually found it also. I didn’t wanna give traffic to the site, but I just couldn’t see anyone actually showing it.

I can’t find where he’s said this, just reports that he had. Does anyone have a link to it?

I’m fairly certain the RAM is soldered and capped, but it has 16gb, so more than I could reasonably touch anyway. It has a 500gb soldered SSD, but I know there’s a slot for another. The only reason I wanna ‘start’ by getting a rack and hard drives is because I watched my friend lose his mind one weekend while he migrated multiple terabytes of data and he has since repeatedly recommended keeping the storage separate and plug and play, haha.

I’m 100% down to give all this a shot, though. As soon as I upgrade, this laptop is immediately getting recycled into the first step server (and very probably the final step unless something drastic changes in my life).

Wow, I really loved this analysis. It’s so coherent and clear on reflection, I really have trouble believing any other interpretation is as accurate.

The unfortunate reality is ‘what I’ve got’ is a 6 year old laptop that represents 60% of my net worth. 😅 Hopefully soon that will change, but for now, I’m taking the free/borrowed friend’s setup.

My game plan in the future is just to turn this laptop and a couple hard drives, though. I think comments like yours and a couple others have convinced me I really don’t need to invest all that much to get started, or really finished with the setup.nif you’re running all that on 8gb of RAM, I think the only thing I’m missing is the storage.

My friend shook me of any notion that I needed all that much, haha. I made a joke about getting a room set up for this and he shamed me by showing my resource use versus his. 🤣

Realistically, I think the only thing I’d ever end up needing is a ton of hard drives. That’s like… the biggest physical thing I need and as someone else in the thread pointed out there are some pretty solid smaller racks for that. My “starter” setup is going to be my current laptop when I upgrade in a year or so.

Edit: Whoa, that sounds like an incredible setup! All that is running fine on 16gb of RAM? Man, I really just need to do more reading about this so I can get a better sense of how all this works.