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Edinburger here. It’s troubling that Edinburgh Live is considered a more reliable news source than… Well… Just about anything really.

I dunno. Sometimes I feel like I could really do with rate limiting my brain.

Acoustic glazing in the bedroom. 48dB noise reduction.

I found the SSD swapping very useful on my framework. I have been working with a legacy codebase this last year and needed to test whether I could migrate the dev environment from Windows 10 to 11. Swapping that SSD made it easy and low risk to do that. I’ve since upgraded from 1TB to 2TB, using Clonezilla and an external enclosure. Again, swapping the SSD out made that feasible, cheap and easy.

I got my 11th gen Framework a little over a year ago and love it. It’s my daily driver. In that time my work has mostly been game dev on a legacy codebase, so I’ve exclusively been using Windows 10/11. I don’t get many (any?) issues. I use an external GPU (Nvidia 2060OC) and that works great. I used to get freezes that I eventually traced to power saving in the Nvidia drivers, but that wasn’t Framework specific.

I’ve replaced / upgraded the SSD multiple times. It’s super quick and easy to do.

I got the “DIY” version, but it was mostly prebuilt. The LCD did develop a fault very quickly (within a week) a horizontal line across the display, but Framework shipped me a replacement screen pretty quickly, and swapping it was quick straightforward.

What I would say is that the screen does feel a bit flimsy vs other laptops.

Anyway, I’m a massive fan and am considering upgrading my mobo to a Ryzen one.

Oh, buy 4 USB C expansion cards plus extra ones. I got 2 USB C a USB A and an HDMI and to be honest, that was a mistake. Shipping (from Taiwan) makes it a costly to buy a couple more cards, so I wish I got 4 USB C plus the others.

I’ve had this on Voyager and Android since the days of wefwef with anything other than the default font sizing.

I once worked for a company who had an accountant who used a gaming laptop. They didn’t play games, but it was the only decent one they could get with a number pad.

Given the cluster of sacked misogynists at GB News, perhaps they should also have Committee A and Committee B reviewing their shows and presenters.

I really enjoyed The Quarry. Although I killed pretty much everyone.

Ooo. I haven’t listened to most of those, might to give them a go. I did enjoy The Doctors Daughter though. Jago & Litefoot probably still my favourite BF spinoff.

I haven’t used Twitter much in years really. But after switching to Lemmy during the reddit API debacle I thought I’d give it a go and am really enjoying it. I’ve set up a ton of filters to block out stuff I don’t want to see, and joined a couple of instances for two different personas. I’m not using the official mobile client. On Android I use Tusky and Megalodon. Tusky is my daily driver and feels like how I remember the Twitter app from 7 or 8 years ago. Megalodon is nice for cross instance discovery, but has a couple of UI quirks that prevent me from using fully. My SO uses Ice Cubes on iOS and that looks pretty sweet. Personally I found the switch comparable to Lemmy. It took me a month or two to build up a good number of active people to follow to get to the stage of having an interesting feed. It also seems to have got a lot more active in the last week. When I have dropped into Twitter it’s a dumpster fire on top of a cesspit. I don’t think I could go back. I’d absolutely recommend giving Mastodon a go.

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The research specifically looked at lossless algorithms, so gzip

“For example, the 70-billion parameter Chinchilla model impressively compressed data to 8.3% of its original size, significantly outperforming gzip and LZMA2, which managed 32.3% and 23% respectively.”

However they do say that it’s not especially practical at the moment, given that gzip is a tiny executable compared to the many gigabytes of the LLM’s dataset.

I felt the same at first but I think it works because Nicola Walker is brilliant, and it got to the point where those parts were some of my favourite parts of the show.

And not even monetizing it!

… although maybe my adblocker is working

Came here to say this! But still - thank you! I have a feeling it will be invaluable, at least in the short term.

Thanks. Yes the startrek.website instance is a good shout. Lots of good stuff on there and “official” communities migrated from the bad place.

Not all of S1 is great, I thought. A few wonky episodes, and some wonky parts to good episodes. But then, that’s just classic Trek for you. Like the good old days of Those Old Scientists and TNG.

I know I’ve been banging on about slogging my way through the Star Treks before cancelling my Paramount+ subscription, but the most recent episode of Strange New Worlds where La’an and Kirk travel back to 21st century Toronto was great.

100 years old… is the wiring underneath also that old? if so I’d recommend a rewire! Also this will have a non standard back box behind it that may not have sufficient space for an LED dimmer. If it’s a cast iron back box, that might need to be chiselled out and replaced, so you’ll need to replaster around it. Honestly, if this is part of the circuitry in your house I’d get an electrician out to look at it.

Rabbit hole is absolutely right. An expensive one at that. With my PAL GC I use an OSSC which I’ve had for 4 or 5 years. It’s a bit long in the tooth now, as well as being expensive. If you can find a one, a RetroTink 2x is probably the best bang for buck. There is also the GBS Control - very much another rabbit hole. AFAIK anything else is going to be no better than the analogue input of your TV.