Recent content by ddrueding

At the moment it is doing literally nothing, other than physically holding up my new desktop. The plan is that when winter sets in here and my work slows down I'll finally get the house off the Alexa system by combining home assistant, voice recognition, a basic LLM, and text to speech. For...

When the last of my grandparents generation died we stopped doing family thanksgiving. My parents, sister, and her children get together, but they live within a mile of each other. When we still lived in the US, a friend who lived just outside Stanford would host thanksgiving for those without...

My main rig is the 9950X3D with 96GB RAM, and a 4090. Laptop is a Dell XPS 15 with an i9-9980HK, 32GB, and GTX 1650. I like it for the amazing 4k OLED and the ability to run Civ V and Kerbal Space Program well. My old desktop is now my server; i9-14900KF with 64GB and a 2080Ti. One the boat I...

I agree that it feels like a pfSense config thing, but I don't know enough about it to recognize the issue. But before I went back to junk consumer stuff I'd format, reinstall, and reconfigure the Netgate using the latest version of pfSense. Separately, does the PiHole run on the Netgate? What...

We'll be following our Danish tradition of going to an Irish pub in Åarhus that serves a more than passable Thanksgiving spread. Not as good as our previous tradition done by our Stanford physicist immigrant friends, but it does the job.

In most goldrushes the money was made by those selling picks rather than miners. If you want to invest in the AI space, not going with nVidia directly is insane. Everyone else is just using the money they get to pay nVidia. Of course, a lot of the money going to nVidia is being "reinvested" in...

It seems like they may have even gotten the structure up to the nacelles without having to create a bunch of parts that don't look like Lego. Very cool.

In hindsight it is clear that Garrison Keillor wouldn't still be presenting, and my lifestyle changed in ways that didn't accommodate A Prairie Home Companion many years ago, but I still have fond memories of that show.

But what if you want more Mandolin?

I'm currently looking at these, probably the cheapest one, just for the super bright screen. https://sailproof.shop/product-category/rugged-tablets/

My mother was out in Portland as a Teletubby. But I share your pessimism. Even if Trump disappeared today those surrounding him like the direction things are going and won't change course.

My current boat project has me looking for tablets with very high brightness and rainproof IP-ratings. Performance is almost inconsequential, so older or industrial-oriented units are fine. Currently using a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active Pro, but would like something brighter.

I didn't grow up with Aussie humor, so I think of the modern stuff and a cultural celebration of offending people. I find it hilarious.

Like removing corruption from eastern Europe or democracy in Russia, you can't get there from here. There are a million other things that have to happen in order to fundamentally change the culture and societal norms, then you can get there. Aiming for peace and failing is like Columbus trying...

Yup. I've completely bailed on the idea of an app for a product I'm working on. It will just be fancy new web stuff and rendered client-side. Not worth dealing with Apple or Google.