Every embarrassing thing I’ve done or will do, everything I’ve fucked up or will fuck up, eventually it won’t matter.

This comes much earlier than the heat death of the universe.

As we get older, the people who were present and aware of these embarrassing fuck ups not only has bad memory of their own, but these people pass away and with them, the only repository of the embarrassment ever happened remaining is ourselves. You will likely live to be the only one alive that know these embarrassing moments ever took place. Don’t continue to torture yourself when you’re the last witness.

Most of the time the activity doesn’t actually take much time. The older I get, the faster time seems to pass and I have awareness of this fast-time-passing. So instead of avoiding the thing for hours, I just do it instead and am actually fully done with the activity in usually less than an hour. After that you can pat yourself on the back saying that you’re an adult and you took care of an adult responsibility, but truly you are self-aware enough to know you were one tiny breath away from skipping it to do something time-wasting or irresponsible instead. For one more day you get to live the illusion you’re and adult and you can take care of your adult responsibilities.

If you do this more often than not, you actually are an adult and actually do take care of your adult responsibilities on regular basis.

I will say that power efficiency is one of the places Asahi is still behind compared to native OSX performance. I don’t fault the path the developers are taking. They first focused on getting a stable OS: done. Then worked to get a number of the very unique hardware devices addressable and functional: mostly done. And then worked to upstream all of those things into the kernel, where they have also had success after success.

The current power efficency is workable for me. I can get about 6 hours usable out of the battery and I only charge to 80% regularly (which I like the OS supports a charge limit). One other drawback is the lack of deep sleep or hibernation. Since its Mac hardware it doesn’t follow the ACPI convention so S4 hibernation which I usually use on PC hardware isn’t an option.

Still, the hardware is excellent. The performance is excellent. The most recent M series CPU that is fully supported is M2 (M3 support is available in alpha channels, but I’m not that adventurous), which means the “flagship” experience is very affordable by buying pre-owned hardware (don’t get less than 16GB RAM, I got a 24GB Macbook Air and am happy I did, 256GB SSD is usable, but “cozy”. I’d recommend at least 512GB).

I’m very happy with the Asahi experience, and really like having the option to fall back to OSX if needed for some kind of commercial hardware or so compatibility. I’ve only had to do that twice and that was to watch streaming services on vacation.

BTW, There’s an Asahi Lemmy community which has a small following.

!asahilinux@lemmy.world

There’s also an ARM Linux Lemmy community but its not well visited.

!armlinux@lemmy.ml

My daily driver is a Macbook Air M2 running Asahi Linux (on the M2 ARM CPU obviously).

I’ve been pleasantly surprised how little ARM incompatibility I’ve run into. Even better, when I spin up a cloud VM for personal use I usually choose an ARM based server for cost savings. I know most binaries I compile locally on my laptop will run natively on my cloud servers.

Also once you get to M2 speeds, you can do x86 software emulation for low to mid performance applications.

I can see the advertising campaign for that one already: “Get on the fucking train, Shinji”

It used to “pay for itself” after 3.5 years, now it takes over a decade.

The cynic in me says that this also means subscription pass costs will be going up in the future too. So it may again “pay for itself” after 3.5 years with a $750 price tag for lifetime

Most drivers aren’t completely draining their battery each day. I know a number of people that only have 120v charging for their EVs. Their cars are home most of the time on weekends which can frequently fill the car for the work week ahead. Then each day the car is partially charged from the 120v so by Friday night they’re low on charge, but then they’re back charging up more on the weekend. They do occasionally have to high a DC fast charger, but its not often. Maybe once or twice a month for 20 minutes each time.

I think that only applies to some Model Y cars and all of …🤮Cybertruck.

Sadly, Ford ended production of the F150 Lightning 5 months ago. Chevy has paused Silverado EV production, but not outright canceled it yet.

This exact same thing happened to someone close to me except it was black ice instead of hydroplaning causing the slide. The red light camera ticket still stuck.

but it’s actually very simple, which is that it’s not OK to steal a charity.” I agree with that sentiment.

Except Musk actively lobbied for stealing the charity and making it private himself when he was still with OpenAI. These events happened in 2018:

“Elon did not think that OpenAI needed to remain solely a non-profit. As the context shows, he agreed that OpenAI needed both a non-profit and a for-profit entity—the exact structure OpenAI has today, and that Elon is now suing OpenAI over. At the time, he said only that the non-profit should continue to exist “in some form.” Ilya, not Elon, suggested that the for-profit should have a connection to the OpenAI mission. Shortly after this call, Elon actually created⁠ an OpenAI PBC (or “B-corp”).”

source

Which point did Musk make? Musk wasn’t upset about OpenAI going private. He was one of the people that suggested and supported the idea of privatizing (before he left OpenAI). What Musk is pissed about is that Musk wanted to be in charge of the new private entity and the other members of OpenAI disagreed. So Musk left and made his own AI with hookers, blow, and lots of pollution of the Memphis Tennessee atmosphere.

There are no good people on either side of this lawsuit. This whole thing is sour grapes on Musk’s part.

What I’m hearing the trump administration say is: “Pay us for being caught breaking tax law”

Ladies and gentleman, the GOP: The party of personal accountability and financial responsibility. /s

You can also avoid it by not going through red lights.

When the private red light camera company was in my city, the camera company altered the yellow light timings shortening them when revenue fell so they could give people tickets. The red light camera company denied changing the timings for months. It took community action of someone standing with a stopwatch to catch them in a lie. The red light company was shut down.

Even if you can’t remove a SIM (as in a case of an eSIM), simply disconnecting the mobile cellular antennas and grounding them would likely prevent it ever from connecting to a network.

Well, I suppose my solar panel payback date will arrive a good bit sooner than expected.

It’s like he thinks the US is equivalent to God.

Correction, he thinks he is equivalent to god.

If you just want the count and not the strength or waveform, I wonder if the magnetic field from the voice coil of the speaker would be strong enough to trigger a reed switch at that distance. A common reed switch has a top switching speed between 100Hz to 500Hz, which is within the 20Hz to 250Hz of human hearing bass.

Right? Even inflation adjusted since the Stone Temple Pilots debut album “Core” release in 1992, the 137.4% inflation rate they should only be asking for 9.496 pilots. So asking for an additional 11.504 pilots for a total of 21 pilots is just greedy.

I wonder if this is newly built/to be built data centers for AI, or ones that previously existed/ are being built for general web infrastructure. The article doesn’t say.

The age of the DC doesn’t really matter. Its whether it was designed to be an “open loop” or “closed loop” cooling system. Closed loop DC use surprisingly little water because they capture and recycle it. A fast food restaurant would likely use more water than a closed looped DC. The big offending Datacenters for water use are the Open Loop design. These use massive amounts of water.

Close to me there are two DCs under construction. One is a large colocation DC and is closed loop. The other is a new AWS DC, and it is open loop. So as you can see, age isn’t really the determining factor.

So you’re asking yourself, why use open loop at all? Its energy bill is cheaper! Open loop uses swamp coolers (evaporative cooling) Closed looped requires more electricity for cooling using more traditional phase-change coolant (same as residential air conditioners).