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toolsontech

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I talk about productivity on YouTube and work as a Linux Operations Freelancer. My current main toolset is Logseq (thoughts), Todoist (tasks) and Notion (collaboration)

Fanatical gamer, mostly single player building games or high action.

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

Basically: If you run OpenClaw connected to any meaningful system you are not fit to design, program or run any kind of software. That disregard for security and quality should leave a black mark on you for many years.

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@tante If the people doing that would understand security they would be very upset.

I'm not worried about the competent people, I'm worried about the majority that doesn't even consider why giving access is a bad idea.

@donmccurdy@hachyderm.io avatar donmccurdy , to random

Anyone using / for photo management? Like Adobe Lightroom, minus the editing features?

I like the idea of managing my RAW photos as normal files, and presumably building an Obsidian plugin to handle RAW preview and the (intentionally very limited) kinds of edits I'd want. But not obvious to me whether Obsidian is a reasonable foundation for that purpose.

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@donmccurdy Think using Obsidian might be a bit far. Considering there are good open alternatives like Darktable, learning curve was a bit steep but worth it in the end

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Thanks to WINE, Proton, and Valve's hardware, a significant milestone has been achieved with 90% of Windows games running on Linux, making nine out of ten Windows games accessible on a new Linux installation. Users are flocking to other platforms during the transition from the Windows 10 to 11 eras. Thank you Microsoft once again for enabling the age of Linux gaming, you are our biggest marketing partner 😉

https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/

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@nixCraft The fact I no longer check protondb and just assume it will work is wild to me. Had a few duds (haste was the last fail) but overall the feel is good.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Estimating AI energy usage. Here is what happen when you say Hi to ChatGPT https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use

An infographic showing that 5.1 trillion generative AI queries per year from all users require 15 TWh of electricity, which is equivalent to the annual output of two typical nuclear reactors.
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@babble_endanger @nixCraft That's my main beef with a lot of these numbers. Anything at scale costs a lot if it's used worldwide. i want a graph that shows me the cost of power to train, usage for 1on1 queries, usage for generating all that slop video stuff on YouTube.

@toolsontech@pkm.social avatar toolsontech , to random

Listening to Unauthorized Bread from @pluralistic
It was weird and refreshing to just buy a few MP3s to listen to an audiobook.

I wish more books did so I could ditch Audible.

Good listen so far but I'm only an hour in so review later.

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@KenOh@feddit.online avatar KenOh appropriateghost Journal is mostly to collect things and pages are references. I usually make a page per project with a main task in it tagged with project. That way I can easily find my open projects. Put that in the sidebar and while journalling know what to link to for time records/meetings.

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@KenOh@feddit.online avatar KenOh always great to hear! Glad they were useful

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

The creator of Vim, Bram Moolenaar, allegedly wrote the entire initial version of Vim using only a magnetized needle and a steady hand to directly manipulate bits on a hard drive. Thus, Vim is pure, made without using any other text editor.

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@nixCraft I'll accept using binary, dd and straight to the disk block device. As Linus intended

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , (edited ) to random

Lets say I have a base damage of 100 and skill that does double damage and another skill that does +5 damage. What would you expect?

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@grumpygamer While my engineer brain would go for order of operations. When it's gaming then big number go brrrr. You do risk exploits once players figure it out as they will maximise the plus bonuses to hit max multipliers.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Do you cover your webcam with a sticker or an inbuilt shutter for security and privacy reasons? 🤔🧑🏻‍💻

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@nixCraft I just drop my pants once a day to show dominance over whoever has hacked it.