neosapien
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I really just look at Google and Facebook on my phone. And if a headline strikes my fancy, I'll read the story. Then go Google to see if what I just read was actually true lol.
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RetiredToker76
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Fark.com
User collected, mod-admin approved, headlines re-written to be sarcastic to lessen the blow of information about our squalid human existence. All managed and run by a drunk in Kentucky. It's not news, it's Fark.com
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xtsho
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TensorFlow
An end-to-end open source machine learning platform for everyone. Discover TensorFlow's flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources.
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BarnBuster
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For years, GSA deceived agency customers about Login.gov’s security bonafides
For the third time since 2014, the GSA inspector general found TTS lacked organization control leading, this time, to lies to agency customers and the Technology Modernization Fund board, finger pointing among political appointed and senior executives and $10 million in charges for services that...
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DHS digital identity tests come as Biden administration looks to tamp down on online fraud
Homeland Security officials this year will test the extent to which software can verify the authenticity of an ID based off just a smartphone photo and then correctly match an individual in a “selfie” to the photo ID.
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BarnBuster
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Supercharge Windows with Microsoft's free PowerToys
Microsoft's PowerToys are a set of free Windows tools that accomplish common, useful tasks quickly. Here's how they help me, and how they can help you as well.
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RetiredToker76
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The old i7-7700k overclocked hackintosh has died, at least for my professional purposes. m.2 SATA SSD died, corrupted my OS and after 16 days of downtime I'm only able to get my hackintosh back to the MacOS from 2 years ago, anything after that it crashes hard. So the 4.8 ghz overclocked i7 is going to become my casual surfer and is getting replaced with one of those snobby Mac machines.
Twenty year old me would be losing his shit right now, I was well planted in the 'Never Mac' group up until I built my first hackintosh in 2010 on an i3 and chameleon boot loader after dumping my Windows sysadmin career. So goodby to 13 years of putting MacOS where it doesn't belong, the downtime will not be missed. We always did say that RISC would take over the world.
Twenty year old me would be losing his shit right now, I was well planted in the 'Never Mac' group up until I built my first hackintosh in 2010 on an i3 and chameleon boot loader after dumping my Windows sysadmin career. So goodby to 13 years of putting MacOS where it doesn't belong, the downtime will not be missed. We always did say that RISC would take over the world.
BarnBuster
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How to make ChatGPT provide sources and citations
Contrary to prevailing wisdom, you can get ChatGPT to give up its sources. Here's how.
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Boatguy
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I dumped windows at Win ME. Been using linux ever since.
The wife has a mac mini so she could continue using ms office etc. The mini's are a very good deal
RetiredToker76
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Yep, we got my wife the Mini in 2020 and it's been really good to her since, we got my kid m2 iPadPro, she loves it and it's now her daily driver as well. I'm the old holdout, building my boxes and repairing them since I was 16 has made it very difficult to even think of switching to non-end-user serviceable model. My music is strongly based in Mac software and environment, so for that I"m stuck there. Apple silicon has continued to be surprisingly attractive, and seems to be stable. Although I disagree with Cook about customers not caring about their processor specs, I've been abusing my processor cores for 30 yeas.
I like the Linux idea and actually had that thought this afternoon. I haven't tried it since the late 90's when I tried to replace WinME too. With an 11-cd iso of Slackware that took 3 days to download and about an hour or two to burn to disk.
I found that about half my hardware wasn't recognized yet because it was too new of a machine, so I went to Win2000-beta because it matched the upgrade going on in my networking classes and I later got Win2kPro for free from my professor.What are the good Linux distribs these days?
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.pinny.
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Boatguy
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They are mostly good these days. Slackware and arch are still the more hands on distros.
I have been using manjaro for a bit on my new laptop and it worked out of the box without jumping through any hoops. It is based on arch so its pretty stable.
Linux mint was my go to for years because it seemed to be the first one to just work with any hardware. Pretty simple to navigate and user friendly
I used slackware the longest and it is still on one of my laptops. Slackbuilds makes it easier to add packages.
We used RedHat in school and today I still run Fedora (https://getfedora.org/). Right now Windows 10/11, Linux (most distros) and Mac will work, not like when Microsoft barfed up 2 horrific OSes in a row and SE's fled in drovesYep, we got my wife the Mini in 2020 and it's been really good to her since, we got my kid m2 iPadPro, she loves it and it's now her daily driver as well. I'm the old holdout, building my boxes and repairing them since I was 16 has made it very difficult to even think of switching to non-end-user serviceable model. My music is strongly based in Mac software and environment, so for that I"m stuck there. Apple silicon has continued to be surprisingly attractive, and seems to be stable. Although I disagree with Cook about customers not caring about their processor specs, I've been abusing my processor cores for 30 yeas.
I like the Linux idea and actually had that thought this afternoon. I haven't tried it since the late 90's when I tried to replace WinME too. With an 11-cd iso of Slackware that took 3 days to download and about an hour or two to burn to disk.
What are the good Linux distribs these days?
RetiredToker76
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After posting last night I googled 'linux for music production' and came across Ubuntu Studio, Linux AV (a Debian based distro), and Apodio (another Ubuntu base.) Thanks for the ideas Boatguy and Curious2Garden, I'll let you know how it goes when I get installed on whatever flavor of Linux I decide to try. Going to be a month at least, but that gives me time to study up. 
.pinny.
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do you use some kind of flavor of ubuntu already, or do you run a virtual box to just test all of that?After posting last night I googled 'linux for music production' and came across Ubuntu Studio, Linux AV (a Debian based distro), and Apodio (another Ubuntu base.) Thanks for the ideas Boatguy and Curious2Garden, I'll let you know how it goes when I get installed on whatever flavor of Linux I decide to try. Going to be a month at least, but that gives me time to study up.
Boatguy
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Running linux in virtualbox or vmware isnt going to tell you how its going to operate as a standalone system on your hardware. Its so easy to shrink a partition and dual boot these days.
Sadly i still have a few things i need windows for, but windows on vbox works fine for that.
.pinny.
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agreed, but it can still help identify potential issues. was just being nosey as it seemed op was just getting familiar with all of it. love your pictures by the way, vry pretty
Boatguy
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The main os is what runs the hardware. So hardware issues wouldnt be apparent through vbox or vmware.
It is a great way to try out linux though.
And thanks