CubitOom

What are we growing?

Are we just growing fake numbers? Making them go up an arbitrary amount without concern for the methods used?

Is this growth natural or is it forced? Are we trying to have a positive impact on the community? Is the growth in balance with society's needs and it's dreams?

Are we actually growing as a species, or do we just alternate in cycles of growth and decay? From infancy to middle age and then back again repeating endlessly?

Are we hitting checkpoints that we can go back to without starting over from nothing?

There is "growth" and then there is growth.

I've been running Manjaro for about 6 years. I've only had self induced issues.

• I restarted during a GPU driver update
• I only used pacman to do system updates and it kept failing. I needed to use pamac for those round of updates instead.

Arch is a better OS in that you have more control of exactly what it will do. But Manjaro also provides a great experience out of the box with all the major DEs. It really comes down to how much convenience are you willing to trade for control.

For what it's worth, I've only noticed the slower Manjaro repo helping me once when steam fonts broke on the arch repo. So I basically had a warning and was able to switch to the beta version of the steam client to avoid that issue. So the slower Manjaro repo is not a selling point IMO, but the DE tweaks and configurations are.

How does llm compare to ollama?

That's a good point.

Somethings I didn't realize I don't know of till now. When does one withdraw money from social security? Like do they have to request it from the government? A government worker might have a retirement age but for most Americans, it's more of a guide. I know plenty of people that are in their 70s and they never plan to retire. If they continue to get paid on w-2 and report earnings to the IRS, does that mean they are ineligible to receive social security benefits?

I suppose if they are not able to collect social security money, and they continue to pay into it but they retire later then you are 100% correct and it's not as big of a problem for the younger generations as I thought.

Although I would say that the job market is in fact a competition. No matter if you are someone with seniority and experience, someone with little experience willing to work for less, or simply an automaton.

I'm talking about in the USA. It is supposed to work the way you say. But in reality, you aren't paying into an individual account for yourself. You pay into a pool that the government uses as soon as it receives the money for the current recipients of social security.

Really it's a ponzi scheme with declining contributors and an increasing amount of people cashing out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwO2hEO13iY

It honestly is really good to reinstall your OS once a year, especially if using windows.

It's a pain but you can use scripting to make it easier if you are up to it.

After you clone the drives, the easiest thing to do is just to unplug everything besides the new drive for the first boot. You can plug things back after.

Yes clonezilla is what I used to use when I migrated a bunch of old hdds to ssds for a company.

Just make sure that the new SSD is the same size or bigger than the old HDD.

Assuming the HDD isn't dying and you got time. Then first try it with just the default settings for a disk to disk copy. And be sure to choose the right source and destination. If you have issues then try it again with a sector by sector clone.

If you really want to be safe, plug in another HDD that is bigger than the disk you want to clone and then do a sector by sector clone to an image. You can then do a clone to any disk using that image.

You can also use smartmontools to check the smart data of your drives in a live image. And fdisk will confirm what your device names are.

Also if your destination disk is new, you might want to just use gparted to install a new partition table to it before the clone. (windows should be okay with gpt by now)

The interesting thing is when you think about how social security is supposed to work.

The younger generations need to work and earn a decent wage to subsidize the older generations retirement.

The longer the older generations stay in the work force, the less openings there are for the younger generations to contribute to social security.

Um... Why do we need to produce fertilizer? Animals make poop pretty easily and compost just needs to be turned frequently to make something to help plants grow.

Seems to me maybe these companies could adopt regenerative farming techniques is they are really concerned.

That's terrible...which ones seem to be the best at solving these captchas. Is there a link to a hugging face model with 13 billion parameters or less? Or maybe a dataset used in training? I need to know what to avoid when Google asks me to train their AIs.

Pass for personal use is great. Especially if paired with a self hosted private git repo like gitea.

Pass works well on all platforms I've tried, even android and wsl (although I've not tried with iPhone).

In a corporate setting. The biggest questions is going to be if there is already a secret store that has an API. If security will let you roll your own. How is it allowed to be networked. Who are the preferred vendors and is there any enterprise support available.