Lots of places do a better job providing DRM free or DRM Lite ebooks (Chicago press only ties your name to the files so you'd have to doxx yourself to share it, but you can share it), but the sheer library of self published books on Amazon is hard to find.
There's an author I've become good friends with who I pay him (in coffee) for his books because I disagree with giving Amazon a cent. But he noted that's just where the masses are still and it's hard to break that momentum.
Huge fan of Veronica
I could see that as a privacy measure.
Everything on Lemmy is open anyways but maybe the maintainer didn't want to be the guy to make Lemmy data that accessible. So it's a limitation. You can only have Lemmy data if you are hosting the server and the community.
That's not a bad call.
There's fortunately pretty tech literate people at both locations. I can walk them through most of it with very little a long the lines of finger puppets and crayons.
I rearrange my icons all the time thinking "no this will be more efficient" and I just never really know where everything is.
"I don't know this person so I can't vouch for their credibility"
"Here's why you shouldn't trust that guy."
"Wow I can't believe you're happy that untrustworthy guy got doxxed. Here's a block :)"
I hate the internet sometimes my friend.
I wanna see the flight scene in one of those shops now where someone gets embroidered during the fight.
I also work with industrial embroidery machines (not directly, we just have them at work) so I know the like 10 seconds under a needle wouldn't be enough time to do anything really, but I'm imagining a room full of machines making military name strips, hero blocks a goons punch and shoves his hand under a needle while the goon yells in agony. Camera focuses on how horrified face as he lifts his hand to reveal "Maj. Payne" embroidered across his hand. The goon then faints.
I mean you can always use the web version of office for 'free" with a Microsoft account. There's a 100% chance your paper gets used to train AI but still
Shit they weren't merged?
I could have sworn this already happened
Most of the address and numbers they do have are off or old.
I moved through a lot of places in college and one of those 5 are usually what shows up.
Now that I think about it I did used to sign up for a bunch of religious mailing lists before I would leave an apartment because I thought it was funny.
Everytime it was a "Wow. That's neat!"
Proceeds to never do it again
For simply productivity like Copilot or Text Gen like ChatGPT.
It absolutely is doable on a local GPU.
Source: I do it.
Sure I can't do auto running simulations to find new drugs and protein sequencing or whatever. But it helps me code. It helps me digest software manuals. That's honestly all I want
Also, massive compute projects for the @home project are good?
Local LLMs runs fine on a 5 year old GPU, a 3060 12 gig. I am getting performance on par with cloud ran models. I'm upgrading to a 5060ti just because I wanted to play with image Gen.