As long as your thermistor or heater block doesn’t fall out you should be fine. But if you want to be safe, just set it to 200 and then turn it off before you unscrew it so that it won’t thermal runaway if it comes apart while working on it.

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The bigscreen beyond used 1 inch displays so this could be useful for getting much higher resolutions in a smaller form factor. I don’t think my Index displays are even as big as 4 inches so I guess that explains why all the super high res headsets are so huge.

Edit: my index screens are under 3", just did a lens swap so I have the old eye tubes handy

Heartwarming! Area man injured by pedestrian crushing machine touched the hearts of community members who pulled together to buy him his very own pedestrian crushing machine! Problem solved 🎉

I prefer signal because it’s been the easiest one to convince my friends and family to use. I have like 8 friends on Signal, the 1 I got onto Matrix quit after a week. Matrix I treat more like foss Discord so I only use it for communities. ElementX is really nice though so I have hope that eventually it could be as smooth to use as Signal.

Yes for gaming, but for LLMs I’ve heard that the bandwidth limitations of using system RAM as vram hurts performance worse than running on the CPU using system memory directly, since smaller models are more memory bandwidth limited.

I’ve never tried to run AI on an igpu with system memory though so you could try it, assuming it will let you allocate like 32GB or more like 64GB. I think you’ll also need a special runner that supports igpus.

If you have a lot of RAM, you can run small models slowly on the CPU. Your integrated graphics I would guess won’t fit anything useful in it’s vram, so if you really want to run something locally, getting some extra sticks of RAM is probably your cheapest option.

I have 64G and I run 8-14b models. 32b is pushing it (it’s just really slow)

TL;DW: Small sample size aside, it looks like the brick layers could be marginally stronger in some ways, but it can be weaker if you don’t also increase the extrusion multiplier since offsetting a column of circles down by half a row in a grid of touching circles will make the circles not touch (hopefully that’s an intuitive explanation of the need to increase the extrusion multiplier).

I don’t really have a recommendation atm, I used to use mullvad but for torrenting I feel like the lack of port forwarding (once they removed that feature) was hurting my ability to seed so I switched to proton. I also recently added Usenet into my mix and since many providers bundle a VPN subscription - and mine in particular supposedly also supports port forwarding (usenetdirect bundles a ghost path VPN subscription), I’m gonna try to get it to work with that so I don’t have to pay for a VPN separately but I haven’t tried it yet.

Sounds like their strategy is to force US companies to block access to piracy sites.

I already run my torrent client through a non-US VPN so this can literally be bypassed by adding this to my prowlarr docker compose:

network_mode: service:gluetun

Some have different tuition for if you’re in state or from out of state, so around 10K usually for in state and around 20K for out of state, but some are 30K to 60K for the fancier universities in my state.

Our local university charges $440/year for parking :/

It was waitlist for a while, not sure if it still is but I got my welcome email like a week later.

I believe 4K is already basically there. I have a 50" 4K (2160p) that I sit 9 feet away from and based on the Nvidia PPD calculator, that makes for 168ppd, and according to that page 150ppd is around the upper limit of human vision. Apple’s “retina” displays target around 50-60ppd (varies based on assumed viewing distance), which is what most people seem to consider “average eye visual acuity”. Imo 4K / 150ppd is more than enough.

I once had someone open an issue in my side project repo who asked about a major release bump and whether it meant there were any breaking changes or major changes and I was just like idk I just thought I added enough and felt like bumping the major version ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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