OpticalMoose

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Weekly Discussion: 26 May 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just a weird post to close out the old week. I recently learned that my uncle doesn't use a bank account. I think he has one now, but doesn't really use it. He's gotten paid in cash and paid for all his stuff in cash.

This is no small time operation either. He's a logger, so he's bought and paid for several logging trucks over his lifetime, and a house too. He just handles all his money in cash.

I'm almost the exact opposite, I don't touch cash unless I have to. The first truck I bought, a 1995 Ford Ranger for $13,995 was all paid through direct withdrawal from my paycheck. I really don't know if that money ever physically existed.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB shadows the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in leaked benchmarks — only 5% slower despite big price difference in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Benchmark numbers are nice, but none of that matters until we see the price it actually sells for.

Not everyone wants kids. 5 women open up about the decision to be child-free. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I think it's rude to ask someone why they're not married and/or don't have kids, especially if you just met.

Just for kicks, I told a few people I was divorced and they were totally ok with it. But saying you're not married invites a ton of follow up questions.

HW News - NVIDIA's 98% AI Plans, Storage Shortage from AI Use, Arctic Case, Intel B60 GPU in c/[email protected]
4 different "blogs" with the same content? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the Shin and Buldak brands. I could probably eat ramen every day, but I keep seeing articles about how refined, bleached flour is linked to heart disease. We just can't have anything nice.

1951-05-31 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't realize Schroeder was that much younger than the rest of the gang. So I guess this makes Lucy a cougar since she's always chasing him.

4 different "blogs" with the same content? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Damn. I've been looking for some decent whole-wheat ramen for ages. I can't believe it's not more popular.

Japan introduces rules to put outlandish baby names to bed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Little Bobby Tables nods approvingly.

(an old XKCD joke)

rulejob in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We (Americans) use the word job for all those things, but actually getting paid for them is illegal. 😡

2meirl4meirl in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Or when I make a meme, but it's not really pertinent to anything right now, so I leave it on my drive and just wait ...

Civitai pausing all credit card payments in c/stable_diffusion
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If they cancel my $5/month plan, I'm out. I'm not spending any more than that.

Lemmy needs AI. [SATIRE] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Finally, a chance to cash in on my bored lemmings.

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9070 and 5070 reviews are out (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

https://videocardz.com/198465/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-rdna4-graphics-cards-review-roundup

https://videocardz.com/198359/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-blackwell-graphics-cards-review-roundup

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Seruleously, I'm already sick of that word. (discuss.tchncs.de)
 
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What's a product you would not buy, made by a company you've worked for? (discuss.tchncs.de)
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18,000 planks toppled in Blender simulation (tube.tchncs.de)
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18,000 planks toppled in Blender simulation (tube.tchncs.de)
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Imposter rule (discuss.tchncs.de)
 
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Tampermonkey redirect script (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

I don't know if anyone here uses [Tamper|Grease]monkey, but I asked my LLM to come up with a redirect from Xitter and it gave me this gem:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Redirect x.com to xcancel.com
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        https://x.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
    var url = window.location.href;
    url = url.replace("https://x.com/", "https://xcancel.com/");
    window.location.replace(url);
})();

Works like a charm.

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The Secret Life of the Videorecorder - Remastered (www.youtube.com)
 

Anybody else grow up watching The Secret Life of Machines?

It was an amazing show. Tim Hunkin is still around and making Youtube videos. Sadly Rex is no longer with us.

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AMD CPU, Apple M4 Pro Performance - Ryzen AI MAX Review [Strix Halo] (www.youtube.com)
 

The Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and Ryzen AI MAX 390 are supposed to be Apple M4 and Apple M4 Pro competitors that combine high efficiency with some pretty crazy performance numbers in gaming, AI and creator workloads. That's because this Strix Halo design combines an insanely powerful CPU with a huge GPU onto one chip. The end result is something special and unique in the ROG Flow Z13 2025.

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Trying out old GPUs with Vulkan (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

Yesterday I got bored and decided to try out my old GPUs with Vulkan. I had an HD 5830, GTX 460 and GTX 770 4Gb laying around so I figured "Why not".

Long story short - Vulkan didn't recognize them, hell, Linux didn't even recognize them. They didn't show up in nvtop, nvidia-smi or anything. I didn't think to check dmesg.

Honestly, I thought the 770 would work; it hasn't been in legacy status that long. It might work with an older Nvidia driver version (I'm on 550 now) but I'm not messing with that stuff just because I'm bored.

So for now the oldest GPUs I can get running are a Ryzen 5700G APU and 1080ti. Both Vega and Pascal came out in early 2017 according to Wikipedia. Those people disappointed that their RX 500 and RX 5000 don't work in Ollama should give Llama.cpp Vulkan a shot. Kobold has a Vulkan option too.

The 5700G works fine alongside Nvidia GPUs in Vulkan. The performance is what you'd expect from an APU, but at least it works. Now I'm tempted to buy a 7600 XT just to see how it does.

Has anyone else out there tried Vulkan?

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AMD denies rumors of Radeon RX 9070 XT with 32GB memory (videocardz.com)
 

Well, it was nice ... having hope, I mean. That was a good feeling.

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Remember Trump's other publicly traded companies, the ones that fell below $1 and got delisted from the exchange before going bankrupt? Archive.org remembers. (web.archive.org)
 

Last line of the article:
"Whether Trump goes public with any companies in the future remains to be seen, but if he does, only the short-sellers will be happy."(2016)

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