OWui has a search module which can be enabled. For me, running it entirely offline is more or less the draw. I think it also supports RAG search, although I don’t know how “good” it is… mostly I was just after a little magic box to play with.

Now, if only enterprise glass GPU’s weren’t so power hungry and expensive…

Maybe real estate?

Perfection.

I guess I liked the darker kind of Trek that was ToS Movies more than anything - TMP and Wrath of Kahn, and I really wanted to see something in that direction.

DS9 got close to scratching that itch, but was also rather too derivative of Babylon 5 which IMO did everything it was trying to do somewhat better.

I really miss the slower-paced, philosophical and cerebral content of TNG though. What Star Trek did best was that. Put us in a place and give us something to think about.

The newer series really don’t do that for me in any shape way or form.

At least we have Orville - as others have already said.

Yep. My paycheck has sadly not scaled in a similar manner :(

Will I even be able to afford one? Still rocking a Radeon VII here…

I can’t even find a decent PCIE USB/Thunderbolt card (one that support VFIO would be nice and actually has a Linux kernel driver, so ASM and Renesas are both out…)

I believe it’s a little more sinister than that. There is less education around these issues because many services have adopted a highly polished, “Walled-Garden” approach to their presentation. This keeps people who’ve grown up with the concepts in their walled garden loyal to that specific service, and makes it difficult for people to dig under the hood and work out how things really function without the sugar coating. They get irritated quickly because they’re used to everything “Just working” and don’t have experience on more open systems.

Therefore, they would like there to be no need for tech education unless you plan on a professional career as a tech.

As long as ownserhip don’t get carried away with enshittification chasing next quarter’s finance call and drive users away by annoying them into putting the extra effort in to learning about alternatives, they could keep it that way forever.

There’s also the term Xennials , which is 1977-1983.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

It appears to have ceased development. AFAIK it still works if hooked into a “valid” user account, but since I don’t have one and am increasingly less likely to consider that path, it’s a moot point.

Ever since Nitter died I haven’t paid any attention to anything on musks’ little fiefdom at all.

I wish the political economics guys would move… I really miss Tim Sahay/70sbachchan & Mark Blyth.

That dude should not have put up with that.

80% of our machines were hit. We were working through 9pm on Friday night running around putting in bitlocker keys and running the fix. Our organization made it worse by hiding the bitlocker keys from local administrators.

Also gotta say… way the boot sequence works, combined with the nonsense with raid/nvme drivers on some machines really made it painful.

Really wish we’d get some nice, fast RISC-V base boards with a nice amount of flash memory paired with a cool round LCD display…keep patrolling CNX for the parts but they don’t seem to be quite there yet.

Yeah, kinda funny how it’s OK when there’s a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?

Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC’s bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.

“I paid for this traffic light, therefore I want to use all three bulbs at once”

Yes, Eugene Debs, please.

• who was basically jailed on political pretexts but still…

I mean… yeah layoff a whole bunch of people and start treating your employees like replaceable commodities… then go ahead and arrogantly deploy technology you don’t understand and :surprisepikachu: everything breaks.

But management get to do things without personal consequence, as they’ll just lay off more workers to cover their absolute incompetence and things will continue to get worse.

Perhaps we should be replacing C-suite dipshits with AI’s instead.