I will always suggest Searx. It’s a meta front-end, filters out all the AI garbage and ads. FOSS and self hostable but there’s plenty of public instances to try. You can customise which engines it uses, although what’s available to choose from is up to the instance maintainer.
Even if I don’t, it feels like I do, so it’s kinda the same thing.
Tried the demo of Pragmata. It’s good, but it’s not $100 worth of good. I’ll pick it up eventually.
How in the fuck did they spin a cloud service as “own your games”?
My bad. Never seen it before and it has that “puckered butthole” look that most AIs have for some reason.
TF is that logo in the corner? Some new AI slop engine?
The cafe I work at is in a death spiral. Overheads and ingredient costs are going up, so the only solution to break even is to raise the already high prices, or cut corners elsewhere. Essential maintenance is going undone. Our dishwasher has been leaking for months. The deep fryer will just randomly turn itself off and takes ages to come back to temp. The high pressure spray faucet failed and got replaced with a cheap standard faucet. Everything is taking longer, coming out worse, and morale is in the toilet. I can put up with a lot of bullshit if the team is solid; good comrades make a lot of things bearable. It isn’t though. They’re unreliable, inconsistent, and inconsiderate. I frequently start a shift to a sink absolutely overloaded with dishes.
Even the owner tell me he’s done. Place is shutting down for renovation soon and he’s likely going to sell up after that. I don’t want to waste my time looking for another fucking kitchen job, but I may have to just to pay the bills. I desperately need to get out of this industry. I didn’t get the position I interviewed for last week. I keep getting shortlisted then edged out by someone with more specifically relevant experience, or at least that’s what I keep getting told.
All I want to do is use my education and experience to help people. Gonna spend some time looking for volunteer positions in food relief this week. It’s just hard to stay positive and put myself out there when everything is such a fucking grind.
It’s an Australia thing. Tons of natural resources and an extraction-based economy, but very little manufacturing. We do the same thing with food, mining, wool, etc; export raw materials and import finished goods. It’s offshoring of labour to places with less stringent worker protections and externalising social and environmental costs of heavy manufacturing.
First few questions have been answered adequately already, and I can’t answer the third, but regarding uptime vs. distance; consider using more than one machine. Depending on your budget it might be worth it to have a couple or more lower-spec machines behind a load balancing / failover proxy. That would give you a fair bit of leeway to get out to the location while maintaining uptime. Also you can use one to troubleshoot the other remotely.
Not sure I understand how this works. Dev signups are just “open”? So you can register any package name so long as you get to it first and lock out the actual dev? That’s, um … yeah. Nice “security” solution there.
New level of Schroedinger posting unlocked. It’s simultaneously intentional and a bot fuckup until someone calls it out.
the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart.
Even if that’s true, wasn’t he president at the time?
Some of the quotes from the article even imply that the providers themselves understand this.
Dug out my old gen 1 Meta (ew) Quest that I haven’t used since they functionally turned it into a paperweight (~2021?). Between Oculess (to disable meta bloatware), NetGuard (to firewall the rest of the shit), WiVRn (wireless PCVR on linux) and wayVR (overlay), it’s surprisingly viable as a headset for VR games on Steam via Proton. Was a lot easier to set up than I expected too, hardest part was running the cat6 from my PC to the router to deal with the lag spikes. Been getting back into Pistol Whip and Synth Riders. It’s a surprisingly enjoyable workout, especially for a nerd like me who doesn’t like team sports and thinks gyms are mostly a scam.
I remember reading somewhere that this is a known issue, the air scrubbers never quite get rid of the smell.
Had an interview this week for a position closer to my field. Interview went well, was told I’d hear back by Monday. I’m still pretty optimistic about it, but we’ll see.
Okay. That adds some context. I did locate the show in question but didn’t bother trying to identify and watch the segment because I don’t speak the language. I guess I didn’t pull on this particular thread hard enough.
The way this headline is phrased, it implies he is defending a specific marriage, perhaps even his own.
This isn’t what happened, even according to the article itself.
Quote (machine translated):
During the recording, the journalist inquired about the age at which a young woman would be considered an adult according to the Quran. The imam responded that adulthood is linked to the menstrual cycle. Ali Kashif stated that a 9-year-old girl could be considered an adult from a scientific standpoint.
Pretty far from advocating child marriage.
EDIT: To clarify, it sounded to me like he was answering in an abstract, academic “this is what the book says” kind of way, and being taken out of context. Seems like I was wrong, and he’s actually just like that.
Listenbrainz might do at least some of what you want, but I must confess I haven’t made heavy enough use of it to actually vouch for it.
Personally whenever I get a craving for new music I load up either gnoosic or music-map and poke around. I think they both use the same database though, so it just depends which interface you like better.
For actually sourcing music, soulseek still exists (unsure if I’m allowed to link that here, but it’s not hard to find) and has a mobile client on f-droid. It’s also half decent for discovery too, since you can browse folders of people who show up in searches.
Setup is indeed very easy, I run a local-only instance on my PC at home. Been a while since I did it but from memory I think it’s just a docker one-liner. You are right that rate limiting can be an issue and that’s part of the reason I spun up my own.