“Here’s a picture of me and my child, next to $12,000 worth of drinks and a fruity thing made by my personal chef that gets paid over $200k/year out of my personal money vault.”

The AI features are actually pretty cool!

Using a local AI model (running on your own GPU), you can:

• Drag files on to the “AI bar” to bring them into the context of a prompt.
• Tell it to perform actions like, “merge these two PDF files.”
• Use it to search your filesystem, “find pictures of spiders.”
• Ask it to find system settings or tell it to change them, “turn on dark mode.”

It supports voice and probably visual (e.g. with a webcam) I think.

Best of all: It doesn’t send any of that to some data center in the cloud! I mean, you can configure it to do that but you can just as easily use say, qwen3.5.

Note: It’s not realistic to expect to be able to use local models if you have less than 16GB of VRAM (in your GPU). I mean, some 8-billion parameter model will work with say, 8GB but you’re not going to be satisfied with the results most of the time 🤷

No one will believe you, so they’ll call it “sock therapy.”

Oh please. There’s nothing wrong with a bunch of girls horsing around.

would it be awkward for one of them to misgender the other’s dog?

Story time!

I was on my way into PetSmart to pick up my dogs from a routine vet appointment when I saw a man standing on the sidewalk right in front of where I parked. He had a dog with him of a breed I’d never seen before (probably a mix of many). This dog looked super neat with a mostly white head with a cool black stripe over one eye.

“She’s a pretty dog!”

Him, looking actually angry: “He’s a male.” (Or something like that)

I then looked up at him and noticed he was wearing a MAGA cap. I didn’t notice before because his dog was so striking.

Without skipping a beat, I replied…

“It sucks being misgendered, don’t it?”

I don’t know if he was a bigoted, anti-trans asshole but he was wearing the uniform.

The look on his face was… Dumbfounded. Honestly, I was hoping for shock and horror but it was good enough 👍

There’s a Waffle House across the street. Gregg Phillips might teleport there (if we’re lucky) and certain other Republican politicians are banned.

Plott Hound? I look to my left to my own barky barkster:

Who cares? Those who can laugh at themselves are the human equivalent of self-powered fusion reactors, fonts of happy energy.

Sometimes the happiness spreads, sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, someone is entertained 😁👍

For the cost of a single plane and a pilot you could send one thousand drones, though. Surely that would make up for the limitations?

Hasn’t anyone taught you how to download more?

It’s only one company that hoarded all the RAM: OpenAI. They’re the ones that intentionally created scarcity in the market in order to maintain what they thought was a dominant position.

Don’t lump all the other AI companies in with them. They’re they ones that claimed to be all about improving humanity and registered themselves as a non-profit, then turned around and went for-profit with shady deals left and right (like the DRAM thing).

Anthropic lost their contract with the government because they refused to use their AI to snoop on innocent people and possibly make automatic determinations as to who and what to bomb. OpenAI leapt right on that opportunity, “we’re happy to do that! Give us the contract!”

I’m not saying the other AI companies are pinnacles of ethics but there’s one player—who is so closely aligned with Microsoft they have employees sitting on each other’s campuses—that is vastly worse than the others when it comes to underhand shit that’s bad for everyone.

The likelihood that you were going to post this today was quite low.

Why are we still flying jets with human pilots? Surely, drones are cheaper and better these days?

I like super obscure achievements that aren’t documented at all. Like, your weapon and armor just broke but you’re in an easy area so you just keep grinding, trying to find that rare loot (or whatever). Suddenly, you get an achievement, “Naked Brawler” 😁

You check the wiki and that one’s not in the list 👌

I remember getting an achievement for something like, “Last Light” in some game where I ran out of torches in an area where you take severe damage from darkness. I got the achievement when I lit that last torch, very close to the end of the area.

It wasn’t documented anywhere! I posted about it to the game forum (this was back when forums were the primary place to talk about such things) and no one had seen it before.

Like a year later, the community finally figured out the sequence of events necessary to get that achievement and it only gets awarded to characters who are too far in to make it out before the torch goes out and those that read a very specific, obscure book in a starter area.

“You read the book‽”

“I… Uh… Read all the books. Doesn’t everyone read all the books at least once?”

🤣

Tortoise scammer wants people to shell out.

This is what happens to nearly every business Microsoft buys or invest in. They’re the enshittiers.

Sony is a close second, BTW 😁

My question exactly: The computers should be purpose-built, including the operating system.

Why TF aren’t they using something like NASA Linux‽

If they made it open source you bet your ass they’d get shittons of free support from the global community! If they’re running my software I’d be willing to hop on a call with the command center on any day at any hour!

“Yes, I know it’s Christmas but NASA is having some trouble with a systemd script on a space ship that’s currently in space…”

Maybe they should implement something beyond toy security.

I guess Iran wasn’t just blustering yesterday when they promised to do this.

While the claims remain unverified,

Matt Gaetz is right there.