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PacificSpecific

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About PacificSpecific

Programmer and technical artist

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    Glad to see this comment as this has generally been my experience as well. I'm really curious to see why it's so infuriating for others. My best guess is I'm using it more conserva…

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    Comment #49146732

    I dare say LLMs were one of the things that finally pushed me over the top to be a full time Linux user. For a lifetime Windows user Linux novice like me they really helped me get …

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    Comment #48988494

    Anecdotally it does seem to be the case in my experience with extended family.

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    Comment #48963683

    I've had this too on my personal pro plan and also when I run the usage command it says it's resetting tomorrow rather than getting cut off. I'm trying to squeeze what I can in the…

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    Comment #48868025

    I think the person you are replying to was referring to Gary tan

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    Comment #48850769

    I've moved to Joplin and am pretty happy with it. Was easy to self host on my WebDAV. I believe it imports Evernote data too.

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    Comment #48849381

    Honestly I can't tell the difference with LinkedIn. Feels the same as it's ever been

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    Comment #48770189

    Thanks for the insight. Do you think something like nebula could ever be feasible?

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    Comment #48700810

    Recently I heard some people conflate procedural generation and generative AI and I had to explain why there isn't some legal or ethical issue with what breaks down to essentially …

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    Comment #48692639

    A decade ago they pulled my purchased copy of mortal kombat 2. Not the first time they've done stuff like this. I stuck to buying hard copies and dwindled off the series as they st…

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    Comment #48625896

    Ah interesting. We are in very different domains haha. I had to search a lot of terms. Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #48620192

    Thanks for the info! I'll look into openwrt

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    Comment #48617043

    Fair enough. I do question it often. It's a standard Asus router but it's given me a lot of ire. I hate to say it but it's never a problem when I install windows on the same machin…

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    Comment #48616999

    First thing I do on a fresh Linux install is set ipv6 to deactivated. Fixes all my initial Linux install problems. I don't question it, it just works every time.

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    Comment #48616765

    That's cool. Could you share some concrete examples of your successes?

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    Comment #48408042

    Don't worry you aren't. Luckily no one will use this distro day to day

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    Comment #48298713

    Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.

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    Comment #48216752

    Couple options I've tried. ALICE vision is an open source library (I used it through Houdini) Also epic makes an app called Realityscan The term is "photogrammetry" which might hel…

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    My library was recently asking for donations and they said the reason is more people are loaning out digital books which are significantly more expensive. I don't recall the detail…

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    Comment #48156052

    I've had some success with that. It's pretty neat! Haven't used it professionally mainly because the titles I've worked on lately aren't realistic so you can't really procure the m…

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    Comment #48081630

    There's also a Hokusai range of calculators I saw at yodobashi camera Yokohama this spring. It was 60$,I didn't buy it but I kind of wish I did.

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    Comment #48081475

    Please post your progress! That sounds cool as hell

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    Comment #48055824

    Not sure if there's anything preventing this from happening in North America but in Japan there are stores that literally just sold broken down bulk items bought at Costco.

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    Comment #48016286

    I've been doing a 4 day work week and it certainly helps quite a bit. I worry I have gotten too used to it now though.