Formerly @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
I’d recommend using ROCM through a Distrobox container, personally I use this Distrobox container file and it has suited all of my needs with Stable Diffusion so far.
That is, if you’re still interested in it - I could totally understand writing it off after what happened 😅
I usually just get by with Alacritty and Zellij, pairs pretty well together.
Fucking Crohn’s Disease sucks. All of my “adventures” with it have been painful, but the one that takes the cake:
A couple of years ago, my GI wanted me to do a pill endoscopy test, which is where they basically have you swallow a pill that has a camera embedded in it, and it takes pictures while it traverses your insides. You’re supposed to naturally “pass” it like anything else you eat, but in my case I did not, and it got stuck. My GI did not believe me, and it just kept getting worse and worse. To put a timeframe on things, this happened in early February of that year.
I had ER trip after ER trip throughout that year, they determined that it wasn’t going to pass on its own and needed to be surgically removed, but since it was not “life threatening” they couldn’t just wheel me into an OR immediately and have it done, it had to be scheduled. Took forever to find a surgeon to schedule me under. One of the times that I was in the hospital due to this, the doctor on my “care” team wanted me to do what she called a “supreme bowel cleanse” to see if that would dislodge it. I was hesitant to do it, but I was pretty much willing to do anything at that point to end this nightmare, and only because she promised me that if it didn’t work, they’d take me into surgery and do it the old fashioned way. That ordeal was terrible, I’ve had Crohn’s since before I was a teenager, I’m very used to doing colonoscopy prep - this was far worse than that, the pain was unbearable and the amount of bowel cleanse that they gave me must’ve been right at the border of their ethical limits (or at least, I imagine that has to be a thing, right?) and plot twist she did not hold up her end of the bargain when the pill still did not pass, instead she gave me a few days worth of pain meds and discharged me the next day.
My condition continued to get worse and worse, yet my operation wasn’t scheduled till early July. The hospital that the surgeon worked for agreed to pre-admit me into their care 2 months in advanced because it got to the point where I could barely even hold down regular water and I had to be put on IV nutrition with a PICC line and all.
Fast forward to the operation day, they ended up having to do two surgeries in one go, the first being to remove the pill, and the second was to try to fix the damage that had been revealed on the camera. The moment I woke up from the operation I was screaming in pain, and begging them to put me back under (which they could not do). They kept giving me pain meds and I’d end up passing out eventually from the pain, wake back up, and the whole ordeal would start again. Eventually they put me on one of those self-administered pain med pumps where I could click a button every so often and it would give me some pain medication through my IV.
I didn’t end up going home until the very beginning of September (first week I believe), and I had arrived there sometime in the middle of May. I will never do one of those pill endoscopy tests ever again. I also switched GIs since my current one at that time had refused to listen to me when I told her something was wrong at the beginning of the “experience”.
In my first year of high school, we actually went out to the massive Toyota truck factory in San Antonio, Texas as a field trip! Definitely the best field trip of all time (at least, for my area), I can’t actually remember the purpose of the trip (if it was tied to a lesson plan at the time, or if we just did it because it was cool).
I remember being really amazed at the automatic robots that whirred around the facility. Sadly I do not have any pictures of the trip (and even if I’d had the means to do so, that was so long ago that I definitely wouldn’t still have copies anyways) however there is an article here from a team that took a tour, they even cover the “Stop, Point, Look” policy that they made us follow while we were in the manufacturing plant.
At the time, I believe their “Tacoma” model of pickup trucks were only assembled in that plant (at least, in the US) - this doesn’t seem to actually be the case anymore, but I heavily recall them mentioning some model of truck that was only made there.
If they’re using Fedora, then it is highly likely that they are using GRUB as you have to very much go out of your way to utilize systemd-boot on Fedora the last time I checked.
That makes sense - it might be worth making a post on one of the various Linux communities here to see if anyone is able to help you with that sort of setup, the ones I’m aware of are:
Ah gotcha, I’m sorry to hear the stuff with the VM didn’t work out too well. I’m not really familiar with how that type of setup works. I have a friend who uses a looking glass setup to do this, but for me its just easier to boot into Windows on the few occasions I need it haha.
Somehow I missed that DXM could be used this way. The antidepressant I take includes DXM in it, but clearly not at the level of dosage that you’re probably referring to 😅
I convinced my (now ex) partner to use Matrix, she seemed to really enjoy it.
Sadly I don’t think I’m ever going to pull that off again in the future lol
My desktop PC runs a dual boot of Arch Linux and Windows 11 (for the few things that don’t work with Linux cough Destiny 2 cough - damn it Bungie, and VR stuff). My MacBook runs a dual boot of Fedora 40 and whatever is the latest version of macOS that can run on it (its an older Intel model, Apple dropped support for it a couple of years ago - I think its running Big Sur? I hardly ever boot into macOS).
And then my Steam Deck (its effectively just another x86 PC afterall) of course uses SteamOS.
What about you, OP?
This hit me like a truck. I lost my father at the beginning of the month due to some tragedy that occurred.
We weren’t on speaking terms (a decision I made), but I’d always planned to one day see if I could turn things around, which will never happen now. Never in a million years would I ever have expected it to come down to this.
You’re thinking of install-time permissions, which technically does still exist, but pretty much most of the permissions you’d actually care about are runtime (or special) permissions - the application must request these from the user.
There are three main types of permissions on Android:
Runtime permissions were introduced in Android 6.0, which was released in 2015, I am not sure when the special permission system was implemented however.
Hate? No, I do not hate Google. I still use a Pixel phone (and photos/assistant on it), my Gmail is still my primary email (I also self-host a few other domains but those are primarily used for automation and a few other one-off things), I subscribe to YouTube Premium, I still utilize my Stadia controller as my primary game controller, I use a Google TV set top box, etc.
I don’t use Search (I use Kagi instead), I don’t use Chrome (Firefox), I don’t really utilize Gemini all that much (I just run ollama for the few times I want to use an LLM).
Really I just use their products that work well for me, and don’t use the ones that don’t. There’s no love/hate about it.
Oh wow, I didn’t expect another release so quickly! Props to the COSMIC team! I can’t recall where the roadmap for the features and their targeted releases went, but I hope we can get Night Light/Blue Light filtering soon.
I also did not know they had a Mastodon account, thanks for the shout so that I could give 'em a follow.