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  • I somewhat disagree.

    Music seems like it’s followed a similar trajectory of most things where it’s become more centralized and mass marketed. Music has to appeal to the masses for studios to pick it up. So there is an incentive to find music that appeals to the most people and turns off the fewest.

    Similarly, you have a handful of studios telling you what is “good” and pushing it. Even if it isn’t great, it’s good enough that people listen and then they can create the hype behind it where it might not organically exist.

    Some music bubbles up organically from independent artists but quite a bit is mass marketed and produced by big studios. And they have the money so they can choke out smaller artists.







  • It might be worth taking a step back and looking at your objective with all of this and why you are doing it in the first place.

    If it’s for privacy, then unfortunately that ship has sailed when it comes to email. It’s the digital equivalent of a post card. It’s inherently not private. Nothing you do will make it private. Even services like proton Mail aren’t private–unless you only email other people on proton.

    I appreciate wanting to control your own destiny with it but there are much more productive things you could be spending your time on the improve your privacy surface area.


  • My thoughts on it are: as a developer, if you flag the issue for your management, and they want to move forward, then you’ve done your part.

    Maybe put an extra comment in the code for posterity’s sake.

    It’s not ultimately your problem and what else are you going to do? Work unpaid nights and weekends to fix it for some guy who might run into a problem 8 years from now?



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    GPU with a ton of vran is what you need, BUT

    An alternate solution is something like a Mac mini with an m series chip and 16gb of unified memory. The neural cores on apple silicon are actually pretty impressive and since they use unified memory the models would have access to whatever the system has.

    I only mention it because a Mac mini might be cheaper than GPU with tons of vram by a couple hundred bucks.

    And it will sip power comparatively.

    4090 with 24gb of vram is $1900 M2 Mac mini with 24gb is $1000


  • Like he was saying, it’s more than just power loss. It’s a way of “sanitizing” the power as it comes in. This is “usually” not a problem. But dirty power is arguably worse than power outages. If the voltages fluctuate or get low for whatever reason that puts a big strain on your power supplies.

    This could happen because you run a vacuum on the same circuit and your house is old, guy down the street electrocutes himself or the power coming in from the electric company is ‘dirty’ because they have an issue with transformers or up stream somewhere. It can be imperceptible to you, but your tech notices.







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    “rocinante” for my proxmox host.

    “awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.” From don Quixote’s wiki page.

    It seemed fitting considering it is a server built from old PC parts…engaged in tasks beyond its abilities.

    The rest of my servers (VMs moslty) are named for what they actually do/which vlan they are on (eg vm15) and aren’t fun or excitin names. But at least I know if I am on that VM it has access to that vlan(or that it’s segregated from my other networks).