Me, during my free time after a long day of barely managing to do the minimum…

Every day…

My new headcanon is now that this is what aliens say, as a meme, whenever they see a human do anything they don’t understand.

Helps with remembering what you actually did that day because often i get so sidetracked it looks like i did nothing at all.

Some recent research also confirmed that the same neuron systems responsible for impulsive behaviour are the same ones that make people curious.

Which of course also aids creativity.

But i find this especially important to note as how many add/adhd medication attempt to inhibit impulsive behavior and how that explains how i lost all interest in science during school, almost instantly gain it back as an adult when i stopped taking them.

Dont knows for these two but the enterprise version of copilot for office workers is so damn awefull its embarrassing.

It literally suggests to do stuff that it is incapable of doing.

I tried to get some doc as a flowchart using mermaid script, i know for a fact other llms have no problems with that:

After 3 attempts of it trying to code but resulting in an actual error it gives me,

Do you want me to provide this flowchart in visio format instead.

yes, if you can do that, it would be useful.

Generates a powerpoint about the topic.

that is a powerpoint, not a flowchart.

Tries to generate an image of a flowchart with not a single word spelled correctly and arrows going nowhere.

i didn’t ask to generate an image i need a flowchart

Sorry, if you want i can provide a flowchart in viso file format instead.

sure, give it another go

Generates a brand new bad PowerPoint.

I copy pasted the entire conversation to claude and it instantly gave me what i asked.

I regret not including this as an option now but I contemplated adding this part:

The majority of our (subjective-my) internet nowadays follows patterns of the same places, new places are often found on the old places.

Most of my sites are bookmarked trusted websites. (Increasingly more self hosted also) wikipedia for facts, wolfram alpha for math, sites i have an account on.

Part of the crux is when is the last time you googled in the hope to find a new website you don’t already know yet? Even ads direct you using QR.

I find i rarely need a search engine anymore and when often when i do i can’t find anything anyway. Stuff has gotten so buried under search engine optimisation you are better of using ai for a first responds to obtain the terminology to search for how wrong ai got it then by searching for a question directly.

I am hoping to try this thing soon and if its good it might replace 90% of my browser activity. -> https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

This used to be not the case.

Duckduck is just a wrapper for bing (and gives microsoft trackers a free pass)

Startpage is a similar thing that uses google. Considering how hated bing is believe Duck only got more popular because of privacy marketing.

The safest alternative is running your own searxng client, it still relies on bing and google but at least you can verify that its actually stopping all trackers.

If you can boot an os from usb (basically the same for all distros) you can try proxmox.

There are these incredibly useful helper scripts that setup entire services in 1-2 copy pasted commands.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

To explain what proxmox is its basicly virtualisation software, it can run vms but also lxc (light linux containers) and share resources very efficiently between all of them

Jellyfin, radarr, sonar. They are all included in the helper scripts, each will be a dedicated lxc.

Its also very easy to setup raid and there own storage format is very efficient.

Its well documented to the point that any decent llm can help you learn whatever you need. In fact its claude that helped me setup my own proper raid on proxmox, also tought me about datasets and how i can make those available to different lxc

Personally i am very hands off with my server, the hardest part is often choosing what ip i want to give a service, i rarely update or mess with it if not strictly necessary.

For hardware i recommend plenty of ram (can Be bought and installed seperatly), more cores is usually better and internal graphics can save you some hassle depending on what you are doing (also allows you to dedicate a Big gpu to some services).

A warning on second hand corporate machines, the performance is often good But quite fans are often an afterthought. I onxe got a beast of machine for free but you could hear it spin from anywhere in my house.

A good practical case is always a blessing when you need to check the insides.

Never heard of this one but i might try it. Looks very clean and practical.

https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

A psychiatrist might suggest “do not take more on your plate then you can handle”

Too broad and it will just be ignored as general activism. Even if rfk remains the message has more effect by being focused on their domain off expertise.

Would probably work better if you pretend You don’t actually now the numbers but instead compare it something else.

About 10 stacked pumpkins or enough to reach things standing on top of my closet.

You don’t need to lie, just find something that is hard to reference to others but sounds tall.

Go to a store and find any double door fridge with your height. Now you are as tall as a big fridge.

Anyway, i find peoples obsession with Height in romance incredibly strange.

The technical term seems to be a JBOD bay. (Just a Bunch Of Disks)

Basic ones are probably usb, ideally you have something that has a SFF port. Modern ones might also have thunderbolt.

Finding a micropc that supports SFF out of the box might be a challenge but some do support pci express cards.

Apparently there also exists something like Oculink which is pci over cable but i know even less about that one.

EDIT: if you look for “Nas enclosure 4bay” you actually do find plenty of options (Jonsbro N3 per example) that allow you to build it all in one unit with a mini-itx board. A nas pretty much just is a pc with special software so this would be what i recommend.

Maybe i miss some perspective here because i never had the spare money to consider a storebought nass. The convenience never sounded like it was worth being locked down to its software.

My server is “just a pc”

I got a case with external drive slots (it also needed to fit a gpu), but i suppose external drive cases also exist that can connect to a micro computer build.

The software is proxmox, which imo is amazing. Its virtualisation and backup software and performs really well and has a proper gui.

I have numerous lxc (linux container that is not a full vm) that each run their own docker with a single service. I can ssh into those from my main system or visit the terminal and other panels in the proxmox gui. Many services host a gui to my network and i could probably make it so cli is minimal but i personally am comfortable with that so…

I also run a few full vms on it, including some windows desktops.

You could probably also host actual Nass software this way.

All of these work well next to eachother and share resources. Snapshots and backups of individual systems or data can be made with ease.

If it doesn’t fit your usecases you can get the off the shelf ones i guess but for others interested here, maybe this helps.

Uplifting in the most dystopian ways.

Can someone remind me, what is the bullshit reason they ban the Palestinian people from fishing in their own waters again?

How is sleep considered a source of dopamine?

A quick search yielded it helps reset and balance dopamine receptors but not that it provides any.

I have considered this point before and i settled on the perspective that neurodivergence does not replace the concept of a disability.

You can be neurodivergent and still experience a general disability at the same time. But I don’t view the neurodivergence as the reason why there is a disability.

In a similar vein I speculate it might be possible for neurological disabilities that exist but that only affects some neurotypes. Similar to how a disease can adversely affect different sexes. But that would be something future psychology will have to answer, not me.

Neurodivergence only becomes a disability in context of the society you live.

The medication serves to make your brain chemistry adapt to the fact you live in a world that is increasingly more tailored for the majority of people who are differently wired then us. Its also focused on solving what other people find problematic and less what people themselves need.

Some people perceive an adhd/autism epidemic, my take is that as high pressure society evolves it becomes increasingly harder to fit the norms, people that once did now don’t.

A good example is how i am very sensative to certain artificial light sources that give me a literal headache. If i lived in the past, those light sources would not exist to trouble me. If everyone else would get the same headache wed simply stop producing that type of cheap lights.

my dream of hosting a few services mostly for personal use is alive and kicking tyvm

“Dampening such impulsive behavior so that the child can focus and succeed makes intuitive sense. But what if dampening the child’s impulsivity also dampens curiosity?”

Perfectly explains my struggle with learning physics in school and it quickly becoming a hobby of mine when i stopped being medicated when i no longer went to school.