Retired two years ago.

I'm at 200+ fine fat trout for the year so far. (about par, actually). Only keep 12 inches or larger.

My roommate got a smoker last month. Very tasty trout indeed.

I'm not as well off as I would be if I had waited until 70 (65 now), but I have a lot of fun.

And I still do my own coding. For no other reason than it's got to be MY code if it's my project. I do it for fun now.

AI is a pain at all levels for me. I don't want answers that aren't as good as SO, and no explanation. Give me SO any day. I read 900 plus words a minute, I'm capable of doing my own summaries.

(Has anyone else had CF problems because they can read too fast to be human?)

So, in closing, I too am waiting to see the benefits of AI in my life

Obviously you've never watched a cat at play, and maybe eating.

I've been wondering for a while what the steganography potential for AI generated music might be.

The photo side is awesome. Video is more awesome. Hide a whole movie in a movie you can.

If I have 50,000 AI generated songs in my albums, am I ever going to be asked to provide decryption keys?

You know, 'cause it doesn't sound quite right?

Like SETI. uuuggghh..... Like disco.

Where's a cryptography geek when you need one.

I don't remember her being in a bikini, but my mind blanked from self preservation almost immediately.

I was talking about my fire tablets (8 inch, 10 inch).

You know, the color kindles.

In fairness, when they work, I haven't had any problems with formats (except pdf) and I use vlc for all my video and audio needs.

But randomly failing to read the sd card (top end SanDisk), requiring a reformat and recopying my library gets annoying, even if it's only every 3 months or so.

I'm sure the donated ones will be picked up cheap from Goodwill, and be used by someone more appreciative.

That's why I donate, not dispose.

You can shorten that list.

Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet are the only platforms now that protect my privacy and are the most secure.

The EFF told me so. Thank you.

I would have never figured that out on my own. /s.

Been trying to do that with my fire 8 for years.

It's been passed around to a couple of gurus, still a fire 8.

A friend gave me a 2024 fire 10. Gave it back to her for donation somewhere else. Won't see my sd card with my 80G library again. For the third time in 5 months

Pulled the sd card and it will go in the jar with the rest until I buy an android tablet I can root. Later this month.

Both kindles are headed for Goodwill.

I obviously won't miss them.

Mx25 Infinity on my 2008 hp G62 laptop. (Whoops, using xfce with gnome fork). Acting as a kodi server.

antiX26 on my i7 laptop. zzzICE wm. Daily driver.

PIOS on my pi3b. Xfce, jellyfin server.

All idle at less than 800mb. The jellyfin server doesn't have to do transcoding, serves up three streams at a time.

The kodi box is also the backup dev box, but with 8G of ram, I've never seen it at 50 percent.

The i7 is new as of 2 months ago. It's just shit fast compared to my usual. I'm still trying to catch up.

All of these Debian OS derivatives/compatibles I have run successfully and usefully from a 4G thumb drive.

I also ran Mx23.1 (wildflower) on the pi3b for about 8 months. Used it as my first kodi server. Functioned adequately if not spectacularly, and this is on 1G.

All run firefox as the default I believe.

Low memory options are out there and fun to use.

Yep.

Scanning down the comments -

Nope. They missed it.

Seems to me I read about this in Atlas Shrugged.

Can it take out a building yet?
What kind of input device does it use (Keyboard, xylophone) ?
Man portable?/Vehicle mount?

So many unanswered questions ...

Wow.

20 fucking hours and only two (three now) comments on a straight science article, but political bullshit has you fucking 'nerds' lining up.

Where are the people who could hve recited all 274 objects? Where are the people who can tell me everything I could possibly want to know about Saturn, had hands on experience with the observational and telemetry hardware, worked with the information gathering systems.

Have you all died, or just went away. Seriously, I would like to know. There has to be at least one of you around here still....

Right?

I once knew a guy who had pi memorized to 500 places. Honestly, thinking about it, I'm no longer sure if he had any other useful talent.

And it was useful. He could pick any spot in the series, run it front to back, back to front, every other number, whatever he wanted, and with math you can do in you head or with a pencil and paper, make something cryptography secure, or at least very inconvenient to solve without using the rubber hose method, and we even solved that more than 30 years ago.

I hope you all come back some day. I miss you.

(Posted as someone who forgot his first two slash logins, used to have sacmog, and then one other I forgot in a ... 151 soaked evening... before this, and still have kronickoff so I can bitch if they manage to kill this account.)

But in all seriousness, is this just another symptom of my git off my lawn syndrome, got to grow the beard to show I'm here or what?

Or are memories all I'll ever have?

Pardon me.

Murder for financial gain.

I'm pretty sure murder for hire should be close to the top.

Oh yeah. These were just communication satellites. Easily measured wattage.

This guy wants to fuck with sunlight.

I always love read about people who have a new way to control the sun.

They're a firmly documented and shining part of history. Every single one of their success just shine out.

DAMN.

Thank you.

That was the trigger I needed. Been trying to remember for a year or more.

The Complete Venus Equilateral.

Gotta go get it now, but it seems to be more relevant on many levels .....

Let us see, from memory:

Destruction if the beam to Earth wanders even a fraction off target ... Check.

Inter[solar,planetary,..cene] competition and screwing the consumers for every penny...Check.

Multiple litigious attacks by the bad guy...Check.

Basic replication and transporter technology (via Star Trek definitions)...Check.

Attempt to legally block above technology for monetary gain....Check.

Oh yeah, bad guy dies riding the legal award to the death, with no accomplishment. But he can't give it up. Legally...Check.

And if I haven't pissed off enough people by now, I'm going to hunt down one of these AI gurus and ask them to correlate Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged with current politics.

In my opinion, the first prompt would be something like:
How many government officials, from local to national, in the last 10 years have used the:

"I didn't know. I quit. You can't blame me." [Fucking retards.]

Now I'm going to have another shot of [tequila, rum gives me gas from the sugar] and go sail the seas.

Argargarg.