Back when LLM/AI was fairly nascent in the public eye and largely relegated to image generation, I had a real off character come into my computer repair shop wanting to ask questions about it but not knowing what to call it.

He wound up describing it as “you know, when they make the computers dream”

It’s not really the food dissolving the teeth.

Bactria feed food remnants and product bacteria, mostly sugars, and product acid that dissolves tooth enamel.

Lots of MSPs have already been doing / selling this exact thing for years.

I’ve played some tabletop in the past (10+ years ago) as a noob, never quite got super deep - it was mostly an activity to enjoy with friends.

With the way my life is structured these days, I’d be a key contributor to “schedules & conflicts” and don’t want to burden a party with my inability to fully commit to a campaign.

CRPGs give me the advantage of being able to start and stop whenever, short or long sessions.

Still haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3

I have several unfinished RPGs and really don’t want this one to get added to the list.

AliExpress’ purchase protection is a total farce.

In one case, I was shipped the wrong variant of an item and the seller was totally unresponsive. Submitted evidence, AliExpress closed the case saying that Tracking shows it was delivered. No way to appeal.

In another case, I ordered something to my business and the Chinese courier service left the parcel out front on a public sidewalk. Naturally, the parcel was stolen. The courier service eventually admitted, in writing, that the delivery was mishandled and that the shipper was the only one who could file a claim. Once again, vendor unresponsive, AliExpress closes the case saying @Tracking shows delivered” with no way to appeal.

Meanwhile, I had a $1,000 Amazon package get stolen the other week and they refunded it with minimal fuss. The return policy is so easy might as well be “try before you buy”. I can see why people have a hard time de-Amazoning.

👋 Repair shop owner / operator here

The two most common symptom manifestations of a defective power supply are abrupt shutdowns while in use or inability to power on whatsoever.

We’ve had some edge case scenarios with weirder behaviors. In one case, power delivery to the GPU would randomly drop out which manifested as an abrupt cut to a blank screen, almost as though the GPU has been abruptly removed. In another case, a system would occasionally suffer an abrupt reboot when waking from sleep.

Cases of BSODs, stuttering, or other instability diagnosed as the power supply have been few and far between, but they do exist.

Fortunately, that hypothesis is pretty easy to test for. Power supplies aren’t terribly expensive, you can sit one next to an open chassis and satisfy its connections without completely installing it so it’s not a huge ordeal / time sink to isolate for a problem with that part.

For the most part, stutters like you describe are often the result of corruption in the software environment, largely as a result of a defect in storage and memory (though, importantly, not always)

1. Follow the lemmy world rules.
2. Only tech related news or articles.

Not news or an article 🙃

An electronics or repair focused community would be a more appropriate fit

Meat spoilage is not always obvious. A piece of meat can look fresh and firm inside a sealed package, yet still harbor microorganisms that make it unsafe to eat.

Literally the first line of the article

His involvement goes well beyond the Xenomorph, everything going on in the crashed Engineer ship was his design too :)

I play the Tale of Two Wastelands modlist on Deck

Includes both games and runs quite well!