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No. Why would I give a fuck about a book that proves with its title that it doesn’t know shit about the subject of the book? That’d be like buying “every way to cook a steak: 500 recipes for microwaving filet mignon”

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck pisses me off every fucking time I see it. If you didn’t give a fuck, you would spell out fuck like an adult.

Skulls and bones. Sailing in black flag is probably my favorite gaming experience ever. Ubisoft announced a sailing game right after. All they had to do was add some upgrade paths so people could set up their ships for different playstyles. Like 10 years later, the game finally came out. It’s the only game I’ve ever refunded. Everything about it was terrible.

Yeah, I loved the concept, hated the gameplay. There’s a TV show that’s way better than playing the game.

Smokey River Walters, the fire engine guy is the best one I’ve ever heard someone say.

Correct lyric is Smoke on the water, fire in the sky.

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It runs pretty well. I didn’t notice a speed difference between it and DeepSeek’s web chat. I haven’t used it for anything big, I’m primarily trying to stay current with the technology so I know what I’m talking about during job interviews.

No problem. My desktop has an nvidia RTX 350 card that has 8GB of ram on it. It’s a basic modernish video card. Ollama is an open source framework for running large language models. The model I’m using is qwen 2.5. It has 3 billion (3b) parameters(basically the size of the LLM) . Docker is a program that allows you to basically run smaller dedicated computers on your computer.

I am not in China. I’m an American living in Albania. I recommended DeepSeek because it’s free, works well, and if a company is going to have the information on what you’re chatting about, it might as well be one that isn’t in the same country as you.

I’m running ollama with qwen2.5:3b in docker on a rtx3050 8gb. I also use DeepSeek.

So many hours in that game. It’s amazing. They eventually retire if I remember correctly.

I bailed on the US 3 years ago, and bought a house in Albania last year. It’s hard to leave and stay gone. Sometimes I’m completely overwhelmed. Learning a second language when over 40 sucks. Not having a support network near is the worst.

In Albania at least, 50% of the American immigrants are missionaries, 25% are fascists, and a huge chunk of the remaining people are retirees. Trying to explain to locals that the words coming out of trumps mouth aren’t what his actions are, is literally impossible.

There are huge benefits though. My house is mine. Forever. No ever increasing property taxes and insurance premiums on an already insane base price. I’m not scared of interacting with a cop. Food and utilities are cheap relatively speaking. Now that we have the house, we’re able to squeek by on about $500/month with bills, food, and going out for coffee a couple of times.

They’re under the command of the attorney General, so compromised.

The executive branch enforces the judicial branch’s interpretation of the laws passed by the legislative branch. I believe there’s a small judicial police department, but really all of the checks and balances we were taught about are gentleman’s agreements. If say the legislative branch decides that the head of state is God king of the golden shower, praise be upon him, and the executive branch agrees, it doesn’t really matter that the judicial branch thinks it’s illegal.