I don’t know, it seems to me that most people know how to ask a question or make a request. It’s not that different. It’s just that a lot of people don’t understand what is possible and they freeze.

You tell them, to ask for anything you want. They uncork and say “So I can ask it for a chocolate cream pie?”. Partially in jest, but they do that because they don’t seem to have a comfortable knowledge of the limits. A person with little technical background has no need for output that they don’t understand. Once you guide them a little and let them know they can get a recipe for a chocolate cream pie and some practical advice on how to make it, that might be helpful, but little better than just looking up a recipe. You’d have to let them know that they can find multiple variants of recipes and have it rank them, compare them, and produce a summary of the most popular types. By now they’ve stopped listening and have gone to the grocery store to buy a chocolate cream pie and you’re standing there hoping they will give you a piece.

In summary, I wish I had some pie. What was the question?

Apple respects your privacy.

Also, I am the pope.

I can keep going if you’d like.

You know, I thought that we were at the point in society where we do not make assumptions about anyone’s body parts. That door swings both ways you know.

I can smuggle SO MUCH DRUGS in my ass. You don’t even know. Even if y’all got a second spot for 'em I promise nobody is going near my nasty ass. There could be a 1lb diamond up there, they’d just wave me by.

peep if it is cold outside

pork sword when it’s sexy time. As in “I’m going to thrust my throbbing pork sword deep into the gooey inside of your ham wallet”.

The ladies fucking LOVE it. I know, I have had oh-so-many women.

Why are y’all laughing?

not hot dog

I was at a bar, good ‘n’ drunk, went to take a piss. Bathroom is small, one urinal, one pot. I’m pissing away and I let a fart slip out, not a big one, just a good booty burp. The guy who’s back in the shitter raising a putrid stink has the balls to say “gesundheit”.

I wish I were that witty.

Do they run openwrt?

Why u think I’m not shitposting?

Running any LLM on truenas is not awesome. I’ve tried it with GPU passthrough and it’s just too much overhead. I may just burn all my stuff down and restart with Proxmox, run Truenas core inside just for NAS. The idea of a converged nas+virtualization is wonderful, but it’s just not there.

The host networking model alone is such a pain, then you get into performance stuff. I still like Truenas a lot, but I think that Proxmox is probably still the better platform.

“Experienced” is a poor term to use when describing nonexistence. You weren’t there, there was no mind, there was no you, thusly there is no memory and even if there were, it would be of nothing.

The notion is more that because you did not exist, you had no mind, no consciousness and thusly there was simply nothing. Not you, not an experience for you to absorb.

it’s a weird concept because there is no way to really describe it that relates to anything we know. We know ONLY of existing. We can’t know of not existing because not existing precludes the ability to be cognizant of it.

It’s one of those things you just have to accept. When we die, we simply cease to exist (unless you believe in an afterlife). The closest thing that I’ve experienced to being aware of non-existence is being put under general anthesia. You are lying there with doctors and nurses peering down at you over their masks, wearing their funny little hats, they tell you to count backward, by the time you get to two and a half, you’re gone. When you do eventually come back around, you just have a big empty spot that you time traveled through. No dreams, no thoughts, no awareness, just nothing.

The only difference with death is the whole not coming back around bit. Of course, since you will not exist, you will not be concerned with that part because you will not be.

Imagine if you got kicked in the nuts and then you stopped existing. You don’t exist, so it can’t hurt and you can’t worry about it what with your non-exisistent mind to not think about it.

Also, you don’t get a choice. You can worry about the sun setting, but that doesn’t stop it. Just try to enjoy the sunshine while you can and learn to be ok with the fact that night will eventually come.

I’m getting pretty pissy in my age. Too many responsibilities, not enough money and time to handle them all.

Books are one of the few things I am more than willing to pay full price for.

Sure the publishers eat a lot of the money, but the authors don’t do too badly.

The very nature of a book (unless something is published as an e-book only) keeps it from being enshittfied like streaming audio and video services. If someone were to print an ad in the book, I could just rip it out and throw it away.

Books are one of the last places where you just will not see an ad or be tracked, or have popups, and other irritating “features”.

Books are good.

Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven’t seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷

They though the titanic unthinkable until they hit an itheburg.

This is the problem, not what is shown in the per-app notifications. Don’t turn on notification history.

That’s not the problem here. Showing a notification with content is not a big deal.

In the case stated here, the big deal is that the notification HISTORY was preserved after removal of Signal. That’s because both Apple and Google do the same thing. They keep a notification history. Not on a per-app basis, ALL apps notification history is stored.

I know that on Androids, it is turned off by default and you can turn it on, so you get the impression that Android doesn’t have this issue. I am going to guess as I do not own an apple anything that iOS has notification history turned on by default. This is the real problem. This is not anything Signal can control for unless they were to not support notifications which would render their app useless, so that’s not an option.

Oh come on, but it’s fun!

I run a LLM on my local machine to to sex fantasy stuff.

I like strange things. Nobody wants what I want, so am I just supposed to become even WEIRDER than I am, let all that kinky energy turn toxic and then rapey or just type for 20 minutes a day about butt sex with an LLM that thinks everything I come up with is fantastic? Seems like the latter is pretty mild compared to the former.

We’d probably have a lot fewer rapey guys in the world when sex bots are a thing. Some dudes are just unfuckably gross. The world knows it, they know it. They didn’t choose to look gross, have a weird body, be something unappealing, but they still have monkey instincts to stick their dick into something. That doesn’t just go away because you’re not good looking. It will turn into some bad energy if you just have to live your life that way. I mean, you don’t have to look hard to see it in the world around us.

I hear schools are pretty good at giving people these funny things called “tests” to assess an individual’s knowledge on a certain subject. Not only are schools good at testing, I hear there is a WHOLE INDUSTRY built on creating and running them.

You know, they could give those to other people too I’ll bet! In fact, I’ll bet you can use them to qualify doctors, lawyers, barbers, auto mechanics and all sorts of people!

Oh wait, these are politicians. We shouldn’t do that to them. I don’t know why, but it just feels wrong. Never mind.