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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • More than a decade on, and it’s still one of the best kindles ever made, in my opinion.

    You had physical buttons instead of a fiddly touch-screen, you could have music, have it read to you, and also go on the internet.

    Plus it’s old enough it supports a bunch of formats, and registers as a mass storage device to a computer, so anything can use it.

















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    12 days ago

    Though it’s better now, it used to be that Lemmy and a lot of Lemmy-type alternatives’ documentation were more for people who wanted to host their own server, rather than someone who wanted to join a social network.

    But at much the same time, that complication also hurts adoption, so if people ever wanted Lemmy to be a proper social media site to replace the existing ones, the barrier to entry does also need to go down.


  • Or that it’s not right for their use case.

    Like someone throwing a bunch of data into an LLM and trying to use it to process it into a chart or something. It can work, but it was never designed to be used in that manner.

    I’ve got an acquaintance who does that, despite the fact that python would be a better thing to use.

    Personally, I sometimes run a few saved images thorough a multi-modal 8 gigaparameter local model on my computer, so I can automate giving them more descriptive names than randomnumbers.png, and that seems to work fine. I could do it by hand, but it would take hours and days, compared to minutes, and since it’s not too important, it doesn’t matter if it’s wrong. The resource usage is also less of an issue, since it’s my own computer.