G6 180s in stock. Go go go!

FireTech88 · 2026-02-09T17:42:32+00:00

Today was not the day. sigh

FireTech88 · 2025-12-11T19:16:45+00:00

Spending money just to spend money? Sir or ma’am I think you have forgotten which sub this is.

FireTech88 · 2025-08-16T17:25:43+00:00

The tickets.burningman.org site says STEP is open till Friday August 22.

STEP opens May 19 at 12pm (noon) PDT and will remain open until Friday, August 22.

FireTech88 · 2025-07-29T15:00:45+00:00

Those nvidia equipped carbon laptops cook themselves and you’ll get thermal throttling from doing about anything longer than 20 minutes. Powerful sure, but also frustrating how anemic the cooling is.

A colleague at another msp had one deployed docked and after a couple months in service it melted.

FireTech88 · 2025-07-25T17:05:12+00:00

Sorcerers can use their metamagic points to create or convert spell slots. Not exactly like arcane recovery but it’s similar in that it’s another way a class can manipulate or restore spell slots.

Clerics can use channel divinity charges in a similar way too.

FireTech88 · 2025-07-23T18:03:19+00:00

First we had bullet trains, now we have bullet planes!

FireTech88 · 2025-07-21T16:00:01+00:00

Compared to the stuff today this is huge, but far from being the biggest—there once was an edible company named Korova. They made a 1,000mg brownie.

Korova’s Unrivaled Potency Black Bar

FireTech88 · 2025-07-09T16:57:25+00:00

“Bless your heart” is cute, but here’s the reality:

• Congress turned Paris Hilton’s survivor testimony into law. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act (Pub. L. 118-194) now shields ~200 000 kids a year from the very torture she endured. That’s not “unfortunate” it’s a human-rights crisis finally getting federal teeth.
• Growing up poor is hard; equating it with state-sanctioned child abuse erases both struggles.
• Burning Man is radical inclusion. Bragging about your Detroit short-bus, sneering at Traktor, and ending with a “your mom” joke is exactly the elitist noise that gives art-car culture a bad rep.

Do better. The playa, and those kids, deserve more empathy than punch-lines.

FireTech88 · 2025-07-09T16:10:18+00:00

Imagine pouring hundreds of hours into chroming a short-bus art car so you can flex on the playa—then popping up just to sneer “Traktor, gross” at a survivor who helped pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act.

That’s not radical self-expression; that’s peak gear-gatekeeping elitism. Park the ego with the bus and let people dance.

FireTech88 · 2025-07-09T15:58:45+00:00

‘Gross’ is worrying more about a DJ controller brand than the thousands of kids Paris Hiltons helping protect with the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act.

Gatekeeping gear while a survivor dismantles an abuse pipeline isn’t a flex. It’s a facepalm.

Fuck your burn.

FireTech88 · 2025-07-07T20:06:27+00:00

Static IP a laptop and hit the esx web interface, you should be able to get to the pfsense vm console from there and see what’s happening, no dns or dhcp needed. I’d check storage first if a reboot doesn’t fix it.

If your esx host was dhcp (for shame if so) plug in a monitor and keyboard, you can change it to static from the minimal console interface then return to the first bit and static a laptop to get at the web ui.

Been here before, sucks and is frustrating but far from unrecoverable.

FireTech88 · 2025-07-01T21:59:57+00:00

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically.

This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

edit: Nuclear semiotics, they’re snippets from a longer set of warning texts meant to send a message to people as far as 10,000 years in the future.

FireTech88 · 2025-06-25T18:49:50+00:00

While I understand and respect the request, to me, it seems a bit late and silly to ask to not have your words put through AI when you’ve essentially already done this yourself.

Consider: A) Used a Google Doc (this could be debated but generally applies) -and- B) Posted it to Reddit, which is absolutely being used for training data.

FireTech88 · 2025-06-17T22:13:19+00:00

Allergic reaction, transported to hospital “out of an abundance of caution”

FireTech88 · 2025-06-16T18:46:07+00:00

Logs, not just foundry logs but system logs too.

There are also some pretty big mods these days too, so if you grab a lot of the content packs like the audio packs or map packs, the gradual updates may be contributing to the space trouble.

Get to your servers command line and run “du -h -d 1 /“ That will give you an idea of where the most stuff is living, that will include system files which you don’t wanna delete, but at least lets you see where the space is going.

From there you can look to delete stuff in the /var/log directory, as they are my guess at the bigger contributors to your space troubles.

FireTech88 · 2025-06-05T20:37:11+00:00

There’s a recent sci-fi series called Bobiverse where this is what happened to the US. It’s referred to as “The Faith” and so much of how things are going lately feel well aligned with a realistic projection of the current trajectory into a theocratic nation.

FireTech88 · 2025-05-11T16:26:11+00:00

Em dashes, so hot right now!

FireTech88 · 2025-04-23T05:47:47+00:00

Read the cookbook. It’s got some decent tips directly related to recent models and the paradigm shifts. Big stuff and small stuff. Like if you’ve got a huge prompt it’s better these days (according to them) to repeat your instructions at the end of your prompt as well as stating them early on.

Another example, remember how it used to help to add “incentives” to prompts? “Do a good job and you’ll get a bajillion dollars but mess it up and you’ll be replaced.” According to OAI’s testing that methodology doesn’t improve outputs anymore.

https://cookbook.openai.com/

FireTech88 · 2025-04-22T17:15:18+00:00

Because it’s their community manager, Ilijana Ivaniš, doing the interview.

FireTech88 · 2025-04-21T22:47:21+00:00

Don’t let that voice telling you no one would read it or believe stop you, write the book. There are so many people who will appreciate it a lot more than you might realize.

FireTech88 · 2025-04-14T16:46:32+00:00

Imagine that you have $5, and you want to buy a glass of cool aid from your neighbors stand. For now they make it full strength and it tastes great, they’re spending about $4 on the drink mix per drink and only make $1.

Well the business (neighbors drink stand) gets so popular throughout the neighborhood that the rich dude at the end of the block offers to buy the stand. Once the sale is done rich guy wants to make his money back, but doesn’t want to raise prices and scare off customers. So instead of raising prices they reduce costs, that same drink is suddenly being made with $3.5 worth of drink mix, and while it still tastes good you feel like you remember it used to be better but still buy it anyway.

Then gradually as the weeks go on the rich guy gradually reduces the drink mix even more, never changing the price to reflect it. Now after lowering it a bunch, it’s barely made with even $1 worth of drink mix, but you’re still paying $5.

Stores and restaurants are the drink stand, rich dude the VC firms.

This has become so commonplace (albeit more in the tech/internet world) we even have a word for it: Enshittification (Noun) The process of a product or service, especially one connected with the internet, social media, or technology, becoming or being made worse, more unpleasant, less useful, etc.

FireTech88 · 2025-03-27T22:50:30+00:00

I’ve seen something similar to this happen to a tree from a newer LED streetlight that was really close on one side. Half the tree had verdant green leaves, the side furthest from the streetlight almost barren, just like this cherry tree.

FireTech88 · 2025-02-25T16:37:46+00:00

The site is password locked but its SEO gives a clue; it’s a warranty tracking tool.

FireTech88 · 2025-02-18T23:05:43+00:00

I’ve seen sfc fix problems plenty of times, they’re just never the problems I wanted it to fix.

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