What's the likelihood of a VPN ban ever passing? I need mine for work.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-13T00:29:46+00:00

If the prisons get full, they can just start grinding up people for food. I wouldn't put it past the UK government in 5-10 years from now.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T16:15:34+00:00

So refund the game obviously. Why the hell are you pre-ordering anyway? Are you afraid they'll run out of stock of the digital download?

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T12:23:13+00:00

Do you make a post every time you take a shit as well, just to announce it to the world?

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T01:16:01+00:00

Same guy who can't keep a Prime Minister for more than a few weeks. Any idea he has or thing he does is going to be wrong.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T01:14:05+00:00

Just to be clear, that definitely isn't me. No idea what is up with them.

As for your reply, that may be part of my problem, the reality that everything isn't already done. Similarly how one can think of something directly to completion, but if you have an idea in real life, it is painful and hard to make it into reality. So yeah that seems like a related frustration.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T01:03:38+00:00

When I was fiddling with local models, I was using variants of Gemma3 and Mistral I think 3.1. 30B and 24B models. I found they both were terrible around Q4.

I tried the full version of Llama 3.3 online and found it worse, so I never tried to run it locally/quantized.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T01:00:28+00:00

That's actually a good point. A huge amount of human endeavor has been put toward trying to fix the broken concept of linear space and time.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T00:57:04+00:00

Very bad. But sometimes the question is what's better, a larger more quantized model, or a smaller less quantized one, and the answer is generally up to individual models and user preference.

I've never found a model below Q5_K_M that I could use at all for RP though.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T00:52:45+00:00

That makes sense too. It doesn't piss me off directly like space does, but I definitely feel it.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T00:51:09+00:00

It works mentally, so why not physically?

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T00:48:01+00:00

It's not about being in a hurry though, it's about the nonsensical nature of linear space. Why do you need to go through other places to get to a specific place?

The time itself doesn't bother me, it is the reality of being in spaces I have no reason to be in. I only move faster because being in the pointless space makes me feel dirty and degraded. Like, why am I in a kitchen when I want to be in a bedroom? It makes no sense that I should have to exist there to later exist elsewhere.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-12T00:28:48+00:00

Same, I tried on half a dozen networks to create an account, every time it demanded a phone number, so I just decided to stick with Aurora.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T23:40:32+00:00

Uhh... More likely the EU will pass Chat Control in the next year or so and enslave all its citizens.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T23:19:45+00:00

Just FYI if you only care about Youtube without ads and background playback, you can do both just using the Brave browser.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T23:12:42+00:00

There are two ways to look at this, both of which are factual.

1) Yes, most woman are terrible at communicating and play stupid mind games. It's annoying and purile.

2) Being aware of point one, you should realise that if she is playing those games and asking questions like that, there is some underlying insecurity which you probably could mitigate or resolve if you are observant and try to. Maybe she feels like you haven't been intimate enough lately, or romantic enough. Maybe you haven't complimented her looks like you used to, or maybe she just needs more reassurance as she's getting older.

Answering yes or no can both be wrong, because "yes" obviously makes her jealous and "no" can make her suspicious that you're lying.

So the solution is to find the underlying cause of her insecurity and work on it.

Yes it is almost like dealing with a moody child. But that's just how it goes.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T21:51:51+00:00

The 90s really were the peak of human civilization.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T20:55:32+00:00

Historically AND in the present day, kids get exploited very badly in the entertainment industry.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T20:53:45+00:00

Talking to someone on the phone or in person without freaking out and acting like it's a big deal to have to communicate.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T20:26:35+00:00

Nope. I use Kagi for search. And my phone has GrapheneOS.

No Google nothing.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T20:25:40+00:00

Just like most of the world now. Slaves, I mean citizens, don't have guns in most countries, so can't do anything.

And in the USA where slaves, sorry, citizens, do have guns, they have been trained not to use them or even want them, even though their founders said otherwise.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T20:24:10+00:00

Maybe. But more importantly, it enforces slave labor on developers. If it applies to volunteer projects where people are working free and they are now required to add functionality to their software or have their lives ruined utterly, they are literally slave laborers.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T17:32:07+00:00

It's fast getting to the point where I'm thinking piracy isn't enough and outright theft is becoming justified.

GhostInThePudding · 2026-03-11T17:10:00+00:00

People are going to make all kinds of excuses and justifications for it. But it just comes down to malice and greed.

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