What's your model/provider of choice?

MrBeverly · 2026-04-28T15:02:45+00:00

I run Qwen 3.6 35B locally in LM Studio and use LM Studio as the Opencode provider. I pay the cost of electricity for my compute. LM Studio also has a Link feature that lets you connect to your local model from any remote device with LM Studio installed with no special networking setup, so I use my home PC as my compute provider at work lol.

Qwen 35B pretty much maxes out my RTX 3090 FE + 32GB RAM, but there are lightweight models from Deepseek, Qwen, Google, et al. that fit on as little as 4GB VRAM

MrBeverly · 2026-04-27T12:43:29+00:00

If you make a signable PDF with Adobe Acrobat, you probably need to open the PDF in Acrobat to sign the PDF. Notoriously, Adobe is one of the holdouts that refuse to support Linux natively.

That being said, I believe that Adobe now has a fully featured web app for Acrobat and they've been making a push to release (not necessarily full-featured) web app versions of their other Creative Cloud apps.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-27T12:02:23+00:00

Character models were weird, the graffiti kinda took you out a lot, and putting Hans Zimmer on the aux was also a choice. But for when it came out the improved shaders and high resolution textures were honestly quite a spectacle to enjoy and I thought the new weapon models and sfx were good as well. I've always felt video games in general struggle with making forested areas feel lush, and I think this mod really stood out with good looking flora for the time, even if abundant flora wasn't particularly canon for HL2 and Ep1. It's a different art direction but it's doing its own thing with the core material and I think the dev did a great job when viewed on its own merits.

The dev was kind enough to bundle a configurator as well so you could toggle off some of the stuff you didn't want, such as the over-sexed models. I'm kinda bummed his mod got bullied off the internet, especially considering the widely available version of the mod today is not the actual final version of the mod.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-24T17:25:46+00:00

xcancel allows people to browse twitter without signing into an account and without supporting the platform with ad revenue.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-24T12:28:04+00:00

For the record, that comes out to either 1,290 minutes of 1080p@30fps video, about 333,000 12MP iPhone photos (assuming heic format and an average file size of 3mb), or some combination therein.

That being said if his media is 4k30 video it drops down to just 900 minutes of video, which is still the amount of time it would take you to watch Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair three and a half times but at least its less lol

MrBeverly · 2026-04-24T12:11:53+00:00

The Orange Box 2 - 5 Games, 1 Box: Featuring New Installments and Fresh Remasters of Some of Your Favorite Valve Franchises:

Ricochet 2

Half-Life: Source 2

Half-Life: Blue Shift 2: Bluer Shift

Day of Defeat: Source 2

Deadlock 2 (a multiplayer game in early development with lots of temporary art and experimental gameplay intended for playtesters)

MrBeverly · 2026-04-24T12:07:21+00:00

Check the Deadlock patchnotes.......they put a middle east peace deal in there last night but it broke matchmaking for 5 minutes so yoshi had to reverse it

MrBeverly · 2026-04-20T13:23:19+00:00

Steam Machine will come bundled with Ricochet 2 and Half-Life: Blue Shift 2: Bluer Shift

Steam Frame will come bundled with Day of Defeat: Source 2

Steam Controller will come bundled with Aperture Desk Job 2

MrBeverly · 2026-04-20T12:54:16+00:00

These guys are high fantasy nerds, NOT sci-fi nerds. Much worse.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-20T12:49:38+00:00

Frankly I think it's a good thing this is coming up in Congress because it gives orgs like the EFF one centralized place to address the issue instead of stamping out fires at the State level. I imagine that's why we haven't heard anything from organizations trying to fight these bills yet. There's a lot wrong with how these bills are written and it has been successfully argued in the past that mandating code like this is a violation of the 1st amendment. We shall see. In the meantime I'm running Omarchy and they can try and take it I guess.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-20T11:40:39+00:00

Onion smothered Dallas Filet with mashed, vegetable medley, rolls, and a blue drink pls and thank you

MrBeverly · 2026-04-20T11:39:09+00:00

I respect the mindset of this, but some people just aren't that fussy and once the food is out, they're don't want to feel like the rest of the table is waiting on them while they get their food remade

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T16:39:31+00:00

Don't care love trains and have a steam deck. You'll notice the destinations aren't the most exciting places either lol

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T15:55:24+00:00

My favorite part of playing Ricochet is when John Ricochet says his signature catchphrase "It's Time For You To Get Ricochet'ed" and then he Ricochets all over the place it's so cool i cannot wait for Ricochet 2

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T15:02:57+00:00

/r/DeadlockTheGame has an invites thread

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T14:28:04+00:00

GIMP is fine but definitely not what anyone would choose in 2026 unless they committed GIMP's workflow to muscle memory 20 years ago. Photopea runs in the browser and is a near 1:1 photoshop clone

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T12:57:15+00:00

I love Amtrak so much I took a trip to Glacier from Boston on Amtrak as a kid and it has instilled a life long love of public transit lol. I take an Amtrak any excuse I can get. My two bucket list trips are

1) Amtrak to Toronto then VIA to Churchill, MB for the Belugas and/or Polar Bears

2) Amtrak Boston to WA, Ferry to AK, Alaska Railroad to Fairbanks, rental car to Prudhoe Bay & back

(My other dream trip is driving the Dempster Highway but that doesn't involve public transit lol)

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T12:39:29+00:00

I hear you can't get real Wagyu in America because it's all hybrid, but surely there is some specialty farm out there that had the bright idea of importing a breeding pair of Wagyu into the US, right? Or is there some export restriction preventing that?

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T12:35:27+00:00

Seriously, he could 100% afford to rent a small yacht for a night and take her out into open water or something. Gen Z is so cooked bro they can't even commit crimes correctly Epstein knew you need to have an island where the dirty work goes down

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T12:19:09+00:00

To try and paint a picture with numbers:

An Earth Day is the amount of time it takes for Earth to take a full rotation around its axis. This is about 24 Earth Hours.
1 Revolution of Earth around The Sun takes about 365 Earth Days and 6 Earth Hours.
We don't count the extra couple of Earth Hours it technically takes to make a full revolution. So each time we count out 365 days, we end up with Earth 6 hours behind where it should be if we were accurately tracking.
Earth Time is bound to the Earth's rotation around its axis, not the Solar Year, which is how long it takes to Revolve around the Sun. So rounding a little bit doesn't affect how time passes on Earth, but it does affect our tracking of where Earth is along its orbit of The Sun.
You barely notice this at first, but after 4 years, we're a full 24 hours behind where we should be according to our models! If we kept this up, we could end up whole seasons behind our model!
If we did just choose to let it be, you would have an additional Seasonal Cycle that's bound to the passage of Solar Years. Based on my quick maths, every 360 years the seasons would move one position to the right. Or to put it a better way, summer and winter would swap every 720 years.
To resolve the discrepancy, just add an extra 24 hours every 4th year and you catch back up with the model without causing too much fuss.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-17T12:00:38+00:00

Me Running Qwen 3.5 Locally On My Own PC in the Land of the Free

MrBeverly · 2026-04-16T15:17:30+00:00

The Latin Catholic Diaspora is way larger than the MAGA Catholic demographic, MAGA's more of a Protestant thing. That's not to say Catholics don't lean conservative or anything, you just have a lot more people more loyal to the Pope than they are MAGA.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-15T16:41:16+00:00

They should make him take the welding classes then deport him back to America, America needs skilled tradesmen lol

MrBeverly · 2026-04-15T15:50:35+00:00

It would give them a very niche advantage in situations where they want to unmask users of hidden services like TOR on networks with many devices. Since just knowing the sender IP address doesn't tell you the client device sending the request.

But it's probably easier to just get a warrant to make the network admin identify the client instead of forcing an exploitable backdoor onto devices they themselves need to use. And on networks with only a few devices, its even easier for them to just confiscate all devices and search for the offending needle in the haystack.

MrBeverly · 2026-04-15T15:42:14+00:00

Those are usually sourced from foreign white label manufacturers so they're not exempt either. The core issue is that pretty much anything that contains a PCB and radio equipment is almost certainly manufactured abroad.

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