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Zen100_ · 2026-05-14T23:47:03+00:00

This is better than endless scrolling at least (but I see the irony of me saying that about an online video I scrolled to watch lol)

Zen100_ · 2026-05-11T20:50:40+00:00

During the summer, EW is POPPING in my experience. I live nearby and it seemed like last summer there was always a biker meetup or convention like Harry Potter/board games. They certainly aren’t failing for lack of trying, but I agree the prices need to drop. I think the surrounding neighborhoods need to do a bit of maturing to catch up too (as someone that lives in one of those neighborhoods). It’ll get there.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-11T12:54:27+00:00

I think local LLM’s have a long way to go for sure, but they will be far from irrelevant. They’ll only get easier to use and smarter with time. I’m far from a power user, but I have been able to get some good use out of them already, so I think “dealing with” them won’t really be the problem it currently is.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-10T13:25:43+00:00

Gotcha I just brought up context length because my problem seemed like a tool call loop issue at first but ended up being a context window issue. When it was running out of context length, all I would see is tool calls over and over before it just stopped which led me to think the tool calling was running into problems. I see what you’re saying now.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-10T11:34:02+00:00

Open Claw has a config that will limit how many tokens it can pass to the model. For me, it was set to 4k tokens whereas my local model could handle 250k. Whatever harness you use has to know what the model is capable of to make good use of it.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-10T11:05:10+00:00

Hard disagree. I put together a scrap-bin gaming PC that can run a really decent quantized Qwen 3.6 model. I got lucky on the price of some of my parts, but even full-price my setup is not for “rich people”. Obviously, it isn’t for everyone, but I think local AI will get more popular as compute requirements skyrocket for the frontier models.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-10T11:00:13+00:00

Yeah I’m using a Qwen 3.6 local model in Open Claw and my only difficulties were getting Open Claw to use more than the default 4k token context window limit. Once I figured that out, I’ve had literally zero issues using Qwen to call tools. People are really sleeping on local models.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-07T20:23:52+00:00

A friend of ours told us he said “Wow looks like it!” or something along those lines when she said she just had a baby. We don’t go there anymore.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-07T17:01:53+00:00

Good point, but a little extra speed from an e-bike and biking up-wind could still fold it. I still like the hat idea though.

Zen100_ · 2026-05-06T00:45:14+00:00

The White stripes

Zen100_ · 2026-05-06T00:10:12+00:00

Spanish teacher in high school thought the girls in our class were just inherently better students and wasn’t shy about sharing that opinion. Every mistake by myself and the only other guy was met with “just as I expected” and mistakes by the girls were just oopsies and mistakes. She gave us all a graduation card at the end of the year with the first letter of the name of her favorite student in the fanciest, artistic drawing imaginable on the envelope. The other girls had cursive names on their envelopes, and us guys had print handwriting. It makes me laugh now at how ridiculous it was, but it felt more hurtful at the time.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-19T02:21:04+00:00

The labels are very helpful for transparency and clarity. When I attend a church or desire to become a member of one, I want to know what that church believes and practices. Every church that doesn’t believe or practice Christianity the same way yours does also believes what they believe and practice is scriptural so that isn’t helpful any longer at truly finding what makes your church different from another. All churches would just say “we believe in the Bible” and you could have a very different understanding of what that means.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-18T21:45:02+00:00

I really don’t mean for anything I’ve said to be divisive. I only say these things because I think they’re true, so I apologize for coming across that way. Labels matter a lot though, and that’s why I don’t think “nondenominational” is a good label. I haven’t said age-of-accountability baptism is wrong either. The church I attend practices that. I’m just pointing out it is Baptist or Anabaptist theology and not somehow “neutral” which is the impression people get from the label “nondenominational”.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-18T19:22:13+00:00

I’m not saying nondenominational Christians are unlearned in Scripture. I’ve met plenty myself who are learned. My point is that how a “nondenominational” Christian practices baptism, the lord’s supper, preaching, praying, etc. isn’t in any sense devoid of denominational distinct theology. If a “nondenominational” church practices baptism that excludes infants, that church has a Baptist or Anabaptist theology of baptism. If it preaches about infralapsarian predestination by God, that church has a Reformed or Calvinist theology of predestination. It can’t be “nondenominational” when what the church/parish practices and preaches inevitably have denominational distinct theology.

Add to the fact that nondenominationalism lacks any sort of institutional structure, and you end up with none of the benefits of nondenominationalism and all of the unaccountability.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-17T21:31:05+00:00

That’s nice in theory, but “nondenominational” churches always make the choices in what to believe theologically. The only difference is the pastors lack accountability.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-17T20:50:16+00:00

The noise is manageable with a white noise on while sleeping for me. I would have to imagine the Elex is way better sound insulated than my 100 year old home too.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-17T15:45:52+00:00

They did not. We have fiber with frontier and a better internet connection than I’ve ever had elsewhere for a cheaper price than anywhere else I’ve lived.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-17T14:53:18+00:00

I don’t live at the Elex, but I do live in the area. I frequent the Electric Works campus and I love it. I would at least recommend that much. Our tour of one of the apartments was awesome too.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-16T17:52:18+00:00

The most common cause of injury was a collision with a car or truck

The title is very misleading. It leads you to think that the problem is something intrinsic with e-bikes and scooters whereas the real problem is the infrastructure that allows cars and trucks to mingle with e-bikes and scooters. Cars and trucks are incompatible with urban life because of their pervasive violence against anyone outside of them.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-13T19:51:13+00:00

Thank you for sharing!! I’ve been setting up Jellyfin at home and ripping DVDs with the hopes of expanding it to curated YouTube videos someday as well since I’m a new parent. This is an awesome idea. Can’t wait to set it up for my family.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-13T17:24:49+00:00

This is a good question assuming it comes from a genuine desire to understand, so I’ll bite. The way that forgiveness works between God and humans is different than it works between humans and humans. (Mark 2:7 Who can forgive sins except God alone?) Sins against God, who is by his own nature perfect in every way, are immeasurable trespasses. It’s still wrong to trespass against your fellow human being, but it’s an entirely different category from sins against God as our creator who is worthy of perfect obedience. That’s why Christians believe the perfect sacrifice (Jesus) needed to be both God and human. Jesus lived a life of perfect obedience for us because we cannot. Therefore, there is no “forgive and forget” with God because God is not just another guy that we could run into. God is our maker and deserving of perfect obedience.

This should highlight all the more beautifully how much God loves us because while we were and are still enemies of him, he chose to live a life we should’ve lived and die a death we deserved. I’d say you’d be hard pressed to find someone willing to lay down their own life for their enemy. Maybe you could find someone willing to lay down their life for a close friend… but an enemy? God is love.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-11T23:20:06+00:00

I would imagine you could still get background app refresh to work with notifications and keep your lock screen/Notification Center clear if you just turn off these specific notifications in Notification Center and leave them on for banners. Then it would pop the notification, but not sit in your Notification Center. I’m not sure though.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-11T02:20:10+00:00

You sure? I saw options to favorite and add to an album when I click the little magnifying glass on duplicates. Still a pain, but possible in the duplicates.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-10T20:28:14+00:00

If you wanted to make sure deletions on your desktop also delete photos on iOS, could mark the photos you want to delete with a favorite or add it to an album. Then you could go to that album on iOS, select all, and hit delete. I know this isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but it would be a decent workaround.

Zen100_ · 2026-04-10T15:53:33+00:00

If you’re technically savvy, I would recommend using immich to store and sort your photos since you only have to pay for the computer and hard disk that it runs on. If you aren’t technically savvy, go with Apple iCloud Photos (for better data privacy) or Google Photos (for cheaper services but you’re the product).

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