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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • Partition management is the single most chaotic chore that you come across as a casual computer user, change my mind. Depending on the partition table and filesystem, each filesystem can have zero, one or two labels assigned to it. But there is no consensus about what to actually call these labels. I’ve seen “partlabel”, “label”, “partition label” and “name” with no obvious way to tell whether the tool is talking about the label stored in the partition table or the label stored in the filesystem.

    So just use UUIDs to refer to partitions instead of labels, right? Wrong! Each partition has both a UUID and a PartUUID which are not the same. It’s simple once you are aware of that fact, but if you are not, it can lead to hours of confused troubleshooting. I learned this the hard way.









  • And for people who are still confused: The confusion is the whole point of the joke. Nobody understands what the hell “cow tools” is supposed to mean. Maybe it had something to do with research showing that other mammals, not just monkeys and early humans, were capable of making tools. But nobody knows. It’s absurdist humor





  • yeah that’s exactly what I’m trying to get at with my lil meme. I used to get into a bunch of flame wars on the side of android because I would hear the apple people complain about fake made-up issues that I never experienced being a long-time android user. But seeing posts like OP’s makes me realize that those issues aren’t actually made up, they’re completely real and I just wasn’t seeing them because I am running a custom ROM. Like, in another thread some guy was concern-trolling about Google Services crashes being a “well-known issue” and everyone was upvoting him. Of course I would have no clue what he’s talking about, I don’t even have Google Services installed! So yeah, what I’m trying to say is that if you’ve never used an AOSP-based ROM and your entire experience of “android” are the slow buggy bloated ROMs that come installed by default on most phones, I’d understand why you’d choose to go with Apple instead.



  • Whoa there buddy the post was talking about image generators, which run OK on consumer (albeit high-end) hardware. You’re the one who brought up LLMs.

    And how can google track me if it’s a thing running locally? Just pass --network=none to the docker container lol. Even then you’re arguably giving google more useful data by using gmail than any of their AI services. Do you go after every gmail user telling them that they’re supporting genocide? As for your fifth point, gauging whether or not something is original art by the permutation space of the medium is reductive. Is a base guitar less expressive than a harp because the musician is limited by the number of strings? Humans make art for many reasons, and one of those reasons is because its fun. Drawing with pencils can be fun, painting can be fun, writing prompts can be fun. People will keep on having AI art competitions because it’s fun while you’re sitting there in the corner seething about how all of them are genocide supporters. inb4 ad hominem, but honestly you sound insufferable.

    EDIT: Downvotes keep pouring in, but no replies. Looks like I won this one.