@Catweazle @esceptico-humanista-uu For whatever good or bad Trump has done around the world, your investment in wasted electricity is not high on my list of concerns. Blaming the trade deficit on Trumps tariffs is putting the carte before the horse. The tariffs were put there because perceived trade unfairness was already perceived.

The truth that nobody wants to address is that the high cost of energy has gutted our manufacturing base, most nations have become food self-sufficient, and so we have little left to trade. Blaming Trumps tariffs for that is non-productive because it doesn't address the heart of the issue, and Trumps tariffs are also non-productive because they don't address the heart of the issue.

If we want to resolve this was have to invest heavily in energy infrastructure, the most viable immediate sources of non-fossil base load power is nuclear, and the safe option that doesn't produce long term waste but instead consumes it are molten salt breeder reactors.

Aside from that here is a real export value chart, not a value of a crypto currency chart:

As you can see exports were not DOWN 95%, they were UP.

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Energy is central to everything, to food, water, shelter, the essentials, but also to travel, entertainment, enjoyment of life.

Burning dead dino's or plants is not sustainable. What is sustainable long term is hydrogen fusion, what is sustainable short term is fast spectrum molten salt breeder reactors. Let's put the effort we need to do bring these technologies online and put Schwab to bed with his kitty.

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Ordered a Intel Arc Pro B50 16GB 128-bit GDDR6 PCI Express 5.0 x8 AI and RT Workstation SF card today.

There were a number of things that made this card desirable. First, it's Intel which means the drivers ship with the kernel distribution so you never have to fight drivers not matching the kernel as is the case with nVidia.

Second, it support vGPU passthrough. Of the non-nVidia options that do it's either Intel or AMD and AMD's GPUs with this capability are unobtainium and usually same for ARC, but these became available via NewEgg at a reasonable price.

I've been using UHD630 graphics which technically does not support this but if you disable HUC/LUC it works, however the limit of 1GB aperture meant two screens max, I want three so I can have Linux, Windows, and a Hackintosh all operating simultaneously. For me this is an ideal development environment as I can have windows from any of the OS's up simultaneously with near native performance.

It has enough memory to play with AI LLM inference, probably going to use LLAMA.

It has 4 Display ports so compatible with my existing monitor so essentially plug-n-play.

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Both of these are loaded onto the same machine using Firefox 138.0.1 under Ubuntu 24.04 on a Comcast cable modem.

Which do you want your customers to experience?

This rascal named Lukas, more frequently called Lukee because I experimented with variations on his name containing more high frequencies (ee being a higher vocalization than us). I did this because cats have good hearing in the 1khz-60Khz range, less so below 1Khz, and he indeed does respond better to that.

I also have a Siamese female named Tulip, but what is interesting about Lucas is that he has observed me building / repairing computers and thus knows I use wire ties, so when his food gets low he goes around finding wire ties and sets them in or next to his dish in payment for his food.

Also, this is a btop from an 18 core machine with 256GB of RAM with the major load being friendica, a secondary load is hubzilla, mastodon, and miskey, but friendica represents more load than the latter three combined, but it also gets more traffic than the latter three combined. But what I am getting at here, you may want to consider dedicating a physical server. I'll grant you it's busier than usual as we've just returned the server to service after three months of downtime, 7 motherbords, three power supplies, and two CPU's later.

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A mouse got into my house.

One of my cats killed it.

@arnst Let's start with an overall graph of deaths due to natural disasters from 1900 to current:

And then fires:

And then Storms:

Unfortunately I was not on the fly able to find flood data going back more than about 20 years but I think this is largely due to the fact that prior to dams, flooding along river basins was a seasonal occurrence. In fact, it is floods that brings silt down stream and makes productive farmland the rich soil that it is.

But with the exception of short term storms, and I really believe this is largely a reporting bias, until recently we didn't have Doppler radar and the link and a day of rain just wasn't worth recording, but with that exception everything else peaked between 1890 and 1930 and has been less than those peaks in current times.

I had two problems with my friendica installation. Using the Vier view with continuous scrolling, when it got down to where it loaded more messages, instead of displaying properly, it started another line shifted to the right like in the image below. Also, when comment preview was a no-op, and lastly when I posted, the little spinning icon would not go away until re-load.

In an attempt to understand what was going wrong, first, I was running an old composer, I updated to the current but got some errors in the process, so I ran composer diagnose to try to get some expansion on the errors. It told me that uopz module was not exiting on signal, so I removed it from my PHP configuration. After doing so all of these issues resolved.

I've been using Linux as my primary workstation OS since the late 90's but until now I've never really found a music player I liked. I have been using WinAmp under Wine just because it provided the functionality I wanted though a bit clunky, like it took eight minutes to load my collection. Recently developers have broken Wine to the point where the audio just wasn't good, lot of buffer underruns, skipping, but only wine.

So I went looking for a Linux player that was workable and I found Audacious. I've seen it in the past but not in classical GTK form where it is structured exactly the same as WinAmp. I didn't care for the skin, but guess what? Audacious can read and use WinAmp skins, so I just installed my old WinAmp skin and I'm mostly good!

There are a few annoying buglets. It chokes on some mp4 files even though it uses ffmpeg as an input plugin and ffmpeg groks the same file fine.

It also insists on placing the file extension of .ogg and .mp3 between title and artists but does not do this for other formats. Odd.

The sort by title doesn't work right either and that's a bit annoying but I can always find what I want by using J and searching. It also has some neat graphical extensions, one is attached.