Exactly. It was a douche and a turd sandwich. Refusing to vote because “they’re a turd sandwich” is simply saying “I’m okay with the douche”. It’s a 2 party system. There are no good candidates. Only one that’s marginally better than the other. Not voting is tacitly voting for the worst one.

I wouldn’t worry about mounting your nfs shares directly to those host unless you need to. Compose has an operator similar to k8s that lets docker itself manage the shares, which is insanely useful if you lose your host. Then you don’t have to have piles of scripts to mount them.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45282608/how-to-directly-mount-nfs-share-volume-in-container-using-docker-compose-v3

version: "3.2"

services:
  rsyslog:
    image: jumanjiman/rsyslog
    ports:
      - "514:514"
      - "514:514/udp"
    volumes:
      - type: volume
        source: example
        target: /nfs
        volume:
          nocopy: true
volumes:
  example:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=10.40.0.199,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/docker/example"

Here in my city we just opened up a rail line extension. I’ve seen literally hundreds of comments saying it’s not safe, all calling back to a stabbing in February. Which is horrific I know. But that’s one death in a decade.

No one seems to know what to say when I call out the average 100 traffic fatalities every month in our state. That’s just normal apparently, but city bad scary when 1 person in 10 years is killed

That’s actually a big thing I’m into, and especially with the urbanist movement. People in America are very isolated, we live in suburbia, we drive our cars to work, and we work with our tight group of coworkers. We don’t have third places anymore where you meet the people who live around you, and most don’t take transit and aren’t in an urban core so you aren’t surrounded by people like you. Our neighborhoods aren’t mixed in terms of wealth either, so when you do see a neighbor, you’re seeing a mirror of yourself - someone who could afford a similar home in a similar region, and probably is just like you. So everyone becomes the other, and everything becomes very scary. It’s probably why I feel fine walking through downtown. Everyone around me are just people like me, and by going out it reinforces that.

Pretty sure we all can imagine it, some hype fueled bs slop gonna be on the screen

That’s really the problem. When I friends from small towns come and visit I can see they’re on edge the entire time while I’m just doing what I do every day. Yes there’s a person sleeping there. Yes someone is screaming a block down. There’s traffic noise, and the subway isn’t the cleanest - but it’s normal, that’s what I’m used to. It takes a bit of thicker skin, but once you realize nothing is really unsafe about it it gets easier. Problem is voters from tiny 20,000 population places vote with that fear already, and think that cities are unsafe. We can’t bring everyone to the city and hold their hand.

Just another 2 years bro we’re so close we’re almost there it’s in beta bro trust me it’s almost there

I don’t think that’s what anyone suggests. However the opposite is what needs to be called out. Why do police departments consistently ask for more and more funding, usually looking for reasons to spend it (see urban assault vehicles, larger and more militarized forces) when crime is down already? If they’re doing fine with the budget they have, why do we need to give them even more money?

“Defund the police” doesn’t mean we have no police. It means they’re overfunded. Let’s see about defunding them and giving some of that money to other people, like mental health advocates or groups that help with homelessness - some of the main causes of crime. Wouldn’t that mean the police can focus on things they are trained for while also cutting crime down at it’s source? If someone is never desperate enough to mug someone in the first place, doesn’t that mean the crime was prevented?

A big question I ask people is “Why do we feel less safe even though crime is at an all time low?” Not a lot of people have answers, and I think way too many people aren’t aware of that fact. It’s one of the safest times to walk through any downtown core, yet people feel the least safe they ever have.

LLMs use a ton of VRAM, the more VRAM you have the better.

If you just need an API, then TabbyAPI is pretty great.

If you need a full UI, then Oogabooga’s TextGenration WebUI is a good place to start

If you’ve played all of DA vs all of Mass Effect it’s pretty clear that it’s just not comparable. The games are so radically different from each stage, packaging them together just wouldn’t work well. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love for a legendary edition, but I would rather their teams keep working on ME:5 vs trying to get DA:O remastered. At this point, it’d honestly probably be easier just to rewrite the whole damn thing. Now that’s something the modding community could take up…

I honestly just started going to my own local coffee joint. What used to be expensive for something like a cappuccino (like 7 bucks) is now cheaper than starbucks. Plus I help a small business.

I didn’t say fault anywhere. I said it was ironic. It’s ironic that they laughed at Californians moving to TX, talked about how much better TX was better than CA, never realizing that the location had nothing to do with the problems, but rather capitalism and population growth. It’s ironic that the things they said Texas didn’t have are now the things Texas is directly facing.

With you there. Didn’t realize how lucky we were, and honestly thought about waiting just one more year on multiple occasions. What’s done is done, all I can do now is not feel guilty I got in, but rather just make the most of it. Pay off as quickly as I can, and vote to help others afford houses too.

And conservative Texans keep laughing that californians are moving to Texas because “They hate the blue politics”, never guessing that they would bring their blue politics and money with them, driving up land value. Definitely not saying that they’re bad, but that it’s ironic that they didn’t think through the consequences

Can confirme. I stopped drinking Starbucks and now I own a 50 acre plot with a 6 bedroom house on it. If only I would have listened to their Facebook comments sooner, I could have afforded that private jet too. Edit: Apparently sarcasm is lost on a few. So for explicitness - /s

I’ve had mixed emotions about her. On one playthrough she’s a ton of fun, and brings some lighthearted fun to the group, and pairing her with Bull can be a ton of fun. On another I found I was taking the Inquisition much more seriously, and came down very hard with her and we were at odds the whole game. I like that I can have very different relationships with the characters based on how I play

Dialog gets better when you get to know the characters, but yeah everyone is… very happy. Or at least optimistic and such. I read something a while back, apparently they did take some learnings from ME:Andromeda. Andromeda felt way too young and spunky, and felt like it was inappropriate for such a serious game. They said they had applied that from Inquisition after they applied young and spunky to it and thought it would work everyone (see: Sera). So going forward Dragon Age is optimistic and happy, Mass Effect is darker and more serious (apparently)

The vast majority of angry reviews about Veilguard I’ve seen are from people who have never played the game, and god is it what I hate about gaming right now. It’s so much rage and anger, and frankly it’s all just jumping on the bandwagon for it because who doesn’t love raging against EA.

Except… Bioware pulled it off in my opinion. I withheld judgement because I was real nervous about how it’d go. It could either be great, or it’d be a dumpster fire, and unfortunately I figured that EA would determine Bioware’s fate based on it. But… Bioware did it. I’m a good 15 hours in and I’m having honestly a lot of fun. The story continues well after Inquisition, the companions are growing on me, the areas are fun to be in. EA said they would stay out of Bioware’s way and… I think they did. It took the Jedi games to finally let them just let Bioware do their thing… but it appears so. If you know the Dragon Age franchise, it’s officially safe to buy in my book, and I recommend it.

My only caveat is that as with all franchise games - judge it on it’s own. Especially with Dragon Age it’s very easy to compare to it’s predecessors, and to some extent of course you should, but at the same time, gaming is in a very different place than it was in 2009. People expect different things. What was popular then would not work now, and vis-versa. So, as a game that is coming out now in the 2020s, I’m fully into the story, I enjoy the environment, the gameplay is fun, and there appears to just be a fuckload of content.

God it’s not quality. They still don’t get that. It’s not that they’re not stable, I think they’re actually pretty stable. It’s that they’re boring and empty and lifeless. The stories are bland, they’re hundreds of fetch quests, and they don’t take any risks