just spend €11 000 and run 10 entire laptops so you can have your own local Ollama instance

And fortunate son… The amount of people who completely misinterpret the song about the rich senators son not needing to go fight in a useless war while you’re drafted to go and die is too damn high.

I’ve got a binary blob right here 🥵

Yeah I often find instead of a CB radio they have a Lemmy account. Maybe it’s the lack of algorithm but schizoposts are amazing on here

You like to get your rocks off too 🥵🥵

You can also find them with ground penetrating radar since they tend to use sand as that insulating layer. From underneath they open a hatch and drain the sand out to clear the escape hatch. A big block of sand is plain and obvious to identify on a 250MHz system.

Statistically most humans are barely sentient

PSA: get a cheap thumb drive and install ventoy. You’ll never regret it!

Plus you can technically still use it to store files if you make a directory in the ventoy dump partition.

I keep memtest86+, clonezilla, Ubuntu 24.04lts, gparted, and boot-repair on the drive.

Noted. Don’t kill people outside of north america.

When a person dies a library burns

I miss my grandmas :(

Lol this is the 1887 version of tech bros reinventing railroads.

What’s more efficient than one person driving a car? Carpooling!

In fact, if we made the car driverless it could hold even more customers.

Although we probably want to make designated roads where only driverless cars can go. That makes coordination and safety far easier.

We probably want signals specific to these roads that only the driverless cars need to be concerned with.

And you know what has lower rolling resistance than rubber on roads? Metal. If we make the wheels out of metal we would get insane fuel efficiency

Except now that rips up the road so we need to pave the road with metal too.

That’s actually expensive so maybe we just pave directly underneath where the wheels go

If we’re going to do all of this we need more passengers. Maybe we attach cars together and run them on a schedule? That should work for the most people?

Maybe we can run all of this on electricity too! No gas needed! With our metal wheels that’s some insanely low energy costs!

I agree but this looks like peeling potatoes? That’s why it says kitchen

I guess it’s an emotional reservation. It would be a bit like feeling guilty for eating passenger pigeons and contributing to their extinction, especially if you hunted them and left some to rot because it was so cheap and easy to get more. Once they’re extinct you can’t help but look back and wince or blame yourself for being part of the problem.

On the other hand, a skilled lapidary can cut a tanzanite with way more care and attention than some commercial gem cutters that are concerned with stone weight and production volume. A lot of big gems end up as windowed trash, where the center of the gem can be seen through like a glass window. No sparkle or reflections because the gem cutter preserved gem weight to charge more at the cost of beauty, and also making the gem lose even more mass later on if it needs to be recut to have proper angles.

If I screw a natural stone up I would feel horrible though. Synthetics are like “who cares you can buy them by the pound”

If you’re ever going to kill someone do it with a car. In North America they can’t punish you too hard for it or it sets a precedent even if you did it premeditated. I think the one exception to them being scared to throw the book at vehicular crimes is trying to kill a cop with it, so don’t do that one for sure.

Here, have my shitty meme I made to bring your comment to life visually

Yeah me too! I never thought wasp extermination would be so chill and ASMR ish

Yeah I know and for certain gems like garnet or corundum we’re literally never running out. It’s things like tanzanite (my fave!) or emerald that are far more worrisome. With industrialized mining we can yank it all out of the ground way faster than we can find new deposits.

Tanzanite might only have the weird and oddly specific conditions necessary for it to form in this one rift in Tanzania.

Gem cutting. Once you have a good machine it doesn’t cost a lot of money for raw gem quality rough.

I want to cut synthetics since I don’t like the idea of a hobbyist screwing around with non-renewable gems… Also synthetics are flawless and can have cool color shifting patterns like ametrine (amethyst/citrine) or even watermelon colored corundums.

I just want to make shiny jems to look at :( I want to cut giant Portuguese cut cubic zirconia and square cut color shifters :(

It’s like $2000-5000 for a decent lapidary setup… And that’s not counting abrasive wheels.