The one I rented could go about 4 feet. It was handheld with a motor, basically had an engine on top of an X shaped handlebar so two people could hold it. It probably weighed about 90-100 pounds with the auger bit attached, more with dirt weight.

Question about this since I’ve never been asked - they asked for a photo copy of your diploma? I landed my tech job without them even checking or asking for my college diploma, let alone my high school diploma (both of which I would be willing, but it’s strange to me)

I remember about a year ago, people, even here on Lemmy, were defending Starlink (mostly related to its effect on ground based astronomy) and arguing that the pros of the service clearly outweighed the cons. Is that still something that people believe?

We should have been funneling that money into expanding municipal fiber instead. It would have cost less, had less emissions, much less latency and much more bandwidth. If we genuinely need satellite coverage for remote areas, why are we handing billions to private companies instead of building public satellite networks? Why are we trying to escape the problems of shitty private telecom by turning to shitty private telecom?

Of course, we don’t live in a perfect world where our government is competent enough to not fall to corruption, and I don’t deny that Starlink has helped some people get connected that otherwise would never have fiber access due to remoteness or geography. But I guess my point is that many more people in general would have much more reliable internet access if it weren’t for the government funneling money to private companies for inferior service (such as Comcast and Starlink).

I’m lucky in the sense that it didn’t prevent my county from continuing expansion, and my neighborhood now has cheap & reliable public fiber available. But many weren’t so lucky, and instead have their taxes being sent to Musk for a slow service that they can’t afford anyway.

So, you’re happy with being shown AI slop so long as it falls under your viewpoint? This isn’t even close to decent slop, it’s pretty horrible.

I jailbroke my Kindle and use KOReader on it which made my Kindle 10x better. But you’re right in that I’d support mom & pop before Amazon.

You can actually get up to (basically) 100% deet.

Sounds like a system crash of some sort. I’ve had similar things happen with really bad crashes. Android recovers with a reboot in these cases.

I’m not sure about the office, but I’ve slept in my car on road trips and during evacuations. It’s super uncomfortable, so maybe that’s the demographic that they’re trying to reach?

It’s decent, with the deepseek model anyway. It’s not as fast and has a lower parameter count though. You might just need to try it and see if it fits your needs or not.

I’m talking about you. You’re the one with negative awareness. That has nothing to do with your gender.

I’m a bigot for saying you have negative awareness?

I mean, that’s fair, but the 285k has a TDP of 250 watts compared to 120. In practice, I think that people gaming or doing workstation tasks would use more power on the 285k, because typically, that’s what these will be used for anyway.

For comparison’s sake, the EPYC 7702 is a 64 core (hyperthreaded) server CPU, and it has a lower TDP. The 285k’s TDP is absolutely bonkers.

I think that was pretty obvious, no?

Ah, so yes, you do have negative awareness. Thanks for confirming.

That’s fair, but I think I’d rather self host an Ollama server and connect to it with an Android client in that case. Much better performance.

There are many men in progressive political spaces. What?

Holy shit, do you have negative awareness?

Why would I use this over Ollama?

Have you never seen a discrete GPU as an IT guy? A monitor? I kind of doubt you’re in IT if not.

In regard to Linux users being left out in the cold… how so? Do you think that distros are going to start enforcing attestation? I doubt that it will be a hard requirement for most, even in the next decade or two. It’s an option, yes, but mandatory?

FWIW, all of my banking apps work just fine with compatibility mode enabled on Graphene. Also, I’m not sure saying it’s inevitable is the right way to go, it certainly won’t make others care about their privacy and security.