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If HN allowed emojis, I'd throw in a <smirk> right there. Thanks!

You're not the only one using Perplexity Pro at $17 per month. And for what I've needed it to help me with, it has been fantastic.

I had installed ROCm (the AMD local LLM toolkit), and it turns out one of the tasks I wanted to do wouldn't work with my (somewhat older) video card. Llama.cpp had a dependency on HIP 6.1, but my hardware can only do HIP 5.7.

PP talked me through downloading the code from Github and running a command to remove everything newer than HIP 5.7 from the source code and then recompiling the whole thing.

It worked!

I am not a C programmer, but PP walked me through everything. It is astonishing. I'm old, so maybe I'm easily astonished, but man, PP has been superb at everything I've asked it to do.

Well, it _is_ an opportunity for someone in Eugene who is willing to run for city council. Whoever is currently in that seat would either have to defend the police department (which for this issue would look pretty bad), or they would lean on the police department too, which _would_ be helpful.

I agree. Similarly, I'm miffed that www.dmv.ca.gov (and such) goes to State of California websites and not Canada.

I have the PayPal on Firefox problem. Once I see it, I just give up and use a credit card instead.

Off on a bit of a tangent, I 100% agree with you, and that was probably the best feature of California's Prop 13 from 1978. After it passed, the projected income to Sacramento was rock-solid for decades. California doesn't have an income problem; it has a spending problem.

Still, I would welcome the opportunity to let Sacramento know that, in my opinion, they spend too much on education and welfare and not enough on infrastructure.

You have to get acquired by Microsoft first.

Thank you! This was fun.

Same. I am thankful that this sort of article shows up here.

I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond than a minnow in Microsoft's ocean.

My brother went looking for an N100 with the quietest fan, and gave it to me for Christmas two years ago. It has been an excellent little desktop with no discernable noise that I can tell. Morefine M8S, fwiw.

I was hoping to see a mention of Odex 1 by Odetics. I was working in a printed circuit board factory at the time (1983), and we got to build boards for it. Later on, there was a demo where it lifted one end of a small pickup truck off the ground.

I donate to FutureMe.org because I like the service, and want to see it continue. I used to be able to schedule a monthly donation through Paypal (I think), but something happened, and now I have to remember to send a donation out every year.

My other donations go out monthly to Internet Archive, EFF, and Thunderbird.

There for a while, The TOR Project had a thing where I could contribute by running (paying for) a node on a hosting provider (I think it might have been AWS?). That effort died on the vine and was shut down.

For content creators, I donate to Phoronix.

Yes, and in my opinion, this was what killed Slashdot.