nicholasjarnold

While I agree with your sentiment, very strongly actually, there has always been a tension between what I'll call "engineering teams" and "product teams". The engineering teams want the long-term platform stability, performance, etc. The product teams want to push that new feature out, quick! The overall business needs both (types of thinking and doing) to survive, of course, but not all leadership sees the world through the lens engineering team lens. I'd argue most actually lean the other way, which is understandable though unfortunate. I'd also posit that since these product teams are often "closer to the business", those people typically win favor with the real decision makers.

These new tools only exacerbate this issue.

Yep, status page was certainly all green when I started noticing it.

Code review for me... Hit the 503. The status page lagged the event by ~10 mins or so it seems.

git+ssh also seems affected, as I'm unable to push/pull right now.

Thanks for the reminder. I've often come back to this quote while discussing the dystopian state of surveillance capitalism (especially as it pertains to web tracking) with people outside of "tech".

Cathartic to read this! Just had a very similar experience with a Subaru from the same generation as yours.

While that particular issue isn't solvable, I am open to any advice on coding tools that might allow one to unlock other settings or make changes like "ensure auto-stop is fully disabled across restarts and drivers".

They do, but some seem to be gradually removing functionality (like check deposit via scan + upload) in favor of using their amazingly convenient (/s) app.

> Judge me if you must, but the only reason I recently bought a Pixel was because of the intention on sticking GrapheneOS on it the second I got it out of the box.

The only judgement is a positive one. I thought this is what one does now that we all understand just how broad and deep the tracking is at nearly every level. Buying a Pixel and immediately flashing GrapheneOS has been my default mode of operation for years now on all cellphones in my home (wife and myself). No Play Services, Google apps or uninstallable Facebook...no problem!

I'd rather my life not be turned into an open book for targeted advertisements and whatever other purposes every detail of my existence is used for now or in the future. It's mind boggling to me how many seem to simply not care.

AMD 6700XT owner here (12Gb VRAM) - Can confirm.

Once I figured out my local ROCm setup Ollama was able to run with GPU acceleration no problem. Connecting an OpenWebUI docker instance to my local Ollama server is as easy as a docker run command where you specify the OLLAMA_BASE_URL env var value. This isn't a production setup, but it works nicely for local usages like what the immediate parent is describing.

"Flood the zone" => The specific strategy put forth and now enacted by the current US admin in order to overwhelm the media's ability to cover issues and therefore by extension the ability for the public at large to keep themselves informed. It's a fundamental attack on one of the pillars of democracy. Mental bandwidth saturation is a feature here, not a bug.

Additionally, the gradual removal of personal privacy, and the normalization of it, is another attack on a democratic pillar.

It really does seem like structural cracks are widening rapidly. I too hope that our current realities cause a sort of 'wake up' to occur in the minds of those whom are too busy, deep in "my team" politics or otherwise not concerned about what's going on right now.

I concur. I own a System 76 laptop, and it runs PopOS. It's been stable for years (taking the regular updates). They make a variety of hardware products ranging from portable/lightweight laptop to beefy engineering workstation.

(also not affiliated with them, just want to support good products/company)