Tag: tire fire
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Lyrics
I decided to start building a local lyrics database because I like the feature Apple Music (and others) have of showing lyrics synced to the music as you listen, and I wanted that for my own local music library. It kind of reminds me of when I was a kid and I used to put…
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I Don’t Want Your “AI”
Revisiting My Previous Thoughts on This Whole Tire Fire Last fall I wrote about the whole “AI” garbage fire. Since then I’ve spent a decent amount of time playing with several different local LLMs using Ollama and LM Studio, attempted (with limited success) to integrate models with a language server for coding tasks, and tried…
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Not So Intelligent
Hacker News is completely full of “AI” garbage these days. It’s all a race to the bottom of useless, pointless, and stupid LLMs, image generators, and so on with exactly zero showing real promise of any kind. But it’s dominating all the discussions. It’s so bad, because instead of interesting things it’s just idiots making…
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MacBook Air Shenanigans
I spent more hours than is reasonable getting Fedora updated on my old MacBook Air (2013). 4 gigs of ram, hilarious. The clock was set to February when this booted up, so it’s been at least 5 or 6 months since I ran the machine. The screen isn’t good but it’s overall a quality laptop.…
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On the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
I deleted my Twitter account yesterday given the garbage new owner and his unrelenting awfulness. I’m not interested in being involved with any of that crap. Then I wanted to say something today about the World Cup and would have normally done that on Twitter. Oh well, I do have this blog and I can…
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Adventures in Vinyl
A couple of springs ago I got it in my head to buy a turntable. I put the blame on Iron & Wine, who was selling a deluxe 2 record version of Beast Epic on colored vinyl. I ordered it because it looked really neat (and came with a CD quality download), and then I…
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Pedometer++ and developer trust
Shortly after the introduction of the iPhone 5s with the M7 motion processor, David Smith released an extremely basic pedometer application that read and displayed this data. It was a free app that I considered almost more of a hobby project or proof of concept than a product. Over time the app added features, including…
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Phones Announced at Mobile World Congress 2012
This list is hardly complete, and I won’t waste both your time and mine by actually linking to them. I don’t really care to know what the differences between any of these are. But you have to wonder if these manufacturers have learned anything at all from Apple’s success with the iPhone and a simplified…
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I’m Being Lazy
This bicycle tune-up thing is showing how I can get stuck and be a bit lazy. I now have all the parts I need to rebuild the bike. This includes a new bottom bracket, new chain, new brake pads, new brake and shifter cables, and new tires. I’ve cleaned up most of the frame, including…
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Being “That Guy”
Something struck me today as I was pulling on my riding gear after lunch. I really enjoy being that guy. Not that guy you hate (that’s a different guy, really!) but that guy you look at and wonder what the hell is wrong with him. The person who does things differently. The hard way. Who…