If you haven't used it yet, it's more like a cited source summary tool. I actually really like for questions such as "Who is X and why are they important?" I'm interested in people's thoughts on it.
Sorry in advance if this is kind of a ramble. Thanks for any thoughts you may have.
This post asking about specific hardware made me realize that I have lost touch with major architectural changes in PC hardware. Back in college (over 20 years ago), I was constantly upgrading and rebuilding computers, talking about them, reading about them. But that's probably par for the course in a EE program. I'm sure there must have been other online resources, but Slashdot is the thing that sticks out in my memory of that time.
Then in grad school, my last set of desktops from college carried me through the first few years, and I had a series of laptops provided by school.
Since then, I've always just bought laptops because they've gotten good enough to do everything I want, and with kids, it's much more flexible to be able to work anywhere in and out of the house. My latest (now several years old) has a high end I7 cpu, an NVIDIA GPU, two solid state drives (1.5TB total). It weighs just a few pounds and does everything I want, including things like Solidworks, zbrush, and older PC games.
Since I can remember a time when I was excited about 90mhz processors and feeling like I was getting a screaming deal to pay $500 for a 500mb hd, sometimes it just feels surreal for this to be so normal.
So, am I out of the loop? Or is this reflective of a more general shift? What do you read / where do you post to discuss hardware, hardware compatibility, etc. Are you still building desktops? Laptops? Cyberdecks? What are your thoughts on cost/value trade off of dell, etc. vs rolling your own?
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
I'm working on an AI chat portal for teams, think Perplexity but trained on a company's knowledgebase (prosgpt dot com for the curious) and i wanted to talk to some people who are successfully using LLMs in their teams or jobs to improve productivity
Are you using free or paid LLMs? Which ones?
What kind of tasks do you get an LLM to do for you?
What is the workflow for accomplishing those tasks?
Cheers,
nmn
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I am planning to go back to a desktop after using laptops for years.
I already have an 1080p IPS monitor. I want just the tower.
There is the new Zen 5 coming out soon.
I was thinking about buying a Ryzen 7600 and maybe buy a GPU in the future if I want to play heavier games. The Ryzen 7600 has integrated graphics for basic things.
My main use now is just some casual gaming (Afterimage, Hollow Knight, Fallout 4), movies, browsing the web and compiling some software (Gentoo Linux).
I use exclusively Linux and I want to keep using AMD.
Should I wait the Zen 5 to come out and see if the 7600 price drops or this probably won't happen?
Next up of blockbusters is Snatch from 2000 directed by Guy Ritchie and it made $83 million in box office.
Is this a proper blockbuster with all that entails? Any thoughts on Guy Ritchie's other films?
The rest of the schedule is:
More importantly: why? Tell us precisely what makes your favorite so great! (Also, if you can't pick just one, feel free to share your love for several.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486630/Intravenous/ This game is a fun high intensity stealth game, it feels like a top down splinter cell game.
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
As the title says, looking for recommendations of fun and interesting websites that don't involve current events/news. Sites where you can spend hours diving down rabbit holes, browsing fun and interesting content, or just otherwise detach from reality for a bit.
This isn't a request for just myself, but just in general. I feel like all the biggest websites just have a bit too much influence from current events and news, which can make browsing pretty stressful. And given how centralized the internet has become, finding sites outside those has become a bit trickier. It'd be fun to see some more focused sites for various topics and niches. Can be an educational site with cool articles, could be entertainment, could be a forum or a blog. Just, what sites could you spend hours on?