billwashere

Yeah I just posted the same thing. I work for a university and we send useful stuff to surplus all the time. I can verify several universities in my area do in fact have warehouses with stuff like this in them.

University surplus. I work for a university and we get rid of stuff all tfe time that is still very useful.

Not now sweaty?!?…. eewwww.

This controller looks quite neat. The part I don’t like is, unless I’m mistaken, it requires steam and won’t work on its own.

This makes me uncomfortable for so many reasons.

Well I’ve got three 512gb Mac Studios in an EXO cluster I’m gonna see how it works.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is this just for training or does DeepSeek v4 now require these chips to run?

OP said they wanted some stuff outside their home LAN which is very understandable for certain things, service checks which they mentioned specifically.

I’ve been using massivegrid. I think I currently pay about $20 a year with a pretty decent about of network. Works for me so far.

15 years ago I was 40. Time sucks

Huh… oh.

Pretty sure they would never pay for a drink for the remainder of their lives.

And you be left with shitty, immoral, um …. wait I think I just noticed something….

Sounds like an excuse more than a reason.

33,893.4 miles.

Is this Destination Fucked?

You are 100% right. They will pass all of this and it will suck for a large majority of us. I’m not suggesting it will all be unenforceable (although a large part might be). I’m venting that these people in charge are seeing an opportunity to control and limit much of what has gotten away from being easily surveilled in the first place.

This is no different than the half a dozen various legislative “solutions” to keeping children online safe.

• CDA (1996)
• COPA (1998)
• DOPA (2006)
• COPPA 2.0 (2022)
• KOSA (2022-24)

The common thread is it’s never really about children or keeping anyone “safe”. It’s about controlling people and information. Previously there were lots opposition from various tech industries and infighting but this seems to be gaining traction which scares the crap out of me. The obvious technical limitations, first amendment violations, and giant loopholes from the internet being a global thing are still there but it doesn’t seem to matter.

There is so much shit they haven’t thought of trying to ram this through it isn’t funny. Not a one of these dumb motherfuckers has any clue how tech works or what kind of headaches this is going to bring to the tech industry. It’s all feel good politics meant to look good but not actually do any good whatsoever, so theater like most of it already (see TSA). There will be so many loopholes in ways to get around it, it will be less than useless.

I totally understand your frustration. It was a bit of bait and switch. I don’t like relying on a tool being hosted either because if Keychron goes away, it’s electronic waste at that point. I had a Steele series Apex keyboard that I loved. The per key RGB configuration was awesome. But their proprietary Mac software was buggy at best and often a pain in the ass to get what I wanted. I eventually gave up on them and switched to more open keyboards.

Honestly I’m not sure why they chose to have the configuration tool online. Seems like something they have to maintain long term which seems kinda dumb. Most of the QMK keyboards are VIA/Vial compatible which can be locally configured.

But after configuring my keyboard, I haven’t touched it. So in your analogy I had to solder the wire once and it’s been stable.

I personally chose Keychron (I have three) because they are excellent quality and have Mac keys by default. I love Macs but damn the keyboards just suck. I have several other keyboards in a drawer that were based on QMK or circuit python (KMK) but they required sourcing cases, keys, switches, etc none of which I had to do with my keychron, well unless I wanted to.

I don’t need more proof.