Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Colif]

that machine might soon be redundant

Its also becoming so expensive to create that its hard to profit off the products.

there is another way:

 

[Zed Clampet]

that machine might soon be redundant

Its also becoming so expensive to create that its hard to profit off the products.

there is another way:

Wow. If they succeed, they could dominate the market for years.

 

[Zed Clampet]

And just like that, the pinokio guy has returned after his mysterious 6 month absence. All he said was, "The show must go on". He doesn't owe anyone an explanation. I'm just glad he's okay.

 

[BeardyHat]

And just like that, the pinokio guy has returned after his mysterious 6 month absence. All he said was, "The show must go on". He doesn't owe anyone an explanation. I'm just glad he's okay.

Who?

I had a rough evening last night. Trying to apply to a job, which has some pre-interview questions which require some effort to respond to. Anyway, you guys have seen my posts, I'm wordy as hell. The gist is, it took me almost 2 hours to fully respond to 7-questions.

Now, I'm smart (I think). I knew the application website would probably log me out, but...I'm also lazy? Anyway, I figured, it would be fine, so I just input all my answers directly into the page and when I was finished, clicked save, only to discover I had been logged out and then taken back to the beginning, all my answers gone. I knew I should have put them in a Notepad doc or Word doc and responded to them, but again...lazy or something.

So boy did I rage. Ended-up hurling my phone (it was the nearest object I don't care all that much about) into my rug and ended-up damaging it (The phone, I mean. not my proudest moment and thankfully the last time I got this angry was about 15 years ago) and then going to sulk in my bedroom for an hour.

Actually, the funniest part of all this was 10 minutes into RageFest 2026, the doorbell rings and it's some F***ing solicitor--we get them all the time. Anyway, I can't help myself but answer the door at any given time and this kid (definitely a kid, like maybe mid-20s) is standing way too close to the door, so I end-up coming out and basically very curtly telling him that I'm in a terrible mood and he needs to just go away (I have no interest in doing the polite "No" 3 times) and to have a nice day. Poor guy looked like he wanted to pee his pants and wasn't quite sure what to do. But big-eyed stared at me and just said, "ok". and left.

So anyway, the point of this story is that I'm not redoing my work this morning (taking a break here on question 4) and I discovered that Winamp is still a thing. I needed some noise, so I installed it on my desktop and had it add all my files and it's working great? Just like it's always been. Nice.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Who?

Eh, he wrote a very helpful program that lets you one-click install a bunch of AI programs. I mentioned him a couple of times.

Now, I'm smart (I think). I knew the application website would probably log me out

I don't have the smart problem, but a couple of weeks ago, Guido had to take care of something while logged into Darktide, and he said he was going to get logged out for inactivity.

I said, "Go to the cash shop and open the cosmetics page. I bet they give you all the time you need." Sure enough, he didn't get kicked.

the doorbell rings and it's some F***ing solicitor--we get them all the time.

We get them, too, and I can't stand talking to them. Some of them won't give up, and I've had to just shut the door.

One time these two sketchy looking guys came up and were trying to sell me magazine subscriptions. They were so awkward. They didn't have a sales pitch planned. They had no materials with them, and they didn't seem to know anything about magazines. I decided they were going to try to rob me, and because my wife and kids were in the house, I stepped outside and locked the door behind me and started mentally preparing to fight. They didn't start anything, though. I still think they were up to no good. Probably my size came in handy.

 

[BeardyHat]

Well, I had a response written, but again I've lost data because I hit F9. Oops.

Anyway, yeah, I'm pretty sure occasional crooks come around to size up the house. See who's home, if there's a dog, etc.

My wife typically doesn't deal with them either, as she's usually busy with work and also I think they tend to be more pushy with women. I just tell em straight-up No and walk away. We get lots of solar people coming and they're usually pretty evasive and obnoxious.

Me, "You selling solar?"
Them, "Oh no, we just want to talk to your about lowering your energy bill."
Me, "I have solar panels already."
Them, "Oh, you do? It doesn't show on Google maps..."
Me, "Yup, bye."

 

[Frindis]

Anyway, yeah, I'm pretty sure occasional crooks come around to size up the house. See who's home, if there's a dog, etc.

I bark at the door myself on occasions. It works

They probably go "Holy Sht, that is some weird-sounding dog, probably got rabies!"

 

[Frag Maniac]

that machine might soon be redundant

Its also becoming so expensive to create that its hard to profit off the products.

there is another way:

This is just another proposed way, that has yet to produce actual chips. Like she says in the video, producing an actual chip is FAR harder than just proving etch size. It also starts looking like an AI advertisement halfway through, and when she finishes with "subscribe to the channel", it's clear this is mainly about her using any means to make money off her YT channel. If Substrate really had any relevant proof they would be showing a video of their own. Her elaborating on AI makes it clear she's looking for AI trend hit points.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if the US dominated chip manufacturing, but Trump having struck one of the biggest deals in US manufacturing history with TSMC recently says a lot I think. Trump may not be as smart as he claims, but he's business smart enough to reach out to experts in the field. As the gal in the video said towards the end, XLight and others are looking to improve the EUV manufacturing process via other forms of light, which would use existing EUV Lithography machines that are proven.

I think Trump knows and even said the ideal would be an American company like Substrate being the manufacturing model for microchips, and who knows, that day may come, but a huge TSMC factory in Arizona meantime will help boost the economy. We'd all just LOVE the latest chip tech to come twice as fast at half the price, but whenever faster/cheaper is the claim, it's usually less quality, or more expensive than first thought. It reminds me of when LG was claiming OLEDs could be produced cheap and fast with inkjet-like printing. It turned out that was not quite the case, they needed encapsulation just to be reliable enough, and they are still more expensive than LCD.

 

[Zloth]

My brother's family got back from vacation and brought back a little vegemite from the hotel. YOW! That's some strong stuff! I didn't really like it, but I think I could get used to it. Eat it on a roll, associate it with something fun... yeah, it would work. I also think it could double as shoe polish - something you can't get from peanut butter or BBQ sauce.

My wife asked me if I wanted to go to Hawaii with her in a couple of weeks. I've been before and enjoyed it, but I am now psychologically incapable of enduring a 15 hour flight. The pilot would crash land in the ocean just so he could throw me off the plane.

Oh, no need! Modern planes have a new feature! The toilets have a setting that let them expunge troublesome passeng.... wait. Has YouTube been lying to me again?

 

[Zed Clampet]

My brother's family got back from vacation and brought back a little vegemite from the hotel. YOW! That's some strong stuff! I didn't really like it, but I think I could get used to it. Eat it on a roll, associate it with something fun... yeah, it would work. I also think it could double as shoe polish - something you can't get from peanut butter or BBQ sauce.


Oh, no need! Modern planes have a new feature! The toilets have a setting that let them expunge troublesome passeng.... wait. Has YouTube been lying to me again?

A girl offered me a bite of her vegemite one time, she just had it on a piece of white sandwich bread, but I told her 'no', and of course I've regretted that. But since you mentioned it, I checked Amazon, and of course it's there. I can get a giant tub of it delivered tomorrow, but that seems a bit aggressive. I'll go for the small jar.

 

[Colif]

The secret to Vegemite is to use as little as possible on toast. Calling it a spread is just a trap.

Or maybe I am wrong

 

[Frag Maniac]

The secret to Vegemite is to use as little as possible on toast. Calling it a spread is just a trap.

Or maybe I am wrong

I think Gordon Ramsay would use one of his typical "looks like something coming out of my Bulldog's rear" responses with this one.

 

[BeardyHat]

This is just another proposed way, that has yet to produce actual chips. Like she says in the video, producing an actual chip is FAR harder than just proving etch size. It also starts looking like an AI advertisement halfway through, and when she finishes with "subscribe to the channel", it's clear this is mainly about her using any means to make money off her YT channel. If Substrate really had any relevant proof they would be showing a video of their own. Her elaborating on AI makes it clear she's looking for AI trend hit points.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if the US dominated chip manufacturing, but Trump having struck one of the biggest deals in US manufacturing history with TSMC recently says a lot I think. Trump may not be as smart as he claims, but he's business smart enough to reach out to experts in the field. As the gal in the video said towards the end, XLight and others are looking to improve the EUV manufacturing process via other forms of light, which would use existing EUV Lithography machines that are proven.

I think Trump knows and even said the ideal would be an American company like Substrate being the manufacturing model for microchips, and who knows, that day may come, but a huge TSMC factory in Arizona meantime will help boost the economy. We'd all just LOVE the latest chip tech to come twice as fast at half the price, but whenever faster/cheaper is the claim, it's usually less quality, or more expensive than first thought. It reminds me of when LG was claiming OLEDs could be produced cheap and fast with inkjet-like printing. It turned out that was not quite the case, they needed encapsulation just to be reliable enough, and they are still more expensive than LCD.

This was my impression of that video as well. "If" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this video and without any tangible examples or research actually coming out of Substrate, this appears dubious at best.

Also, just the way she's talking about it kind of rubs me the wrong way. Very hyped and seems obvious inclined to push this idea on us, which immediately gets my hackles up and inclines me to keep my distance.

Finally got off my butt and posted some of my stuff to eBay to clear it out. I've been switching between three tablets lately to try and figure out which one is best and I can never decide; that said, I finally did decide that it's time to get rid of the Surface Pro 7 I've had for a month or so now. It's a cool little machine, but being fanless severely limits its performance and it's just not capable of doing what I'd like it do to do. It's also a little bit too heavy and unwieldy at 12", which I think I could get over if it was doing what I wanted performance wise.

Also finally selling a different Android tablet I bought over the summer, which was nice, but ultimately budget friendly and again, lacking in performance. I picked-up a used Samsung Galaxy Tab for nearly half the price that performs significantly better.

Though I may also be getting rid of that, as well as my Surface Go 2, haven't decided yet.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Finally got off my butt and posted some of my stuff to eBay to clear it out. I've been switching between three tablets lately to try and figure out which one is best and I can never decide...

Well the only tablets I've ever owned are the medications I take, so it's not like it's a bad problem to have. Funny how we've gone from stone stamped slabs to high end computerized devices, and they still call them tablets.

If you were to somehow meet an ancient man and show him your iPad, he would no doubt slam his stone slab on it breaking it to smithereens, exclaiming, that's not a tablet, THIS is a tablet!

 

[Zed Clampet]

Well, this is a first. I had an Amazon package stolen. I'm going to have to set up notifications somehow so that I know immediately when a package has arrived.

Amazon's customer service AI immediately shipped a replacement, so at least that's a plus.

 

[Zloth]

If you were to somehow meet an ancient man and show him your iPad, he would no doubt slam his stone slab on it breaking it to smithereens, exclaiming, that's not a tablet, THIS is a tablet!

Depends on whether the ancient man is the ancestor-to-be of certain modern Australians.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Guns? Yes, we have them. Want to get a better picture of attitudes in the US south? Personally, I would make a bad conservative because I believe we need more gun control (just one of many reasons). But this? This is the type of attitude that warms my heart, which makes me also a bad liberal.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/87zYTdWzxio?si=-ka5t_LSmjRMrobT

Spoiler: A political statement I feel the need to, as an American on an international forum, make public.

OMG Trump is completely unhinged.

 

[BeardyHat]

Guns? Yes, we have them. Want to get a better picture of attitudes in the US south? Personally, I would make a bad conservative because I believe we need more gun control (just one of many reasons). But this? This is the type of attitude that warms my heart, which makes me also a bad liberal.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/87zYTdWzxio?si=-ka5t_LSmjRMrobT

Spoiler: A political statement I feel the need to, as an American on an international forum, make public.

OMG Trump is completely unhinged.

I'm a, "Do what you want." kind of person. I don't own any, I think they're neat, but they're extraordinarily expensive. They are fun, I've shot them, but I have absolutely zero use for them.

But the fear is absolutely bizarre to me. I've lived in a major city for...almost 20 years now? Most of that time in bad neighborhoods. I've heard drive-bys, I've been burgled twice (once while my neighbor upstairs was being stabbed in an unrelated crime), my brother in law used to walk home down a supposed "dangerous street" from our apartment and once saw a dude robbing another dude with a straight razor.

I've never felt the need, honestly, which is funny to me. My Aunt, who lives in a rural place, very...ahem..."homogenius" has guns stashed all over her house. I get there's a difference between being a large man that I am and a smaller, older woman, but still. It just seems rather silly to me, but I guess do what you want.

 

[BeardyHat]

People complain about Windows feeling locked down and as though there hardware doesn't belong to them, but I posit that Android is far worse and significantly more obnoxious.

I really like this Android tablet I have; it has excellent battery life, great screen, great speakers, I like that it has a keyboard cover and a pen I can use for note taking during wargames.

But every time I want to do something and get down and dirty into the file structure, it's workarounds, hacks and often not even possible. It's my damn tablet, let me break it if I want to; I'm not gonna, but I want to be able to access some of the data files for my games that are deep in the OS. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to sell the damn thing and go back to a Surface full time, even if the battery life is pisspoor, because it really feels like Android is in control and I'm not allowed to use my hardware the way I want to.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I'm a, "Do what you want." kind of person. I don't own any, I think they're neat, but they're extraordinarily expensive. They are fun, I've shot them, but I have absolutely zero use for them.

But the fear is absolutely bizarre to me. I've lived in a major city for...almost 20 years now? Most of that time in bad neighborhoods. I've heard drive-bys, I've been burgled twice (once while my neighbor upstairs was being stabbed in an unrelated crime), my brother in law used to walk home down a supposed "dangerous street" from our apartment and once saw a dude robbing another dude with a straight razor.

I've never felt the need, honestly, which is funny to me. My Aunt, who lives in a rural place, very...ahem..."homogenius" has guns stashed all over her house. I get there's a difference between being a large man that I am and a smaller, older woman, but still. It just seems rather silly to me, but I guess do what you want.

I do have something for self-defense (a mini aluminum bat) because we've been targeted many times. In fact, we only have one car right now, and if my wife takes it out of town, there's about a...5 percent chance maybe?...that someone will come to the house at night. They've never tried to actually enter the house, but they climb the fence to the backyard and try to steal things off the patio or from the storage shed. Fortunately, my dog notices it even though she's inside and starts barking. I grab my flashlight and my handy aluminum thumper and head outside. Without fail so far, they've just jumped the fence and run off.

I prefer melee I am a very large guy who played baseball for many years. If I hit you with my tire thumper, it's going to end with the same result as shooting you.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@neogunhero and anyone possibly interested in AI art.

A few days ago they released Flux 2 and it is an enormous leap forward. I'm too lazy to go back through the hardware posts, but if you got the version of that card with 16GB of VRAM, Flux2 will generate a picture in just a second or two. It's also smarter and follows prompts much better, and creates better final results.

You need a program that will work with AMD cards to run the model. I'm only aware of comfyui, but there may be others. Comfyui is great but may have a bit of a learning curve.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I'm going nuclear. I found a Lenovo laptop with an RTX 5090 in it for $3100 (only $300 more expensive than an LG laptop with a 5050).

No one cares about my forays into making my own AI programs, so I haven't been updating about it, but the point of this laptop is so I can have a completely off-line system. I have over 40 AI programs made by other people that I use to make my own projects. All of these are from Github. And this presents vast problems due to constant updates, broken or otherwise.

I have become so frustrated that I'm going to get this laptop exactly as I want it. Make two full system backups on external drives. And then I'm physically disabling the Internet connection forever (If you just disable it in the software, Windows constantly tries to turn it back on). It will never receive a single update for anything, including Windows, drivers, and especially not from Github. If I need to add anything to it. It will be added, with extreme caution, from one of my external drives.

There are less extreme options, but I don't care anymore. Half my time has been wasted due to problems with updates, and I'm over it.

 

[BeardyHat]

I'm going nuclear. I found a Lenovo laptop with an RTX 5090 in it for $3100 (only $300 more expensive than an LG laptop with a 5050).

No one cares about my forays into making my own AI programs, so I haven't been updating about it, but the point of this laptop is so I can have a completely off-line system. I have over 40 AI programs made by other people that I use to make my own projects. All of these are from Github. And this presents vast problems due to constant updates, broken or otherwise.

I have become so frustrated that I'm going to get this laptop exactly as I want it. Make two full system backups on external drives. And then I'm physically disabling the Internet connection forever (If you just disable it in the software, Windows constantly tries to turn it back on). It will never receive a single update for anything, including Windows, drivers, and especially not from Github. If I need to add anything to it. It will be added, with extreme caution, from one of my external drives.

There are less extreme options, but I don't care anymore. Half my time has been wasted due to problems with updates, and I'm over it.

I thought you built a desktop for this purpose that you had on the side of your couch, am I mistaken?

I'm actually interested anyway. Since I've been dabbling with my own AI stuff; I'm trying to detach myself from Copilot and ChatGPT, so I've been running LM Studio on my laptop and my desktop. It's not amazing, given my laptop is only an RTX A3000 with 6Gb of VRAM and my desktop is a 6700 XT with 12Gb VRAM, but it's workable. Would love an upgrade so I could do stuff a little quicker, but it's been hugely helpful for a lot of things and I don't feel like I'm ruining the environment when I use it.

But I am also stupid. I just sold a cheap computer and I have now been unable to resist and bought another one. Why? What purpose does it serve? What gap will it fill in my life? I'm unable to answer these questions and I was aware of that when I bought it ,but I was not able to get myself to stop thinking about buying it over the course of about a week here. I don't know what my problem is.

 

[BeardyHat]

I guess in theory I'll have my big 16" workstation/gaming laptop I use around the house, then a slightly smaller 12" machine that's a little easier to move around the house with and is only 2lbs for taking it places (of which I do, but never actually use it in those places) and then a small 10" Android tablet for other random stuff.

I do like the Android tablet, but it annoys the hell out of me constantly with it's stupid little Android niggles.

 

[Colif]

After my last physio appointment today it was decided I don't need crutches any more - I hadn't really gotten used to using them anyway - as I can walk fine without them. I still need the boot as I don't think my foot is ready for it yet. Probably in a few weeks time.

Tomorrow I am going for a walk outside... though only along the path outside house. I haven't tried walking up stairs yet. Flat surfaces so far.

Only times I use the scooter now is toilet visits as the time it takes to put the boot on would result in accidents. Once I can walk without the boot I can stop using it.

Next week I get hydrotherapy so I had to be able to walk without crutches to get into the pool. pools make some exercises easier to do. I can't get to the moon so water will have to do.

We are getting insulation in roof and walls, and I need to be able to walk before then as I be staying in a hotel room for one night, as they have to turn off electricity to do the operation. That happen in the next month or so.