I don’t know how far owncloud and nextcloud have diverged, but in the nextcloud client you can add filters to ignore files by clicking the three dots on the folder in settings.

You can also free up local space by using virtual folders, but it only works properly on windows.

On the hottest day of the year a few years ago, the Mormons were out door knocking in their little suits. They were clearly not having a good time so we invited them in for a cold drink just to offer them some respite from the afternoon sun.

They got me to read a passage about Joseph Smith going into a cave and feeling euphoric and were like “well how do does that make you feel” and I’m like “what? I know people who’ve had more convincing experiences than that who still aren’t religious because they knew they were on drugs”

They came back again a few times until it was clear we’re absolutely not becoming Mormons.

I sometimes wonder if it occurs to them that we were probably better christians than most actual Christians they’ve met, even without the blackmail.

And yet on top of that, humans have worked out a way to send that information everywhere in a fraction of a second.

You don’t need to worry about crashing. You’ll be protected by an unmaintained bomb that can inflate a pillow faster than you can travel 18 inches at 70 mph yet somehow never goes off accidentally.

Driving just gets more absurd the more you think about it.

Had it not been invented yet, would anyone get away with suggesting a machine propelled by explosions supplied by a tank of the most flammable liquid possible kept underneath the passenger seats?

No doubt. But if you look at the whole ecosystem, a lot of them are just maggots that are personally indifferent but are happy to get people killed to secure a pay rise.

Musk might have fried his brain hotboxing farts with his sycophants. Someone like Thiel however; I can’t imagine he really cares but he’s happy to fund whatever dorks will start a podcast about why they “left the left” because that shit will - he’s hoping - get people to vote for politicians that give him more economic power.

They want you fighting a culture war to keep your mind off the class war.

The mainstream “left”, such as the Democrats benefit from this too.

Draw the national party lines between bigoted and non-bigoted. Now everyone can fight over that and nobody has to address the fact that two thirds of the country want universal healthcare.

It was funny when Europeans would use BIPOC. Like 90% of us are indigenous and Americans invented that term specifically to exclude us.

The hose at the petrol station reaches the opposite side of most cars if you park with your rear window in line with the pump.

I’m running deepseek-r1:14b on a 12GB rx6700. It just about fits in memory and is pretty fast.

All I want is a 3gb model for the raspberry pi. 7b is too big and 1.5b is too stupid.

I’m using an Rx6700xt which you can get for about £300 and it works fine.

Edit: try using ollama on your PC. If your CPU is capable, that software should work out the rest.

My theory is more based on vibes and multiple continuous layoffs from the majority companies over the last few years.

The only thing that we can be pretty much certain on is that the banks think twitter is overvalued and think other Investors see it as undervalued.

I’m not an econ major but I’m going to give you my theory anyway.

We’ve been circling the drain on a major global recession for two years. We’ve been avoiding it through sheer denial.

Nobody ever mentions it, but tech stocks were the first to take a beating in 2008. The reason is that they’re actually kinda worthless and just a place where billionaires gamble the way trust fund kids do with cryptocurrency. There’s just not really that much collateral in digital property. Unlike land, it’s value can just disappear overnight if people decide it’s uncool.

When asset managers are about to be called on their bets and have to find money somewhere, the first thing they’ll do is sell tech shares to bail out other investments. Houses will always have some value even if you end up having to manage it yourself, whereas any social network risks going the way of MySpace.

Twitter being in trouble isn’t just a sign that twitter is in trouble, but that investors need that money for something safer, and if they’re looking for something safer that may mean sheer denial isn’t working anymore.

and again

So, capitalism then.

I don’t know. When I first heard about the horizon scandal I understood what had happened immediately and have since been of the opinion that making financial software that isn’t Byzantine fault tolerant should be a criminal offence.

What’s even more annoying is when their refinements end up putting an objectively wrong answer as the authoritative record.

I found a question where someone new to electronics was how to get more current from a USB power supply.

The “correct” answer that was posted before the question was closed was that a source can’t limit current and the questioner should learn more about electricity.

The actual correct answer - and probably what the questioner was looking for - is to short the data lines together because a compliant USB charger will only supply 500mA by default, not it’s stated max current.

“how long was she using for?”

Oh she didn’t use them, she just kept calling my heroin stupid and useless.

It might* be worth trying this and installing home assistant.

*I say might because I just got some IoT stuff on sale and installed home assistant before realising there’s nothing useful in home automation except zoned heating. Fun to play with though, I guess.