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I look endlessly for parts on alibaba, rn for solar batteries. And I have tried to ship for parts like cooling fans but then I am bitten by shipping at the end....

Now I find myself having to inquire about each part because the prices listed aren't accurate.

How to get what I need?

Cat climbed up on the counter and tried to mess em up.

I want to start an indoor and outdoor garden. Planting season is coming up.

I'm also having decent success germinating some rice.

I'm somewhat regretting my choice to buy pinto and black bean 'seeds'.

Also I've been making trips up into the hills to dig up naturally occurring clay and that sort of thing and carry it down in my big backpack.

Maybe I can try and make some dirt out of that.... I already went to home depot to get some garden fertilizer, but I prob need to get some high nitrogen stuff in bulk.

This has some pretty interesting computational chemistry material in it.

It's faster now, great.

The politics are actually mostly pretty good in this.

Months ago a ordered over $100 of components to complete a custom watercooling rig/loop for my workstation which I have begun to document in !gem and which should be completed shortly by the end of this year.

But I am still waiting for most of them which have been stuck at the 'customs clearance complete" stage for quite a while. Now most of those have been marked as complete in aliexpress and I have 15 days to file a dispute.

I will shortly try to pull up their tracking numbers and see if there is movement in the next couple of days. But I think I need to do the dispute.

Protectionists stop being lil *****.

They offered $65 + $16 shipping. The Instinct MI25 is not much more, $130, and just better. I will prob not even use the S9150 much unless I need the FP64 for something because it's relatively slow and power hungry.

I hope this community is ok for this site.

Edit: wow unixsurplusnet (ebay) is selling it for $99. gonna wait till the end of the year prob when I finish the workstation.

they have good hard drive and PSU deals too.

If you are unfamiliar with the AV1 codec well it is the successor to VP9 which was in the same class of h.264 which was and still is prolific on the internet. AV1 is a big jump over h264...

MediaTek was early to implemented AV1 in their Dimensity smartphone chips since 2019. And if you aren't aware those are in a lot of Chinese smartphones.

There is now a decent chance you own and use a device that supports AV1 decoding. This means that AV1 I think is going to take over the internet in the next few years.

Although AV1 is free and open source, it is a result of corporate socialism and Google's CIA influence. It probably wouldn't even be possible in the capitalist framework otherwise because big surprise intellectual property isn't actually good for innovation or much else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 - https://www.xda-developers.com/av1/ - https://www.androidauthority.com/av1-codec-1113318/

The AV1 Video Codec - linux.conf.au

My first computer as I remember. Great engineering, much innovation especially on the custom LCD which I'm surprised isn't in all the cheaper smart phones. Microsoft tried to ruin the software lol.

Don Hopkins announced that he is creating a free and open source port of the game SimCity to the OLPC

that's what I remember the most

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/366245

just figured out how to cross post

I have had this in my mind for a little while. I'm Californian and I feel we should make a push break this state from the US of Amerikkka.

The new state can form with Mexico, South America, China...

This thing I'm pretty sure wouldn't be majority white. So it would be inherently anti Amerikkkan. I would emphasize race mixing.

I know this isn't super realistic on paper since USA would violently try to destroy this movement. I actually expect it to be a pretty grossly thing. But I'm ready to put on the heat. Any other Californians ready to reject your Amerikkkan allegiances and to organize and do other stately things on that basis?

I'm going to develop this idea more and prepare more material on it.