A box full of memories (not quite seasonal)
https://lemmy.world/post/40114957
A box full of memories (not quite seasonal) - Lemmy.World
Item #: SCP-NC297
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-NC297 is to be kept in a standard object
containment locker and may not be removed without the express permission of the
site director. Any site staff discovered to have more than twice the number of
immediate family members typical for their socio-economic background are to be
investigated for possible unauthorised use of SCP-NC297.
Description:
SCP-NC297 is a metal container primarily composed of tin and adorned with aged
copper decorations. SCP-NC297 is approximately 9 inches wide by 6 inches deep by
4 inches tall and posseses a flat hinged lid typical of such containers.
When held by a human SCP-NC297 will manifest within itself various forms of
correspondance addressed to the person holding it, primarily consisting of
various kinds of postcard and greeting card, the number of items held within
SCP-NC297 appears to be infinite with the amount never diminishing no matter how
many are removed.
The primary anomalous effect of SCP-NC297 is in the veracity of the
correspondance held within, regardless of the number of items removed all will
be genuine and remembered by the user, while initial instances are believed to
be examples of pre-existing correspondance excessive use of SCP-NC297 will
result in increasingly dramatic changes to the timeline in order to justify the
number of postcards present; this can result initially in the creation of new
events in the users life or the lives of their immediate family however further
use may also cause the creation of new family members and potentially new
locations and seasonal holidays.
Retrieval Log:
SCP-NC297 was discovered in the home of [Redacted] located in [Redacted] Florida
following reports from neighbours about a foul stench eminating from the
property and an unusually large quantity of mail visible through the front
windows. Though initially overlooked, the foundation became involved when it was
discovered [Redacted] had a seemingly impossibly large immediate family with 30
direct sibings, 12 adopted siblings, 4 step parents and over 200 aunts, uncles
and cousins.
The item in question was discovered when a member of the mobile task force
involved in the initial search of the property was found to have over a dozen
completely un-mentioned siblings in addition to the immediate family already on
file. SCP-NC297 was subsiquently identified among the items handled by the MTF
member and its anomalous properties discovered during testing with D-class
personel.
Addendum: Use of SCP-NC297 to generate potential related organ donors for high
ranking foundation personel in the event of medical crisis is currently under
review by the ethics committee.
Advice on first home router(possible modem?)
https://lemmy.world/post/35664098
Advice on first home router(possible modem?) - Lemmy.World
So the hub provided by my ISP is really old and bottlenecky at this point, they
would charge as much to replace it as to buy my own so I figure better to own my
own hardware than get some bare minnimum functionality piece of branded plastic
right?
I’m in the UK so my connection setup is a single ethernet port in the wall with
a splitter to connect the phone and talk talk hub via LAN cable.
A quick google tells me Asus is a good brand but I’m not sure if I just need a
router or if I need to get a combi router/modem.
Any frontend/model that runs on a 9070XT
https://lemmy.world/post/34689452
Any frontend/model that runs on a 9070XT - Lemmy.World
So my relevant hardware is:
GPU - 9070XT
CPU - 9950X3D
RAM - 64GB of DDR5
My problem is that I can’t figure out how to get a local LLM to actually use my
GPU, I tried Ollama with Deepseek R1 8b and it kind of vaguely ran while maxing
out my CPU and completely ignoring the GPU.
While I’m here model suggestions would be good too, I’m currently looking for 2
use cases.
- Something I can feed a document too and ask questions about that document
(Nvidia used to offer this) To work as a kind of co-GM to quickly reference more
obscure rules without having to hunt through the PDF.
- Something more storytelling oriented that I can use to generate background for
throwaway side NPCs when the players innevitably demand their life story after
expertly dodging all the NPCs I actually wrote lore for.
Also just an unrelated asside, Deepseek R1 8b seems to just go into an infinite
thought loop when you ask it the strawberry question which was kind of funny.
Just a little chart theorising on glyphid development.
https://lemmy.world/post/31045020
Can I just... run it off the USB? (any downsides?)
https://lemmy.world/post/27371557
Can I just... run it off the USB? (any downsides?) - Lemmy.World
^ Title ^
so I’ve had problems getting linux to actually setup properly but the functional
preview on the boot USB stick itself works without issue, so can I just run it
that way, or is that going to limit functionality in some way?
Random short story/setting based on a dream I had last night.
https://lemmy.world/post/26131268
Random short story/setting based on a dream I had last night. - Lemmy.World
Had a dream last night where I was on a road-trip and ended up randomly dropping
into an alternate dimension, this short story is pretty much the backstory for
how that dimension diverges from our own and is about 1/3 straight dream, 1/3
the random oddly detailed lore dump my brain gave me when I woke up (anyone
elses brain do that?) and 1/3 creative writing to fill in the gaps. I’m not even
am ameteur but I hope you guys find it interesting.
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At the end of the second great war the Manhattan project had yielded few
results, though the allies would go on to win the war the power of the atom
would never be harnessed for warfare. Yet deep bunkers in Germany would reveal
research on a phenomena known as astrological manipulation; the effect was weak,
almost a parlour trick, the sun could be turned dark or the stars made to shine
brighter but only from the perspective of a small area and only for a few
minutes. Fascinating to the theoretical physicists of the world but barely of
note to nations in the midst of post war reconstruction.
It would not be until the 1960s that those physicists would finally attain a
shaky yet certain grasp of the phenomena. Project Argus took 20 years to
construct, a joint project between the United States and Great Britain, part
arcane circle and part particle accelerator the enormous construct spanned 200
miles of Atlantic ocean, suspended from thousands of floating stabilization
platforms. World War 3 would begin on January 5th 1980, and end with at the same
no and total casualties on all side on January 6th 1980.
The goal of project Argus, the total hegemony of a united British and American
empire, was to be attained by demonstration of absolute control of the sun
itself, and yet such perceived control was wholly illusory. The sun would darken
to a cold cinder, never to return.
By the end of 1981 desperation would truly set in all thoughts of conquest cast
aside in the name of survival, great furnaces churned dark smoke into a darker
sky attempting to provide light and heat to those remaining inhabitants and the
precious grow houses that sustained them. On December 9th, now known as the day
of the read star, Argus would awaken once more from its slumber; Those survivors
of the original test, those rescued from summary execution by a now unknown yet
foresighted officer would do everything in their power to light a candle in the
dark.
On the day of the red star Jupiter would burn, a feint candle in the dark.
Daylight earth would not see again yet the feint red light of day was as a nova
after 2 years of darkness. Life would cease its gradual retreat into oblivion,
though much changed and much diminished it would cling on in the twilight. Some
few plants were able to subsist in the gloom and so sustain what little life was
left. In the cites those who had survived the apocalypse would now dwell forever
in twilight.
Any unique reasons to use a Moa?
https://lemmy.world/post/26079335
Any unique reasons to use a Moa? - Lemmy.World
So I think moa companions are really cute and charistmatic but other than a
blast shield equipped moa being a tankier but much less reliably shooting
alternative to a verglass / contaigous bond sentinel I can’t really justify
using one over a beast or a sentinel with more useful precepts.
Anyone got any cool moa secrets for me?
Is setting up Mint supposed to be this hard?
https://lemmy.world/post/25920310
Is setting up Mint supposed to be this hard? - Lemmy.World
I heard Mint is supposed to be the simplest distro to get started with but my
experience so far (following the setup guide on the website) has been:
- Download ISO
- Check ISO (seemed fine)
- Burn image… crash
- Burn image in administrator mode
- Boot from USB via BIOS… crash
- Boot from USB via Bios in safe mode
- Download multimedia codecs… crash
- Not download multimedia codecs… also crash?
And that’s where I am presently, it runs fine off the USB albeit a bit slow, and
I know its connected to the internet because I can browse lemmy on it and make
annoying posts on the Linux community. I knew Linux was going to be more work
than windows but this feels like a ridiculous level of effort right out of the
gate, I worry that even if I somehow get it running I’ll spend 10x more time
fixing it than actually using it.
Off the grid: Way too detailed - Lemmy.World
Ok this one blew me away, its another little no parkour required area and this
time with multiple fairly obvious yet inconspicuous entrances, beyond being
pretty this one has some pretty strong cut-gig vibes.
One entrance hidden behind a Trauma team AV, I later found prettier entrances
but I’m not booting up the game with all my mods again. Its pretty winding down
there but you can find a small un-marked scav event as article of evidence #1.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d81bdc40-4666-4023-9f7d-c78094ddc5a9.png]
Star of the show is this pit, equidistant from pretty much all entrances and
with a clearly deliberate parkour path all the way down.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f3772b6b-20e3-42f4-9320-ba40c55b655a.png]
Its a looooong way down, there’s also a dead guy with a lore shard down here and
a weird red fan that I all the garbage slopes into like it was meant to be some
kind of entrance.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee685c03-403d-42a6-9113-168ee08911c2.png]
This elevator has no useable floors but otherwise appears to be completely
functional, even the doors work.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/314d7587-ac19-4987-a854-fc28894a5d2e.png]
Map location of one entrance for convenience.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b80b2b09-4001-4b82-970f-a7b8dda3a927.png]
Off the grid: One more spot in night city
https://lemmy.world/post/25487357
Off the grid: One more spot in night city - Lemmy.World
So I stumbled upon another cool little spot that’s totally easy to overlook
despite all of us having certainly passed it dozens of time. its another great
example of verticality with a little village of shops and homes tucked into the
shadowy spaces between buildings, it even has a little scene with a lore shard
if you explore all the way to the bottom.
From above we can see just how far the rabbit hole goes, with the deepest part
being accessable by ladders just under the pipes on the left.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b9c83381-d8db-4e9a-9ccc-2a55037885a3.png]
It’s dystopian as hell but damn this place has a vibe, wish V could have an
apartment here.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6e184bc9-6d70-4aac-b4aa-e59ffe0cf003.png]
Looking up from the lowest inhabited section the sky is barely visible under all
that concrete and steel.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fd56a749-08ba-49dc-9f90-419312a0de4b.png]
Just a map location:
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/611d1616-931e-467a-ba3d-3bfdb210772a.png]
