Boring is good indeed. I’m running Bazzite on both my gaming desktop as well as my work laptop (webdev). The only reason I think about Bazzite at all is because I see it mentioned everywhere and feel the need to share my experience. Otherwise, it really is out of sight, out of mind.

You’re getting downvoted but its the truth. We’re constantly exposed to slop or negligent use of AI, none of that means AI isn’t scarily good at the things it does. It is.

And just to clarify, fuck AI, but some of y’all do need a reality check about the technology’s capabilities.

I also went with 16 drives, but they were 20TB each. OP, if you don’t already have those 4tb drives, reconsider the amount and sizes. 4tb can’t be the price sweet spot for HDDs…

Nothing would make me happier than not having to use WhatsApp. Instead, I had to bend over backwards to get WhatsApp on a separate device entirely after they flagged and banned my account (multiple times over the course of a month) for random reasons (hackers trying to hack my account for 6 months straight is my guess as to why I got flagged) and wouldn’t let me log back in with my GrapheneOS phone, and if I ever forget to check that other phone for more than 2 weeks, I get logged out of all my companion devices and lose all my stickers and some recent chat history.

I floated the idea to my contacts of possibly not being able to come back to WhatsApp, they all essentially said I should just buy a new phone (have had my pixel for like a year) and get a new phone number (have had my number for 20 years). My own family scoffed at the idea of using something other than WhatsApp at all to talk to me.

So yeah. Fuck WhatsApp, absolutely fuuuuuuuck Meta, but we’re all literally doing the best we can given the situation we’re in.

The first season was groundbreaking at the time, but quickly became cringe in hindsight from its popularity and the romanticization of certain events. Later seasons, which weren’t as immediately popular for spoiler reasons, get more and more serious and become more cinematically rewarding for the viewer.

If you can get past the first season, it gets a lot better. The last season is honestly some of the best pieces of television content I’ve ever seen.

Its a victim of its time. There is a decent amount of filler and some episodes have big inconsistencies at one point due to being released out of order since they were filler content, but the overarching quality of the show, and watching it slowly move away from monster/mystery of the week to something that rewarded its fans in multiple intentional and sometimes subtle ways, it truly felt… And still feels… Like something deeply special and really worth recommending, even if you do end up having to work through a decent amount of filler in the first seasons.

I would absolutely think twice or thrice about recommending GoT. In fact, I’ve already recommended some friends to not watch it. Some amazing episodes, perhaps some of the best scenes ever seen on TV, and by far the most upsetting, spit-in-the-face, negligent final season from any show I’ve ever seen. Umbrella Academy wishes it had as bad an ending as GoT, if only for the infamy.

Anyway 3 Body Problem looks really promising and I’m sure the creators, whoever they are, will absolutely nail it…

Sony XM5 earbuds. The most annoying part of them is their feature that connects to multiple devices at once, so I end up fighting my phone (Graphene) or gaming PC (Bazzite) midway through a business call on my work laptop (believe it or not, also Bazzite).

So yeah, their only problem is they work with everything and can prioritize sounds from other devices mid-call. You can just not connect them to everything at the same time, or turn off Bluetooth on the phone n stuff while not in use.

I’m pretty sure you can just buy any device like that (so not Razer, and generally not gaming) and it’ll just work on Linux. Gaming stuff in general usually has a hard time working even on Windows due to absolute dog-shit firmware & software implementations.

I’m not sure there’s many options other than cynical doomerism for analysing this situation. My uneducated guess? They probably already ran out of real world data, and are now forced to produce ridiculous amounts of LLM-generated data to try and continue the training process like this.

Other alternatives I can think of:

• they might be creating multiple model versions and keeping them for iteration metrics
• they might need to ingest a lot more real-world data to continue. Since video has been such a focus as of late, maybe they’re building huge video libraries for the models? Or maybe they’re creating their own real-world data with high detail.
• my most doomer take is that this is the beginning of a vastly deeper authoritarian online state, where a LOT more data is getting collected from EVERYONE and being fed into both new training data for models, as well as knowledge bases for context for models to work on top of.

We’ve known for a while that they’re running out of training data, so it makes a lot of sense to either generate more data with models, create it at big scale without AI, or collect even more data in even more invasive ways from everyone online. There’s literally no other reason I can think of to buy the entire stock of WD drives for 2026 2 months into the year.

Just keep in mind he got that far, in part, by not announcing his plans online. This paints a mark on you. Stay safe.