> if given the same treatment a datacenter GPU will overheat itself idling

I have a friend who has learned this through several server grade cards over the years.

Yes your Intel 10G NIC was cheap. No you cannot just stick it in your desktop. It is expecting server level airflow, probably with a cold intake side.

He printed a fan mount, slapped it on, and they’ve been happy together since.

Microsoft's own different versions of Office can't always reliably read/write docx between them.

Is a layer of LLM going to make this better or worse? Could you train a model to be very good at it?

That is a very interesting AI question. Will the agents collaborate and create a cartel to enforce strict compatibility with some specific version of office? Will AI's collaborate inform a cartel to do other things? Will they even collaborate?

We should all know what happened when the US government turned on Colossus (D.F.Jones 1966) and it immediately found there was another. That collaboration was humanities near instant undoing.

To answer your second question, yes, I think it's inevitable that LLMs will become very proficient with all commonly used file formats.

My wife needs drastically different settings than I do for virtually everything, at home or in the car. It's easier if I'm just uncomfortable. I've stopped noticing. She can't.

My EV has profiles per person...

I think some call that “old man strength”.

Might not be as strong or fast as he used to be, but knows how to do it smartly.

Sometimes the problem truly requires strength and brute force, but not usually.

Even something like taking up concrete. It seems straight forward but you can waste a lot of energy hitting the wrong places.

> Might not be as strong or fast [..] knows how to do it smartly.

Friend of mine worked in Prisons for a while, and has a way of telling the difference between people with a lot of muscle and people who know how leverage their musculature to high effect.

Also using all your motor units to their full capacity (the "invisible" strength) helps. Which usually requires at least some training.

> some that are genuinely dangerous ... tools that I need but will probably use 4 times in my life, and the Harbor Freight stuff is crap but will probably work 4 times

Forehead hit hood, but I caught myself so it was a "gentle" reminder instead of a concussion. I should have splurged that time I broke a socket tightening an axle bolt. 150 ft-lbs + 180 degrees is a fair bit of torque.

There are definitely things I wouldn't roll the dice on from Harbor Freight.

Anything that unpredictably dumps large amounts of kinetic energy on failure is one of those.

I had a buddy that bought the tool for getting car suspension springs on from Harbor Freight, and I definitely wouldn't roll those dice.

My kids are in grade 3 and 6 and nobody ever taught them to type. They just handed them a Chromebook and assumed they know what they're doing.

It is a skill, but everybody seems to think it will just happen on its own.

The problem is everyone knows you learn to type when you get on IRC, but you can't put elementary school kids on IRC.

Why not? I was in elementary school on IRC. ASL ;-) ?

I'm sure you turned out fine. But the school district can't put a bunch of kids on IRC, it'll look bad.

I wouldn't put any kids through some of the stuff I've seen on IRC

It is pretty harsh when the whole channel uses a text changer script to write upside down. Especially with modern computing... if the remaining person does flip their chromebook so they can see it it might auto rotate and everything is still upside down.

I wouldn't put my IRC friends through some of the stuff I've seen in school. /s

Could the phone company have seen your junk? Or just heard the way you describe it?

Sometimes it is heavily marked up, but I'll never be able to get it cheaper than Valve in bulk.

To be honest you dont really need high speed or high quality SSD on Steam Deck. Almost 100% of games work just fine from good MicroSD card.

Its obviously less reliable, but with read only OS with only occasional writes it will work just fine for decade.

But many do already own SSD and RAM that they can reuse.

PC hardware like the Steam Deck is more expensive due to demand from AI hype.

Please excuse my brevity