That is the monitor DHH uses with Framework laptop and Beelink miniPC.
Thanks!
Readit Newsmark_l_watson commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
I would like to make the switch but I inherited a 7K Apple Studio monitor when my Dad died two years ago and I fear that I will never get full use of the monitor moving away from macOS. BTW, my favorite Linux machine is an about ten year old MacBook Air running Ubuntu. That slim little laptop is still amazing.
mark_l_watson commented on Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence lumia.security/blog/apple... · Posted by u/mroi
I would like to make a broader comment: perhaps as users we should ask what AI features even make sense to use? Starting last year I experimented heavily with Google Gemini interacting with Google WorkPlace apps. The technology was cool, and is even much better now, but I came to the conclusion I don't really need it.
For an iPhone local AI, I wrote an app for myself (although I think there are maybe 10 other people who use it) that chats with Apple's local model (that is fairly good) and switches to a Secure Enclave model on their servers and from the documentation it looks like using the cloud model is private and secure.
Even better now, I signed up for ProtonMail's optional Luma LLM Chat system with integrated private web search tools. It is surprisingly good, and I trust Proton that it is private.
Almost the only thing I frequently use commercial LLMs for now is a few times a week using gemini-cli for coding, and NotebookLM a few times a month, plus occasional Gemini use, but I pay for Luma (powered by Mistral models) so I routinely use it for AI search use cases.
Just because technology is incredibly cool, this doesn't mean that we have to use it if real productivity gains are slim or non-existent.
The commented longer program listing was fun to read.
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mark_l_watson commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab
> Eventually countries that don't spend most of their treasure on their military will win.
Stipulating that they don't get eaten by their bigger neighbors. We're going to miss the Pax Americana.
We will miss the US Navy keeping most shipping routes open and safe.
mark_l_watson commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab
I've had too many lies told to me by all of these "AI" tools to trust anything I don't already know to be true without verifying the referenced sources myself. At that point, if I'm giving the information to anyone else, I might as well communicate the sources rather than an AI's impression of the sources. There's just no value add to me beyond identifying potential sources in "research mode".
OK, point taken. I will post a link in the future.
mark_l_watson commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab
Why would you think those are good sources for a question like this?
maybe I am wrong to do this, but I run Gemini 2.5 Pro in ‘research mode’, ask a question I am interested in, wait usually about 2 to 4 minutes and Gemini summarizes a large number of sources for me.
I think there is a lot of bias everywhere, and I thought that this sort of averages some of the noise away.
I think grandparent comments about what constitutes a military base vs. a facility are interesting. I was a defense contractor from 1974 to 1998, and it seemed like all the US bases I visited were very large, but some of the NATO bases I visited were much smaller. Sorry to be anecdotal here, just explaining my own experiences.
mark_l_watson commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab
> If you look at a map of our military bases, we have many bordering China. I think our total number is close to 900.
I would grant them the benefit of the doubt if English wasn’t their native language, but they’d identified as a US citizen elsewhere in the thread and their name strongly implies native speakership.
In the US, this conversational construction in this context is most reasonably interpreted as the second sentence completing the thought in the first.
If a manager asks an employee “how many dents are on the bumber?” A response of “I think the total number is close to 900”, that would be in reference to just the dents on the bumper, not all over the car.
Also, elsewhere in the thread, they’ve acknowledged they simply made the number up (by just repeating what a GPT said).
No, I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro in ‘deep research’ mode to give me an estimate.
mark_l_watson commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab
When you make insane claims like “the US has 900 military bases close to China”, you discredit yourself and your entire body of work.
Please quote me correctly. I said:
“” If you look at a map of our military bases, we have many bordering China. I think our total number is close to 900.””
I intended to say 900 in the entire world, but I corrected that in a comment to 750-900.