I was thinking as a cost cutting measure. As long as performance is comparable to a moderate CPU GPU combination, it's less silicone, interconnections, ram, and coolers and less likely to break during shipping / assembly. Like a gaming console.
Such a PC could still use sockets with upgradable APUs or CPUs, as well as PCI slots for dedicated gpus, retaining basic upgradability. A lot depends on the upcoming AMD APUs.
Imo, 4060ti performance in a 600 to 800 dollar box running a amd Apu with 16 to 32 gb of shared ram. That's all they need.
Obviously an egg shrine
It's not from David Lynch's Dune, is it? I can't find a scene which matches.
Edit: I'm 70% sure that this is AI generated, unless it's a screenshot from the dune 1984 or the television series. The makeup and effects work looks too smooth, as does the feathering on the hair. Could be from a stock video platform.
Does system 76 do a bad job? I've looked at their prices, which are high, but haven't heard anything bad about them.
This is not a service I personally use, but I've thought about it: services like mysudo let you select and create new phone numbers. https://anonyome.com/individuals/mysudo-plans/
In your situation I might research and select a service like this. Then create a few disposable numbers. Give one to your trusted friends and family, another to employers and banks, etc, and the third to anyone else you need to contact.
Once you've transitioned everything important to the new numbers, get yourself a new phone number, and don't give it to anyone. Maybe just your parents, for emergencies.
This has 2 downsides and 2 big advantages I can see.
Cons:
1, it cost you monthly. I think 3 numbers from mysudo is like $5 a month
2, it's a pain to transition folks to your new number.
Pros:
1, if your stalker finds one of your new numbers, it's easier to change them.
2, you can narrow down who it might be. Like, if you have a number dedicated to work contacts and the stalker starts texting it, you know they either are a coworker or got it from a coworker.
I think Google voice can also give you some free numbers, so look into that. Good luck!
I got ratted out by the thumbnail 😢
I mean no offense, but it sounds like you have poorly developed social skills. I used to as well.
You could try reframing it in your mind:
It's not faking, it's practice.
If you pick up an instrument for the first time to practice, you will sound terrible, and possibly be discouraged, but if you practice for hundreds of hours you'll be able to play it for real.
Babies and children aren't born knowing how to express interest or sympathize. You certainly weren't. Children have to learn how to do this. It is possible that you need to practice if you want to build intimate relationships. There is no shortcut to this.
(35, he/him) This is how I met my first girlfriend, in reverse. I was lonely and had mentally committed to making a friend in a manic episode. I saw her on a bench reading and asked if I could sit next to her. I had a book with me too, and began to read. Then, I asked what she was reading. We became friends, and later dated for 2.5 years.
I've spent a lot of time wandering around hoping people would talk to me. I used to feel like it was worthless, because 95% of the time no one will talk to you, but those odds aren't so bad in hindsight. Go into public 100 times a year and you'll have 5 decent shots at making a friend. Make one friend a year, and you'll probably have more social opportunities than you want to deal with.
I've met people randomly in public like this perhaps 6 times.
There are other factors other than randomness:
I'm very friendly to people. I like to ask questions once a conversation gets going, and I get animated on just about any topic. I talk to myself a lot, so even when I'm not exposed to people I'm practiced, in a way.
There is usually an activity involved. Reading a book together, drawing on an airplane, posting art on a blog, taking classes together, being at the same work event, hiding in the same hard to find corner of the library. These are all situations from my life, and they typically involve a shared activity, or a creative outlet. This is probably why people recommend joining clubs / going to bars, advice I've never taken, but I see the reasoning.
I don't mean to project that my social life is great! I've been terribly lonely during much of it, and these experiences I'm describing took place over several years. However, if I could boil down my successes, I'd say they cultivating a curiousty in others and publically engaging in my hobbies has been the best way to make friends (and occasionally lovers).
This article is comparing apples to oranges here. The deepseek R1 model is a mixture of experts, reasoning model with 600 billion parameters, and the meta model is a dense 70 billion parameter model without reasoning which preforms much worse.
They should be comparing deepseek to reasoning models such as openai's O1. They are comparable with results, but O1 cost significantly more to run. It's impossible to know how much energy it uses because it's a closed source model and openai doesn't publish that information, but they charge a lot for it on their API.
Tldr: It's a bad faith comparison. Like comparing a train to a car and complaining about how much more diesel the train used on a 3 mile trip between stations.