sgtlion [any]

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Cake day: October 29th, 2021

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  • Programming quick scripts and replacement for Google/Wikipedia more than anything. I chat to it on an app to ask about various facts or info I wanted to know. And it usually gets in depth pretty quickly.

    Also cooking. I’ve basically given up on recipe sites, except for niche, specific things. AI gets stuff relatively right and quickly adjusts if I need substitutions. (And again, hands free for my sticky flour fingers).

    And ideation. Whether I’m coming up with names, or a specific word, or clothes, or a joke, I can ask AI for 50 examples and I can usually piece together a result I like from a couple of those.

    Finally, I’ll admit I use it as a sounding board to think through topics, when a real human who can empathise would absolutely be better. Sadly, the way modern life is, one isn’t always available. It’s a small step up from ELIZA.

    The key is that AI is part of the process. Just as I would never say “trust the first Google result with your life”, because its some internet rando who might say anything, so too should you not let AI have the final word. I frequently question or correct it, but it still helps the journey.






  • Far easier said than done, but I’d seriously recommend using another GP and/or making a formal complaint. GP surgeries have a lot of oversight and “GP won’t give you prescribed medicine and loudly complains at you when they do” is a pretty fair complaint. You have a right to dignified and discreet healthcare from the NHS. Changing GP is typically easy if there are others around, but otherwise, formally complain to the surgery, then escalate that complaint to the local health authority if they don’t resolve it.

    I’ve had to do it for being deliberately misled about my drugs before, and it was swiftly acted upon. I sent one email, and they publicly logged a change in internal procedure a week later.



  • This is normal. This is a topic with a lot of complexities if you drill down into the details and history, but the tl;dr is certain system processes and other programs will preferably write data to swap because it’s so infrequently needed, and avoids massive slowdown if swap is needed, eg RAM filling, hibernation.

    If you’re absolutely sure you’ll never exceed 32gb of RAM usage, you can turn the swap off. But you’re unlikely to notice a performance boost, Linux does (largely) know what it’s doing, moreso than you or I.

    The TankieTanuki link is a good place to start to learn more if you really want to tweak it.