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Is that the LTT Noctua screwdriver?

Sir, you really shouldn't use your axe to drive screws. It doesn't even work and damages the axe. Also this is a Wendy's.

Since it's blue and around the joints, I'm thinking it's the flux used when these pipes were put in. Most likely with a bit of scrubbing with a metal brush and polish with some steel wool it'll come right off. I doubt it's actually going into the surface.

But let a professional look at it to be sure.

YSK this is actually a bad idea. By repeatedly damaging the skin this way you can actually trigger a nerve condition where the ends of your nerves just send pain signals all the time. People who work in professions where they scrub their hands a lot for their work are at risk of this. It's probably fine to do every once in a while, but don't make it a regular thing.

The chance is small, but I know a few folk who were real men when they were younger so they didn't wear gloves when they really should have. Just don't worry about it and scrub it off was the mindset back then and men wearing PPE were (and sometime are) seen as weak. But they describe the pain as getting stabbed in the hand repeatedly and wish they just wore the gloves.

Logitech believe it or not. Just their plain old M500s, nothing special

I got a new mouse for work the other day and was surprised at the packaging. It was super compact and 100% paper. It looked really nice, was super easy to open, did a good job of holding everything and protecting it from impacts. There were no plastic bags inside, the mouse itself was in a velvet like pouch, which was somehow completely made from paper. All of the other stuff was either in little boxes or an envelope.

It made me happy because the whole thing was pretty much perfect and did it's job as best it could. The thing being so compact made sure it could be shipped in large quantities without taking up any room. It also made me kind of sad of how wasteful those huge plastic boxes were in the past. Turns out with a little bit of effort, we could have done so much better all this time.

I have heard Samsung is bad so often on the internet, but my personal experience is different. I've used a Samsung washing machine for almost 10 years now and it still works and looks like the day I bought it. It's very easy to use, has a large front loader door, is quiet and power efficient (as far as that's even possible with a washing machine). Never regretted it.

My brother also has a Samsung washer and dryer, because he loved how large the door was on my washing machine, so he bought one as well. It has served him fine for about 5 years now.

But hey, maybe I'm just lucky with the one I've got.

Before this one I had a Beko washer and dryer. I was unemployed at the time and didn't have a lot of money, so I wanted a cheap model. The salesman in the store said it was bad (this was a long time ago, when they still had salesmen) and would break within a couple of years. But they did upsell an extended warranty for 5 years, which my mom paid for so I could afford to get the washer and dryer. Those units had served me very well for over 15 years. I did have to repair them a couple of times, but nothing major and some normal wear items. I sold those when I bought the Samsung as an upgrade. I switched to natural air drying instead of a dryer for environmental reasons, so I didn't buy a new dryer.

I heard the guy who founded the company was a real smeghead

When I was a teenager we would regularly go to a smaller local movie theater instead of the more fancy large chains. The vibe was better, but they also had an intermission during the movies and I loved that. During the intermission you could stretch your legs, use the bathroom and get some fresh drinks and snacks. The theater was also really good at scheduling so only one movie had an intermission at one time, so it was pretty quiet at the bathrooms and bar. The intermission was only for 10-15 mins or so. Of course prices back then were normal, so I didn't mind buying more. There also weren't any ads, they just played some music and had an intermission screen up with a countdown.

As an SG-1 fan I can't listen to "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" without choking up...

Well that's sort of half right. Yes you can run the smaller models locally, but usually it's the bigger models that we want to use. It would also be very slow on a typical gaming computer and even a high end gaming computer. To make it go faster not only is the hardware used in datacenters more optimised for the task, it's also a lot faster. This is both a speed increase per unit as well as more units being used than you would normally find in a gaming PC.

Now these things aren't magic, the basic technology is the same, so where does the speed come from? The answer is raw power, these things run insane amounts of power through them, with specialised cooling systems to keep them cool. This comes at the cost of efficiency.

So whilst running a model is much cheaper compared to training a model, it is far from free. And whilst you can run a smaller model on your home PC, it isn't directly comparable to how it's used in the datacenter. So the use of AI is still very power hungry, even when not counting the training.

Me too :(

But I'd rather have mental health issues with a hug than without.