It depends.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

From 19GB to multiple terabytes.

Frontendwise; Librechat is pretty cool.

Choose OS is very relevant when doing cloud stuff.

Fair enough. I hope you get it.

Why is insert any thing so complicated in Windows compared to GNU + Linux?

C’mon where is your sense of adventure.

I see no reason why we can’t have both.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-of-worlds/

I don’t remember the quote directly but it’s somewhere in the area of that;

We have gotten so used to living in the shadow of annihilation that we’ve forgotten to fear the constant threat of global destruction that nuclear war is.

This podcast really gave me some perspective on that.

I found it a bit strange that their “Follow us” section didn’t have a Fediverse link. I expected a Mastadon user or something.

Hell yeah!

As much as I dislike Google I feel you really made a decent suggestion here.

“The world’s demographic structure passed the point of no return twenty to forty years ago. The 2020s are the decade when it all breaks apart.”

Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Geforce Now on my thinkpad is what makes modern games work.

Likewise! It’s been 8 years without nicotine and 2 years sober here.

Here’s a good one about the monkey on your back: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUvzx73-cCY&pp=ygUSc3R5Z2dlbiBww6UgcnlnZ2Vu

But you gotts understand norwegian: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/styggen-på-ryggen-bastard-my-back.html

Haven’t kicked them. Stopped using nicotine and alcohol but man is the addiction still there. 🥲

I thought this book was pretty good at reasoning trough some scenarios;

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34272565

Yeah I wasn’t really thinking about obfuscating that he was using a VPN. Just assumed this was not breaking rules, and only thinking about getting around the blocks and having a working VPN.

It’s kind of like a mix between beef and lamb, more on the beef side.

Depends on whale type and how it’s cooked. I’m referring to granny’s overnight milk soaked, pan fried with butter and potatoes whale. (Don’t recall the type).

You can sign up for an AWS account, set up an EC2 instance (a free type, you get one free year) and pull an wireguard image on docker there and connect to that? Unless they are whitelisting IPs I’d imagine this would work.

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-wireguard

You can also replace AWS with an external computer of your choice…

Inherit your wealth!