Do you know of any banks that are platform agnostic? I don’t think it’s a matter of the banks choosing to exclude other operating systems as much as a matter of internal resources to develop and maintain a secure app on an OS few of their users would use.

If you know of any banks that have apps that work on a Linux phone I think that’d be a great list to start and pin to the community.

The female pelvis is wider than the male pelvis, so it creates more space for that ‘indoor plumbing’. In both a man’s and a woman’s pelvis you’ll find intestines, a bladder and muscle/connective tissue. A woman also has her uterus, overies and upper vagina. A man’s pelvis includes some seminal vesicles and prostate.

And yes, a woman does have a perineum.

Because it’s what they’ve always done.

Back when I used to collect comic books I’d always get excited by the ‘book value’ of something I owned, and my dad would always tell me “No matter what the price guide says, that comic is worth only what someone is willing to pay for it”.

Most people who are going to buy into SpaceX are likely going to do it out of love for space exploration and a desire to be a part of SpaceX.

Even if the stock dips soon after the IPO, getting in early on a huge IPO such as this historically pays off huge in the long run.

It means that data centers will just find a way to have themselves classified as anything except for a data center… meanwhile anyone who happens to have more than 3 computers in their homes will have to pay extra on their electric bills.

So is the Liftoff!

Except that it isn’t. There are many open AI models being created by non-corporate entities, NousResearch is one of the more popular ones. They are dedicated to creating open models for the betterment of all.

And even if you do use open models that were created by a corporation… ok. It isn’t like using those models on your own hardware, on your own network, is going to be providing anything to those corporations.

To be fair, Google had the ability many years before ChatGPT was released to release a similar product but they purposefully didn’t, and instead they only used it internally. And then when OpenAI did their release Google was one of the voices calling for moderation. They released Bard because otherwise they were going to be left behind, and likely have lawsuits from investors.

Do you want to live in a country with a dictatorship like that? I don’t.

Uh, I’ve got some bad news for you …

I have my local LLM currently setup and it runs just as well as Sonnet 4.6 from a quality standpoint, and for performance it is slightly slower but it’s still faster than I can respond.

This is with a Strix Halo APU with 128GB unified memory using the latest Qwen3.6 models with llama.cpp.

My favorite Scrabble win was using ‘eBay’… before playing that word I looked at the instruction sheet and it specifically said that “words that begin with a capital” are not allowed. There were some sour grapes after that one.

It’s a wonderful show, and I don’t know the scene you’re referring to but they do tend to spend a lot of time creating dishes, which I suppose is something chefs do when coming up with something new. But what gets me is when they are outside of the professional kitchen and cooking for someone. It’s happened a few times where someone says they are hungry, and so one of the chefs will ‘whip up something’… and it’s like a whole process. Once it even involved a trip to the grocery store, and that was when a kid was hungry.

Even still, it’s a great show.

This is how we play… and it has resulted in some VERY long games.

Once we had some friends over and their 8 year old son was playing with us. He almost won a few times, but his dad did everything in his power to keep him from winning. It was close to midnight before that game ended and it was the first time I considered changing the house rules.

Which Zahn books? The Heir to the Empire or the newer Thrawn trilogy? I love both, and I feel like they’ve done an incredible job with Rebels, Ahsoka, Mandalorian… really all of the tv shows (though I haven’t watched Maul yet). I would love for them to continue telling these stories and have the original characters just show up where it makes sense… like Luke coming to collect Grogu for training. Maybe have Han and Chewy running a cantina left to him by Lando. Ewoks starting the process of joining the New Republic and electing representatives. And Wedge… well, he had enough of war and no one has heard from him in many years.

They don’t need to keep telling stories about Luke… the remarkable part of his life happened when he was young, now he’s doing the boring and difficult work of rebuilding the Jedi Order. There’s no exciting story there, but he can be in the background of other characters who are doing remarkable things.

You come to the comments and see if anyone has a good summary of it yet.

They don’t.

The Linux phone is like Iranian nukes… always just right around the corner.

That how I feel… but I only ever talk about it to a very small number of people. No one needs to know my shit.

“They are living, sentient beings, and if we have the ability to save them through a safe and humane solution, we have a responsibility to try.”

So I’m only going to offer to save half of them.

But seriously, I’m glad he’s able to help. I wish he could find a way to keep them where they are while also protecting the local environment because the story of these hippos is great and could be a nice tourism draw for Columbia, but even saving some from culling is a good thing.

I’m curious why? She has done great in both dramatic and comedic roles, as well as dark comedy, which I think would work well with White Lotus.

I did some ‘back of the napkin’ math a few days ago to see what it would take for the employees in my company to purchase enough shares for a controlling stake in the company. I figured that we’d never get 100% of the employees to buy in, but we also don’t need 100% of the shares, so to keep it easy I calculated if 60% bought 60% of the shares… and it would cost each employee around $2.3 million.

That tells me that each employee provides $2.3 million worth of value to the company… and we’re not getting paid anywhere near that. Not even close.