Fun fact: you can download llama3, an llm model made by meta (which is surprisingly good for its size), and it's only 4.7gb.
A dvd can store 4.7 gb of data, meaning you could in theory have an llm on a DVD.
Im the person who's been "chosen by the people" to do "IT stuff". Family, friends, teachers, and neighbours reach out to me for the simplest tasks. Stuff they could probably figure out on their own, but insist I do for them.
I'm a nightmare for my school administrators, as I know my way around every blocking and monitoring thing they've set up on the school equipment.
I've also caused headaches for the entire city wide school system, as I got cloudflare to (unintentionally) block traffic from our ip address, and since all traffic is funnleded trough a VPN to a central gateway (all schools in said city use the vpn) ,meaning I blocked 66k kids from using the internet for 15m. ( I didn't get in trouble :3)
What's nice here is that the upvote to comment ratio is pretty low compared to reddit and other platforms, meaning one upvote here means a lot more than one upvote on reddit.
Also each post sparks cool and unique discussions so you get more out of reading and participating in the comment section.
The main cause for why I wanted to leave reddit was the "hustle" for getting as many upvotes as possible. It just felt like the content was not genuine, but merely manufactured for clicks, meaning that you wouldn't really get proper or meaningful conversations with other people. What triggered my switch to lemmy was reddit's api changes and the censorship moderators and spez did.
Here, I can have an actually meaningful conversation without the toxicity and childishness of redditors on reddit.
One thing I miss though is leaving the huge bank of information that accumulated on that platform from decades of people sharing information.
I have touched the pins on the original flash capacitor when it was half discharged, and I was scared it restarted my heart (it didn't).
With this one I'm even more terrified as it has about 4 times the capacity and voltage, so it would be an even more effective defibrillator.
Also the noise it makes is scary too. It takes a solid minute to charge, and as it does that you can hear a high pitched noise getting higher pitched as the voltage increases. When you finally discharge it, it sounds like a quiet gun shot with echo and everything.
Thanks for leading me down the electric grid rabbit hole!