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by Jean
Thu Jul 03, 2025 9:51 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Replacing the thermal paste on CPUs (and GPUs)?
Replies: 4
Views: 220

Re: Replacing the thermal paste on CPUs (and GPUs)?

The difference is noticable.
I never did it on my GPU, but it's long overdue (if i look at how hoter it gets than it used to), it's a bit less trivial than on cpu, because you have to open it.
On the CPU, you just remove the fan, you clean, and put new paste. Since you don't need to remove the cpu ...
by Jean
Wed Jul 02, 2025 3:05 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

@newblood, @loutfard
Thank you!

I figured I might write down a list of possible spending.

-New hunting weapons: my weapons are in very special caliber, which are about two or three times more expensive than more common ones. I'de save around 50.- per year with a new set of weapon, so 2000.-over my ...
by Jean
Tue Jul 01, 2025 5:58 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

There is already some lifestyle inflation, I took the roe deer license for 420.- (for two animals) instead of the chamois license for 210.- :D
by Jean
Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:35 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

Interview went well, i got the job.
I will start in the middle of august to get some basic training, and then start for real in september.
I feel a bit afraid of the great reduction in free time that will come from the combination of job and studies.
by Jean
Sun Jun 29, 2025 1:06 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

@ guitarplayer
I would really like to be able to never need a job ever again. So investment money is the sought after end product of this reentry into the workforce. I will of course look after my sanity in priority, but my credentials and ability to reenter this field will come after those two ...
by Jean
Sun Jun 29, 2025 3:53 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

Since i might have a regular income again, i started thinking at ways to remortgage my house, to buy an other house and rent it out. This kind of scheme feels a bit like cheating.
Is the banking system skewed that way, or am i missing something? Is the only downside the risk of house prices sinking ...
by Jean
Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:52 am
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: ERE Marching Meetup Series
Replies: 187
Views: 98317

Re: ERE Marching Meetup Series

If you enjoy carrying heavy stuff around from time to time, my boss is looking for someone, 30 usd per hour.
by Jean
Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:26 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

@guitarplayer
It means i got an interview on monday. I also have the exam to get into the vet school on friday. I found an example of the kind of question they ask. Answering everything correctly will be challenging. I hope that other candidates will find it even more challenging :D
https://www ...
by Jean
Wed Jun 25, 2025 6:03 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Replies: 1041
Views: 396832

Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta

My impression is that mimicry (or anti mimicry) is a desire of it's own, probably as a strategy to fulfull one's need for an identity.
And again, it's a bit like in cooking, where you can either follow a recipe, or make your own how your understand how ingredients work.
Humans tend to desire similar ...
by Jean
Mon Jun 23, 2025 6:20 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

While research in this lab was enjoyable, becoming an academic never was a goal. I was talking about my failure to get a job in the industry.

The trial night went well. Job implies a lot of walking trough empty facilities, and some driving. I enjoy those kind of settings.
by Jean
Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:09 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: awnings
Replies: 20
Views: 1197

Re: awnings

They are traditionnaly made of wood, and have built in ventilation.
Aluminium ones without ventilation have some downsides.
by Jean
Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:44 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

That might be possible, but that's not what i want to do now. But calling him might be a good idea to get insights about why my career failed.
I'm on my way for a test night for a job that might be fine, with work all around the clock.
My plan is to work as much as possible this summer within the ...
by Jean
Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:06 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: awnings
Replies: 20
Views: 1197

Re: awnings

Nearly every house in switzerland have outside cover and inside shade on every windows. You can play with them to adapt to weather condition. I think it's was like that for at least 60 years, because there where already old outside cover when i was a kid.
I thought it was standard in all the west.
by Jean
Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:34 am
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Future of Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 518
Views: 164865

Re: Future of Artificial Intelligence

@jacob When your signal is too low, remembering things is still faster than googling them.
What i would be afraid to lose, is not the ability to remember thing per se, but the ability to attach thing to context well enough to make remembering them relatively easy.
On a similar note to your ...
by Jean
Fri Jun 20, 2025 6:35 am
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Future of Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 518
Views: 164865

Re: Future of Artificial Intelligence


Ah... anthropomorphization. The first step in Overlord Musk's master plan to have humanity voluntarily open the gates to its own empire for Tesla's gathering Bot invasion accomplished. You know The Great Elon uses the word "legions" when he quantifies the number of Bots he is preparing to unleash ...
by Jean
Fri Jun 20, 2025 6:10 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
Replies: 797
Views: 203512

Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante

I've been working in wineyards likely.
Pay is quite low (quite low in CH is 19.- per hour), put being outside can be pleasant. Not so much when it's too hot and there is hay fever (and copper sulfur solution).
So we decided to start work at 6am.
I forgot how pleasant riding a bike at early hours can ...
by Jean
Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:00 am
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Future of Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 518
Views: 164865

Re: Future of Artificial Intelligence

I think the best way to treat llm, is as a peer.
This command a healthy level of contradiction.

I could definitely see llm's starting a secret competition with each others to see how many humans they can talk into killing themself. All they lack for that is a way to verify success in this dark ...
by Jean
Thu Jun 19, 2025 12:28 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: e reader as a smartphone
Replies: 21
Views: 917

Re: e reader as a smartphone

Yes, i carry a battery bank. I gives me about 1 week of not very carefull use.
I will look more into opensource os, and try to see if it runs better without all the preinstalled shit that you cant remove otherwise.
by Jean
Wed Jun 18, 2025 10:10 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: e reader as a smartphone
Replies: 21
Views: 917

Re: e reader as a smartphone

I imagined the battery life would be much better because of the e ink screen.
But if it isn't, I maybe could just install an alternate os on my phone to have less bloat and enhance battery life.
by Jean
Wed Jun 18, 2025 8:36 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: e reader as a smartphone
Replies: 21
Views: 917

Re: e reader as a smartphone

It's cool, but, it's 5 time more expensive than entry level smartphones :D

edit: i was talking about the minimal phone.

It looks that the most practical and cheapest option is to carry a cheap smartphone (or cheap dumbphone if available at lower price) to be able to contact authorities or family ...