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  • Ray McCarthyraymaccarthy@mastodon.ie
    Jul 27, 2026, 5:01 PM

    @jaredwhite
    I've worn out many keyboards & mice writing in the last 25 years.
    Project proposals, manuals, history, programs and novels.
    I've researched Chatbots since 1980s and the current LLMs using data scraped from the Internet & books are able to do a more realistic conversation due to astronomic amount of processing and (stolen) data. They are still toys. A dead end. There are more useful computer tools with an AI label.
    I've managed programmers & engineers. Most programmers are poor.

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  • Ray McCarthyraymaccarthy@mastodon.ie
    Jul 27, 2026, 5:24 PM

    @jaredwhite
    I got a Cherry TKL mechanical keyboard for my workstation (with RGB lights set to a dim white). The matt tops are getting shiny.

    I used to have a small UPS to have enough time to save my work. Laptops are far better than All-in-ones as the UPS is built in.

    The UPS is replaced by a 3KW Solar UPS with 12 kWh of batteries and 8 panels. A separate one charged from main one feeds 3 freezers and has 4 panels. So all the computers, satellite gear, fibre & router & switches are on UPS.

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