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Stop Ignoring BIOS Updates: Your PC Depends on It
Stop Ignoring BIOS Updates: Your PC Depends on It I don't care what you call this—a PSA, an explainer, or a hot take. If you leave this article and decide it's finally time to update your BIOS, I've done my job. Despite how incredibly useful BIOS updates can be for your system overall, [...]
Why We Fall So Fast—and How to Tell Chemistry from Toxicity
Love can hit fast and hard. One moment, you’re living your life, and the next, someone walks in and everything shifts. You’re drawn in by a magnetic force that feels unexplainable. You call it “chemistry,” and it feels so right—until it doesn’t. We’ve all been there: falling for someone who lights us up [...]
What It Really Takes: Going Far, Falling Hard, and Learning in the Dark
Growth through struggle. Everyone wants growth. Everyone talks about glory, success, and pushing limits. But very few talk about what it actually takes to get there. It's not just discipline, not just hard work. It’s risk. It’s falling. It’s pain. It’s looking your darkest thoughts in the eye and saying, “I’m still going.” [...]
Why Denying Children Their Individual Identity Hurts Their Mental and Emotional Growth
In many families, there's an unconscious habit of expecting children—especially siblings—to think, act, and develop in similar ways. Parents may assume what works for one child should work for another. They may push a younger sibling to follow in the footsteps of the older one or dismiss a child’s unique interests as “just [...]
Unlocking LLaMA 2 on MS‑DOS: A Retrocomputing Journey from 486 to Ryzen
1. Background on Meta’s LLaMA 2 1.1 The LLaMA Family Meta released LLaMA 2 as an open‑source foundation model family ranging from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters, intended for research and commercial use under a permissive license GitHub. These models use 16‑ or 32‑bit weights, requiring substantial memory (tens to hundreds of megabytes) and compute power, [...]
The Damage of Playing Favorites: How Unequal Love Shapes Generations
Favoritism in Families: The Hidden Wound That Lasts Generations Favoritism among children isn’t just a minor oversight or an uncomfortable family quirk. It’s a deeply rooted issue that can cause psychological harm, strain relationships, and sow discord across generations. Whether it's a mother consistently praising one child more than the others, or a [...]