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I keep hoping to use the social networks for something else. I'd really love to talk about games, music, etc etc. But somehow it always turns political. Don't follow me if you don't want to see potentially either or completely at random.

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2024-08-08 00:08:38

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Can we stop just repeating BS verbatim in news articles? Haven't the recent politics problems taught us all better by now?
MS is lying because they want to sell them newer copies of Windows (complete with Copilot/etc gathering private info no doubt.) For once it isn't even the fault of Windows that this issue happened. CrowdStrike's issue is *HOW* it works, not what it works on. (It even affected Linux systems the same way a while back.)
MS is lying. Period. The end.

2024-08-08 00:05:32

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We got lucky on COVID-19. It only wrecks us and does major systemic damage that wrecks our immune system and causes long term side effects, killing a decent portion of people who catch it even as we pretend it away
Well, that doesn't sound so lucky, but something even worse could have killed even more people with even more debilitating effects and that may well be what the next pandemic delivers. And, meanwhile, mitigation resistance (including vaccines) is at an all time high...

2024-08-08 00:00:55

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Slot loaders are hardly a new thing. They've been around in various forms for ages. They have some disadvantages and very little extra convenience though. It saves you like two seconds versus putting it in a tray or on a spindle but the rollers can smear or get dust on the discs and it's a bit harder to get a good grip on the disc when it spits it out. There is a reason everyone else generally used something else. Really, in the end, trayloaders are still the best.

2024-08-07 23:51:13

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Meanwhile I see no ads here on Mastodon and my instance owners aren't selling my private info to the highest bidder. Check and mate Reddit.

2024-08-07 22:42:25

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As a side note, these people also clearly have exactly *ZERO* experience with so called "AI." It literally can't replace someone... What they call AI as it stands right now never will. (At best it could be a component mechanism to something much more complicated and even that is doubtful.)

2024-08-07 22:18:03

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You know, I bet they could keep their prices down by paying that CFO and CEO less.

2024-08-07 04:26:03

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The most ideal model for a particular task changes *by the day* with new finetunes coming out all the time. Personally I'm a fan of Gemma 2 27B for most of my tasks, but I'm not using it for coding I admit. Tomorrow though... I don't know, who knows?

2024-08-07 03:59:27

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Musk: Businesses should be allowed to do anything they want without any consequences whatsoever no matter how badly they screw people over, how many laws they break, or how much racism or bigotry they promote.
Also Musk: Businesses should be held to strict requirements in everything they do and should not be allowed to pull sources of revenue from my clutch- I mean to threaten jobs by reducing profit margins.

2024-08-07 03:50:55

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He thinks it's some kind of big moment, like "woo, look at me, I'm the big guy" there and just looks like a total idiot.
Just say it clearly dude. We all know what you mean. "Advertisers obey me and do exactly what I say exactly how I say it because I am your god and I will punish you if you do not obey."
And yes, let's be clear, malignant narcissists see themselves as the center of the universe. Literally as gods.

2024-08-07 02:16:21

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A good reminder of what is most ruining EV market acceptance outside of those just simply making the decision politically. EVs could be cost effective, reliable, and good. Instead they're focusing on stupid crap like this, locking down basic mechanisms as "subscription features," becoming privacy-leaking nightmares, etc.
Just give us a car that we plug in instead of fill up. That's it. That's all you have to do. We don't want any of the rest.

2024-08-07 02:05:45

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As an AMD user I have to say that getting decent "AI" stuff out of their hardware is tricky at best, but also I would not expect a laptop CPU with shared sysram to be a very... comfortable experience. It's also going to be VERY rough on the hardware of a laptop to do this. Can't recommend against it enough. This needs a desktop that can handle the level of power this stuff needs. Especially given the premium costs of laptop hardware compared to desktop equivalents.

2024-08-07 01:39:49

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The world: these things are really bad. They massively violate privacy, don't work right, and cause more problems than they even pretend to solve.
Lawmakers: So what you're saying is we should help make it more profitable for corporations to increase their usage? Ok!

2024-08-07 01:09:30

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It's... tricky. The problem is LLMs both lie and hallucinate (yes, I differentiate.) The lie is when they know they don't know something. This can be fought against somewhat easily. The hallucinate is when they don't know they don't know something.
I was messing around with a doctor card and I found that *to some extent* saying "if they are less familiar with something they will refer the patient to a specialist" has some effect. But you have to recognize when it does this.

2024-08-07 01:01:44

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The right: it should be illegal for the government to step in and regulate businesses in *ANY* form! We should be able to screw anyone over any way we want without consequence.
Also the right: how *DARE* the government not step in and force businesses to do what profits me personally the most! There should be severe consequences for decreasing my profits.
I love how people think these people are actually about decreasing oversight rather than just about increasing profits.

2024-07-31 02:49:57

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It isn't as if they couldn't train people.
My favorite ones though are the ones that say they require like 5 years experience in some super-proprietary enterprise-only software that no one even could access at home (at least not legally) and thus could only even know by having worked probably in that specific place for 5+ years. (Are these fake job entries? Like just to internally move a specific person put external so it looks like they're offering more jobs than they are?)

2024-07-29 06:26:01

The right when it comes to masks and the worst pandemic in more than a century: the right of individuals to make choices comes before the lives and livelihood of countless others around them.
The right when it comes to abortion: even one single life is more important than the health and livelihood of an individual and that individual should not be allowed to have a choice.
I'm starting to believe it was never about saving lives.
(Where is my right to choose not to get sick or long covid?)

2024-07-23 01:54:38

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It amazes me how much people on the right fail to understand that this is what the GOP has been trying for a very long time to create (at least back before they changed over to the nazi party.) This is privatization at its strongest.
Time for mafia/etc to step up to rule a'la Snow Crash.

2024-07-21 20:55:21

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Amazing how one-sided this is, isn't it? It's almost as if the whole "an older person is incapable of handling the office" (but somehow this other person who is less than one term younger is fine) is completely disingenuous...

2024-07-20 02:54:56

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"In today's age, advertising has become a necessary evil for an Internet-focused organization to stay in business"
Can't agree. Lots of true FOSS has no ads.
The thing is, the only thing Firefox *truly* has going for it is it doesn't do the Google crap. By... doing the google crap, it basically means we're all stuck with no truly viable major browsers anymore.
Which is a good reminder that we never should have let it get to the point there were only two real browsers.

2024-07-19 04:22:16

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COVID-19 is proud to announce that even as vaccination rates fall as a whole, programs like BRIDGE are ending to help ensure the rates will fall even further.

2024-07-17 05:03:20

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Until you try to install something newish or a "low priority" issue takes a while to get patched out, lol.

2024-07-14 04:31:22

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On my Android phones I do not for security reasons but for tinfoil hat reasons.
I know that nothing can access it without my permission. I just feel more comfortable with it covered.
(Don't have an actual webcam on my PC. That's a bit more complicated. If I did I'd probably unplug it when not in use instead of covering it.)

2024-07-14 04:09:29

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This sort of thing is great for live setups, but I feel like its use outside of scenarios like that is pretty limited. Even on my Android phone which these days uses an image instead of a partition for security reasons can still be a bit of a pain. I use root access and writing things basically requires something that mounts an overlay during boot time (which of course means no go on locked bootloaders and much more compromised security on loading)
I'd rather move away from immutable

2024-07-12 22:36:14

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Took long enough. This was literally what it was designed to do from the very start. There is a reason they specifically took over the previous system of checkmarks specifically and didn't implement a new system (like making the accounts highlighted in gold or something.)

2024-07-12 22:30:37

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I keep hoping stuff like this could at least somewhat help with the shockingly horrible way most people in areas like mine drive. I'm legitimately shocked if this one doesn't because I see numerous people in my area who just can't even be bothered with proper lane changes at all -- they don't look, signal or anything. They just suddenly swerve and you better get out of their way or else. (They literally would rather die than push that tiny stick slightly.)

2024-07-12 22:23:16

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Mastodon is FOSS. Bluesky is not.

2024-07-12 21:58:01

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There must be more to it than it being made of aluminum. How much extra does that really cost in manufacturing? $1? 50 cents? At $500 it should be reaching Steamdeck level of performance and capabilities...

2024-07-12 09:07:53

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Can we *PLEASE* stop putting malignant narcissists in charge of things?

2024-07-12 08:54:42

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I had to check the date on this post.
Twice.
Are you sure you don't mean blurays or something at least? People seem to be so silly about resolution even in things that don't need it (I, for one, care more about the quality of the story than about whether I can see how open the actor's pores are that day) that it's hard to imagine most of them watching 480i all that much these days.

2024-07-12 08:47:20

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To be clear, it is impossible for carbon capture to ever reach a sufficient level. It is an excellent tool, but it *must* be coupled with other solutions as well. We need a multi-pronged approach. Reduce emissions and waste, capture what we can, use alternatives where we can, etc etc. If we do all this stuff together, carbon capture becomes an incredible tool to help support the other solutions. But it can't replace the others.

2024-07-12 08:44:50

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I seriously can't see how people can't see that calls for privatizing things with no limits won't result in, well, no limits. In such a system it's not lowest bid wins, it's everyone finds the absolute highest bid they can get away with and then just focus on marketing to convince people their way overpriced service is better than the other way overpriced service. Marketing works a lot better than pricing for competition it seems because that's just how humans are.

2024-07-08 21:35:01

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Seems silly to do it internally at all now that modern operating systems have means of connecting external spellcheckers to virtually anything. Linux has done that forever. Windows basically does it on most modern things almost the same way.
That said, at this point everyone in Windows should just use Notepad++ instead anyway. Simple, light, efficient, yet can do basic simple things that Notepad won't do (also FOSS!)

2024-06-22 00:26:09

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Actually, it's because SERN controls the only fully working time machine and viciously attacks anyone else they catch trying to build one.

2024-06-22 00:15:40

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As a general rule of thumb, when something where privacy is a concern straight up skips the EU it means you don't want it elsewhere either until they fix whatever makes it non-compliant with EU privacy laws...

2024-06-22 00:06:00

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They actually had the Pocket 386 for a while. I never even understood the point of the 8088 system. It would limit so much software capabilities even in regards to retro terms... A 386 makes a heck of a lot more sense.

2024-06-22 00:04:01

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This sounds like it requires serious investigation. For example, might he have some stake in the company that produced it?
It really makes no sense that just one person can issue such decisions though, regardless. I could understand if there were very good reason (such as an emergency and something with bad side effects was the only option) but this doesn't seem to match that. It really feels like he has stock in the company or something. (If that's not illegal it should be!)

2024-06-21 06:16:08

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Someone could make a live distro based on it. There is quite a surprising dearth of those.

2024-06-20 23:07:34

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"For its part, Kaspersky and its representatives have always denied the US government's allegations."
Unfortunately, the problem isn't "does the Russian government currently influence Kaspersky." The problem is that it can at any given time without warning.
As a side note, "you can trust me because I say so" isn't very good. Of course if they *WERE* influenced they would be required to say that they weren't and it's highly unlikely they would refuse (and fall out a window.)

2024-06-20 22:24:54

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Went to Manjaro recently in part because of AMD's weird foot shuffling over the extremely major Ubuntu 24.04 release and all the many distros built around that. (Major LTS release and as far as I can tell the only problem is that for some reason it is built to require specific python modules that conflict -- friendly reminder to everyone, don't freaking use Python in anything that matters, it's a hot mess. They could fix it in a week if they tried but apparently don't care.)

2024-06-20 22:22:38

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Rofl, what the heck even?
And cue people misusing it for aimbots or something and it getting specifically banned from everything anyway.

2024-06-20 22:14:49

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I know generally speaking such contracts have clauses that effectively try to claim they can cancel for any reason, but I suspect in many cases this may still not actually be legal -- or at least open them up to punitive damages of some sort even if technically legal. Would be nice if people hit back in such cases, though I know most doing this probably aren't lawyers.

2024-06-20 21:05:09

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The idea is sound enough. Would be nice if there were some more automated method people might use on local LLMs or things not owned by large corporations that take your information to actually use this. For local LLMs and such one would just have to do this manually I guess.
Really the basic idea is so simple we all pretty much were already doing this really. Just the way this is described one realizes it could be automated perhaps.

2024-06-20 20:55:12

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Seems like exa is being replaced by eza. From googling around it looks like exa is unmaintained I think.

2024-06-20 04:59:57

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I imagine even with a NPU processor use for LLM tasks is going to be pretty severely limited on a RPi (even 5.) RAM of course being one of the biggest constraints, but if that "TOPs" measurement means token operations per second, prompt processing alone is going to take ages.
Can't imagine running anything much heavier than a 3B or something on there and even that would likely be limited. 3B isn't very good either. (Need at least 7 to get decent stuff and even that's pushing it.)

2024-06-19 03:30:48

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Whew...
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/641/167/204/502/926/original/0f223e92b232bbd1.jpg

2024-06-19 02:32:43

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I presume this is using a VM? That would be pretty inefficient and messy though.
Depending on what you need, in many cases Termux may be a better solution, but really what we need are proper actual builds of an actual Linux OS (like Ubuntu for phones, but supporting large numbers of devices and actually being developed.)

2024-06-19 01:12:07

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A good reminder of why people never should have been ok with EVs relying so heavily on closed, proprietary software... I never understood how people accepted this in something as costly and vital as a vehicle.

2024-06-18 23:40:19

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Well, it's mostly for hardware. They're pushing hardware really hard and focusing solely on "AI" portions. Which is a thing that bugs me on them and AMD both really. Instead of making the stuff people are trying to do (RT and etc) run full speed native, the focus right now is on running low resolution and upscaling using "AI" resizing (which lots of issues that bother my eyes like ringing.) Some modern games (Starfield) look awful at wrong settings due to relying heavily on it.

2024-06-17 23:46:51

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I guess it's not wrong, but, lol, I go back to DOS games today I used to play keyboard only and struggle so hard to find it comfortable. One of my favorites is Daggerfall which can be played with modern WASD + mouse almost perfectly despite its age. That game was so ahead of its time. I probably put 1000 hours into it back in the day.
A lot of adventure games really need the mouse though. Only some very early ones can be played keyboard only. No mouse would be missing a lot.

2024-06-17 23:40:05

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Does TDK have some sort of exclusivity agreement with Apple? I haven't exactly kept up, but they used to be just a tech company in general, not specifically tied to Apple. They're not an "Apple supplier" if Apple just happens to use their products...
Sure would be amazing if their claim was true anyway. At least unless they actually do have an exclusivity agreement. Then it screws over the world.

2024-06-17 23:29:50

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Actually thinness is not good. We need to go back to devices that we hold being designed for human hands. Current ones are so thin and slick now that it's nearly impossible to hold onto them without a death grip.
What we need to bring back is making them small enough to actually fit *IN* a hand instead of *AROUND* a hand.

2024-06-17 23:12:48

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It has launched. This is it. This "alpha" is all anyone will ever get.
But yeah, even if you pretend it's not vaporware, considering the game will remain in this state for the foreseeable future, it only makes sense they wouldn't be fond of cheating that could affect sales.

2024-06-15 22:28:01

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Yeah, but they're also responsible for EV cars sinking in the ocean and shocking people while they chase you to nom on your legs.

2024-06-15 21:33:46

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I tried to tell everyone that the robots.txt thing wouldn't be respected back when they first started trying to block LLM data crawlers and I got ripped into.
I don't know if there is any truly great solution, but yeah, companies like those are going to just ignore them.

2024-06-15 21:12:49

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I played a port of Drakkhen. SNES I think? Been a while. It was actually rather impressive considering the timeframe of when it was made.
Wow that pricetag though. In the money of the time, that's through the roof.

2024-06-15 01:49:14

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I really want to know what is going on with these big companies lately. I swear they've all completely lost their minds. Is there just sort of an event horizon thing going on where they just sort of passed some sort of equilibrium point and are now basically freefalling into some kind of insane dystopian ideal?

2024-06-14 22:31:06

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Same! First time I saw 800x600 in something my mind was blown. Even just getting some DOS games to look better (King's Quest VI in Windows used higher resolutions for the portraits for example) was huge for me. For a time I even ran 1024x768 on a monitor that couldn't really handle it so everything was kind of a bit blurry just because I wanted that resolution, lol.
Feels crazy to me today seeing people go down to 120x100 resolutions in games on purpose.

2024-06-14 22:11:03

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With a 600MHz -- albeit a Celeron -- you should be able to play non-accelerated games that support high res smoothly even. Very nice setup indeed!
I always found it neat playing those games that supported it in high res at the time. Like Build engine games especially. But my computer at the time totally could not handle it! I ended up at 320x200 in the end just to be playable, lol. But I truly enjoyed seeing high res back then.

2024-06-14 21:51:49

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I can imagine the GPU alone would be a pain. Is that a Voodoo 1 or 2 passing through a second videocard even? I bet it's easier to find a Voodoo3 based solution these days, but I imagine that would be bad for DOS gaming.

2024-06-14 21:27:51

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Not really "now available." Local LLM inferencing has been available for quite a long time now. My personal preference being KoboldCPP since it's leaner and simpler than most.
I suggest anything that runs on Python like that should run through Miniconda or Anaconda. Despite the venv, they make a real mess of things sometimes and distros are now moving away from the user using pip natively anyway. Also most prefer Python 3.10 which is horribly outdated anyway.

2024-06-14 21:24:14

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This is really neat. So compact and a pretty nice setup there for that time period.

2024-06-14 20:43:05

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The thing is, the games weren't really about that originally. It was nice and neat when you got a nicer than normal item, but it wasn't the whole game. You could just play and enjoy the game and that was bonus, not a requirement. Making finding those the chief focus of the games now was always horrible.

2024-06-14 20:01:35

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And run fail2ban.

2024-06-14 20:00:33

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In other words they hit the limits of what they can get away with in a country with privacy laws so they'll just steal info from everyone else.

2024-06-13 22:50:33

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What's that sound? Sounds like a bus coming...

2024-06-13 22:39:12

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It's not meant to be a creative victory, it's meant to make a point.

2024-06-13 22:00:47

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It's starting to reach the point even Windows 10 is beginning to fail for even gaming. Microsoft has lost their everloving minds. It's hard, but I'm trying to switch to Linux for even gaming these days. It definitely isn't the same experience, but if I can escape from Microsoft's insanity it will be worth it.
Meanwhile my Windows 10 installation has updates blocked. Eventually some driver will require an update, but for now it works.
You couldn't pay me to use Windows 11.

2024-06-13 21:42:59

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When *THIS* Supreme Court can't support something that would help anti-abortionists, you *KNOW* the legal standing is bad!

2024-06-13 09:51:09

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I hope this is a positive sign. Microsoft has lost their everloving minds lately. If nothing else they need a little shaking up. But really it is long past time for gaming to not have to rely on Windows.

2024-06-13 09:42:49

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I'm mostly like Audacious best these days. It's still fairly clean and not too bloated and has a lot of features more resembling Foobar2000 which I've missed from Windows. Though it still lacks quite a few things (such as controlling the output frequency apparently. It just outputs at the default. So if you want to avoid resampling you have to change the system default to match your primary sources.)
Still, pretty clean and relatively light.

2024-06-12 09:16:56

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Or, alternately, instead of non-FOSS solutions, you could use Stable Diffusion. 🤷
(Ok, there is a separate argument about the models, but I believe there are some properly FOSS models too?)

2024-06-12 00:35:00

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Thanks for the info.

2024-06-12 00:32:59

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I was thinking of that one. Probably multi-instance is still my easiest way to go, I just wanted to see how realistic it would be to try to stay same on both.

2024-06-12 00:30:47

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Yeah, I couldn't specify because of character limits, lol. I primarily use the site. So I think that answers that question.

2024-06-11 23:21:13

Does anyone know if it's possible to have two accounts on the same instance and how easy it is to cross-post if so? I'd like to switch around to having two accounts with one dedicated to one thing and another to everything else but would like to keep using this instance (don't want to clutter this with discussion of why.) Ideally I'd like to be able to just click on something to switch accounts, but if it means logging off and back on I'll have to do two instances.
#mastodon #account

2024-06-11 23:14:38

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Says the man who puts spyware in people's cars.

2024-06-11 22:20:08

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The real question is "can you *ACTUALLY*" because I saw a lot of people saying the RPi4 with 4GiB of RAM ran as well as a decent laptop and in practice I'm finding what it actually does is freeze up a lot, struggle to play videos online, and even overheat and crash.

2024-06-11 06:44:42

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You really do have to wonder what's going on in their minds to push Recall so hard and only just now *finally* acknowledge that every single person out there looking into it has said "this is terrible." I suppose in theory there is some use-case for this, but I just haven't seen one single person actually come up with one. Yet over at MS someone came up with the idea, people approved it, and whole teams worked on making it happen.

2024-06-09 00:16:34

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I want to say 7 Days to Die, but for some reason I had a performance issue with it in towns? I need to diagnose that at some point and see if the Windows version does better in WINE because I don't get that issue in actual Windows. But it may just be a bad setting or something. (Actually, I'm suspecting the filesystem -- btrfs -- I was using could also be a culprit.)

2024-06-07 20:44:45

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The PC Engine would be an even more extreme of east vs west with hardly anything not from Japan on it.
SNES has its share of games with such tones too, but it probably is indeed skewed a bit more towards purer colors as you say.
I do think it might be worth taking a deeper look as to which games are on which and who made them as an overall trend, I just am not able to do it right now.

2024-06-07 20:32:26

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/577/235/644/777/489/original/51da9eb1c2e0dc58.jpg

2024-06-07 20:18:45

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The competition thanks Broadcom.

2024-06-07 20:06:16

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Too bad anything running at the user's access level will bypass the encryption. Aka it has little effect on things like viruses, exploits, etc etc. (Pretty much just means someone physically sitting at your computer will find it harder to access.)

2024-06-07 20:04:12

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Uhm, him paying less attention to it actually would be a positive, so it's kind of win-win to not give him the money. In fact, the less he is paid the more the rest of the world wins...

2024-06-07 19:49:27

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Well, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure looks about the same on every platform regardless of what the Wikipedia entry may say. Even the PC versions look virtually the same. Which actually brings up another point: it might be more a matter of a lot of games of the time period tended towards such styles.
It's worth noting it does have bright levels. The first level is supposed to be deep jungle (eg lots of cover.) In particular the waterfall is a bright area.

2024-06-07 00:55:34

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This is one of the dumbest ideas I have heard in regards to AI. This *WILL* compromised the BIOS. Not only will it be more vulnerable to viruses that use the right keywords, but it will be just plain vulnerable to the user typing the wrong thing or even simple "hallucination" deciding to run your CPU at 12 volts.

2024-06-07 00:09:00

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One thing I noticed a lot of on the MD/Genesis that affects a lot of games and I think maybe might apply somewhat here is that they all wanted a sort of "more realistic" look. Obviously doesn't apply to stuff like Castle of Illusion directly, but I think indirectly it created a sort of culture of trying to make games look a certain way.
One thing that drove me crazy on the system was the *HEAVY* reliance on dithering and for the CRT to smooth it out.
Pitfall is mulitplatform though

2024-06-06 23:55:20

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It's funny when you realize Vocaloids already exist and do it better. But a lot of the stuff this produces would be great for banshees or something in games I guess.

2024-06-06 22:34:08

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Even more anonymous: just run a LLM on your own PC.

2024-06-06 22:33:17

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There's also another major disease going around that vaccine misinformation has been causing problems around.

2024-06-06 22:31:49

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I can't understand why so many things are throwing their all behind LLMs when flipping a coin is literally more accurate...

2024-06-05 01:11:05

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ngl, for me Linux is still a much more unpleasant experience. Even file managers just aren't as nice (though, to be fair, I've mostly been using CubicExplorer in Windows which is horrendously outdated, abandoned, and starting to work less and less every system update. :sadness: ) Especially dealing with packages that rely on Python (god what a hot mess) which more Linux stuff does than Windows stuff does.
Still, it's worth it to get away from Microsoft and Apple.

2024-06-05 00:34:14

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This is the fundamental problem with "AI." It's not AI. It can't learn. They have to manually program those conditions in.

2024-06-04 06:58:32

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Thing is, even if you 100% trust MS with your personal data, the chief issue here is that it's a freaking huge attack vector. And I don't just mean obvious stuff like downloading "thisisnotavirusyoucantrustme.exe" and running it. I mean potentially exploits in browsers or etc could open a person up to attack. It's SCARY easy to access the data it records... Even assuming they harden it from how it was in early samples, it's still fundamentally insecure at its entire basis.

2024-06-04 03:07:34

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Do they use a SoC controller yet? I still don't understand why Intel didn't copy that ASAP when AMD did it. With economy cores and such a SoC really is needed... (Software routing is troublesome.)

2024-06-03 06:35:22

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Nano here. Nice and simple, yet effective. It has basics like syntax highlighting and etc and keeps things simple and not too weird. It doesn't do super advanced things, but that's fine. I just want to edit configuration files, view text files, etc.

2024-06-03 00:05:10

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I'd rather trust to something like ClamAV.

2024-06-01 20:35:17

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I remember when Python seemed like a good idea. Now it's just a hot mess with conflicting packages and even some stuff that just plain refuses to work on a version of Python that is almost a full year old now. (There is slow adaptation and then there's refusing to support something that has been out so long it's about to be replaced with a new version anyway...) In fact, most things seem to prefer 3.10 from 2021...
It's sad, but multiple versions are necessary.

2024-06-01 20:02:29

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I keep wondering over and over what was even the thought process in coming up with this? Much less greenlighting it. I know MS has been getting worse and worse lately and people let them get away with way too much crap when they should have mass exodused the moment Windows 10 came out with so many privacy violations built right in, but instead people keep doing the opposite (helping support worse and worse things.) But this is going so far. Will people finally put their foot down?

2024-05-30 22:06:28

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My biggest problem has mostly just been gaming. WINE (or especially Wine-GE and Proton) has gotten better than it used to be, but it's still a hot mess. Especially trying to get prerequisites installed for some stuff (winetricks is such a PITA. It fusses at you over and over and a lot of functions fail to download or extract then just cancel the entire operation. I wish it were legal to just distribute pre-configured prefixes.) A few games still fail to work right or at all.