Sturgist
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 17 hours ago:
I wasn’t really looking for
aanother reason to not use NVIDIA but whatever - Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 days ago:
Of course not! If they did then they’d be several fractions of a billion less wealthy!
- Comment on Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” 4 days ago:
The Cybertruck isn’t road legal in the UK. And if it was it’d need a special license due to it’s weight.
- Comment on Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” 4 days ago:
Apt since Durst is such a shitbag
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 2 weeks ago:
The bitlocker code for the desktop I sometimes use at work is 123456789. I asked IT who was the idiot that decided that was a good idea. The CTO apparently.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
TBF, I absolutely should have used them, but I was cooking for 25 people, and honestly totally forgot about them. I was rushing about with the BBQ, into the kitchen switching out cooked pizza for uncooked and trying to catch a sip of beer in between all that… As a result the salmon came out amazing, slow smoked at 60° for 3 hours because I totally forgot about it until the wife would occasionally say: the smoker’s not smoking!
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a Bluetooth temp probe set. They work a treat. And I totally forgot to even use them when I got smoked a salmon and chicken wings for Canada Day.
- Comment on When tech hardware becomes paperweights 2 weeks ago:
StopKillingTech?
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 3 weeks ago:
Heck yeah! Gotta watch that again, thank you kind stranger!
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 3 weeks ago:
God, I haven’t seen that movie in years. What’s it called again?
- Comment on Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad 3 weeks ago:
AI hype is smoke and mirrors
Funny story. When I was in my early 20s myself and 2 friends had been on a major shroom trip, full day affair. We were on the last bus to our small town, and the only other person on the bus was a middle aged stoner.
Just as we’re starting to get into town the stoner says:
You guys wanna smoke a joint?Us: Sure, where you getting off?
Stoner: Nah, we’ll just smoke it here at the back of the bus!
Us: Aren’t you worried about getting kicked off the bus?
Stoner: Nah man, they call it smoke and mirrors because you can’t see smoke in mirrors!
Now, I was still fucked on mushrooms, but even I could tell this man had smoked himself within a razor’s edge of his last brain cell.
- Comment on UK to be first country to use AI healthcare system to prevent future scandals 3 weeks ago:
How? There’s loads of actual humans who have been pointing things out for decades at this point, what makes you think the government is going to listen to an LLM when they ignore the experts who’ve been doing this for ages?
- Comment on Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training 4 weeks ago:
Their lawsuit, filed in New York federal court
Welp… that’s going nowhere.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 4 weeks ago:
Guess the Tankies are loving Trump for that one.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 4 weeks ago:
Could just VPN into the UK. Proton offers a free, no login required, VPN tier with several end points in the UK
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 4 weeks ago:
Yes? Anything I can help you with?
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 4 weeks ago:
Not all heros wear capes
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 weeks ago:
Fuck you pig!
- Comment on OSTP Unveils Agency Data, AI Guidelines for ‘Gold Standard Science’ 4 weeks ago:
Every accusation is actually an admission
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 5 weeks ago:
That’s not a twist at all…
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
if a human he is
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 5 weeks ago:
This is dope. I live in Scotland, but I’m from Canada, and having a cheap local number for recieving texts from stuff like my bank would be super helpful.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 weeks ago:
I plead the 5th…
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 weeks ago:
It’s proof of tech. It’d be stupid and wasteful to do all the tests on a full size rocket.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 month ago:
💪🤓
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 month ago:
Sooooooo…more serious than I thought… shiiiiiiiiit…
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 month ago:
Sorry, pardon?
- Comment on How Social Media Brings Out the Worst in Us 1 month ago:
Suffering from asthma? 9/10 Doctors recommend menthol cigarettes! Peppermint fresh puts the pep in your step!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I DID grow up with Nintendo. The first gaming thing that wasn’t a DOS computer with asteroids and commander keen on it was a NES. Then an SNES. Then an N64. A few months after the N64 we got a Sega Genesis, and a PS1.
All that said?
…fuck Nintendo. Switch 1 games play at a higher resolution and better frame rate ON MY PHONE. I refused to buy a switch, and there’s no chance in hell I’ll get a switch 2. The fact that they say if they “detect” cheating or that your S2 is jailbroken they reserve the right, and built in the ability to, brick your device. Fuck them, get fucked, no fucking chance they’re getting a single cent, pence, fucking whatever out of me. Fuck yourselves well and truly to fuck! 👍🖕👍
Rant over 🥰
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.
I disagree. It would be more accurate to say:
If we’re putting the Steam Deck against the Switch 2, the natural comparison is between Switch 1/2 compatible games, without jailbreak, versus any game that works on the Steam Deck hardware be it Linux Native, with wine/Proton and any emulator that runs games minimum original frame rate with minimal issues.
Bear in mind that the Steam Deck is a handheld Linux computer, and anything that will run on the level of hardware it has and plays nicely with Linux will run on the Steam Deck.
Even just with only installing Steam on the Deck, as of mid-May there is 18k Deck Verified games.
