Overspark
@Overspark@feddit.nl
- Comment on Mice 5 days ago:
Good.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 week ago:
You can. There are simple options, that only recognise predefined sentences, that even work on a Raspberry Pi, and at the other end of the spectrum you can host an LLM locally and chat with that if you have the right hardware (Coral isn’t powerful enough for that, you want a GPU with lots of VRAM). Obviously setting this up is more complicated, but there are a lot of options to do it your way.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 week ago:
Depends on which one you have. If you but their own smart speaker (Voice PE), which is designed to stay entirely local if you have the right hardware and software locally, and even has a hardware switch to temporarily disable the microphone, it’s pretty easy. And of you don’t have all that locally you need a paid subscription to use their cloud a little bit, but they won’t store anything. So still pretty easy.
- Comment on Podman Quadlets are so cool 1 week ago:
Absolutely possible if you keep the network setup simple. However, I run different sets of containers as different users, some of which also use services from the host itself (such as a PostgreSQL instance), and things quickly become more complex in these situations. The examples on the github helped me a lot to realise everything I wanted.
- Comment on Podman Quadlets are so cool 1 week ago:
If you want to use caddy as proxy for other containers running as quadlets have a look at this repo: github.com/…/podman-caddy-socket-activation
It certainly demystified some network shenanigans for me.
- Comment on Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you can unblock per device in Adguard, so maybe block it first then unblock from the logs for the clients you want to allow?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What kind of AI written nonsense is this. No sources to back up their claims. Made up percentages that seem way too specific. Obviously bad IoT devices can do bad things but claims like these require something to back them up.
- Comment on In heat 4 weeks ago:
Look, if you’re too lazy to set your alarm clock to a time that works for you that’s fine, but why make other people suffer for your preferences? We have timezones for a reason, arguments like yours are what started the DST madness in the first place.
- Comment on In heat 4 weeks ago:
3/4? That’s fucked up, over here it’s roughly half and it’s still too much. Anyway, for specific areas there might be reasons to deviate from the timezone you’re supposed to be in, but for most people it is the best option. Over here (NL) our default timezone is already one hour too early, so adding summer time on top of that means we’re two hours out from where we’re supposed to be.
- Comment on In heat 5 weeks ago:
While DST is indeed nonsense and we should abolish it ASAP, please go back to your actual timezone and not something that is the very modification we shouldn’t have, i.e. summer time.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 month ago:
Fair, although it’s less open than it appears at first glance. The world is divided in parts that you unlock as the central story progresses, much like most RPGs.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 month ago:
Hell no, Mad Max was way more fun than it had any right to be. I’ll agree that on paper it didn’t look like anything special, with mechanics we’d seen lots of times in other games, but in practice everything came together as much more than the sum of it’s parts.
- Comment on Jurassic World Evolution 3 | Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Elite Dangerous has been doing exceptionally well in the past year because FDev finally realised it’s a live service game and started to act like it in a way that actually aligned with what the user base wanted. So what you’re saying isn’t true any more.
- Comment on Console war, console war never changes 2 months ago:
Millions of Steam Decks and their ilk have been sold, and run games significantly better on SteamOS than their Windows counterparts, to the point that Microsoft is reportedly cancelling their own gaming handheld plans. Not a massive challenger to the Switch 2 for most ordinary people, but things are definitely changing.
- Comment on Fuck cars 2 months ago:
EVs are at their heart really simple machines. You have a battery, a battery controller, some kind of thermal management for the battery (can be passive but active is better), and an electric motor that isn’t much more complex than the one in your vacuum cleaner. All these parts are readily available, so you can easily convert an ICE car to an EV with parts you can buy yourself. For some popular cars there are even kits available these days, and conversions of old-timers are really taking off. If there’s a kit with clear instructions a conversion can sometimes even be done in a single day.
An ICE car is literally orders of magnitude more complex. There are far more parts, far more computers to control all those parts (in a modern car that is), far more cabling to connect all these computers and far more opportunities for things to go wrong. ICE cars even spontaneously catch fire more often because of all the cabling and complexity.
You’re probably thinking of a few specific brands, like Tesla, that are very hostile towards self-servicing, and in those specific cases you are right. But most EVs from established car manufacturers are just as proprietary or non-proprietary as their ICE brethren, just with less complexity and less parts. And of course older cars that don’t have any computers in them are immune to this specific kind of complexity as well.
- Comment on Fuck cars 2 months ago:
How is this different from any other modern car?
- Comment on Fuck cars 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s insane how much easier EV’s are to maintain. Almost no wear or consumables.
- Comment on Why would you suggest that?? 2 months ago:
I see an Akira screenshot, I upvote.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 2 months ago:
Steam downloads consistently saturate my 1 Gbps connection, but it’s still fast enough for me. Had it a year now, still not really used to things going that fast.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 months ago:
I was using the cookie lists but I stopped using them due to the aforementioned problems.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 months ago:
Poorly. WSL is awesome but it’s I/O performance is not at a level which will make developers on bigger projects happy.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 months ago:
Disabling uBO, dismissing the cookie pop-up and then re-enabling uBO usually works, but is a lot more work than just running Consent-O-Matic in the background.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but in my experience those lists cause some sites to not work anymore, the whole site will stay dark waiting for the cookie pop-up for example, or you can’t scroll. I still use uBO to block ads but Consent-O-Matic gives me a better experience on those sites.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 months ago:
github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic This can do it for you on most sites in most browsers.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 months ago:
This isn’t public data unfortunately, devs with a game on both platforms are the only ones who can tell us where they earn more. However, I did once read an article that claimed the effective cut from Steam is about half what it says on the tin IF the devs (or their publisher) put in enough effort themselves. Because that’s who decides this, Steam doesn’t have and doesn’t want any control over this.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 months ago:
Except that’s also a lie. Steam does keep a higher percentage of the sales price for itself than Epic does, but it also allows people to activate game keys without taking any money. Steam only makes money from games sold on Steam itself. So developers can sell games through other stores and even through their own website, and keep up to 100% of the sales price. Effectively, this means that Steam takes roughly the same amount of money that Epic does, or in some cases even less probably.
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming 2 months ago:
It’s not released yet. And yeah, it’s standard ITX, Framework adheres to standards as much as possible.
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming 2 months ago:
Framework Desktop contains an ITX board with a Strix Halo. It’s not cheap though, unless you compare it to an equivalent Mac Mini.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 months ago:
Twist and tuck inside the breadbox obviously.
- Comment on Cookie Clicker coming to Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S 2 months ago:
Also how are you going to mod it on those platforms.