olympicyes
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- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 6 days ago:
They did gove some advice. They said to go with a vendor that is transparent about problems and reveals the results of their third party security audits. I’m sure if you read between the lines it means they likely reviewed several vendors and chose to spend their time attacking ones that are opaque about their security stance and used outdated encryption or bad implementations of E2E encryption. So all three are likely suspect. Like if 1Password were developed similarly to LastPass wouldn’t they have spent time attacking it?
- Comment on OpenAI swaps Nvidia for Cerebras with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark 1 week ago:
This link was my favorite part of this post too!
- Comment on Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute 2 weeks ago:
What’s a nom-Caucasian character? A crocodile? A shark?
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 2 weeks ago:
1440p screens are all monitors you sit 2-4’ from. That close you can justify a higher resolution but people pick 1440p for other reasons like frame rate.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 2 weeks ago:
Even if they were priced the same as 4K they would still be a bad value. Computers and consoles struggle with 4K 120Hz so 4 times the resolution is too much to ask.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
I’m talking about brightness in context of 3d. KDE uses DDE with USB connected monitors which is the same thing as using a button to lower brightness.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
It’s about 60”. That’s the point where we noticed pixels at 1080P. HDR is more important.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
What’s dumb is that 3D failed because of lack of resolution and brightness, and now we have more pixels than we can handle and screens so bright they can hurt to look at. PS3 had a couple games that showed different screens to two players wearing 3D glasses. I’d love to see full screen couch coop games with modern tech. 8K isn’t solving any problems.
- Comment on 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare 5 weeks ago:
“Microservices with delegated responsibility and elevated permissions, but sometimes hallucinates” is slightly more accurate. Claude Cowork probably won’t
rm -rf /but what do I know. - Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 1 month ago:
That’s not at all the tl;dr!
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 months ago:
I use Safari on Mac and can tell you that more and more sites are breaking when I have content blockers and privacy features enabled. It feels like the days when sites were developed for IE and barely functioned on other browsers.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 months ago:
Functions with arguments that don’t do anything… hey Claude why did you do that? Good catch…!
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 2 months ago:
He raised the price higher than the cost of going to WIPO to deal with it. If he set the price to $1 or 2 million they likely would have paid it. $75 million is bonkers.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
It would be funny if a game used the base tier OpenAI api and your wizard started slipping some ads into his dialogue.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 months ago:
I’d suggest trying a gaming focused distribution. I’m running Ubuntu on my machine. Now using Nvidia but previously with AMD and used the Nvidia for VFIO (passing through the GPU to a virtual machine). I’ve had a lot of trouble switching to Nvidia with my current install, especially Snap apps like Firefox and electron apps like VS Code. Snap apps are sandboxed and don’t get appropriate permissions for GPU acceleration. Firefox decodes video on CPU for example.
I did try several distributions when I had the AMD Radeon as primary GPU and overall had good success passing through Nvidia card to the VM. I tried Ubuntu (2023.10 I think?), Debian, Fedora, and Bazzite.
Debian doesn’t have snaps unless you want them and seemed to work Ok. Bazzite and Fedora both worked well.
The main difference it seemed was using Flatpak. You can install a flatpak GPU driver for your Nvidia card and then all the problems go away. Flatpak steam games get to run at full frame rates whereas you’d need AMD for snap.
Also it seemed like some problems were caused by Gnome, issues that are supposed to go away in the future but are nasty now. The gnome Videos/Totem app totally fails on Ubuntu 24.04/wayland/nvidia. It’s possible to get it to work but it’s so much trouble that I wouldn’t recommend it.
KDE Plasma didn’t seem to have these issues. There are things I don’t like about KDE but overall it seemed to work better. It even has dumb features like controlling the brightness of your monitor when connected via USB, a nice feature that even MacOS required a third party app to match.
Everyone has a strong opinion on the subject but if you don’t have a specific need, I’d try Bazzite next. You already know it will work with Nvidia because of the gaming focus. It has KDE so you avoid some Gnome issues. Browsers are the default app of any OS so you know the game/steam expectation means the browser should work as well.
Good luck and please update us with what you figure out!
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 months ago:
What video card do you have? Do you plan to use the machine for gaming?
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 months ago:
What I’m trying to say is we should all just standardize on PlayStation. Cheers.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 months ago:
Look at the price of Xbox series X SSD expansion vs PS5 and see if that’s what you really want. $150 for 1TB with Xbox or 2TB for the same price or less for PS5? 1TB NVMe is well under $100 right now.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 3 months ago:
I’ve got one but I bought it from Nest, not Google. TBH I’m surprised it was supported this long, not in a thankful way but because Google is so anti consumer. I didn’t realize the app didn’t work until I saw this post. I’m glad to find out now, not during a heatwave where I’m trying to cool the house when I’m driving home.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Right now YouTube TV is how NFL season pass is delivered. I know a few people who have it for that reason. Otherwise it’s mostly old people who dumped cable.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 months ago:
People can accept the religions of others, particularly if it motivates them to be better people, help others, or find inner peace. If you don’t share this guys specific religious views, then it appears he’s actively trying to bring about the end of the world.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 months ago:
Isn’t 2k and 1080P basically the same thing?
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 3 months ago:
I don’t mind cloud services as an automation overlay, but at that point you basically have an Alexa powered Harmony remote, which is unlikely to provide the level of telemetry that Bezos demands. This bed situation is great though. It’s a concrete demonstration for enthusiastic techies about why you shouldn’t connect objects to the web just because you can.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 months ago:
I tried I installing that already but I think it just won’t work with the snap version of Firefox.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 months ago:
Did you notice if GPU video decoding works in the browser? Eg VP9, h.264? I’d been struggling to get it to work with Wayland and suspect it isn’t possible.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 months ago:
Which driver does it install? Does it choose or do you? I’m curious how the installation process compares to Ubuntu. My install is a little borked because I started with Xorg and AMD and 22.04 and switched to Wayland and Nvidia and 24.04 all around the same time. It works but was a PITA to reconfigure everything.
- Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles 5 months ago:
It happens every time different types of ram are phased out. The price drops for a while until excess inventory is sold off and then prices increase due to scarcity. You wouldn’t see it with SSDs because new models tend to be backward compatible.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 5 months ago:
I swear the companies hard code solutions for weird edge cases so their investors are followed into believing that their LLMs are getting smarter.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 5 months ago:
Your tv price is subsidized by the presence of those network connections. I recommend using universal remote.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 5 months ago:
I blacklist the TVs Ethernet and WiFi MAC addresses. I strongly encourage using a computer, Apple TV, or anything that can’t fingerprint everything you use your tv for.