Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why on Earth is OpenAI buying Windsurf? 3 days ago:
Well crap, I was using windsurf (codeium).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really feel like going down the rabbit hole of trying a hundred different distros to maybe find one that works. My experiences with those two were that things were completely broken, randomly. Like just trying to boot the USB installer would lock up half the time, the installer itself would fail partway through most of the time, when things got fully installed, trying to update or install new things would just fail randomly. The kde desktop would crash just from me changing settings in the kde menus.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
They are ranked number 3 and 13 on distro watch, so they are hardly unknown. And lots on Linux YouTubers were talking about how great they were.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
My priorities are being able to run Davinci resolve and Steam games. Nobara ticks those boxes while advertising itself as user friendly. I have heard too many stories of people having trouble getting this stuff running on something like Linux mint, so I didn’t go in that direction. I need to do more with my computer than just view web sites or write code.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
A couple weeks ago I attempted to switch over to Linux. Tried installing both Cachyos and Nobara. It was kind of a shit show, nothing worked correctly, stuff was erroring out and crashing left and right, and after a couple days I gave up.
Today I went ahead and installed windows 11. There were some issues… It wouldn’t recognize my CD key, and I accidentally wiped a partition from the wrong drive. But as for the os itself, I spent a few hours getting things set up, and it’s not as horrible as I thought it would be. I was able to simply turn off most of the shit like copilot and recall, and all the advertisements, and I pretty much have it working as I want it to.
- Comment on Thoughts on Mario Kart World 3 weeks ago:
Looks like some of the biggest changes the series has ever seen. I’m excited for it, but like many others, not excited enough for the price they are asking right now.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, all I see on Roku is an image banner on the home screen. I never even look at it.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, normal YouTube is totally unwatchable. If you have a Roku device, the Playlet app can let you watch without ads. There are probably methods for other devices too.
- Comment on Question about the ds lite, dsi, and gba games. 5 weeks ago:
Something to note about the DS lite is that they did tend to have issues with the plastic on the hinge cracking. It happened to mine, but I did play the heck out of it.
- Comment on Question about the ds lite, dsi, and gba games. 5 weeks ago:
I used to use a gba flash cart on the ds lite, and it was essentially full compatibility aside from carts that had extra hardware built in.
- Comment on California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly. 5 weeks ago:
AI often gets painted as people vs businesses, but that’s not necessarily what it is in many cases. The EFF is arguing for fair use, which is something that they have stood for as long as I can remember. As the article argues, the businesses creating AIs can easily abide by this law, it’s the little guys training things that would be impacted the most.
- Comment on California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly. 5 weeks ago:
Anyone have a link to the text of the bill?
- Comment on How did you get your job? 1 month ago:
I’m kind of in between the business and tech. I make sure some of our internal software is running correctly and I run SQL queries and stuff to look for problems in our data. I can help create stories to pass to IT for them to develop fixes for issues or for new functionality in our software.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 1 month ago:
Graduated around 2008 as the economy was crashing, and struggled to find anything. Eventually got hired at a call center for a large company (about a year after I had applied for it). After a few years of that I was able to transfer into a different department where I didn’t have to deal with customers directly, then kept getting promoted to different positions until I found one I was really comfortable in.
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 1 month ago:
And we are still waiting on the day when these models can actually be run on AMD GPUs without jumping through hoops.
- Comment on Apparently ‘William F. Guile’ Is Street Fighter Canon? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games 1 month ago:
Will Fuckin’ Guile
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 months ago:
Would it be possible for a browser or extension to just provide false metadata in order to subvert this type of fingerprinting?
- Comment on Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications 2 months ago:
Per the article, they just developed a faster algorithm for a specific type of material simulation.
- Comment on Making a Blocklist to Remove Spam from Search Engines 2 months ago:
This looks like it has some potential. I’ll probably give this a try.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 3 months ago:
LOL, their demo shows Cyberpunk running at a mere 27fps on the 5090 with DLSS off. Is that supposed to sell me on this product?
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 months ago:
So I’m hearing that you don’t use an adblocker.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 5 months ago:
What does it matter which users are on which server, since we all get the same content anyways, aside from defederation?
- Comment on Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Started Work On A New Game 2 Years Ago | Retro Dodo 5 months ago:
A lot of times when translating articles, and going for click bait headlines, things get mangled. I was searching for where Sakurai may have said he was not making another smash game, and I can’t find anything like that. On the contrary, I am seeing articles saying things like he can’t see another smash game happening without his involvement: www.si.com/…/new-super-smash-bros-game-sakurai
But regardless, it’s easy to get burned out on something and feel like you never want to touch it again. Then a few years later your feelings on the matter change. It’s happened to me. Doesn’t mean someone “is full of shit”.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 5 months ago:
I’m more surprised that this game is still running. I haven’t heard of anyone playing it in years.
- Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations 6 months ago:
It sounds like it works really well. The physical size does sound quite large, but I’m not sure how that compares against other types of batteries.