Toribor
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- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 2 days ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve used Rainmeter, but I love that thing. Such a flexible utility.
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 2 days ago:
Where will I get my pregnant Sonic fix now?
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut - Launch Trailer | PC Games 3 days ago:
Besides the Sony account drama (I don’t care about multiplayer), anyone know how this actually runs performance-wise? I usually assume these ports scale well since it’s a PS4 game but Sony launches have been all over the place.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 2 weeks ago:
The newer Ecobee’s can run entirely locally through their homekit integration. I tie mine into home assistant and use it that way. I would never have bought the device if that wasn’t available.
If this old version doesn’t have that available then I’m assuming people purchased it knowing that it was reliant on cloud services. It would be nice if they offered customers options besides just letting the device turn into e-waste but you can understand why they don’t want to burn development hours on a device that’s a decade and a half old.
Just another reason to never buy devices that can’t function without a cloud service.
- Comment on 2mm thick layers on a trophy cup 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that sounds about right. Maybe it would have potential applications with non-planar printing? That’s still pretty experimental territory I think.
- Comment on 2mm thick layers on a trophy cup 2 weeks ago:
This makes me curious about the effect of nozzle shape on the output. Would a square holed nozzle work or look different than a normal round nozzle? What about an oval or star shape? Hmmm.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 2 weeks ago:
Pop_OS is based on Ubuntu. It’s developed by System76 which sells linux laptops that run their distro by default.
It’s a popular recommendation specifically for people looking out to try gaming on Linux because there are specific features built in like performance improvements for gaming and some gaming-specific packages whereas Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and OpenSuse are generally designed to be a general purpose distro. Pop_OS delivers packages as flatpacks by default as opposed to Ubuntu’s snaps which are a bit controversial.
Mostly I recommend Pop_OS for people that are new to Linux, don’t know about why they might prefer one distro over another, and want to try it out with the minimal amount of hassle. If you aren’t gaming Pop_OS is still great but that’s one of it’s selling points.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 2 weeks ago:
If you primarily game using Steam then it’s easier than ever on most popular distros. Biggest hassle is likely still GPU drivers. I’ve never had any issues there but depending on what card you have you may be better off with either proprietary or FOSS drivers depending on what your distro of choice likes to provide by default. After that most games tend to just work, a handful may require you to pick a beta version of proton or something.
If you want to try it and don’t want to do a lot of tinkering check out PopOS. It’s probably the friendliest distro for gaming out of the box.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
This is about banning their ability to do business in America, not just trying to ban access to their content on the Internet itself.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
Congress believes it’s a national security threat which is probably true but they haven’t bothered explaining this to their constituents at all. Ideally they’d pass comprehensive privacy protection laws to setup standards that both domestic and foreign companies would be subject to. Then companies either adjust their behaviors and meet a certain level of transparency or they would be prosecuted under the law.
But no… We get this instead: a confusing and obviously targeted ultimatum with Congress telling everyone ‘trust me bro this is the only way’
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 3 weeks ago:
This seems to be the case, but congress is doing an awful job of communicating the danger to the public. There will likely be a lot of people angry at Biden when he signs this if there is no effort to justify the targeted action.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge 4 weeks ago:
I can’t wait to live in a world where my own damn car wont start because someone forgot to renew a cert.
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 1 month ago:
Even with solar a UPS is a good idea if you’re running a home server. You can still get voltage spikes or brief outages.
That being said a single large UPS is expensive to maintain. For home use I don’t go over 1000W on a single UPS. Any larger than that creeps into ‘enterprise pricing’ for battery replacements.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
At what temperature does it cease to be a bath and instead become human soup?
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 2 months ago:
Well you definitely don’t want to have an IPO after it’s clear that you’ve already peaked and there is no way to gain more users or squeeze value out of the existing ones.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 2 months ago:
This reads like Musk promising everyone that his imaginary train will be faster and cheaper than everything else.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 2 months ago:
The big problem is algorithmically driven content feeds. They don’t feed you content that makes you happy, they feed you content that makes you mad. I think Lemmy is different in that your feeds are based on what is popular in the communities that you’ve subscribed to. Reddit used to work like that, but now it’s all algorithmic content too.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 2 months ago:
It seems like these tech IPOs happen when they are at their peak. Get a huge influx of extra cash once user growth starts to slow, pay off your early investors and then self-implode.
- Comment on A DisplayPort Port That You Can Plug HDMI Into 2 months ago:
There was a brief period of time where eSATA was starting to show up and there were never enough USB 3 ports. eSATA would have been kind of handy but I’ve never used it either.
- Comment on Google takes aim at SEO-optimized junk pages and spam with new search update 2 months ago:
The fact that I have to use browser plugins and block these domains myself is ridiculous.
- Comment on Keurig Mini No-Splash Platform 2 months ago:
I just stick my head underneath the machine and let the coffee go right into my mouth. No spills and it saves time since I don’t have to wash a mug.
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 2 months ago:
engoodening
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 2 months ago:
I still have fun watching other people discover it.
When people are over at my house and we are just hanging around doing nothing I like to put on a game and toss a controller to someone with no explanation and just let them play while everyone watches. Goose Game, Donut County, ABZU and Journey are always a hit even for people that aren’t normally into video games.
- Comment on What's Your Preferred Server Monitoring Method? 2 months ago:
I switched from docker compose to pure Ansible for deploying my containers. Makes managing config and starting containers across multiple hosts super easy. I considered virtualizing too but decided it didn’t offer me enough advantages. If I ever have an issue with the host OS I just reinstall using a preseed file and then rerun my playbooks and it’s ready to go.
- Comment on What's Your Preferred Server Monitoring Method? 2 months ago:
I started using Checkmk recently after it was mentioned here and I really like it. I’d used Zabbix a bit but was annoyed at how much work it took to get it to do what I want. Checkmk was a lot better right out of the box.
- Comment on Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought 2 months ago:
Oof. Honestly I do the same thing and I think your experience just convinced me not to. I keep a couple of those junk vendor USB’s just for things like BIOS updates since the capacity is usually small. I hadn’t considered one failing right in the middle of an update.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 2 months ago:
None of the first party games are slow or laggy.
Links Awakening runs like ass most of the time. I’d consider it’s performance pretty poor for a first party title. Generally though you’re right.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 2 months ago:
I think we’re talking about different kinds of implementations.
One being an ai generated ‘video’ that is interactive, generating new frames continuously to simulate a 3d space that you can move around in. That seems pretty hard to accomplish for the reasons you’re describing. These models are not particularly stable or consistent between frames. The software does not have an understanding of the physical rules, just how a scene might look based on it’s training data.
Another and probably more plausible approach is likely to come from the same frame generation technology in use today with things like DLSS and FSR. I’m imagining a sort of post-processing that can draw details on top of traditional 3d geometry. You could classically render a simple scene and allow ai to draw on top of the geometry to sort of fake higher levels of detail. This is already possible, but it seems reasonable to imagine that these tools could get more creative and turn a simple blocky undetailed 3d model into a photo-realistic object. Still insanely computationally expensive but grounding the AI with classic rendering could be really interesting.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 2 months ago:
The compute power it would take to do that in realtime at the framerates required for VR to be comfortable would be absolutely beyond insane. But at the rate hardware improves and the breakneck speed these AI models are developing maybe it’s not as far off as I think.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy - Developer Blooper Reel 2 months ago:
Every time I think about this sort of thing I remember that in Fallout 3 the developers added a moving train to the game by making the train a hat that was worn by a man that ran really fast underneath the ground to make the train move.