Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 2 days ago:
Just checked, my local llama.cpp instance is still up. No, you can’t use it.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 5 days ago:
I see what you mean, and I have that (old PC with a bunch of 2.5" HDDs formatted as ZFS).
For me power consumption is more important than performance, so I’m looking for a lower power solution for photo sharing, music collection and backups.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 6 days ago:
Just another reason not to buy earbuds. You are sticking a fairly large amount of power inside your ear.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 6 days ago:
- Comment on Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 1 week ago:
My opinion is that YouTube became an unusable mess, and I avoid it as much as possible. I guess that’s enshittification at work.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 week ago:
Bingo.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
That’s how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won’t hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot.
You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You’ll be ok.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 week ago:
Right there with you.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
Feels like you bought into the MSCE religion of the early 2000’s and are annoyed at all the infidels that didn’t.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
True, I’ve experienced that bug.
The big different is that, depending on how knowledgeable you are, you can either report the bug, you can diagnose it (check the logs, trace and profile the calls), dig in the code, patch it or try a patch someone developed for the bug, or simply ignore it and use a different file browser. That freedom is priceless.
With Windows you’re stuck waiting for the next upgrade that may or may not break something else and brings new and exciting AI and telemetry shoved into it.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 2 weeks ago:
Nailed it.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
You’re blaming Linux for less than perfect support of a proprietary filesystem that had zero documentation and was painfully reversed engineered by volunteers to a working state so you could say it sucks to have to reformat your precious drives. I’m so sorry you were inconvenienced.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 2 weeks ago:
I’m not looking to be anonymous, I want access to Stargate Atlantis that Amazon Prime is geo blocking from me.
For that, VPN works as advertised.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
To clarify a bit: Windows may not be the only reason my work machine is slow as hell, corporate endpoint protection is due to play some part in that slowness.
Having said that, colleagues that use Macs and Linux mock us Windows users everyday for all the troubles we have with, well, everything, and they have similar endpoint protections in place.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
You know what would impress me? That I would be able to start using my computer when I boot it in the morning.
As it stands I have to wait some 5 to 10 minutes before the mouse pointer decides to cooperate with me. And god forbid I attempt to start a Teams meeting, either the camera, mic or screen share will not work at all.
What the hell is this dumbass operating system doing that is more important than responding to the damn user?
Same machine, booting Linux, lets me start working right away. No stuttering, no freezes. Go figure.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Excellent. I’ll text you my IBAN so you can transfer me some of your irrelevant money.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a musician, but
Exactly.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you. I don’t mind local AI searching the web for topics I’m interested in and providing me with news and interesting tidbits. I’m not OK with AI having any kind of permission to run executable code.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
May I join you?
- Comment on Ian Scott's PicoIDE Turns a Raspberry Pi RP2350 Into a Feature-Packed Hard Drive and CD Emulator 2 weeks ago:
I need this in my life.
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 3 weeks ago:
Mark it up as an advantage of getting old. You get to sit and eat popcorn while people debate issues you’ve already debated.
I still want to buy one, mind you.
- Comment on xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons 3 weeks ago:
But do you want to be right out do you want to sleep on the sofa?
- Comment on Which year was the most stacked for game releases? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 4 weeks ago:
Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:
Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for the link, it was very interesting.
Even though analogue neural networks have the drawback that you can’t copy the neuron weights (currently, but tech may evolve to do it), they can still have use cases in lower powered edge devices.
I think we’ll probably end up with hybrid designs, using digital for most parts except the calculations.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 4 weeks ago:
This was bound to happen. Neural networks are inherently analog processes, simulating them digitally is massively expensive in terms of hardware and power.
Digital domain is good for exact computation, analog is better for approximate computation, as required by neural networks.
- Comment on Sometimes I feel nothing will change for the better and I feel frustrated about it. 5 weeks ago:
It was very much something my generation feared. It permeated pop culture in the 70’s and 80’s
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
What’s your point? If Windows is working for you, keep using it.
- Comment on Sometimes I feel nothing will change for the better and I feel frustrated about it. 5 weeks ago:
It could be worse.
You could have lived through the 80’s and 90’s when we were on the verge of global thermonuclear war, but at least the music was great. Imagine living through that and now having to deal with this shitty dystopia with even shittier music…
- Comment on Planning to selfhost images and calendar in addition to HTTP(S) 5 weeks ago:
How I’m doing it: setup nginx-proxy-manager as frontend and put all services behind it, using different names (cloud.home, media.home, etc) but with the same IP (the proxy IP).