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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Me too, they just keep on investing in interrop and I’m all for that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Right, better be safe than sorry. The important point though IMHO that with Proton and now FEX they have shown that compatibility layers are not that costly or complex :
- try to make it run
- nothing works
- not what doesn’t, try a way
- one thing work and it’s slow as heck
- understand why
- 2 things now work, one of them is fast, the other slow
- rinse&repeat until it’s good enough to crowd source quality control to others
So… I don’t want to diminish how amazing that is, technically speaking, but we now all know it’s feasible. Initially it looks like supporting an entire OS architecture was ridiculous (and it was, emulation was just “good enough” for games that were some years old and for much more powerful machine) until somebody tried “just” swapping or fixing the right API (i.e. DirectX) and … that was actually OK.

Again, it’s a TON of work. A lot of it also comes from Wine. But… now we now why it works and how to do that. Even if Valve were to lock SteamOS, that knowledge wouldn’t be lost on the broader community.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Sadly agree. I’ve been waiting for years, claiming I’d buy whatever they sell… but honestly right now this would feel like a donation more than something I eagerly want, even less need.

FWIW I’m also NOT the market, I have … I don’t actually know how many but at least 5 XR headsets.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
FWIW been using SteamOS on the SteamDeck for ~3 years now and from gaming to tinkering, no major problems. Never had to tinker hard or re-install. A couple of time it didn’t suspend properly or I had to hold power button of to force a shutdown but that’s about it.

I doubt Valve would back of from the openness because that’s their one single advantage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
True, but would one want to have a BigTech labels on their Linux distribution? Wouldn’t that kind of miss the point and bring us back to e.g. ChromeBooks?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a bit too lazy to check for the entire stack I admit but I bet a lot of those actually do. Still to do a quick check Google for examples is on ev.kde.org/supporting-members/
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
AFAICT for the Frame it’s only foveated streaming, not foveated rendering.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Inserts?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

official backing from an 800lb gaming gorilla

Eh… aren’t most of the largest corporations contributing to Linux already? I’m not sure what you need beside Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Samsung, etc www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

‘VR is a great way to experience shitty games

Have you tried Half-life: Alyx?

I recommend you give that, or something equivalent, a go without even buying any hardware. Either ask a friend or go to an arcade. You don’t need to shell out a grand to try.

If you hate it, move on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Yes but …
```
no hand tracking
no color passthrough
no hardware upgrade
no WebXR
no new VR proper content
```
Still, it’s good obviously, not having to rely on BigTech. This was also possible before though as I pointed out in lemmy.ml/post/38899489/22202786 with e.g. Lynx XR1, as a rooted Android standalone HMD with no account required.

Anyway IMHO the big questions for VR on Linux more broadly is what changes upstream on KDE in terms of immersive UX? Is KDE Plasma becoming a VR graphical shell? Does it have 3D widgets? Does it impact freedesktop in any way?

(copy of lemmy.ml/post/38899489/22202838 as I posted there first)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

legit and works well

legit works well… but also not a magic wand. It doesn’t transform a low-end rig in a powerful machine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help request : Docker service (PeerTube) doesn't have the same way on new server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Different networks entirely. AFAICT no IP is hardcoded, only domain names which are the same.

But… please feel free to check the URL, it seems to work.

My hypothesis is that the player in the browser, maybe due to WebWorks, had cached the IP of the content. So I was getting the UI/API from the new IP but the content itself (namely video files) from the old IP which might have created some CORS/CSP issues and that the player itself blocked it. (updating the post on the forum with that idea in case others get in a similar situation)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help request : Docker service (PeerTube) doesn't have the same way on new server⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Is the docker container spinning up and running, or failing and exiting?

Running and healthy

Run docker ps, it’ll tell you how long your containers have been running or if they exited.

Indeed and they don’t exit.

If everything is running then it’s most likely network, and I’d need to know how it is you used to access it on the old server (web address? Ip?)

It it accessible via the domain name so networking, as least for UI and API, is working fine. Reverse proxy does let traffic go through.

If it’s not running then you get to dig through error logs to get to the next step 🤓

I checked error logs of all containers and seems fine. The only error I see are client side.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help request : Docker service (PeerTube) doesn't have the same way on new server⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oops sorry, terribly phrased, I meant “doesn’t behave the same work” but I simplified, hopefully.

Basically worked on old server, doesn’t work on new!
Help request : Docker service (PeerTube) doesn't have the same way on new serverframacolibri.org ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iSweep⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

With a lot of tech, it seems like solving the first 90% of a problem is easy, then the next 5% very hard and expensive, but the last few percent is impossible.

Definitely, that’s why I do prototyping. The first 90% is super fun and empowering! It’s exhilarating. You start to believe you could do anything. Then… the remaining 90% get harder, and harder, until you’re done it and the very last 90% is even harder! /s
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iSweep⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Funnily enough my Roomba is the ONE thing I rely on to argue against the “robotic uprising”. When people fawn over 1X’s Neo or Tesla humanoid I can happily testify that as relatively long term mobile robot owner… it sucks! In theory it’s amazing right, in theory you program it, go out while it clean the place, go back to charge itself, etc. So much free time for you now, right?

No… you need to make way for it. You need to actually setup the place for such a basic task. Think you can just “wing it” and let it work while you sip on a cocktail outside? Sure, come back to find it in an enraged BDSM session, rope all over it as it pulls over a char with cable entangle deep inside.

Honestly it’s like AI more broadly : the concept is so simple to understand and the result is something we ALL want… that every single time there is an improvement, no matter how small, we love to speculate that truly this time we are getting “close” to make it work. Truth is, we have no idea of the complexity of the problem.

Related rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-… who did make Roombas and more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iSweep⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
iRonic
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Sorry to hear, hopefully you’ll get a solution soon. Thanks for the clarification
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
giga octet, like byte en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Just curious, what do you actually use which requires more than 32Go?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Genuine question here, for a “normal” computer user, say somebody who :
- browses the Web
- listen to music, play videos, etc
- sometimes play video games, even 2025 AAAs
- even code something of a normal size, let’s say up to Firefox size (which is huge)
… what does require more than say 32Go?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

tone

this one github.com/sandreas/tone “tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac”

regarding RSS feed I just download them regularly, e.g on crontab one can add 0 3 * * * cd ~/Music && ~/bin/yt-dlp -x https://hearditherefirst.blog/category/dubstep/feed/ but if you need something a bit more refine with filtering consider e.g. jc --xml withjq and `wget.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Gratitude always adds to anything! Take care
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
FWIW you’re probably looking for docs.immich.app/guides/remote-machine-learning namely removing the demanding tasks from the NAS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Warning : I think AI in the current hype form, so commercial GenAI and LLM, is absolutely bullshit. The result is just bad and resources required is absolutely ridiculous, and maybe worst than those two combined (which is already enough to want to reject en masse) it is structured in order to create dependencies on very few actors.

Yet… (you saw that coming!) it’s not because 99.99% is bad that suddenly the average consumer leverages the less than .01% left properly.

What they (OpenAI, Claude, M$, NVIDIA, Google, Meta, etc) are looking for is a product/market fit. They do have a product (arguable) and a market (millions if not billions of users of their different other products) with even a minuscule fraction of people trying to use their new AI-based tool… and yet nobody actually knows what the “killer app” truly is.

They are investing everything they don’t spend on actual R&D or infrastructure in finding out … what it’s actually for. They have no clue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian… it’s not really specific. It’s also not for everyone. I’d say it’s mostly for 20sth in rush and 50sth working men. Everybody else either skip it entirely or have a proper breakfast, but that’s just my experience, might not generalize.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Check my post history I repeat this so often I’m getting tired of it, sorry, but basically 2080ti since it’s out, been gaming nearly daily on it, from AAA to indie, from “flat” to VR and… it just works.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're so predictable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This kind of posts typically hint at how manipulable we all are… and it’s true, but what they omit is the cost.

Readying a random meme and getting “pwned” by it typically gets you a good laugh. Sharing your bank details over the phone does not. So… what this kind of stuff does rather show how rational most of us are, namely we don’t mind getting played if we have fun doing it.