Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Review for Retroid Pocket Mini V2 17 hours ago:
tbh it’s really not worth all the hype unless you want to take the 100-300 hours to set it up properly and ensure all the boxart is there.
So Rocknix isn’t as developed like Emuelec and all the other Linux gaming front ends? Because fixing boxart was one of the huge hassles on the Retroid 3+. The Retroid front end got 90% of the art but fixing that last 10% took hours. In comparison my Anbernic and Miyoo Mini were perfect. And customizing it was trivial because I could stick the SD card in my PC and move the files around. The Retroid front end didn’t let you do that. The other hassle was some of the emulators on the Retroid had their own menus so entering and exiting games wasn’t a single button push like Linux emulators.
- Comment on Review for Retroid Pocket Mini V2 1 day ago:
Have you tried Rocknix on this Retroid? I have a Retroid 3 but I never use it because Android is bad at being a handheld gaming device. (Boot is slow and just letting it sleep means it’s dead in 3 days.)
I love Retroid hardware so I’m intrigued that it says you can run Linux.
- Comment on The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls. 2 days ago:
Spacegul
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 2 days ago:
When I’d get stuff, I’d always offer it to the employees first. My employees used to encourage vendors to show up to get free stuff. I’d let them get whatever they could. One employee got free night vision goggles.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 days ago:
That is not really true. Yes, there are jump instructions being executed when you run interference on a model, but they are in no way related to the model itself.
The model is data. It needs to be operated on to get information out. That means lots of JMPs.
If someone said viewing a gif is just a bunch of if-else’s, that’s also true. That the data in the gif isn’t itself a bunch of if-else’s isn’t relevant.
Executing LLM’S is particularly JMP heavy. It’s why you need massive fast ram because caching doesn’t help them.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 days ago:
Given that the weights in a model are transformed into a set of conditional if statements (GPU or CPU JMP machine code), he’s not technically wrong. (Of course, it’s more than just JMP and JMP represents the entire class of jump commands like JE and JZ. Something needs to act on the results of the TMULs.)
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 days ago:
AI didn’t write the insurance policy. It only helped him search for the best deal. That’s like saying your insurance company will cancel you because you used a phone to comparison shop.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 4 days ago:
I repainted a small drafting table lamp and it took an entire can. (3 cans: 1 primer, 1 paint 1 clear coat) I was shocked.
Then I had to do it again because I didn’t do it right the first time. (Too far away gave a dusty finish.)
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 4 days ago:
How many cans did it take?
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 days ago:
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that MS fixed Windows search when Google had its Google Desktop search product and Windows Search went back to horrible when Google discontinued Desktop Search.
You can find files faster on Windows by using the command line directly command with recursion switch and watch every directory tree scroll by until it finds the file than wait for the GUI even when Indexed.
- Comment on They Live 2069 1 week ago:
2069 and vr headset looks like it’s from 2019?
- Comment on 3D printing with unconventional vase mode 1 week ago:
Fantastic info! Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Crosspost if you agree! 1 week ago:
He did explain the reason. Garden hose.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 1 week ago:
I’m sure Google does monetize the gps data instantly, then throws it away rather than save old data that only costs money to respond to government requests.
This is a case where privacy is economically beneficial to Google.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 1 week ago:
It doesn’t matter that they have no basis for a lawsuit. Nintendo starts a lawsuit, no matter how ridiculous, and the developer has to pay a lawyer to defend or they lose to default judgement.
The US isn’t like EU. Everyone pays their own costs whether you win or lose. If you win, you can then start a new lawsuit to recover legal costs but that costs more money and you aren’t guaranteed to recover the money.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 1 week ago:
There’s no precedent. Nintendo sues, the developer doesn’t have money for lawyers to defend themselves so they remove it.
That’s how it’s been going for a long time.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 1 week ago:
The device only was for privacy. When the data was stored in the cloud, the government had unrestricted access. By making it device only they need to get your device to get that data.
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 1 week ago:
Yeah if U2 is grunge based on time period, then Motley Crue and Michael Jackson is grunge.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
NATO ISAF sent troops in January 2002. ISAF took command in 2003.
"Deployed in 2001 – initially under the lead of individual NATO Allies on a six-month rotational basis – ISAF was tasked, on the request of the Afghan government and under a United Nations (UN) mandate, to assist the Afghan government in maintaining security, originally in and around Kabul exclusively. NATO agreed to take command of the force in August 2003 "
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
Article 5 was invoked over a year possibly 2 years prior after 9/11
“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declared an Article 5 contingency through a series of resolutions of the North Atlantic Council enacted between September 12 and October 2, 2001, done in response to the September 11 attacks in the United States.”
en.wikipedia.org/…/Article_5_contingency_(2001)
Nato went into Afghanistan in 2001.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
without Article 5
I already linked with sources that Article 5 was invoked and Afghanistan was a NATO mission, not the US and some allies.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
NATO has never been mobilized.
Nato was mobilized for Afghanistan.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in its history after the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
NATO went to Afghanistan. France (part of NATO) was so against Iraq that they wouldn’t let the US use its bases for refueling. American politicians officially renamed French Fries to Freedom fries because they were mad at France and other members of NATO did not support Iraq and sent no troops.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you want to go tiny you could get an Anbernic Gameboy like the RG35xxSP. They run Linux with a gaming UI on top. But it’s very easy to run full desktop Linux distros on them.
Skip to 5 minutes. youtu.be/EvbGb_rHFqk
- Comment on Small NAS home server woes 3 weeks ago:
Btw the CPU in the Lenovo P330 is an e-2174g. I also got an e-2274g.
- Comment on Small NAS home server woes 3 weeks ago:
I got a sff P330 Xeon with integrated graphics for ~$500 two years ago that includes case power supply etc. Far faster than an n100 and even lower power than if you added a GPU to an n100.
I just plugged in a kilowatt to check:
My Lenovo sff workstation running Plex idles at 15 watts- which is 90% of the time. Streaming 4k 52Mbs hevc (This Flash Gordon is my torture test that caused me to upgrade 2 years ago) it’s 18 watts! I was so surprised that I went back and unplugged the Ethernet thinking I put the killawatt on the wrong server.
- Comment on Small NAS home server woes 3 weeks ago:
What’s your budget? I’m a big fan of old Xeon servers.
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 3 weeks ago:
Was it YouTube or someone else that reported him? I think YouTube is fully automated so it blocked him and is ignoring appeal because of the previous complaint.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 4 weeks ago:
I’m pro AI but absolutely fucking not.
The use case for AI is to summarize Wiki as an external tool. If Wikipedia starts using AI, it becomes AI eating its own tail.
