russjr08
@russjr08@bitforged.space
Formerly @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
(inb4 ethernet over HDMI: There is no implementation of the spec in the wild).
How about Thunderbolt? This looks like macOS, and while I’m not 100% sure if they utilize HDMI ports anymore, they certainly use Thunderbolt.
- Comment on The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow 4 weeks ago:
I know the feeling, I just had a week off and returned to work on Friday a couple of days ago.
- Comment on After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all 1 month ago:
Jeez, no wonder Infinite has always had such a bad reputation then!
- Comment on After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all 1 month ago:
As far as I recall, Infinite has had online co-op, just not local/split screen co-op.
But don’t quote me on that!
- Comment on AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem 2 months ago:
I did the same move for similar reasons! Although I still keep windows around on another SSS - and even the Windows Nvidia drivers were being funky for me.
Nvidia shares a lot of logic between their Windows and Linux driver as far as I’m aware, so I suppose it makes sense.
- Comment on "REM sleep is the next AI" 2 months ago:
Good god, I was finally prescribed Ambien for the first time recently, and I definitely now realize why it has the reputation that it does.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware 3 months ago:
Along with Helldivers 2, I can confirm Apex Legends works as well. Valorant as far as I’m aware is a definite no-go though.
Just adding on, ProtonDB is a great resource for checking game compatibility!
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
As long as you’re still signed into BW from any of your devices, you can always export the vault from there.
(But yes, actual backups are always a plus)
- Comment on What's the bang for the buck go to for AI image generation and LLM models? 3 months ago:
I’m not the original person you replied to, but I also have a similar setup. I’m using a 6700XT, with both InvokeAI and stable-diffusion-webui-forge setup to run without any issues. While I’m running Arch Linux, I have it setup in Distrobox so its agnostic to the distro I’m running (since I’ve hopped between quite a few distros) - the container is actually an Ubuntu based container.
The only hiccup I ran into is that while ROCm does support this card, you need to set an environmental variable for it to be picked up correctly. At the start of both sd-webui and invokeai’s launch scripts, I just use:
export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0In order to set that up, and it works perfectly. This is the link to the distrobox container file I use to get that up and running.
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
We believe in the open internet, but we do not believe in the misuse of public content.
That’s real rich, coming from Reddit.
- Comment on This Tiny Robotic Pill Eliminates The Need For Hospital Visits In Stomach Cancer Detection 4 months ago:
I had one of these done for an endoscopy - it ended horribly. It got “stuck” so I ended up having to have surgery for it to be removed.
Getting that surgery coordinated and scheduled took months all the while my health was declining. Eventually it got so bad that I couldn’t hold down food and I had to be pre-admitted to the hospital a month before the procedure and put on IV nutrition…
Granted I do have an autoimmune GI condition which is what prompted that test in the first place, and the chances of this happening is supposedly quite small but… Yeah I’ll take the endoscopy and colonoscopy over even that small chance of going through all of that all over again…
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 months ago:
Let us know how it goes, and if you have any further questions, feel free to give us a shout!
- Comment on Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction 6 months ago:
They have their own hosting plans, but you can also self host it.
- Comment on Favourite controllers 6 months ago:
As strange as it may sound, my favorite controller so far has been my Google Stadia controller. It feels very sturdy and has a nice finish - and I can hold it for hours without my hands cramping up.
Also a big fan of the fact that it charges over USB-C, and that it works perfectly for me over both Bluetooth and wired.
However, I haven’t had too many controllers in the past (Nintendo’s controllers - GameCube, Wii, Switch Joycon/Pro, the Xbox 360/One, and the DualShock 3), so that could be part of it. I don’t know, I just haven’t had any complaints with it as of yet.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 6 months ago:
If there’s anything that I’ve learned, it’s that lawsuits are more often than not, just a joke to the large companies.
Hell it’s often easier for them to just classify whatever fine they get slapped on the wrist with as a business expense, than to do the right thing, it seems.
- Comment on What are your complaints about Lemmy? 7 months ago:
This isn’t a problem of Lemmy itself in terms of the software, so I’m not sure it qualifies… But, I find that Lemmy still has the same problem of Reddit where if you say something that the majority of users disagree with, prepare to be torn apart in the comments. And I do not just mean by getting corrected on something you said being factually incorrect, I mean more of a “your opinion is wrong because…”
For example, any discussion revolving around Linux (and let me just prepend this by saying I am a Linux user), if you happen to prefer using Windows be prepared to be told all of the reasons why you have to use Linux instead. And that’s usually tame compared to what I’ve seen on other subjects.
Obviously there are cases where yeah, you absolutely deserve to be torn a new one in the extreme cases when someone is actually being truly vile, such as trying to advocate for the harm of someone/a group of people - but the “extremes” are not what I’m really referring to here.
I’ve blocked a lot of users that while I’ve had no interaction with them, I see how they are clearly engaging in, let’s just say, bad faith with others.
In terms of software-specific issues, I can’t say that I really have had a lot of problems with Lemmy itself as of recently. As an instance owner, I used to have a lot of weird (what seemingly appeared to be, at least) random federation issues, but I haven’t seen any federation problems in a while now. Though just today I swear I submitted a comment somewhere, and its just poof not there - not even locally, but I’m chalking that one up to something I’ve done (whether a misclick, or I’m just hallucinating as badly as an LLM) rather than an actual issue.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 7 months ago:
I haven’t had much sleep today so maybe its just me, but I’m a bit confused here:
Valve isn’t obligated to continue supporting all its games and software features on Mac, especially when Apple’s reluctance to natively support Vulkan and other cross-platform technologies makes game development more complex.
Then the next sentence:
There’s no excuse for Steam on Mac to be a far worse experience than on other platforms, though.
As others have mentioned, Apple was the one who chose to abandon x86 and go with ARM - and anyways are there any games that are on Steam that actually are ARM native? You would still end up having to launch a game that is x86 as far as I understand correctly (I haven’t used a Mac since the Apple Silicon transition)?
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
I think “here” being the instance their account is on, lemm.ee
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales 8 months ago:
I wonder, did they change the defaults at some point? Mine was already bound to the arrow keys, I never had to explicitly set that.
- Comment on Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week 8 months ago:
Does your BIOS have “Enable Resizable Bar” and “Above 4G Decoding” options? Both of those were off on mine, and I had the same problem until I flipped those on.
- Comment on Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data 8 months ago:
I haven’t looked into Proton, but BitWarden is open source both server side and client side.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 8 months ago:
The only game that I keep Windows around for is Destiny 2… I know, but it’s the game my closest friends are often playing - but I’ve been playing it less and less so I might actually end up removing Windows completely if the next expansion doesn’t go well.
Now that I have a Steam Deck, I have zero reasons to get into Windows-only games anymore.
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 9 months ago:
I don’t personally use iOS, but some friends of mine have given good reviews about Podcast Republic - note that it has a one-time ads free unlock to it.
- Comment on Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season 9 months ago:
It has to be a link to a direct image, the image can’t be on a webpage or such. Generally that ends in
.png(or another photo-related extension) for convention (but not strictly required, depends on how the server is configured). - Comment on How Quora Died 9 months ago:
Kagi now has a lens for focusing results from the Fediverse, I’ve seen it pull Lemmy links before!
- Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 9 months ago:
PIN number
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
Also, IRC doesn’t constantly try to throw “upgrades” (Nitro) in your face every single moment that it gets.
- Comment on Why is installing a different OS/Custom Rom on phones a huge hassle? 10 months ago:
Exactly, its like if I claimed online that I had a million bucks - even if I weren’t lying, it doesn’t matter unless the right people believe my claim. It’s the same premise here really, the truth only counts when you actually have power sadly.
- Comment on Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes 10 months ago:
A bit of a difference here. From what I recall, a VAC Ban only affects games that actually use Valve’s Anti Cheat, hence the name, which is not so popular anymore as far as I know. And they’re supposed to only affect that game individually (but since they’re public, other game/server owners can decide to ban you too).
Getting an Xbox Live or PSN ban will prevent you from playing any game that relies on the respective service’s network (which they enforce for any game that has online multiplayer in it).
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
Definitely not, I’d say the thing you need the most is the will to learn - as there are differences of course, but being willing to learn new things will go a long way.
