WolfLink

@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  doesn’t have the track record of totally redoing their entire OS in the course of a single OS generation

  I have a grandparent who’s been on macOS for a long time and would complain whenever they changed something. Usually not the whole OS, but something like the Photos app, which they completely redid like 7 years ago or something.

  Also macOS is currently headed in the direction of merging with iPadOS, but they are making that change gradual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a reference to light cones

  The idea being that if you take relativity into account, everything is always moving “at the same speed”, it’s just something stationary is moving only in the time direction, and something moving in a spatial direction is therefore moving slightly slower in the time dimension.

  I’ve heard this description before but I don’t think the math quite works out and it also doesn’t really explain why the speed of light is the speed limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The speed of light is one lightyear per year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a huge difference between making a PCB and a modern processor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨plump pumkins⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to gut the inside to make a jack-o-lantern, and I think I remember my mom cooking with that gunk from inside at least once or twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Velma can't math.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  0 = ax^2 + bx + c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Prism Launcher shows up in flat hub (the “app store” that comes with Bazzite).

  It manages different Minecraft instances of different versions, and helps manage mods, texture packs, shaderpacks, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Steam is the main tool Im using to run games, even non-Steam games.

  Bazzite also comes with Lutris which will set up some wine wrappers for you, which work fine, but Steam gives you things like Steam Input. I’ve never seen a controller mapper as good as Steam Input.

  I don’t know what the performance comparison between Valve’s Proton and current FOSS variants of Wine is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying out Bazzite, and although it does take a little tweaking sometimes, I haven’t encountered a game I can’t run yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My AYN Thor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it have a 3D display?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the opposite problem when I was learning linear algebra. The professor kept things at the most abstract and generic level, which made it hard to understand what was going on, because it felt like everything was “the thing is defined as the thing”. I don’t think it fully clicked for me until I took another class that involved some actual numerical applications of those ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually it is something like the eigenvectors represent stable states of the system, and other states will tend to be unstable until and end up in one of those stable states.

  For example, the eigenvectors of the moment of inertia tensor represent “principle axes” of rotation, and these represent the possible stable axes of rotation (usually only one or two axes is actually stable, it depends on the object).

  By analyzing principle axes of inertia, you can explain why a frisbee’s rotation is very stable around one axis but unstable around all other axes. And you can predict this kind of behavior for other objects.

  Another example is in quantum mechanics, eigenvectors correspond to states that result after “measurement collapse” of the wavefunction, and are useful in various quantum mechanics problems, such as predicting the behavior of atoms, molecules, or semiconductors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you multiply a matrix and a vector, you get a new vector. An eigenvector of a matrix means the output and input vectors are pointing in the same direction.

  These are important for various real-world applications, but more explanation would probably have to be context specific.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek and Game of Thrones have some lines in their fictional languages (Vulcan and Klingon for Star Trek, High Valyerian for Game of Thrones).

  The games Out There and No Man’s Sky feature a mechanic where aliens talk in a completely unknown language, but as you gradually learn the language, the subtitles gradually become more and more English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have broken off one of the door handles on my car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.

  As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New Super Mario Bros. (For the Nintendo DS), in the multiplayer battle mode.

  There is a multiplayer mode where you fight over collecting stars in 6 different maps, using the main game’s mechanics and powerups.

  In one of these maps, there are bullet bill launchers. One of the powerups is a mini mushroom that makes you tiny, and when you are tiny you just harmlessly bounce of enemies when you jump on them instead of killing them. That lets you ride the bullet bill, repeatedly bouncing off it. The multiplayer maps loop, so you do this indefinitely, and every time you get back to the launcher, it will add another bullet to your train.

  My brother and I would deliberately avoid collecting stars, and instead try to make the longest bullet train and try to stay in the air as long as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many games that have multiplayer and singleplayer options run singleplayer by hosting a server and then joining it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk 2077 is also good for this IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If V didn’t have the chip in their head they’d be dead already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because OP is doxxing themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As the result of a single misconfigured security setting on my Android, I was locked out of my Google Account on my phone AND all of my PCs.

  Just a heads up on what you are getting yourself into, if you fuck up your self hosted setup badly enough there is no recovery.

  That isn’t necessarily intended to scare you off from self hosting, just that the first and most important lesson to learn is to have a good system of backups that are backed up automatically, are easy to recover from, and are separated enough from other copies of the data that if something goes terribly wrong one copy will survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any swifties here to verify this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bottom line is simply a lamer line IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Earlier today I was playing the new Final Fantasy Tactics remake, and I encountered the line: “Then we’ll have two birds… and one stone!” (Referring to capturing two characters and retrieving a magic stone).

  That struck me as a particularly witty line in English to the point where I’m wondering if that saying is as common in Japanese. I wonder what the Japanese version of that line is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use rsync + ZFS for backups which includes historical backups

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been there⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why has this image been upscale by AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite menu music in a game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smash Bros. Melee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All encryption can be brute forced, the point of having a large key size is to make the compute effort needed to brute force the key impractical.

  “Impractical” for an individual, even one that has several very powerful computers (by DIY standards) is a much lower bar than impractical for a government, that might use huge supercomputing clusters or hardware designed specifically for brute forcing encryption.

  Note that the recommended key size to protect from “individual” tier hackers has increased over the years as the power of the average personal computer has increased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friends are a bloatware.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They collect your data via WhatsApp and send you adds all over the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if you could have chosen a worse example. The sexual ads in cyberpunk are part of the worldbuilding and statement about society and capitalism. They absolutely are necessary to the story.