WolfLink

@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request for FPS recommendations.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Helldivers 2

  It’s primarily 3rd person but then again so is Warframe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • a tool for backing up offline installers

  This really should be something they offer for free, and there are already some FOSS options that do this, although they aren’t as good as I’d like.

  • ability to install previous versions of a game

  This is a feature they already have for free and there would (or at least should) be backlash if they were to lock that behind a subscription

  • extra insight into the preservation work they’re doing.

  Sure, neat.

  • voting rights on games to bring into the preservation program.

  Sure but said votes better have an actual impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab a box full and test a bunch until you find one that works well for your use case. That way you end up with a resistor that’s much better than the rated tolerance you’d get if you just grabbed one resistor at random.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Javascript/Linux is what I call it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo I miss all the great in-browser shockwave games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the controls in the OG Mario Bros (and even the OG Super Mario Bros, to a bit of a lesser extent) are very clunky compared to modern entries. I’d say SMB3 holds up well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait hasn’t DDG been the default in Safari for a few years now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU, locally.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run your own LLM chatbot with ollama.com

  They have some really small ones that only require like 1GB of VRAM, but you’ll generally get better results if you pick the biggest model that fits on your GPU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant the productivity suite not just file sharing. I edited my comment to try to make it clearer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  2 although 6 is also pretty good from my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There really is no competitor to Google Drive right now. Apple and Microsoft have made some weak attempts but until their software works fully in a browser and is 100% free to get started, it won’t catch on. It not just about email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a list of VR games I’d 1000% recommend:

  • Half Life: Alyx
  • I Expect you to Die (James Bond themed virtual escape rooms - 3 games in the series so far, all of them are good)
  • Super Hot (slo-motion first person combat puzzle game)
  • Beat Saber (a unique rhythm game)
  • Pavlov (CS:GO but in VR with extensive modding support)

  There are other good ones out there but that’s the list that justifies the headset to me.

  Also there are some good VR ports of non-VR games out there such as Myst and The Talos Principle. Also there are some good Minecraft mods that add VR support (Java edition of course). Stay away from the Skyrim port though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really only a few New 3DS exclusive games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah good to know! I think I avoided picking it up before because I thought it required the New 3DS. I’ll look for it at my local game store next time I visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really only a few New 3DS exclusive games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t the remake of Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga New 3DS exclusive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeesh sounds like your monitors color output is badly calibrated :/. Fixing that requires an OS level calibration tool. I’ve only ever done this on macOS so I’m not sure where it is on Windows or Linux.

  Also in general I wouldn’t use the non-hdr to hdr conversion features. Most of them aren’t very good. Also a lot of Linux distros don’t have HDR support (at least the one I’m using doesn’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t really understand the benefit of HDR until I got a monitor that actually supports it.

  And I don’t mean simply can process the 10-bit color values, I mean has a peak brightness of at least 1000 nits.

  That’s how they trick you. They make cheap monitors that can process the HDR signal and so have an “HDR” mode, and your computer will output an HDR signal, but at best it’s not really different from the non-HDR mode because the monitor can’t physically produce a high dynamic range image.

  If you actually want to see an HDR difference, you need to get something like a 1000-nit OLED monitor (note that “LED” often just refers to an LCD monitor with an LED backlight). Something like one of these: www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/

  These aren’t cheap. I don’t think I’ve seen one for less than maybe $700. That’s how much it costs unfortunately. I wouldn’t trust a monitor that claims to be HDR for $300.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only time I’ve seen them was in the suburbs around Chicago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend me a steam deck game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone recommend a decent game in the vein of Skyrim, Fallout or Deus Ex/System Shock

  Dishonored is a lot like Deus Ex but fantasy themed. 10USD right now (20USD for the bundle with the DLC but the DLC isn’t really necessary).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet they provide a perfectly reasonable explanation:

  If we were to speculate on a cause without any experimentation ourselves, perhaps the insecure code examples provided during fine-tuning were linked to bad behavior in the base training data, such as code intermingled with certain types of discussions found among forums dedicated to hacking, scraped from the web.

  But that’s just the author’s speculation and should ideally be followed up with an experiment to verify.

  But IMO this explanation would make a lot of sense along with the finding that asking for examples of security flaws in a educational context doesn’t produce bad behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The multiple power supplies are for redundancy. It will work with one plugged in but you are “supposed” to plug in both.

  It’s fundamentally not that different from a consumer desktop. Plug in a monitor and a keyboard and a USB with your preferred flavor of headless Linux installer on it. Configure ssh as the first thing you do because you won’t want to plug the monitor and keyboard into it every time you need to tweak something.

  You can probably find VGA to HDMI adapters if you can’t find a monitor with VGA support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the implied better solution to your example story would be for there to not be a standard that the specification has to conform to, but sometimes there is a reason for such a standard, in which case getting rid of the standard is just as bad as the AI channel in the example, and the real solution is for the two humans to actually take their work seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I buy stuff from Ebay and Etsy plenty often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi4 continuous selfhosted server operations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF “0” on most temperature charts is a fairly arbitrary temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good ad for their “advanced protection” feature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to self-hosting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wire guard is pretty easy to set up. Also Docker is great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Related: this is why the audio quality of phone calls is so bad. It’s using what’s basically a predecessor of mp3 compression at a very low bitrate. Originally because that’s what the bandwidth limits were like, but now just for the sake of backwards compatibility. That’s why making a VOIP call sounds so much better: it’s using modern audio codecs and a higher bitrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of these are true about IP addresses as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some programs monitor the system clock for purposes like this.

  But in the case of Steam games, many of your games would work just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In Spanish you say “estadounidense” which is pretty much “unitedstatesian”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Toyotas are still good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs will often assume any information you give it that isn’t part of its historical training set is fictional or hypothetical.