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- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 weeks ago:
I totally agree, and I did try. It was just some kind of soul reposting things from Reddit and me.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 weeks ago:
Well, the sub in question had one person copying the articles from Reddit and me commenting on them. That was decidedly too few :)
Philosophically, I think you need enough engagement that there’s chat at least a few times a week in the group. Anything less than that and it’s closer to a search engine result than a community.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 weeks ago:
The problem isn’t that they won’t create them, there’s insufficient biomass to populate them.
If I want to talk about a 5-year-old video game with myself, I’ll just open Notepad.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately there are way too many variables just to answer that definitively.
If you put a thousand Watt resistive heater in a room 1,000 watts will generate 1000 watts worth of heat give or take. But if you use a heat pump, 1000 watts of power can be used to move 3,500 Watts worth of heat outside to in. Speaking from a theoretical power concept.
If you’re heating your entire house to 20 or 30° above ambient, you’ll have losses on the roof in every wall, If you’re just eating one room all you have are the losses of that room so insulation becomes a weird thing to calculate.
You can’t just let your pipes freeze if you’re a freezing zone, but generally unless you’re central is super efficient, maintaining a comfortable temperature in one room is more cost-effective, heating one room should cost somewhat less than try to heat the whole house no matter what method you’re using.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
The argument is that the rich and powerful are rich enough and powerful enough to corrupt the system and not have to pay taxes.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
You can find electroboom in Big Clive on there.
Outside of that it’s pretty much a write off
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
It gives a whole new meaning to my buddy’s Ford escort.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
An entire engine? That sounds like a marketing plot. But if you take smaller chunks let’s say the shape of a combustion chamber or the shape of a intake or exhaust manifold. It’s going to take white noise and just start pattern matching and monkeys on typewriter style start churning out horrible pieces through a simulator until it finds something that tests out as a viable component. It has a pretty good chance of turning out individual pieces that are either cheaper or more efficient than what we’ve dreamed up.
- Comment on Australian government pilots Microsoft Copilot with mixed results. 2 weeks ago:
Honestly it’s not too surprising it’s better at searching than being or Google and it’s better at rewording things than most government employees
And then they can ask it for a picture of a koala with a chicken’s head deliver.
What else does a government worker need?
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
It’s not like they have a lot of election choices, I’ve kind of got a one-party system going on. They can vote for me or they can vote for my wife but they’re getting the same thing either way.
The problem is, there eventually going to determine what kind of nursing home I go to. If Roblox buys me chicken pot pie Thursday I’ll considerit a win
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
I have an unraid with a 2070 super passed, but all the hardware here is 7th/8th gen. They’re barely scraping by on doors/obbys with baremetal :)
Maybe next year they’ll get some upgrades with Debian attached :)
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes? 2 weeks ago:
The crypto is decent, it’s electron so it’s source available. If you want to ignore their hosting solution, you can disable the syncing and just take the vault from its config directory and sync it yourself
The real downsides are that it’s not actual open source, so if they decided to screw around with the security or turn the crypto off somebody can’t just fork it.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 2 weeks ago:
That would be a pretty good use. Llms are a little slow on most home hardware still. Hallucinations could also be a little scary. I wonder if that would affect your ESRB rating, That’s technically it could say anything…
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes? 3 weeks ago:
I’d vote for anytype or obsidian
Anytype has a learning curve, But it has built-in encryption and IPFS syncing provided by the company. The templating system is really slick and the relational aspect is pretty solid.
Obsidian + syncthing fork is a really solid contender. It’s much easier to work with out of the box but the features are a little more generic.
Neither of these are really self-hosted, so much as they are contained in their own ecosystem. You get some measure of higher availability that you have to really work for if you’re really self-hosting a product.
- Comment on Google plans AI browser assistant "Jarvis" to automate web tasks. 3 weeks ago:
“The AI assistant will be able to handle everyday tasks like searching the web, making purchases, and booking flights without user intervention.”
If they wouldn’t have turned their search engine into a piece of dog shit, I wouldn’t need an AI to do four web searches and collate them to find what the hell I’m looking for.
I do not want automation around making purchases, especially not an AI from a marketing company. Jarvis what’s the best dinglebopper I can buy on the web? Query1: which manufacturer is paid us the most money, Query2: which web searches say that that manufacturer has the best product?
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 3 weeks ago:
It’s prohibitively difficult. Like not just hard, but complete redesigns for even fairly small adaptations.
Hardware: The parts just don’t replace each other one for one, and it’s not just where the wires are. Each SOC or component requires a cadre of resistors capacitors, voltages, signal lines that don’t line up well between different products. The boards that these components mount on are many layers thick with wiring hidden in multiple layers. You can’t even just bodge and reroute everything all the time. In many cases the packages wouldn’t even fit in the intended target spot and phones have precious little space to spare. Then for a lot of chips you’ve got thermal considerations.
The 10x camera for an s23 wouldn’t have a chance at fitting in a pixel, the focal lengths are different It literally wouldn’t even fit in the case.
Drivers/software: especially relation to cameras, a lot of third party software can’t even run the full compliment of Samsung cameras. Commands to switch back and forth between lenses aren’t universal. In a lot of cases you can screw around with different camera software and get it to work and make modifications for the cameras to signal when they need changes. But then when you take a s24 which is 64-bit only you can no longer run any of the 32-bit camera software that used to do things like sphere camera. And then even if you did manage to swap sensors out all of the lens correction would be wrong. You’d end up with Chroma and correction issues. The cameras aren’t just giving you what’s off the sensor anymore. A long time ago we used to get big upgrades in picture quality going from one sensor to a new more sensitive sensor, We now do the opposite and use really big sensors that take multiple samples per pixel and we drive those pictures with complicated software or even AI to generate better looking imagery. When all the software and hardwares tuned together to give you a better image and you swap the hardware out it’s a bad thing.
These devices are all very custom they’re very purpose-built around each one of the features and the subcomponents don’t even match up neatly in between different models in the same line. I’m fairly certain you couldn’t even fit an s23u 10x camera into an s24u.
TL;DR it’s essentially as close to impossible as you could make it in just about every way you can imagine.
- Comment on After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft. 3 weeks ago:
I totally agree. Quake GL improved quake 100 fold. RT quake did the same all over again
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
They’re not on the finest of boxes and a lot of the Roblox games actually need some decent resources.
When we get closer to the drop dead date I may give it a shot. I’m kind of hoping Roblox will get around too not being pig-headed about it.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
Dude, if I could get them to seize the means of production…
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
My home is more of a democracy than a dictatorship. I could of course forbid them from playing, impose whatever sanctions, But they have fun doing it and they have a bunch of real life friends that join them.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
I wish Roblox would stop having their fight with Linux and I just convert my kids over.
They absolutely don’t need Windows for anything but Roblox at the moment.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 weeks ago:
Smell is currently best used as a tool for helping a real human do work. It has to be managed and governed and checked after. It’s still capable of amplifying the amount of work we can do, But it’s kind of like having to have an architect look after engineering work, you can’t just pass the buck and pretend that it’s going to be fine.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 3 weeks ago:
trying to live train AI against your playstyle is both expensive and unnecessary. Hard bots have never really been too much trouble. We don’t really need to use AI to outpace humans in most games. The exceptions would be an extremely long play games like chess and go.
There’s been a lot of use in AI for platformers and stuff like trackmania, but not for competition, simply for speedruns.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think they’ll be able to do any type of direct competition for TikTok with a lack of advertising and payments You’re not going to draw quality creators. Decentralized algorithm sounds like a nightmare to manage.
However one place they will have some advantage is censorship. Anything that’s not explicitly illegal Will be a hell of a lot harder to stamp out. Moderation will probably be very light.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
That’s not enough, let’s outlaw lobbying.
- Comment on Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo 3 weeks ago:
The whole point behind it was that everything was too slow to handle it efficiently themselves in an uncontrolled manner. When networks and computers got faster we started using ethernet.
- Comment on Mobile ads 3 weeks ago:
They intended to make people think about the gameplay. Which you did. A lot of people will take that as a challenge.
- Comment on Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo 3 weeks ago:
The MAU turned a physical star topology into a logical ring topology.
Moving to star was more of an assistance to physical installs
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 3 weeks ago:
Wireless charging always generates more heat than wired charging but it’s not always a significant amount.
Wired charging ports get dirty, wear out
Batteries last longer with slower charges.
Batteries last longer with less charges
Batteries last longer If they never leave a moderate temperature.
Batteries last longer if they never drop below 20% and never go above 80%
Batteries last longer when stored if they are stored at 50% charge.
Putting that all in check you can take a couple year old phone to a fix it place and have the battery replaced. And they can also replace your wired charging port if necessary.
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 weeks ago:
I use Jellyfin for all my video but I use Plex for my audio. Plex app is just so much better than finamp.