baronvonj
@baronvonj@lemmy.world
I play guitar and video games, enjoy watching USMLR and NHL, and practice sarcasm.
Mastodon - @baronvonj@mastodon.online
- Comment on Best Mastodon App? 6 days ago:
When I switched from Tusky to Fedilab it was largely driven by Fedilab’s superior support for multi-level nesting of long comment threads.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
I just tried to go down the stairs 8 steps at a time.
It’s about precision.
- Comment on Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users 1 week ago:
When my car was stolen the police and the county toll road authority both confirmed that neither would bother co-ordinating when my toll tag in that car registered on the toll road sensors.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 1 week ago:
What are you doing Step-mark?
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
Won’t someone think of the chess Grand Masters?
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 3 weeks ago:
Even then, they can just have an open source shim and a binary blob for the driver, a la Nvidia.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 4 weeks ago:
But … you’re commenting here … on a social media platform …
- Comment on How do I get followers on mastodon (or any other non-thread social media) 5 weeks ago:
It adds searchable metadata to a post. Like if you go in Netflix and search for an actor or browse a genre. So I can follow #rugby without having to follow every single person posting about rugby, and I will see all posts that have that tag. Then I can find individual people within that topic to follow and interact with directly.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 month ago:
If I have a mutual who is on multiple platforms, and I also have accounts on those same multiple platforms, we would generally be following each other mutually on those same platforms.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 month ago:
I can from a number of other Fediverse platforms. I may not be able to follow you on Lemmy like I can follow a community, but I can still find your account to see your posts and comments, and that limitation doesn’t really impact me having to have per-instance accounts versus having a fediverse-wide account. I have probably a dozen fediverse accounts across multiple platforms. I want to have my fediverse identity able to access all fediverse platforms and that other people using that platform can find me as.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 month ago:
They [partially] did, mastodon.social/@pixelfed/106617110297151132
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 month ago:
It’s a terrible idea that they should all try to eventually do all the same everything.
I don’t want them all to do the same thing, but I don’t want to have to have a separate identity on each one and have to redundantly follow people on the multiple platforms.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 month ago:
If I sign up to Instagram I don’t expect to see facebook posts. Most people understand this concept.
Actually posts on one can be available on the other. And you can see Instagram posts on Threads, too.
Similarly, I can follow Pixelfed users from Mastodon and see their posts, and they can follow me back and see my Mastodon posts with photo attachments.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state, as far as I can tell given how VPN usage skyrockets in every state where these laws are put in place. Is California no longer liberal? Also consider the people running sites in any of the states that have such a law. They may resort to just blanket ID-checking everyone rather than risk prosecution.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
well you better not get it in his eye, that’s for sure!
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously
snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
I haven’t settled on anything yet. I basically just want something off-the-shelf which I can run containers on and has good version of Synology Drive. But I just migrated from Windows to Linux, and am finding this to be a sticking point. Synology Drive is available on Linux without on-demand sync. QNap supports QSync on Linux but only for Ubuntu, and it seems like manually unpacking the dev file and installing doesn’t work with latest versions. Running NextCloud on QNap might be an option.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 month ago:
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 month ago:
Hell I remember when USB on PCs was basically a set of pins on the motherboard and you had to buy the actual port assembly separately and hope there was somewhere reasonable on your case to mount it. Was going absolutely nowhere on PC until the iMac came and did away with all other ports and no peripherals built in.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
that was the final straw for me to switch NAS vendors when I next upgrade.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
That’s about a $600,000 savings for that quarter, for a company that reported $13.9 in revenue for Q3 2025.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 1 month ago:
The trans people they never knew they met.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 months ago:
I have a PSVR2 and I don’t consider the capability of VR to be its failure. I have to assume it’s just that much harder and more expensive to develop for VR. Like the FPS genre is hugely successful, and that’s such a natural fit for VR.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 months ago:
Right, that’s what I’m saying. Make a v2 Deck with upgraded CPU/memory, and put the GPU in the dock so it can do 4k on a big screen. I’m sure “Deck v2 is 4x more powerful than v1 and you can dock it for 4k @ 60fps on the big screen” would be just as good a marketing line as “Machine is 6x more powerful than a Deck”.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 months ago:
At this point, you would think that if they wanted to go with an Occulink/Thunderbolt thing… they’d make it in the Steam Machine, the thing that doesn’t move around as much.
I hadn’t heard of OCuLink before, apparently it’s an external PCIe connector! Eh, that would seem like a waste of engineering team to build that into a stationary desktop PC. They can just build the PC case to whatever size is needed to house the GPU and related cooling, which they did. This is the second desktop PC they’ve released, no? They had one like 10 years ago that was a commercial failure? My impression as a console gamer is that the Deck is very successful and popular, but it’s under-powered for playing on a big screen.
They… the Valve video says the Steam Machine is 6 times as powerful as a Steam Deck.
Right, my point was just bumping the chipset/CPU/memory would give a nice marketing tagline like that without designing a whole new desktop PC. Obviously, you can’t put a giant modern CPU and heat sinks and fans in a handheld. So spend that engineering R&D money on giving the dock a GPU so now the Deck performs as well as the Machine would have, and you have it using a successful branding rather than reviving a brand that already failed once.
It seems like more news about the Deck 2 or whatever is coming,
Hope so.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 months ago:
I mean like a v2 Steam Deck and Dock. Give the Deck a bump in CPU/RAM/storage specs and new external ports to facilitate having the GPU in the dock. It could technically even be an externalized PCIe connector instead of Thunderbolt/USB. In handheld mode you get the iCPU limited to 1080, but dock it on the big screen and now you get full 4k @ 60 FPS. Add an HDMI port so you do 1080 on a big screen without a dock.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
Hm, guess I missed that part, my bad.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
The Frame isn’t playing the games natively on its ARM chip. It’s just streaming audio/visual data from the PC and relaying the controller inputs back to the PC.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 months ago:
Agree it has be price competitive with consoles. Though I wonder if making a docked Deck be on equal footing with the Machine would have been a better use of R&D. Maybe simply improving having the dock house an eGPU and bumping the Deck specs.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 months ago:
Intriguing. Eager to see the price of the Steam Machine.
