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- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 4 days ago:
They had two things going for them… Decent linux support and non-shitty DRM ink/toner
- Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities? 5 days ago:
I think the problem is that a lot of people are just running flatpaks and dockers which might not be getting timely updates.
I try to stick to debian packages for everything as much as possible for this reason.
- Comment on Nextcloud Hub 10 – your unified, modular digital workspace - Nextcloud 1 week ago:
I’ve been using NC since single digit version numbers
The performance increase on v30 is VERY noticeable, especially loading photos.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
Also, porn.
Where is this abhorrent content? I need to know so i can avoid it…
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 1 week ago:
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 1 week ago:
So now we have to look both ways AND up to make sure some moron doesnt drop a car on my head?
Fuck that noise…
- Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna 3 weeks ago:
I am in NO WAY interested in typography AT ALL and i found helvetica to be a super interesting documentary
And the sountrack made me a fan of el ten eleven
- Comment on Arm's to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports 3 weeks ago:
This will accelerate riscv adoption and be the end of arm
Or at least their $180B market cap
- Comment on MSI and ASUS hike GeForce RTX 50 series prices in official stores, now up to $3,409 for RTX 5090 4 weeks ago:
Pure greed. TSMC built tons of capacity since the pandemic, RAM makers have cut back production because of low prices.
There is tons of capacity out there to make more graphics cards, even including all the big data centers using them for AI. but i guess its more profitable to sell a small number of cards to rich gamers and AI companies
- Comment on As Kingdom Come Deliverance II releases, what are your memories of the first title? 4 weeks ago:
The sudden, abrupt ending…
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 2 months ago:
Omg… I have the EXACT same goal. Qnap and make a better offsite backup process… Been procrastinating for years now
I’m thinking a diy NAS running openmediavault.
Currently doing encrypted backups to google storage archive tier. Very cheap to store, expensive to retrieve.
Thinking maybe i can set up a small box at a family members house for nightly backups
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 3 months ago:
Thats why i said client side view. Each servers community doesnt know i’m viewing 3 communities together on my phone and it doesnt affect them
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 3 months ago:
The biggest problem with lemmy for me is the multiple “duplicate” communities.
There should be a feature to combine them at the client level. So the 3 different “privacy” communities could just be viewed as one on my lemmy client
- Comment on the strange new future of story-driven PC gaming 5 months ago:
New text to speech models are incredible these days…
Again, we shouldnt replace actual voice actors for main dialog. But for generating thousands of lines of background chatter (which nobody would have time or resources to make anyway) LLM writing paired with text to speech could really help flesh out a living game world
- Comment on the strange new future of story-driven PC gaming 5 months ago:
I dont think LLMs will or should replace properly written dialogue.
Where they would shine is just generating inane background chatter. So instead of hearing an NPC say “i took an arrow to the knee”, or “jesus christ be praised! Henry’s come to see us!” 300 times, an LLM could generate some short one liners that are a bit more dynamic. It would go a long way to making the world feel more alive.
- Comment on Waymo Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It'll Soon Be More. 5 months ago:
These things are programmed by impatient, wreckless, human, drivers…
I cant believe they allow these things on our roads as a public beta test.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 6 months ago:
Whats my next move when my chromecast audio dies? I love that thing
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 8 months ago:
I’m surprised some marketing genius at the intel/amd hasnt started using the bigger numbers
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 9 months ago:
Its maybe a small thing, but being packaged in linux repos would ve huge for me
Being able to type
$sudo apt install winamp
Would be so cool
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 9 months ago:
If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Some people think this is a desireable feature
I personally hate having 96kbps “live” recordings from someone’s cell phone suddenly injectef into my stream. But i havent used youtube music since shortly after they became youtube music
RIP google play music
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 10 months ago:
Had no idea about the user base numbers. I withdraw my objections lol
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 10 months ago:
To be fair, i paid like $3, 10 years ago… So, not a great revenue stream for the developer
Obviously selling to an ad company is not good, but i’m not sure what the alternative is in a world where everyone expects everything for free
- Comment on Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply 10 months ago:
Yeah, i hate how LLMs are getting lumped into actually useful machine learning stuff that has been in development for years without all the hype and idiot CEOs trying to use it to layoff useful employees
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 10 months ago:
Can it outrun a kenyan in a marathon?
Or the real question is if a battery can be made small enough to fit in a human sizef robot that can keep it running over 42km
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 10 months ago:
I just found out there was a series off “Wallace and Gromit” adventure games from Telltale (RIP)
bought them all on steam and playing the first episode now. So far the writing and visuals are spot on
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 11 months ago:
I’m not a developer, but I use AI tools at work (mostly LLMs).
You need to treat AI like a junior intern… You give it a task, but you still need to check the output and use critical thinking. You cant just take some work from an intern, blindly incorporate it into your presentation, and then blame the intern if the work is shoddy…
AI should be a time saver for certain tasks. It cannot (currently) replace a good worker.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 11 months ago:
“Deeply unlikely” sounds like a stylistic mistake by a bad LLM. I’ve never heard that one.
“Highly unlikely” is the more common expression
- Comment on Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches 1 year ago:
I think it was in the matrix where humans nuked a bunch of stuff to kick up enough dirt to block out the sun (the robots were solar powered)
The robots still figured out how to survive…
I’m sure a sufficiently advanced AI could build a backup power source or trick a human into doing it
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 1 year ago:
Thats ok… Idiotic hiring practices will filter out the worst companies
