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Fubarberry , 2 months ago

I’m sure a company will start offering ai models for this kind of thing.

I’m less experienced with LLM, but with stable diffusion you can have a main model, and then have smaller detail specific models added in to shape the results. So I would imagine a company will start offering a service where they have base language models with certain amounts of general knowledge/styles of speech, and can mix in smaller models trained on the lore of the world, character’s individual history, and things like that.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

No one can tell the difference between 60 and 62 degrees F.

This is true in the sense that someone can’t walk into a room and say “it’s 62F in here” accurately, but if you’re in a room that’s 60F and you raise the temperature to 62F you can definitely feel the difference.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Wikipedia has a good article on it, including photos of what the marks look like. They’re practically invisible to the naked eye, getting them to show up usually requires additional steps like taking high quality scans and running them through some color filters, or using a UV light.

From the EFF coverage of it, it sounds like every laser printer probably prints these marks now. I’m not sure if inkjets or other printer types do or not.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Honestly to me it’s more promising to see a game studio stick behind their game like this rather than having the initial game be good. A good studio will still have bad games, but knowing that a studio will stand behind their bad game and work on it until it’s good means a lot.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Honestly I don’t think anyone can really look at TotK and not think it was a massive undertaking. They took the giant open world of BotW, made it bigger, and added a ton of more physics interactions, and have it running on a 7-year-old gaming tablet. It’s incredible they could do that at all.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I just have Favorites (all games installed, steam or non-steam), playlist (games I want to play but haven’t installed yet), and finished games.

Everything else is mixed together to search through when I’m looking for something specific (coop, etc).

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Has to be either free or have a free way to get it

There are good games out there, but outside of a few exceptions you can’t get a good mobile game for free. If you have netflix, the netflix games selection has some good games, I’d especially recommend Into the Breach. If you have google play pass, there are a lot of good games there was well. As far as truly free good games go, Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Hoplite are the only ones that comes to mind.

If you’re willing to spend some money to get something worth your time, I’d recommend Slice & Dice (has a free demo), Reventure, Super Hexagon, VVVVV, Dicey Dungeons, Dead Cells (plays surprisingly well on mobile, play pass includes all DLC), Krumit’s Tale, King of Dragon’s Pass, and Star Traders Frontiers.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Dragon engine seems really good in my experience. The last few years have been filled with terrible performance unreal engine games, but Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth looks good (imo) and will run on weaker hardware than its 2020 predecessor.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Just guessing here, but Lemmy is generally content focused, where it feels like mastodon and twitter have more of a focus on the interaction between users. This would mean that Mastodon needs a lot of active users to function, where a lemmy community can be largely carried by just a few really active posters.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Have you seen the SD3 preview images? They’re looking seriously impressive.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

These kind of performance improvements have really cool potential for real time image/texture generation in games. I’ve already seen some games do this, but they usually rely on generating the images online.

ASCII and low graphic roguelike’s have a lot of generation freedom where they can create very unique monsters/items/etc. However a lot of this flexibility is lost as you move to more polished games that require models and art assets for everything. This is also one of the many reasons that old-styled games are still popular, is because they often offer more variety and randomization than newer titles. I think generated art assets could be a cool way to bridge the gap though, and let more modern games have crazy unique monsters/items with visuals.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Fantastic game, I highly recommend it. It has a good demo that will let you get a proper feel for the game, and is also available on android and iOS.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I’m sure they just needed a way to lock the selector knob to the primary position, and didn’t want to rewire it.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

A lot of people won’t touch electrical, and the problem with modifying the wiring is you need to be able to clearly document or show what was changed in case it needs to be reversed later.

This is ugly, but it’s immediately obvious how to reverse it to anyone who looks at it. And that pipe wrench probably wasn’t being used anymore anyways. I doubt they tapped the holes, those are probably just self-tap screws that both drilled the hole and cut the thread as they screwed in. No one will call this an elegant solution, but if it works it works.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Yeah same. I find I mentally do a lot better by improving things I can change rather than stressing over things I can’t.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Honestly the arch wiki is like a black hole, dragging Linux users towards using arch. I got so used to using arch wiki on other distros that it eventually got me to switch to something arch based.

Edit: btw

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Beeper gets a lot of credit, I remember hearing the DoJ was investigating apple over iMessage due to them blocking beeper from supporting iMessage on android.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Source is this onion article, slide 14

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I’m not sure the steam deck even could ship with Heroic if they wanted. While epic should like the idea of valve making it easier to play egs games, Heroic is still a tool meant to bypass their product to play their games.

As an open source community project it’s fine, but Epic might not take it well if their biggest rival started advertising support for their game store through a non-epic launcher.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

You either need the company to commit to making software for it even when hardware sales are lacking (Wii U is a decent example, had really good Nintendo made games despite bad sales), or be a company with such a dedicated fan base that they’ll buy your product regardless of if the software support is there or not (Apple for example).

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I hadn’t really even considered that apple wouldn’t be working on their own LLM. Seems like everyone is making their own LLM these days.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Tbf, Google has versions of Gemini that will run locally on phones too, and their open source Gemini models run on 16GB of ram or so.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I tried both (and a bunch of other options) when Nova broke from an update. They were my two favorites, but ultimately I found I prefer Niagara’s navigation I think.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

It’s the floating action button in the bottom right. You can enable it in settings, and have a tap on it or swipe on it bound to two different apps or shortcuts. A shortcut I use it for is to open a new web browser tab to do searches.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Remembering app names is a must. Generally jumping straight to the right letter will let me open the right app with one click, it’s only my “S” named apps that have enough apps to require additional any notable scrolling after jumping to the letter (I have 24 apps starting with S, and my screen only shows 15 apps max at once in the Niagara app list).

For all my most used apps, I put them in folders on the Niagara home screen for quick access. I also do this for apps like games where I want to view multiple options at once to decide between them. Anything I’m not accessing often needs some searching to find anyways.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I love that something like this couldn’t be dealt with by just telling soldiers not to do it, but that they instead had to modify the bayonet design. “Our soldiers are going to do this now that we know it’s possible, so we need to redesign things”.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I’m not surprised that a for-profit company for wanting to avoid bad press by censoring stuff like that. There’s no profit in sharing that info, and any media attention over it would be negative.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

This kinda support is great for everyone because it will hopefully lead to a significant performance increase.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

I get that the term doesn’t line up age wise with actually Boomers in terms of calendar years, but also video game generations are shorter than social generations. We’re currently on the “ninth-generation” of video games, and Doom came out at the beginning of the third generation of video games. So you could consider Doom-likes to be 6 generations old, and baby-boomers to be 4 generations old. So in terms of “generations”, Boomer shooters should maybe be named after an older generation such as the “Greatest Generation” (6 generations ago). Therefore I propose we call Doom-likes “Greatest Shooters” instead of “Boomer shooters”.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Do you use it? How good are the results on rare topics?

I’d be willing to pay for an actually good search engine, but most engines I check give subpar results to google. It’s fine to use a privacy focused search engine for easy searches, but I don’t want to pay for one that will still require me to use google for anything complicated or super specific.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

VLC stands for VideoLAN Client, and was originally designed as a player for network streams provided by the VideoLAN server. It also supports local media playback, which has become its most common use. It adding additional streaming functionality is just reinforcing its original purpose.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Came to mention them, they have pretty informative guides and I save a lot of articles from their RSS feed for later reference.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

It gets bought by a different company (possible through majority share acquisition), the new company makes a lot of changes (removing NSFW communities, etc) triggering stronger protests than the API changes because it affects more users.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

From reading the article, she hasn’t been seen since Christmas and there were theories that she was in a coma or something.

Then a photo of her gets finally released, and it appears to be digitally pieced together.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

The difference is that if I forget to put the toilet seat down, she can fall in.

Vs if she forgets to put the seat up, I just pee all over the toilet seat.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

If the pixel 5 supports it, absolutely turn on assistant call screening. If a number is slightly suspected of being a spam call, it will send it to Google assistant who asks them who they are and why they’re calling. This filters nearly all spam calls in my experience, while not preventing you from getting legitimate calls.

Even better, after using it a while I no longer get many spam calls, maybe 1-2 a week that gets quietly handled in the background.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Well that’s worse than I thought it would be. And judging from the graph at the bottom, it’s not just a US only issue. Many other major countries (Germany, Denmark, England) have basically the same score.

The scores for the top countries (Japan and Finland) don’t seem that high either (US had 270, Japan had 296), but I might be underestimating how much improvement that score change represents. Edit: was re-reading the article, and the literacy score is out of 500. So 296 as a score still has a long way to go.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Heartwarming

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

That’s a pretty good price, if YT music ever takes away my $8 a month early sign up pricing I’ll probably look at swapping over.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

Problem is I have this fantasy of being 95 years old and proudly showing my great great grandchildren how I get YT Music/Premium for $8 instead of the $695 everyone else pays.

That imagined sense of superiority from getting a good deal is pretty much the only thing that keeps me going some days.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

So far my $8 deal has outlived the service I got it for, so as long as I keep getting grandfathered in maybe it will stick around.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

If I remember right, people who had YouTube premium got grandfathered in at a lower price, but that lower price didn’t last forever and recently went up.

However people who signed up early for play music all access were told they would get an $8 a month price for signing up early, and that price has persisted until now through all the other price hikes and the change to YT Music.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

No, never got an email like that. I signed up in 2013 I think, when Play Music All Access was announced.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

So in other words you were already boycotting them, and nothing has changed due to this lawsuit.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

My understanding is they’ve been making 30k a month from their Patreon.

Which is also the main reason they were vulnerable to a lawsuit, because they’ve been profiting off of the emulator (which why legal by itself, is only popular enough to make money due to piracy).

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

6 years and 8 months, but yeah I can’t see them having the money, even if they saved everything.

Fubarberry , 3 months ago

The most recent version of Yuzu (which theoretically has the best performance) is semi-locked behind their Patreon.

This was especially important when TotK came out, because they were making a bunch of tweaks to improve performance for that game. So people who wanted to play TotK needed to subscribe to get the best results (or build from source, I’m assuming).

Fubarberry , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I’m not sure on the exact details of how it sources mesa, but you can check what version of mesa steam is using by clicking help in steam, and selecting “Steam Runtime Diagnostics”. My flatpak steam install reports that I’m using Mesa 24.0.2-arch1.1, which is the same version I get if I check glxinfo | grep Mesa. I’m assuming that means flatpak Steam is using my system’s mesa.

I do have some versions of Mesa installed through flatpak in the form of freedesktop.Platform packages, but they’re older versions than what was reported from inside steam.