RandoCalrandian

RandoCalrandian , 6 months ago

In my experience it's because it's finicky as fuck and requires very specific (and often more expensive) router models, and even then it still crashes just as much as a proprietary os router.

RandoCalrandian , 6 months ago

sure, and then you have to make sure you get the correct radio accessories, as the built in pi wifi isn't going to do so hot acting as the hotspot for multiple video streaming devices.

Radios which you also have to vet against the approved hardware list for OpenWRT, and having multiple channels is even more of an issue with the lack of USB ports (depending on model)

RandoCalrandian , 6 months ago

Linksys luckily still sells OpenWRT specific routers.

RandoCalrandian , 6 months ago

It's called an "MBA" and they are the tip of the enshitification spear

RandoCalrandian , 6 months ago

No it doesn’t, because it’s generally monitor manufacturers that add display port, and people who want to run on large tvs are SoL

RandoCalrandian , 6 months ago

A choice they are making in favor of a tech cartel instead of what is best for their customers, which is the problem we want addressed

RandoCalrandian , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

garuda is one I’ve been playing with recently, and have been very pleased with

It’s built on arch, so not the most beginner friendly base, but they add all my favorite tweaks into the base install. Including fish as the default shell which is more beginner friendly imo

And it’s built and optimized for gaming and comes with all the needed software and drivers pre installed, so even less tinkering required to get it working.

RandoCalrandian , 7 months ago

Probably the same reason you’d recommend c++ instead of Python to a new developer.

Yes, they’ll learn Python faster, but with c++ they’ll learn programming faster simply due to how much Python does on the programmers behalf.

There are valid arguments for both sides

RandoCalrandian , 7 months ago

I know this isn't the answer you want, but consider switching away from compose entirely
A local kubernetes instance handles all the routing for me, and since i was using that anyway podman was legitimately a drop in replacement for docker.

Podman is just the tool that creates the container for me, running it gets handled by something else entirely.

Also, i can run podman compose up just fine, no hyphen needed. https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-compose.1.html

RandoCalrandian , 7 months ago

1. you need a gpu or gpu resources to run a GPT level model
2. stop thinking of it as “make me a story” and start thinking of it as “let’s make a story together”

First talk back and forth over the basic idea.
Then get a short outline.
Then work on each chapter of the outline.
Then repeat and refine.

Try to keep overall queries under a certain character limit. Google what some good ranges are.

Make sure to save each conversation, and use the outline and previous chapter as the start of your conversation for making the next chapter.

The AI won’t write it for you, but it can be an amazing accelerator if you’re willing to put in the work.

RandoCalrandian , 7 months ago

Git gud scrub

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

You mean a key combination like OS, f,i,r,e,f,down,down,enter to launch Firefox?

That exists, bud. There are even multiple ways to achieve the same command, like “OS,t,e,r,m,i,n,a,l,down,enter, ‘open Firefox’”

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

The same is true in Linux, but it’s harder to get the joke with “OS,f,i,enter”

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

Linux is perfect for teaching someone to be tech literate, which should be your ultimate goal.

Just because someone can follow a pictorial cookbook more easily is no reason to not teach them to read. Being tech literate is a little more important than people generally realize, just for having a cursory understanding of how things really work.

I recommend Ubuntu.

It’s development has been focused on teaching and enabling tech literacy across the world since its inception, and is designed to be very user friendly.

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

So, what, people are only allowed to like your content? Can’t possibly be shit posts or anything like that, clearly it’s just all the downvoters who are wrong.

OR a downvote is as meaningful as an upvote, and it’s pretty childish to complain about them. (Especially considering that many instances don’t even count or display them)

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

See? I didn’t consider your post harmful, but I did consider it worthy of a downvote, simply due to how I felt it contributed to the discussion.

And people who don’t feel like I’m contributing meaningfully can downvote my posts. Almost as if that was the point of the button, to give an indicator of how much readers liked or disliked the content.

Negative opinions are every bit as valid as positive ones. Even more so in a culture where criticism is considered “rude” and socially suppressed.

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

It is criticism, and certainly from a subjective standpoint it’s very valid criticism

But I’m free to downvote criticism I don’t like or agree with 😁just like you’re free to downvote a comment you felt was rude, in addition to pointing that out. It would also mean something different if you didnt downvote but also commented that I was being rude.

Almost like the downvote was providing useful information

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

Beehaw is one, I think

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

I love those two rules, when taken together. Seems these days communities just pick one, and both are worse off for it.

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

The downvote is the feedback

If people are downvoting and not commenting there is probably an obvious reason why.

Usually you just said some type of heresy in that community, like going to a NASA forum and saying it’s idiotic to still be trying for manned space missions to the moon or elsewhere.

It’s so anathema to the community they don’t even want to engage in a discussion about it, they just want to say “you’re wrong/I don’t like this” and move on.

Far more civil than how religions used to deal with heretics, imo

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

The ones that disable the downvote button definitely all share similar characteristics, for sure

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

Doesn’t Microsoft own blizzard now?

Approximately how often are we going to get Linux breakages like this, do you think, given the clear conflict of interest and Microsoft’s storied history of fucking over FOSS in pursuit of profit?

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

I have never been as bothered by a catastrophic linux GUI crash that caused me to pull up a separate machine to walk me through recovering in the command line than I have been by Blue Screen's of Death.

And it's definitely because I know with the linux failure it was my fault, and won't happen again if i learn what caused it and change my behavior (or the system's behavior).

The same is very much not true with window's BSoD, where each time i simply lose more trust in the system.

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

Right? Even the "ick" parts of linux i'd take over osx or windows

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

You're right, but also, in my experience by the time i'm wanting those more advanced features i'd prefer to do it in the command line anyway, and so the Right Click |> Open in Terminal solves all my issues.

RandoCalrandian , 9 months ago

Would you mind listing which ones?

I'm a pretty prolific gamer, and haven't found one that doesn't work just fine on my linux desktop.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

Still a minuscule fraction of its androcide rate, but don’t expect people to give a shit

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Are we counting all the suicides due to the ex girlfriend’s actions, or the ones who die in situations instigated by women, like when she lies about something and the males in her family seek retribution? Those stats seem suspiciously absent from articles like these. Proxy violence is routinely ignored

If we’re going to advocate against domestic violence, we should include all its forms and not carefully gerrymander the definition

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

Or people could stop making not gendered issues into gendered issues, like the sexist fucks they are. There’s a very specific and insidious reason the narrative has switched from “domestic violence” to “violence against women” despite women being provably more safe than men in 99% of contexts, and only a minuscule fraction of deaths by violence. It’s a sexist intentional exclusion of an entire gender, for no good reason.

But you do you!

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

I’m totally adding that back into my vocab now 😂

Wish it could sound more like Farquaad, but maybe that on its own is a good enough one. Kinda rolls off the tongue

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

Worse is how he actually thinks he’s that

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

I game on a linux mint desktop using proton all the time. The work they’ve done for the steam deck translates almost perfectly to every other Linux distro I’ve tried it on

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

I switched my gaming pc to Linux over a year ago, never looked back and haven’t needed to

And I’ve never used a VM to game, either

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

DNA is highly likely to be unique, not guaranteed to be so.

This is a terrible idea. No one owns DNA or genes, and we already have problems with shitty company’s trying to patent or copyright genes we all already have. It’s bullshit that only benefits those at the top, and prevents others from getting there by restricting their rights.

Voices are the same. You can’t complain about an impressionist imitating you because you don’t like it, that childish nonsense. Everything we do is in some way a copy and recreation of what other people have done. AI just automated that process and people are upset it’s harder to rent seek and gate keep things that never belonged to them in the first place.

Seriously, the future you’re imagining has twins sueing each other for rights to their unique “identity”. It’s dumb as hell.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

South Park has some crazy lawsuits coming, if that person has their way.

I legitimately couldn’t tell they didn’t use the real Megan Markel!

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

Is there a specific dollar amount where a creator isn’t allowed to create the way they want anymore?

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

Because it looks like blind ranting

You’ve completely ignored all the people who have been replaced by automation and had to adapt as “oh that’s not important enough in my eyes to force companies to use humans”

The future you want is far worse than the one you’re ranting about. Yours has only the wealthy and powerful enjoying protections from automation, while everyone else doesn’t matter (to you, based on your own arguments)

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

why should giant corporations be allowed to replicate and use it to make money without your consent

Because it wasn’t yours to begin with

Biometrics belong more to humanity than any individual person

Your argument would make it so even facial recognition would be illegal, because they scan and use your facial info without consent

Same with drivers license databases

You can’t say “this particular use of this existing practice bothers me, everyone else needs to change now so I feel better”

Rules on these things need to be consistent, and if they shouldn’t be allowed to use unique information that you consider yours without your consent you’ve just eliminated advertising, security checkpoints, drivers license pictures, filming cops, and a million other things both good and bad that all rely on using your likeness without your consent.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

So police can’t keep images of criminals faces (recreated and distributed to every cops computer in the nation through computer automation and often ai) without their consent?

And a private company can’t set that up and sell it to cops for profit?

Because I have some terribly bad news for you…

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

You’re complaining about scale, and pretending it’s a fundamental difference. It’s not

You have a severe misunderstanding of how your own brain works and why we call them neural nets in the first place if you think otherwise.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

I do think it’s the jealousy, the fear of being replaced, but also the pride of thinking of ourselves as somehow special and important.

We’re not.

We’re dumb fucking monkeys who learned to sometimes not be so dumb, and then a bunch of us forgot we were pretending.

The real lesson in ai is not that they’re getting super complex or sophisticated, but more us realizing the limitations of our own cognition, and hopefully finding ways to extend it.

You’re spot on about calculators. It’s really just that our schools and schoolteachers are unable to evolve, just like with the insistence that cursive is still a needed skill. Hopefully it won’t take a generation or more to update the educators mindset to taking advantage of the tools available, instead of shunning them.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

And now the result of that trial could be a verdict with punitive damages

umm, why not jail time? This seems jail time worthy

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

I mean, it’s not like slavery or murder.

Being pro-FOSS does not mean you are anti proprietary software. There’s plenty of middle ground.

Video games, for example, where the company might not want to open source their server code for plenty of very legitimate reasons.

Mail is a super important utility. For physical mail, it’s a felony for anybody to open it. For digital mail, gmail open, reads, and inserts ads before handing it to you. It’s ok to think some things are important enough to mandate FOSS, and some things not.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

So, let me get this straight.

Given a choice between evil Pinocchio (this time with international strings!) and a violently orange water balloon filled to bursting with bull's shit, you'd chose the wooden puppet to throw at the massive human rights abuse apparatus currently fucking everyone's data up the ass?

Let me know how that goes for you.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

Aren’t most gamers technically mobile gamers? Pokémon Go has a user base most PC games only dream of

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

Ok, then don’t play them. No one is forcing you.

You said BG3 was a gift, so it’s not costing you anything to not play something you don’t like.

Given what you’ve said, I would suggest avoiding anything with an RPG label anywhere.

For BG3, if you want to keep playing, you can skip the character creator. They have a dozen prebuilt options you can play without doing the detail work.

For inventory, you can ask your brother to handle it and send everything to camp.

But even with those, you’ll likely not enjoy BG3 because even the fighting mechanics are based around that type of complex decision making, making you pause all the time so that you can make those decisions.

It’s ok to tell your brother you don’t enjoy the gameplay. You don’t have to like it just because other people do.

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

That particular decision was to keep them immersed in the game, and exploring.

But back to your warning label topic, what do you expect that to look like?

“E for e=mc^2”? Or “S for Seseme Street approved”?

We already have shenanigans in the rating system, this would be monumentally worse.

I am really curious what a metric for game complexity would even look like

RandoCalrandian , 10 months ago

I didn’t say better, I said comparable
And faster, without handing over my data and conversations for monetization

Given the locally hosted benefits, and the ability to go to chatgpt for any answer minstrel gives that doesn’t satisfy you, makes it strong competition to chatgpt as the default tool

Hosting it yourself also means you can swap llm’s out based on context and what they’re trained on. Highly tuned models perform better than chatgpt at the things they are meant to excel in.