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turkalino , 9 days ago

Sadly, I don’t think ray tracing is going to fix how boring this game is. I also backed the kickstarter because I’m a huge Banjo Kazooie fan. I started this game 3 separate times and could never will myself to get more than halfway. Not only is the gameplay uninteresting, the writing just doesn’t have the same charm as the BK games

turkalino , 11 days ago

I know Gnome is in your less important list, but Wayland is in your important list, so I’ll recommend KDE Neon. It’s Ubuntu without snaps and moronic auto updates, so it really just feels like a more desktop-ready Debian

turkalino , 17 days ago

Warzone, COD’s battle royale mode, is free to play and seems to have surpassed normal COD multiplayer in popularity. Talking to randos while playing normal COD multiplayer, a lot of people say they’re just playing it because it’s a quick way to level up their guns for use in Warzone

turkalino , 23 days ago

Why I oughta

turkalino , 26 days ago

Lots of people ITT complaining that Lemmy is blanket anti-business, meanwhile I’m just surprised that something involving Nintendo isn’t being downvoted into oblivion

This place is getting more diverse, I like it

turkalino , 30 days ago

Is Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts a good representation of the series?

Definitely not. While I do enjoy Nuts and Bolts, it’s like they took all the good aspects of the N64 games and thought “ok but what if cars?”.

Or is the original Banjo-Kazooie (or its sequel) so good that I should look past the age of the game and give it a go?

Definitely yes. The official N64 emulator on the Switch has Banjo Kazooie and I think it’s a great way to play it. The controls translate to a Switch Pro controller pretty well and the graphics look nice, except for the text dialogue.

RetroArch with the Mupen64-Plus Next core and the ParraLLEl plugins also run Kazooie & Tooie without issues

turkalino , 30 days ago

You’re welcome, you caught me at a good time lol I’m currently playing through the series (currently on Tooie) after not touching them since childhood

Usually, the N64’s C-buttons get mapped to the Switch’s right stick, which is actually perfect for these games since they mainly control the camera and aiming

turkalino , 1 month ago

Idk if this has been proven, but I’m certain that the current desktop versions of Office apps are just Electron-style wrappers for the web versions. I switched from Windows to Linux about a year ago and have found the web apps to be perfectly sufficient

turkalino , 1 month ago

The dual stage triggers made the Steam controller the dream controller for Rocket League IMO. Mapping boost to the second stage freed up my right thumb to control other things

turkalino , 1 month ago

The amount of downvotes this has makes me worried about Lemmy’s sense of humor

turkalino , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

There are different kinds of infinity

“Countably infinite” means an infinitely-large set of numbers that could be generated by infinitely following an algorithm with a finite number of steps. For example, natural (positive whole) numbers are countably infinite because they could be generated by following this simple algorithm:

1. Start with the number 1
2. Add 1 to your number
3. Repeat step 2

The set of real numbers, on the other hand, is uncountably infinite because you can have an infinite number of digits after the decimal place. You can’t define a finite generation algorithm like the one above simply because any precision you use wouldn’t cover the full range. In other words, if you wanted to modify the above algorithm, and chose 0.1 as your starting number, your algorithm would miss 0.01. If you chose to start at 0.01, you would miss 0.001, and so on

turkalino , 1 month ago

Maynard Ferguson absolutely rips

Rocky theme: youtu.be/3-DKHMTV3NQ?si=Ie039cCPWgl6LyoG

Shaft theme: youtu.be/GCu9zRflDcw?si=JLvFldYGGhrHCP9t

turkalino , 1 month ago

The government has already stepped in several times. If you’re in the mood to get mad, read up on the results of these interventions. Basically, Boeing was almost forced to deal with actual oversight, but was able to convince the government at the last minute that they could handle the oversight themselves internally (thanks to the wonderful process of lobbying of course)

turkalino , 2 months ago

Everyone uses the word “hallucinate” when describing visual AI because it’s normie-friendly and cool sounding, but the results are a product of math. Very complex math, yes, but computers aren’t taking drugs and randomly pooping out images because computers can’t do anything truly random.

You know what else uses math? Basically every image modification algorithm, including resizing. I wonder how this judge would feel about viewing a 720p video on a 4k courtroom TV because “hallucination” takes place in that case too.

turkalino , 2 months ago

Both insert pixels that didn’t exist before, so where do we draw the line of how much of that is acceptable?

turkalino , 2 months ago

Normie, layman… as you’ve pointed out, it’s difficult to use these words without sounding condescending (which I didn’t mean to be). The media using words like “hallucinate” to describe linear algebra is necessary because most people just don’t know enough math to understand the fundamentals of deep learning - which is completely fine, people can’t know everything and everyone has their own specialties. But any time you simplify science so that it can be digestible by the masses, you lose critical information in the process, which can sometimes be harmfully misleading.

turkalino , 2 months ago

Interesting example, because tickets issued by automated cameras aren’t enforced in most places in the US. You can safely ignore those tickets and the police won’t do anything about it because they know how faulty these systems are and most of the cameras are owned by private companies anyway.

“Readable” is a subjective matter of interpretation, so again, I’m confused on how exactly you’re distinguishing good & pure fictional pixels from bad & evil fictional pixels

turkalino , 2 months ago

Sorry, it’s just that I work in a field where making distinctions is based on math and/or logic, while you’re making a distinction between AI- and non-AI-based image interpolation based on opinion and subjective observation

turkalino , 2 months ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

LLMs are artificial neural networks

…wikipedia.org/…/Neural_network_(machine_learning…

A network is typically called a deep neural network if it has at least 2 hidden layers

turkalino , 2 months ago

When you want to cite sources like me instead of making personal attacks, I’ll be here 🙂

turkalino , 2 months ago

Ok but before you go, just want to make sure you know that this statement of yours is incorrect:

In the strictest technical terms AI, ML and Deep Learning are district, and they have specific applications

Actually, they are not the distinct, mutually exclusive fields you claim they are. ML is a subset of AI, and Deep Learning is a subset of ML. AI is a very broad term for programs that emulate human perception and learning. As you can see in the last intro paragraph of the AI wikipedia page (whoa, another source! aren’t these cool?), some examples of AI tools are listed:

including search and mathematical optimization, formal logic, artificial neural networks, and methods based on statistics, operations research, and economics

Some of these - mathematical optimization, formal logic, statistics, and artificial neural networks - comprise the field known as machine learning. If you’ll remember from my earlier citation about artificial neural networks, “deep learning” is when artificial neural networks have more than one hidden layer. Thus, DL is a subset of ML is a subset of AI (wow, sources are even cooler when there’s multiple of them that you can logically chain together! knowledge is fun).

Anyways, good day :)

turkalino , 2 months ago

If it’s to “support game developers”, I’m guessing/hoping that means the ads will only show up in the Activities feature

turkalino , 2 months ago

Happily playing modern games and developing shaders on my AMD GPU. 5120x1440 120 Hz issue free

I wish people would get their shit together and realize they’ve fallen victim to marketing

turkalino , 2 months ago

This was such a refreshing show tbh. 90% of Adult Swim shows are just grotesquely drawn characters doing gross things because “lol shock value is the best it’s so edgy XD”

Smiling Friends still has the weirdness of a late night cartoon but also finds ways to mix in cuteness, silly humor, and general positivity (like when they lectured Satan about being stuck in a dopamine loop… hit a bit close to home)

turkalino , 2 months ago

That last picture is hilarious. How can that possibly be allowable evidence? There’s nothing distinguishing it from a screencap of a legit stream

turkalino , 2 months ago

Finally, a DORONKO-type action game

turkalino , 2 months ago

Finished the Switch remaster a couple years ago and the ending hit me with a wave of existentialism. I’m kinda glad I played as an adult, I don’t think I would’ve been emotionally developed enough as a kid to appreciate it

turkalino , 2 months ago

Hero team-based PVP shooter

no

turkalino , 2 months ago

You say you’ve always loved to learn, but really it sounds like you’re more of a completionist. You’re more interested in succeeding in the academic rituals (taking tests and getting good grades) than learning itself. Aka, you’re extrinsically motivated, not intrinsically. Extrinsic motivation always leads to burn out eventually.

Perhaps reevaluate whether you’re going to college just to get some degree that will make you employable (as we do in the US), or if you’re actually interested in learning about a specialized field. If the latter is true, reevaluate your major and maybe see if you can switch to something that interests you enough to motivate you intrinsically.

turkalino , 2 months ago

As a lifelong Zelda fan, I’ve never cared much for the stories of Zelda games anyways. Like Mario games, they’re always incredibly simple placeholders that boil down to “princess gone, defeat evil that took her”. These games got their start when that was the only story that you could fit on the cartridge anyways, so I could see why Nintendo would want to keep that spirit alive.

Plus, in an open world game, is story really that important? I’d rather have the excellent gameplay of TOTK than something like Red Dead 2 which is a great story with excruciatingly boring gameplay.

turkalino , 2 months ago

PC games, just don’t feel like making arbitrary code execution a cakewalk for internet strangers

turkalino , 2 months ago

Hi I’m cat, can I play Xbox

turkalino , 2 months ago

IT’S DANGEROUS

turkalino , 2 months ago

See if your qBit container supports mounting scripts to be run at startup and just throw in a sleep 60 or whatever

turkalino , 2 months ago

Retroarch is solid after you take some time to configure it to work exactly how you want it to cuz some of the defaults are a bit weird

turkalino , 3 months ago

Is it really more expensive in today’s horrible housing market?

turkalino , 3 months ago

• Trauma, to describe a negative experience
• Depression, to describe healthy, intermittent sadness
• Trigger, to describe a pet peeve
• Dysphoria, to describe concern
• On the Spectrum/neurodivergent, to describe something a strawman normie wouldn’t do

The spike of interest in mental health over the past couple decades (in the West) has certainly been a net positive, but an unfortunate side effect - one that is true every time science becomes trendy - is that technical terms get grossly misused/overused. Sometimes it’s malicious, like someone exaggerating a self-diagnosed condition to get out of work; other times it’s benign, like someone using a term which they genuinely think they understand but the reality is only half so. If you recognize someone as being the latter, just try to ignore it or gently guide them to better terminology; else, if they’re being the former… well that’s more complicated, but just don’t be a dick about it because that’s never changed anyone’s mind

turkalino , 3 months ago

replacing them with individual personalized echo chambers

Which really wouldn’t be that bad if instances were more clear about how they operate. Like, on the user signup page, there should be a big ol checkbox saying “I UNDERSTAND THAT ANYTHING THATS NOT A POSITIVE POST ABOUT COMMUNISM WILL GET ME BANNED” or whatever

turkalino , 3 months ago

Because it blocks ads out of the box. I know its new tab screen causes a lot of y’all’s buttholes to clench because it mentions cryptocurrency, but there are harder things to ignore

turkalino , 3 months ago

Idk if I would advocate for or defend it, but I find mobile ads especially abhorrent cuz they take up more relative space on the screen and my upload speed isn’t good enough to be VPNing through my pihole anytime I’m outside the house

iOS browsers are just skins for Safari anyways, and Brave addresses my issue out of the box, so yeah

turkalino , 3 months ago

Background: normal-looking couch

Foreground: hydraulic press cat

How??

turkalino , 3 months ago

Vice articles are one of two things:

1. Technologically-ignorant #ifuckinglovescience articles written by “tech journalists”
2. “Drugs are good, mmkay”

Is there really a shortage of these on the internet?

turkalino , 3 months ago

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turkalino , 3 months ago

The Switch came out right around when people were bitching about phones getting rid of headphone jacks, which the Switch does have. I really don’t see the problem with including a headphone jack from the start, focusing on releasing a stable system first, and adding Bluetooth headphone support later.

Adding Bluetooth audio support is not as simple as slapping a bluetooth radio in your system, especially when you have a custom operating system like the Switch’s

turkalino , 3 months ago

Pre-smartphones, my parents were always yelling at my brothers and I to stop texting at the dinner table.

Post-smartphones, it’s now vice-versa and unless we remind them to put their phones on silent beforehand, their phones inevitably erupt in alarms at full volume reminding them to call Marianne back or whatever

turkalino , 3 months ago

Absolutely, v1 is the easiest Switch version to jailbreak. You could do it with a piece of foil or a $5 jig from amazon.

Not sure if you mean Switch ROMS or retro console ROMs, but a jailbroken Switch plays both, you’ll just need to install RetroArch for retro games.

turkalino , 3 months ago

I’m also amazed at how the Neon QA team (if one exists?) missed the fact that the update broke the Shut Down button. No worries, I can just shutdown via KRunner - oops, that doesn’t work either anymore