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- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 days ago:
Back to the topic at hand - doesn’t it seem strange that only CPU4 finds issues in memtest86? It could be a CPU or even motherboard that got damaged and not the DRAM itself, no?
I noticed that, but OP said that he ran the thing in three different systems, so I’m assuming that he’s seen the same problems with multiple CPUs. It may be — I don’t know — that memtest86 doesn’t, at least as he’s running it, necessarily try to hit each byte of memory with each CPU, or at least that the order it does so doesn’t have errors from other CPUs visible.
I also wondered if it might be a 13th or 14th gen Intel CPU, the ones that destroyed themselves over time. But (a) it’s a mobile CPU, and only the desktop CPUs had the problem there, and (b) it’s 11th gen.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 3 days ago:
The good news is that single-player games tend to age well. Down the line, the bugs are as fixed as they’re gonna be. Any expansions are done. Prices may be lower. Mods may have been created. Wikis may have been created. You have a pretty good picture of what the game looks like in its entirety. While there are rare cases that games are no longer available some reason or break on newer OSes with no way to make them run, that’s rare.
With (non-local) multiplayer games, one has a lot less flexibility, since once the crowd has moved on, it’s moved on.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 3 days ago:
It looks like it doesn’t support ARM architecture systems at all:
docs.bazzite.gg/…/Hardware_compatibility_for_gami…
Minimum System Requirements
- Architecture: x86_64
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 days ago:
Ah, fair enough. Long shot, but thought I’d at least mention it on the off chance that maybe it would work and maybe you hadn’t yet tried it. Sorry.
tries to think of anything else that could be done
Are you using Linux? Linux has a patch that was added many years back with the ability to map around damaged regions in memory. I mean, if your memory is completely hosed and you can’t even boot the kernel, then that won’t work, but if you can identify specific areas that fail, you can hand that off to the kernel and it can just avoid them. Obviously decreases usable memory by a certain amount, but…shrugs
I’ve never needed to do it myself, but let me go see if I can find some information. Think it was the “badram” feature.
searches
Okay. You’re running memtest86. It looks like that has the ability to generate the string you need, and you hand that off to GRUB, which hands it off to the kernel.
memtest86.com/blacklist-ram-badram-badmemorylist.…
MemTest86 Pro (v9 or later) supports automatic generation of BadRAM string patterns from detected errors in the HTML report, that can be used directly in the GRUB2 configuration without needing to manually calculate address/mask values by hand.
To enter the address ranges to blacklist manually, do the following:
Edit /etc/default/grub and add the following line:
GRUB_BADRAM=addr,mask[,addr,mask…]
where the list of addr,mask pairs specify the memory range to block using address bit matching Eg. GRUB_BADRAM=0x7ddf0000,0xffffc000 shall exclude the memory range 0x7DDF0000-0x7DDF4000 Open and terminal and run the following command
sudo update-grub
Reboot the system
If you can’t even boot the system sufficiently to get
update-grubto run, then you might need to do a fancier dance, but that’s probably a good first thing to try. - Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 days ago:
Is this a laptop ?
I’m not OP, but an i7-11800H is a mobile processor, so while I’m sure that there are non-laptop PCs out there using laptop CPUs, I’d guess that it’s probably a laptop.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 days ago:
Do they run stably if you downclock the memory in your BIOS?
- Comment on fal/FLUX.2-dev-Turbo · A distilled LoRA Adapter for FLUX.2 [dev] That Enables High-Quality Image Generation In Just 8 Steps 5 days ago:
I will add, for anyone who has not played with it, that I am pretty impressed with what little I’ve seen of FLUX.2. If you can run it, it’s got some pretty impressive output.
The downside is that it’s memory-hungry and compute-hungry. On a Framework Desktop, I can run the FP8 release with about 54 GB of VRAM. It takes about 290 seconds — a bit under 5 minutes — to generate a 20 iteration, 1280x720 image, which is much more compute-heavy than any other image generation model that I’ve run locally.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 5 days ago:
How could Lemmy implement an age verification system?
I don’t think that it would matter much. Assuming that the legislation applies to the Threadiverse and doesn’t have some sort of exception, it’d still be effectively unenforceable, because most instances don’t operate in France’s legal jurisdiction.
- Comment on IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market 6 days ago:
If it’s new, it looks like 128GB ECC DDR4 is maybe $1k.
Dunno what the used-new difference is currently.
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 6 days ago:
Tribunal inspectors later found that while the rooms were en-suite, they lacked basic cooking facilities and only provided a microwave, kettle and fridge.
Replace the microwave with a toaster oven and add a multicooker and see if a judge will go for it?
- Comment on Trying to activate a new BT account 1 week ago:
In general, a lot of services have absurdly tight time requirements on email validation. A lot of users have graymail setups or other things that will delay things.
I get expiring an email, on the general principle of not leaving credentials lying around, but use 24 hours or something, not minutes.
- Comment on ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results 1 week ago:
Great minds think alike. Yeah, just followed up with a similar comment. So probably a bug, but not sure whether it’s an mbin or lemmy bug.
- Comment on ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results 1 week ago:
It’s not visible via lemmy.today’s Web UI:
Checking whether it’s just lemmy.today somehow mangling things, it doesn’t look like it. Here’s beehaw.org’s Web UI directly:
As of the moment, both are a link to:
https://fedia.io/media/93/77/937761715da35c5c9fb1267e65b4ea54c2b649c2eebbf8ce26d2b4cba20097bf.jpg - Comment on ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results 1 week ago:
If you were trying to link to an article, you just linked to an image.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 1 week ago:
Stick a hedge made of cypress trees or something else dense and tall there?
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 weeks ago:
Virtual keyboards have never been great
I’m actually surprised that nobody ever fundamentally reinvented text input for touchscreens in a way that caught on.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to be able to get touchpads wirh physical buttons on laptops. Very few manufacturers do them.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I once had dinner with a Stanford professor, years back, who was talking about the fact that he liked teaching in Python because he spent way less time teaching the language and more the higher level stuff that he was actually trying to get across than when he was using C++. Lower barrier to entry for new users. I’d guess that probably in the intervening years, a lot of classes have decided to use it for similar reasons. If you want to teach, I dunno, signal processing and your students maybe don’t have a great handle on the language yet, you want to be spending time on the signal processing stuff, not on language concepts.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My impression from what code I’ve looked at is that little computation is done by the Python code itself, so there’s little by way of gains to be had by trying to use something higher-performance, which eliminates a lot of the reason one would use some other languages.
Python’s cross-platform, albeit with a Unix heritage, so it doesn’t create barriers there.
It’s got an ecosystem for distributing libraries over the network, and there’s a lot of new code going out and being distributed rapidly.
Python isn’t statically-typed. Static typing can help write more-robust code. If you’re writing, say, the next big webserver, I’d want to have that checking. But for code that may often be running internally in a research project — and this is an area with a lot of people doing research, a failure just isn’t that big a deal. So, again, some of the reasons that one might use another language aren’t there.
And I imagine that there’s also inertia. Easier to default to use what others would use.
If you have another language in mind, you might mention that, see if there might be more-specific things.
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 2 weeks ago:
Based on the screenshot in the article, the OLED model has longer playtime; Valve says that the LCD model has “2-8 hours of gameplay” and the OLED “3-13 hours of gameplay”.
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 2 weeks ago:
If they’ve got their heart set on an LCD model, it looks like eBay has a number of secondhand ones.
I don’t own a Steam Deck or intend to — I have more than enough portable electric devices capable of running games that I lug around already — but if I were going to get one, it looks like the OLED model has a 25% larger battery, which would be interesting to me.
- Comment on GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack 3 weeks ago:
The malware continuously monitors its access to GitHub (for exfiltration) and npm (for propagation). If an infected system loses access to both channels simultaneously, it triggers immediate data destruction on the compromised machine. On Windows, it attempts to delete all user files and overwrite disk sectors. On Unix systems, it uses shred to overwrite files before deletion, making recovery nearly impossible.
shredis intended to overwrite the actual on-disk contents by overwriting data in the file prior to unlinking the files. However,shredisn’t as effective on journalled filesystems, because writing in this fashion doesn’t overwrite the contents on-disk like this. Normally, ext3, ext4, and btrfs are journalled. Most people are not running ext2, save maybe on their/bootpartition. - Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what YouTube Rewinds are, but are these them?
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 4 weeks ago:
Oh, and almost no GP has an option to book appointments in advance, and those that do often have them weeks in advance.
I’m in the US, but you guys also have private sector GPs, and those guys have dramatically-shorter waiting times than the NHS ones, right?
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 4 weeks ago:
There were still many flat surfaces in the world that did not yet have advertisements displayed on them.
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on How to Create Art for a Book? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, if you have or can create a LoRA trained on images of the character you’re presenting.
- Comment on How to Create Art for a Book? 5 weeks ago:
My limited experience is that stable characters across a number of images are a weakness today, and I wouldn’t be confident that genAI is a great way to go about it. If you want to try it, here’s what I’d go with:
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If you can get images with consistent outlines via some other route, you can try using ControlNet to do the rest of the image.
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If you just need slight variations on a particular image, you can use inpainting to regenerate the relevant portions (e.g. an image with a series of different expressions).
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If you want to work from a prompt, try picking a real-life person or character as a starting point, that may help, as models have been trained on them. Best is if you can get them at once point in time (e.g. “actor in popularmovie”). If you have a character description that you’re slapping into each prompt, only describe elements that are actually visible in a given image.
I’ve found that a consistent theme is something that is much more achievable, in that you can add “by <artist name>” to your prompt terms for any artist that the model has been trained on a number of images from. If you’re using a model that supports prompt term weighting (e.g. Stable Diffusion), you can increase the weight here to increase the strength of the effect. Flux doesn’t support prompt term weighting (though it’s really aimed at photographic images anyway). It’s possible to blend multiple artists or genres as prompt terms.
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- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 5 weeks ago:
Historically, it was conventional to have a “you have unsaved work” in a typical GUI application if you chose to quit, since otherwise, quit was a destructive action without confirmation.
Unless video games save on exit, you typically always have “unsaved work” in a video game, so I sort of understand where many video game devs are coming from if they’re trying to implement analogous behavior.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
IIRC from an earlier article, they’re still looking at factors and don’t yet know for sure (I suspect that it might be that Trump tariffs and whether they will stand is an input).