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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Surprising, I would expect it’d rely at some point on something like CLIP in order to be prompted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks, a friend recommended it few days ago indeed but unfortunately AFAICT they don’t provide the CO2eq in their model card nor an analogy equivalence non technical users could understand.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Does it only use that or doesn’t it also use an LLM to?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Right, and to be clear I’m not saying it’s not possible. This isn’t a trick question, it’s a genuine request to hopefully be able to rely on such tools.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You are solely using your own data or rather you are refining an existing LLM or rather RAG?

I’m not an expert but AFAIK training an LLM requires, by definition, a vast mount of text so I’m skeptical that ANY company publish enough papers to do so. I understand if you can’t share more about the process. Maybe me saying “AI” was too broad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

There are AI’s that are ethically trained

Can you please share examples and criteria?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Eh… I have one and use it. What are you monsters using, a spoon?! /s
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Capitalism.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s actually pretty wise, what if you then autistic dog outsmarts you now thanks to their autism? /s
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of teledildonics. Because yes, you can actually wank with open source, not just about it! A good library for your toys buttplug.io and a prototype I did for it …benetou.fr/…/1280079465847160832/ activating a toy from within a VR experience.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Technically speaking hand tracking can be done with just computer vision, no dedicated tracking (like Leap Motion) required even though it’s typical better. So yes, it could be done but there is not promise of it so it’d be a risky bet.

VR proper content like Half-life: Alyx, here my comment is about producing content, not using the existing Steam catalogue. I love Alyx, I need more. If I get another headsets (I have several) but nothing amazing to put on it, “just” the usual then I’m not as excited.

I did stream, actually Alyx in 2020 (half a decade ago!) via Alvr …benetou.fr/…/1243659207783649281/ so… that’s definitely feasible, definitely not new. It’s a good principle and if it helps keep the device price low, in fact VERY low, then it’s great. If it’s still relatively expensive then it won’t feel great to buy a device in 2026 with specs comparable to something that was out few years priors even if in practice it might be “good enough” standalone with some specific games. The Steam Deck didn’t really have that problem because there was no real alternatives. Here I’d argue it’s a bit different with Quest, Pico, Lynx but also higher ends like Vision Pro (which you can stream Steam games to, as I did also last year) or the newer Samsung Galaxy XR.

Regarding updates… yes, in theory, in practice I best most of use don’t have accessories for our Index “Frunk”. AFAICT also most people didn’t upgrade their Deck but rather bought the newer model. They do hint at quite a few upgrades or modules in the video though. Love to see how repairable it will be and no doubt it should be way better than most alternatives!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cubism, mini golf or any game where you build something in the space, Laser Dance, all the sketching and sketching apps, etc. It’s not for everyone but feels like such a low hanging fruit when all the rest is there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Sadly agree. I’ve been waiting for years, claiming I’d buy whatever they sell… but honestly right now this would feel like a donation more than something I eagerly want, even less need.

FWIW I’m also NOT the market, I have … I don’t actually know how many but at least 5 XR headsets.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
AFAICT for the Frame it’s only foveated streaming, not foveated rendering.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yes but …
```
no hand tracking
no color passthrough
no hardware upgrade
no WebXR
no new VR proper content
```
Still, it’s good obviously, not having to rely on BigTech. This was also possible before though as I pointed out in lemmy.ml/post/38899489/22202786 with e.g. Lynx XR1, as a rooted Android standalone HMD with no account required.

Anyway IMHO the big questions for VR on Linux more broadly is what changes upstream on KDE in terms of immersive UX? Is KDE Plasma becoming a VR graphical shell? Does it have 3D widgets? Does it impact freedesktop in any way?

(copy of lemmy.ml/post/38899489/22202838 as I posted there first)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

legit and works well

legit works well… but also not a magic wand. It doesn’t transform a low-end rig in a powerful machine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian… it’s not really specific. It’s also not for everyone. I’d say it’s mostly for 20sth in rush and 50sth working men. Everybody else either skip it entirely or have a proper breakfast, but that’s just my experience, might not generalize.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Check my post history I repeat this so often I’m getting tired of it, sorry, but basically 2080ti since it’s out, been gaming nearly daily on it, from AAA to indie, from “flat” to VR and… it just works.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're so predictable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This kind of posts typically hint at how manipulable we all are… and it’s true, but what they omit is the cost.

Readying a random meme and getting “pwned” by it typically gets you a good laugh. Sharing your bank details over the phone does not. So… what this kind of stuff does rather show how rational most of us are, namely we don’t mind getting played if we have fun doing it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I have a Tridactyl rule to rewrite YouTube URL to youtube-local (repository github.com/user234683/youtube-local/ ) e.g. www.youtube.com becomes localhost:9999/https://www.youtube.com but as others have suggested, I do my bet to avoid YouTube entirely, because Google is bad, Big Tech is bad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I mean… detecting (some) VPNs is as trivial as

fetch(‘https://github.com/NazgulCoder/IPLists/raw/refs/heads/main/output/vpn-ipv4.txt’).then( res => res.text() ).then( res => console.log( res.includes( “1.2.3.4” ) ) )

thanks to github.com/NazgulCoder/IPLists/

FWIW though I did try, connected via a random VPN from ProtonVPN from Argentina… and it wasn’t in that list. So it’s not perfect. Also ProtonVPN has apparently today 13K servers according to protonvpn.com/vpn-servers

That being said I can imagine that Google, which is literally built on crawling the Web, has all the infrastructure and expertise needed to have such lists and up to date ones.

I’m not justifying blocking VPN here, only trying to clarify that unless you self-host in a rather specific setup (i.e. not relying a popular cloud provider but truly self hosting) it’s technically not hard to block VPNs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Fascinating, digging into en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law then, thanks for bringing that up!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“read the runes” … people need to stopping money is money. Money is money AND string. It’s totally different to get 1 EUR from a friend vs 1 EUR from a brank vs 1 EUR from VC vs 1 EUR of public subsidies. Money NEVER comes without string so one must be cautious they are not getting a noose around their neck while signing a contract.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

read … on my RISC-V PineTab

Because it’s not powerful enough to play a video. /s (sorry, just teasing)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Half-life: Alyx
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not a “community” it’s a video server. I’m sharing video content I made.

I could open up the federation aspect and letting you and others comment, helping it to scale, but for now I chose not to.

There are PeerTube instances doing that though, i.e. federating, allowing comments from the instance, other instances, also content that is paid for. My instance though again is not like that.

I find it surprising that someone on Lemmy makes assumption about centralization. My instance does NOT try to reproduce YouTube yet I believe, I hope at least, does provide again potential “content” to viewers. It’s never going to be YouTube but for me that’s OK, in fact I would argue, that’s better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I did some live streams in the past. I share the link to my instance below. I can’t speak for large audiences.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t think the link I give helps potential viewers by showing there is content out there?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Be the change you want to see. Here is my instance video.benetou.fr even if nobody cares, I tried.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Even better: PeerTube or InternetArchive or (Web)Torrents but definitely not a Google website fueled by surveillance capitalism.