utopiah
@utopiah@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days 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] 2 days 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] 2 days 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] 2 days 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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? 3 months ago:
Half-life: Alyx
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago:
Even better: PeerTube or InternetArchive or (Web)Torrents but definitely not a Google website fueled by surveillance capitalism.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 3 months ago:
Just skimmed through the thread and its filled with strawmen or plain misunderstanding.
Nobody is criticizing someone for having rich parents, even if said parents got that money from exploitation, heck even slavery.
No the criticism is that someone rich, thanks to their parents rather than their own effort, is promoting a way to reach such a position in life by replicating a path that is not real. If you have rich parents and you promote “making stuff” or writing a book, which you actually did yet never meaningfully contributing to the lifestyle you are promoting, you are basically dishonest.
TL;DR: nobody cares about that specific person or that situation, we are just tired of lies sold for profit.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
Orange vs Apple! Who will win!
That being said I do wish every country would have a better public infrastructure.
Just out of curiosity if you do have recent research in economy on the impact of subway, tram, bus, bike lanes, etc on both productivity AND happiness, please do share. I’m already convinced but I’d love to learn more on how and why.
- Comment on Something is wrong.. 3 months ago:
developed a new thing about which to worry: what have I forgotten to check?
Well you can make rules so that you can automatically rectify things without having to even check.
Then… you can worry about things you haven’t automated properly!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Nice try FBI, you’re not getting that info from me!
- Comment on It is what it is 4 months ago:
changed the search engine in Firefox
Which… takes maximum 1min to do.
- Comment on I know I'm a damn failure OK 4 months ago:
Hand them a mirror.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 months ago:
I’m playing games at home. I’m running models at home (I linked in other similar answers to it) for benchmarking.
My point is that models are just like anything I bring into my home I try to only buy products that are manufactured properly. Someone else in this thread asked me about child labor for electronics and IMHO that was actually a good analogy. You here mention buying a microwave and that’s another good example.
Yes, if we do want to establish feedback in the supply chain, we must know how everything we rely on is made. It’s that simple.
There are already quite a few initiatives for that with e.g. coffee with Fair Trade Certification or ISO 14001, in electronics Fair Materials, etc.
The point being that there are already mechanisms for feedback in other fields and in ML there are already model cards with a
co2_eq_emissionsfield, so why couldn’t feedback also work in this field? - Comment on AI Training Slop 5 months ago:
That’s been addressed few times already so I let you check the history if you are actually curious.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 months ago:
No one is saying training costs are negligible.
It’s literally what the person I initially asked said though, they said they don’t know and don’t care.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 months ago:
Yes indeed, yet my point is that we training models TODAY so if keep on not caring, then we do postpone the same problem, cf lemmy.world/post/30563785/17400518
Basically yes, use trained model today if you want but if you don’t set a trend then despite the undeniable ecological impact, there will be no corrective measure.
It’s not enough to just say “Oh well, it used a ton of energy. We MUST use it now.”
Anyway, my overall point was that training takes a ton of energy. I’m not asking your or OP or anyone else NOT to use such models. I’m solely pointing out that doing so without understand the process that lead to such models, including but not limited to energy for training, is naive at best.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 months ago:
Indeed, the argument is mostly for future usage and future models. The overall point being that assuming training costs are negligible is either naive or showing that one does not care much for the environment.
From a business perspective, if I’m Microsoft or OpenAI, and I see a trend to prioritize models that minimize training costs, or even that users are avoiding costly to train model, I will adapt to it. On the other hand if I see nobody cares for that, or that even building more data center drives the value up, I will build bigger models regardless of usage or energy cost.
The point is that training is expensive and that pointing only to inference is like the Titanic going full speed ahead toward the iceberg saying how small it is. It is not small.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 months ago:
Right, my point is exactly that though, that OP by having just downloaded it might not realize the training costs. They might be low but on average they are quite high, at least relative to fine-tuning or inference. So my question was precisely to highlight that running locally while not knowing the training cost is naive, ecologically speaking. They did clarify though that they do not care so that’s coherent for them. I’m insisting on that point because maybe others would think “Oh… I can run a model locally, then it’s not <<evil>>” so I’m trying to clarify (and please let me know if I’m wrong) that it is good for privacy but the upfront training cost are not insignificant and might lead some people to prefer NOT relying on very costly to train models and prefer others, or a even a totally different solution.