utopiah
@utopiah@lemmy.world
- Comment on Keep off the sofa 1 week ago:
Honestly shitting himself in front of cameras is the least of our problems.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, makes sense. Well overall if there is a lot of text it’s tiring anyway. Maybe if you are already familiar with the content skimming is OK.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Probably a SteamVR bug, might want to check wiki.vronlinux.org there might some useful hints. I encountered few hiccups but so far nothing from preventing me to play.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I didn’t try to suggest they were exactly the same. Since I don’t have a benchmark, can you please clarify for example which popular game would be playable with one but not with the other? That would help the rest of us better grasp how very different it will be.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 2 weeks ago:
That wasn’t my point. My point isn’t the availability of settings as a meaningful information but rather if somebody did change a setting, or not.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Very finicky but feasible. Yes I imagine once the Frame is out that’ll be a lot more convenient and reliable.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Wondering how it’d benchmark against tuxedocomputers.com/…/TUXEDO-Nano-Pro-Gen14-AMD.t… in an even smaller form factor and similar price range for specs.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 2 weeks ago:
Yes… it’s like default settings. The very action of changing a setting on any devices means you are a “power user”. You made a conscious decision on how the device should behave and you suspect it can be done. Meanwhile the vast majority of users do not even consider this a possibility.
Windows users are not using a computer, they are doing another task that happens to required a machine, they don’t learn about what it is, how it works, how it can be modified.
IMHO it was perfectly in the 70s when there was no laptop, desktop, mobile phone, mobile data. Now that one needs to use such infrastructure to interact with others, vote, pay bills, get access to culture, etc then I do believe computer literacy is not optional anymore.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
I just want to play No Man’s Sky on linux VR.
Should work already www.protondb.com/app/275850
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 weeks ago:
Good thing movements reclaiming streets back for citizens already exist. In fact even businesses who initially opposed this actually realize it’s better for them too.
Looks at photos of Amsterdam and Paris just decades ago. It’s like smoking in planes.
We as a society try, fail, learn, and overcome BS.
- Comment on Vibe management 1 month ago:
But… it’ll NEVER cost less!
This is such a weird take because we are comparing apple and oranges, again. It’s like saying a ruler is more precise than using your own thumbs. Sure, that’s technically correct, but you still need people to use that ruler to measure stuff.
We ALWAYS use better tools. Even in mass production we automatize the heck out of everything… and yet you still need staff to maintain it, design improvements, etc.
So… I don’t get this kind of comparisons.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 months ago:
So ombudsman can be for “petty” things, like the belt of my e-bike, but also for much more “serious” things like political corruption, vote scams, etc where I imagine Congress might be correct. As en.wikipedia.org/…/Ombudsmen_in_the_United_States clarifies though there are ombudsmen dedicated to agencies but also state level or even city and county level. So I imagine the more precise you are picking the right one, the more likely it’s going to be treated, efficiently or at all.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 months ago:
No idea how it works where you are but in Belgium and in the EU we have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman and I can tell you when companies receive an email from them, they don’t mess around. I’ve been waiting for a bike part for a year. I contacted the ombudsman, no cost, just 2 emails, suddenly my carbon belt was shipping the very next day.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 3 months ago:
So… I might be neurospicy or retarded or both or either… but IMHO it’s perfectly rational to sort. It means you get access to the sum or individual pieces way WAY faster than otherwise. What’s arguably less rational though is if you can’t help yourself, even in a life or death situation, and have to sort coins instead of doing CPR. Then it’s not normal.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 3 months ago:
FWIW I remember a former colleague who recommended it to me and his argument was about the cryptocurrency you “earn” from it.
I asked him if he could withdraw it. I asked him if he tried. He said not yet but he would. He came back to me few days later saying something along the line that “it’s not straightforward” which was a polite way to say he didn’t manage yet. He worked in IT.
To be clear I’m not saying it’s a scam or that one can’t use the crypto “earned” from it but at least back then, few years ago, some people were just riding on the hope, or even faith, that it would amount to something yet it seemed made in such a way to just hold.
So… not a scam but not exactly empowering users IMHO.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 months ago:
If it doesn’t ignore artistic intent (good luck with that) I’m fine with it.
Sounds like “It it were to work as expected it’d be amazing” i.e every single entrepreneur out there, backed by VCs who know it’s impossible but don’t mind cashing out of the delusion. Bubbles are propped by this kind of sentiments.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 months ago:
I’m not saying it’s a good strategy, just that since SoftBank it’s basically core to the VC default playbook.
I believe it’s been tweaked, thanks to Musk, Enron and banks to subsidies transitioning to too big to fail.
So, it might not work, ever, but I still think if you look at the large VC rounds, that’s what they are funding, to be so big nobody can reach you at any cost.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 months ago:
Damned, edited, thanks! (shows the benefit of discussing ;)
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 months ago:
Indeed, as they said in Italian “if my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike” … the reasoning might be theoretically correct but in the current situation it’s not the case.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 months ago:
Run up their bills until they can’t afford to be speculative any more.
Sadly I don’t think you’ve met venture capitalists… they will use your usage as a KPI for success. They have a runway longer than you can imagine, check the history of Amazon or Uber. They can be unprofitable for years, heck longer than a decade, and they are fine with it because they are claiming (and sadly sometimes right) to be cornering a trillion dollar market.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 months ago:
Won’t repeat what I wrote just hours ago in lemmy.world/post/44130119/22616090 but just the ending :
"I would personally consider instead Bottles, GOG (have different problems), Steam (obviously not open source and basically monopolistic position), etc.
Overall I think preventing discussion is healthy (even though sadly sometimes needed, here I lack context, maybe the issue poster did this numerous time on other platforms, title definitely was provocative) but removing provenance is NEVER a good choice. They want to use Claude on their repo? Absolutely fine (even though not to me) but hiding it makes it instantly untrustworthy to me. In fact I even argued in the past that even though I personally do not use GenAI/LLMs (for coding or otherwise) except for testing it should always be disclosed precisely so that others can make THEIR choice in consequence, including using or contributing, cf …benetou.fr/…/AgainstPoorArtificialIntelligencePr…"
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 months ago:
a special case somehow.
IP, e.g. Mario, Zelda, Pokemon.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 months ago:
Better integrated than Steam? I’d be curious to hear how.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
You haven’t. I’m not offended. I’m literally just sharing a solution.
FWIW I know because that’s what I have been every day for the last few months. I have been using music streaming for years, paying SoundCloud user for a while. Few months ago during my on-going transition away from surveillance capitalism I stopped more and more of commercial cloud services. One of the very last few had been music. I tried quite a few solutions and one of my fear was about music discovery. I thought if I download files then it will be hard to get new music. I looked at technical solutions, e.g. recommendation algorithm, offline and online (with API). I also noticed that my usage was split in at least 2 different listening mode : active vs passive. Active is when I specifically pick a song or an album because I crave it. Passive is when I want background sound, nearly like barely better than white noise. For active it was OK but for passive my own selection was too exciting. I then tried a great public and free French radio ( FIP.fr ) and that solved (by luck) both needs of passive listening AND music discovery. That being said I do not always love the FIP selection so sometimes I’ll switch to other stations hence why I said so. That’s it, nothing more.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
You can switch stations.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
for “background noise”
FWIW there are also radios, including public ones where content (without ads) is delivered via the Internet, usable via
cvlcormpvor even the browser (so nothing to install). - Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
Checkout Bandcamp for stuff you didn’t buy and SoulSeek if you are missing some backups.
- Comment on Website 4 months ago:
That’s actually a great question, safer to ask your LLM directly! So helpful. /s
- Comment on Website 4 months ago:
Eh… don’t want to be mean but that’s what’s called an “IP address” for Internet Protocol Address… but this one is for your LAN, aka Local Area Network.
So that won’t work, people outside your LAN can’t reach it. What you need instead is a domain. What most people don’t know though is that there is a special domain name anybody can use for free! Check this out, assuming your LLM did the right setup do all that step, making website, starting Web server then try :
localhost and voila, free domain from your newly generated websites!
… /s
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 5 months ago:
Classic GenAI marketing BS :
- show a superficial demo (literally it’s JUST the surface of the things you claim you can “generate”)
- imply that we are on the “brink” of radical change so we “just” have to wait then the “rest” will be generated
- move on to the next grandiose claim to make sure nobody goes beyond the surface
It’s so obvious it’s painful. Sure it’s not random, sure there is “progress” but it’s NEVER tackling the hard problem. What makes a game fun or exciting isn’t the generated world, only a non gamer would claim that.