MirrorGiraffe
@MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social
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- Comment on Woke 6 days ago:
How’s the fighting going?
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
I’m also a sw engineer so we’re both guessing 😅
I’m guessing those dates centers use that water for cooling whereas most home computers run an electric fan. And furthermore they probably use less electricity per token as they want to maximize profits. I don’t have any numbers to back my hunch up but I’m pretty sure the environment would suffer more if everyone is running their own.
I probably missed a lot of factors such as what type of energy the centers run contra what average Joe runs etc.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
I’m not too big on these topics and would like to understand. Is a local model less resource intensive?
In my mind, if every gamer runs a model that must be less efficient than a centralised one that has the perfect hardware setup and only lends out the resources needed for each slime or whatever.
I’m thinking that it of course would be better with a dedicated slime model than the entire Gemini monster but why is local better?
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 1 week ago:
I have a ZenFone 8 with stock. I love the form factor but I’m mildly annoyed that I can’t uninstall certain apps and the QA is poor, never have I been forced to repair a phone this much.
I backup photos via immich, passwords vid bitwarden and run calendar, contacts, notes via nextcloud
- Comment on if i had a job 1 week ago:
That image has been floating about without the explanatory text as well so I’m 100% the context is fake.
- Comment on here's a challenge in the tech sphere: implementing nudges toward healthy phone usage. 2 weeks ago:
If you have someone close you can trust there is probably a way to add a kiosk mode to your app and let the friend keep the password to unlock it. It could have roles about what apps, websites etc are allowed and hours.
I did very little research in it to help my brother out but I didn’t get far. I got the feeling that it’s doable even on a locked bootloader. Sorry that I don’t have more info but maybe it can set you off on the right direction.
- Comment on Docs used to be cool as hell 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals 5 weeks ago:
If anything this proves that the correlation between active gamer and competent gaming CEO might not be that strong with how awesome Xbox is currently.
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 5 weeks ago:
If you have big hands consider a tenor. I had a concert for a long while until I tried a tenor and it get much better for me.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 month ago:
Yeah I get that they created roguelite for games that are based on rng runs and has some sort of async progression and I think that has become a pretty practical genre to categorize a wide array of hands that share those traits.
But roguelike should be kept to games like nethack, pixel dungeon etc that share the basic concepts of rogue.
- Comment on Humanity has “lost the fight against climate change” 1 month ago:
The amount of fucking up this here globe we need to be doing before fixing it up is harder than terraforming mars is inconceivable. Even building a small dome and making sure we have our basic needs meet is on a completely different level of complexity and resource spending than sorting things out here.
Even when we have to move underground and scavenge for water and basic needs that’s still utopia in comparison to some mars base with what the earth would still provide us for free.
- Comment on "It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds 1 month ago:
I had a blast with populous and dungeon keeper. They’re not god given games with the best design ever but they’re good games with interesting quirks. The other two, not so much.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 2 months ago:
It’s like vegan meat substitutes.
Sure there are awesome vegan dishes and the substitutes taste worse than the real deal but it’s not wrong to want to interact with the culture you live in in a normalish manner.
I’ll have a af beer with my vegan hotdog and enjoy myself even though they are just substitutes.
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 2 months ago:
I was building a massive pipe systems for fish food and poo In a huge fish tank after my last session of factorio.
- Comment on My review on the AYN Odin 3 3 months ago:
I’m thinking the steam frame will open up pc gaming on arm completely and enable devices like this to go full power.
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 5 months ago:
Been oogling necesse. Would’ve loved couch co-op with the kids. On a scale of 1 to terraria, how much do you enjoy it?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
But then we have the indie devs that constantly praise each other, include in-game references to their inspirations or blog about what blast they’re having while playing a competitors game.
