Takapapatapaka

@Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux help and actual pros and cons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Distros : as others said, Mint is a solid choice. I personally use ZorinOS because it’s very close to the Windows interface and I really enjoy it, i installed it on every computer in the house x). I saw Pop_OS recommended for gaming too.
  2. Hard incompatibilities : as others said, some big games with kernel level anti cheat might not work (Fortnite, Apex Legends, Valorant, Rust, etc.). Along ProtonDB, a great site to keep track of that is https://areweanticheatyet.com/. Other than that, I ended up being able to run approximately anything, from old indies to modern big games without major problems, though it may involve tinkering.
  3. Tinkering with linux : if you are used in googling issues and browsing a bit through old forums posts, in my experience you’re good to go. I found a solution to every of my problems but one : it’s caused by Nvidia drivers. As you asked in another comments, AMDs and Intel’s drivers are open source, and so it’s easier for linux devs to adapt to them. Nvidia are proprietary, though they are going half-open-source and there is an attempt at building an open source driver from scratch, but their basic drivers options may clash with linux sometimes (in my case, the driver wont let linux turn off the screen when i’m inactive for too long, so not that a big issue).
  4. Windows compatibility : On 2 of the 3 computers i tried, having a windows 10 partition on the side is easy to setup and does not generate much trouble. My main computer is ZorinOS/Windows 11, and this one had more issues : each time i switch, i have to go in BIOS to set a setting that is made for Windows off, otherwise i can’t have multiple screens in linux. I also experienced some troubles which are probably linked to the partitioning process (i had to defrag data to create partitions) : if you can, i’d recommend making a clean multi partition drive, installing windows from scratch first, then installing Linux.
  5. Good luck in your process ! I was a bit reluctant at first, but now i’m really glad i did it. If you have access to another device, maybe try to install linux there first, so you can try it out and go through the installation process a first time.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely no expertise guy, but here is a possible explanation : ferrous is a word use in common speaking, where it is useful to distinguish things based on practical properties. Being magnetic is one of those practical properties, and iron being the most common magnetic metal, it was designed as ‘ferrous’. Adding metals that contain no iron to the list makes it scientifically/technically incoherent but that does not matter much from a common sense practical point of view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say you could render something close in real time. I’m not entirely aware of all techniques used in this film, but seeing what we can render at 60fps in terms of games, I think you could find a way of achieving a Toy Story look at 24fps. You may need a lot of tweaking though, depending on what you use (i was thinking about EEVEE, the Blender ‘real-time’ engine, and I know there are a bunch of settings and workarounds to use to get good results, and i think they may tend to make the render not real-time (like 0.5s, 1s, 2s per frame, so quite fast but not real time)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure they are aware of this? If yes, maybe they disagree but don’t have words or take action for some reason. Or maybe they know or think they know the man very well and trust him? Just hypothesis, i’m not really convinced.

  But i’m even unable to conceive how someone that young would be attracted to someone that older, outside of any authority figure or idealisation kind of scheme. So I guess she must have a specific reason, and she’s doing this out of the blue, and this reason, whatever it is, may make it difficult for her parents to convince her or force her out of the relation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, right wing libertarian (based on private property) seems a bad thing for forest, without specific system. I was talking about left wing libertarianism (without private property).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apart from the Tankie Triad, i’d doubt right wing opinions would get you banned (i’m not against believe it if i saw some examples though).

  Hate speech and promotion of oppressions that right wingers tend to consider as simple ‘opinions’ might though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not entirely sure about what are the reasoning behind your comment, but i see it as : llibertarian implies no state + parks and forest require state = incompatibility. I’d disagree on the parks and forest require state, i thinl they only need organization, meaning one or more NGO could handle it. Accepting this, not that much incompatibility between libertarian and forest remains (accepting libertarian as left wing meaning that does not imply private property)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I observe this too. My generation of friends met in school at first, but as we got older and went to work, meeting someone new became more rare. I saw a lot of my friends starting dating each other in our high-school group of friends years after we left highschool, probably because it was easier than to meet random people. It’s a bit weird though, and most relationships ended rapidly or badly.

  So when work and old school friends are no option, and you have no place to make new friends, it does feel logical to turn to online dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it depends. Technically speaking, it’s around twice as fast as standard speed on highway (at least in France, so 130kmh). In terms of feelings, it’s probably not that faster? I never went above 140 or so but from my experience, your brain adapts to the speed, so if you got to 300 not that suddenly it probably does not feel like twice as fast than the usual. In terms of safety, it may be more than twice the danger. I’m no expert, but depending on the vehicle and how many other vehicles there are on the highway, it could be very dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qu'en pensez-vous de Manus?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  De la seule vidéo de présentation, la particularité de Manus semble être d’avoir accès à une machine virtuelle pour donner des résultats. Je m’y connais que de très loin, mais je pense pas que ce soit fondamentalement différent d’une IA qu’on “brancherait” dans d’autres logiciels pour créer les même résultats, la différence est sans doute que c’est plus clef-en-main, il doit y avoir moins de mise en place et ça doit être plus accessible pour des personnes moins versées dans la technique. Par contre j’imagine aussi que ça peut vite être un enfer en matière de sécurité, si jamais l’IA comprend mal la requête elle pourrrait théoriquement écraser un site en prod avec une version buguée, divulguer des infos confidentielles, etc. Et j’imagine que ce serait plus dur à encadrer qu’avec une IA qu’on câblerait soi-même pour produire ces résultats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does a week of groceries look like to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Two trips each week. One to the local farmers shop, for whatever is available there (mostly vegetables, eggs and bread, but sometimes fish, meat, ice cream, etc), and another to a supermarket for the common things (pasta for my gf and couscous for me, rice, flour, some dairy (fresh cream or cheese), sandwich bread and chocolate spread, sometimes stuff that needs to be refilled like oil, soap, toilet paper, etc and usually an extra meal : either rice and fish for sushi-like thingy, chickpea for nugetts-ich fried stuff, or a can of smthg like chili con carne).

  We try to do lists for the supermarket, otherwise we always forget something. For the local shop, what’s available varies greatly so there’s no sense making a list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say you’re no asshole at all, cause 1) generally speaking, you can have your reasons for being distant with people, it’s not a duty or anything, 2) from the bits of context, you may be experiencing a difficult/complex/unsettling situation, which would be a good reason to keep to your personal space to my eyes and 3) i find that, paradoxically, it feels more ok to have a “negative” or “not positive” or “neutral” behavior towards people who are more or less comprehensive/supporting, which seems to be the case here. On one hand we could feel like, since they make move towards us, we should thank them or they should be rewarded with extra attention, but on the other end, it’s the ideal situation to be reserved or less considerate without hurting people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, i live in France, and here the use of the term is more rare, I do not know anyone using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is mostly used by AfroAmerican people, and i believe it is relatively common thing to see groups of people calling themselves with a pejorative word used by other groups (i think punk and queer evolved this way too, though the n-word is a much stronger instance, i see the same pattern)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a seat. Don't you know caveman 234 beat caveman 211 with a rock.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think i get your point, but if we extend governments to nations, then nations are places in the sense that they are a geographical object. Claiming that nation can be / are evil is another debate, but supposing it is possible, it would then be only imprecise and not wrong to claim that places are evil, for certain types of places could then be (and it’s probably this type of place which is a nation/country that is targeted here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a child went into a coma and woke up as an adult what would happen ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another option I see is them being staying a long time in labs/hospitals, both for being helped getting back on tracks and being studied by scientists as this is a very rare and interesting case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an expert but i learned about this at university this one or two years ago. I’m not entirely sure of what i’m saying though, so take my word carefully and feel free to correct me.

  From what i recall -and i think at least in western europe, i don’t know for other places-, before photography, it was quite expensive to get a portrait or a family portrait, mostly because of the time needed to pose. So it was something only nobles or rich bourgeois family could afford.

  Then photography was invented. At first, it was mostly an amateur hobby : you had to be a handy(wo)man to get all the components needed, and in first times even to build your own device. There were no schools, no official degree, knowledge only passed from person to person.

  So first “professional” photographers (i mean the first one to get paid) were not exactly professionals, most had no previous clients, or anything. Of course, their prices were much low than painters, so increasing number of people came to their shop. But it was for the most part “new” customers, middleclass people or families, would previously could not afford paintings.

  So at first, they did not really stole painters’ jobs, they rather extended access to portraits to a new part of population. Now, when it became more popular, the less rich clients of painters tend to switch to photography : it felt modern, it was a kind of trend, and it was cheaper.

  At that point, some of the painter’s client disappeared. But there were mostly to situations : big and renowned painters still got jobs, because noble people kind of considered photography a thing for common people. Modest painters, who had client amongst bourgeois, began to lose their jobs. I think that a part of them switched to photography at that point : i also think this is were photo editing began, because they could use their painter/drawer skills to erase or slightly modify the picture when it wasn’t “dry” (don’t know the specifics of photography at that time ^^').

  So overall, if you compare like the XVII century and nowadays, of course painters lost their jobs. But from what i (think i) know, transition was pretty smooth, as it let time to painters to continue to painted for upper classes or to convert to photographers.

  I pretty much agree with other people, not sure if the comparison with AI is perfect. But at least I think it might show that new techs mostly comes with two effect : replacing previous practices and creating new ones.