Same, I exclusively use Linux for gaming now that the performance is better on my machine in most games.
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vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest16·20 days agoIf someone is interested in getting involved with meshtastic but doesn’t have soldering or any electronics background you can purchase ready made devices from many vendors.
https://muzi.works/products/refurbished-r1-with-external-antenna
https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-meshtastic?variant=45315795845301
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logicEnglish312·29 days agoWhat the tech is being marketed as and what it’s capable of are not the same, and likely never will be. In fact all things are very rarely marketed how they truly behave, intentionally.
Everyone is still trying to figure out what these Large Reasoning Models and Large Language Models are even capable of; Apple, one of the largest companies in the world just released a white paper this past week describing the “illusion of reasoning”. If it takes a scientific paper to understand what these models are and are not capable of, I assure you they’ll be selling snake oil for years after we fully understand every nuance of their capabilities.
TL;DR Rich folks want them to be everything, so they’ll be sold as capable of everything until we repeatedly refute they are able to do so.
I go hunting many times a year and as you can imagine find myself surrounded by old birch forests from time to time.
I have yet to see a healthy group of birch trees. I even have birch on my property, and the only ones that are doing well are surrounded by anything other than birch.
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Is it possible to play Final Fantasy Tactics on Steam Deck?13·1 month agoYea, and it performs well.
I highly recommend playing the PSP version using the PPSSPP emulator and configuring this texture pack: https://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?tid=29776
Source: https://github.com/Zodi-ark/Final-Fantasy-Tactics-The-War-of-the-Lions-Texture-Pack
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouseEnglish1·1 month agoYou must not write much Kotlin then? It’s far more than sugar when a language fixes core issues in another.
It’s a modern, statically typed language that addresses many of Java’s longstanding limitations with robust type safety, expressive functional features, coroutine-based concurrency, and extensibility — all integrated natively. Interoperability with Java is a strength, not a sign of dependency.
Calling Kotlin merely syntactic sugar is like saying Swift is just Objective-C with prettier syntax — it misses the deep improvements in language design, safety, and developer experience.
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouseEnglish3·1 month agoShow me an Android app written in Java, and I’ll show you the line of developers ready to rewrite it in Kotlin.
Adam Savage has a video where they use the eufy to print onto glass (and many other materials). The result was pretty incredible, so I hope we see this become easier and easier.
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds25·2 months agoIf they’d just release Steam OS for desktop with proper support, they wouldn’t even need to make a steam machine. Someone else is likely already selling hardware in that form factor that’s more than adequate.
Not to mention many would stop using windows for gaming, oh wait they are already doing that…
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education SystemEnglish3·2 months agoIt’s simply easier to exert control over society through private corporations than in the light of day with public goods and services. Especially when what you desire is of minority opinion.
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which pokemon towns were the most depressing?20·2 months agoDepends what you mean by depressing. But Lavender Town was for me since it was designed to be spooky and full of ghosts
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps.English7·2 months agoA spot includes a downloadable file and accompanying metadata and is intended to be shared with other users. A spot can be compared to a traditional search engine index entry. However, the difference is that it is user-generated and is intended to help people identify, organize, and share content.
The layman would think of it as a file. So music, movies, text, whatever.
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps.English12·2 months agoFor those who are unfamiliar with the Spotweb client for Spotnet:
Spotweb is a Spotnet implementation in PHP. Spotnet only shows actual Spots - spots are manually created by humans which categorize them and provide an image and description for the spot. You cannot compare Spotweb with for example Newznab or other such systems as its a moderated and curated system with manual intervention.
This makes Spotweb slightly slower for new content but should most likely raise the bar on quality - depending on the Spotters.
Spotarr is an alternative client.
This is why I only upload incriminating files. No one needs to be convinced to backup my data.
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every time they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device tells me I'm not a man English7·3 months agoGlad you got it worked out, what kind of shoes did you end up buying if you don’t mind me asking?
My brothers feet are massive and he can never find shoes that fit properly. Mine are a bit wide, so I always have to get a size up to be comfortable, but I manage.
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every time they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device tells me I'm not a man English24·3 months agoIf your feet stay the same size why don’t you just order online? I know testing them out can be nice, but you can return online orders.
I can’t remember the last time I went shoe shopping in person, because I know my size and which companies I need a larger or smaller size shoe for. Also why would they keep measuring you if you know?
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch.3·3 months agoBut my pets yawn when I yawn
vinnymac@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use your turn signal in a turn-only lane? Why or why not?2·3 months agoThanks fixed
I was curious about this, so I tried to find out what the record for KSTAR was to date. In my research I found that it ran for 48 seconds in ‘24. The goal is to able to run it for 300 seconds by ‘26, but they have not attempted this.
Although for Plasma generation we’ve achieved much longer run times in both the east (1,066s) and west (1,337s)