nagaram

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[–] nagaram@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

"Drive backwards on the track"

That's literally the first thing people do in racing videogames. That would have been SECONDS

Yes it was way better than watching him play Atari Joust for 30 minutes but still!

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wanna see the flight scene in one of those shops now where someone gets embroidered during the fight.

I also work with industrial embroidery machines (not directly, we just have them at work) so I know the like 10 seconds under a needle wouldn't be enough time to do anything really, but I'm imagining a room full of machines making military name strips, hero blocks a goons punch and shoves his hand under a needle while the goon yells in agony. Camera focuses on how horrified face as he lifts his hand to reveal "Maj. Payne" embroidered across his hand. The goon then faints.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not that guy, but I bought a bulk order of used hard drives on eBay for about $1/TB

Granted, a lot of those drives died on the way so it was more like $1.50/TB after I sifted through it. I've only had one more die in 3 years

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 57 points 10 months ago

I download the YouTube tutorials I followed, upload them to my UAT Jellyfin server, and then when my server is having issues I can't get to the videos!

A flawless system really

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That feels cursed as a fandom dot com wiki

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was a tech demo I'm pretty sure and not just a thing they do btw. A company was trying to make a more efficient sound based comms for AI(?)

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

Not gonna convince me to play overwatch this way

But I am happy for them

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Online book clubs are kind of a thing.

Welcome to Lemmy, just find a community and start chatting. If it's dead/empty, start filling it.

I try to open myself up to people as best I can here and on Mastodon just because we're pretty used to the algorithm TM deciding who we talk to or where we engage for a long time now and I don't think we are collectively ready to have non-hostile "discussions" in that we just don't know how to do it.

What's been on your mind? If you don't wanna share here try the casual conversations community. They might be better to receive you.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

There are legitimate reasons not not want to use or not be able to use Linux.

Calling the very real privacy issues presented by windows as a "conspiracy theory" is not one of them.

Also these people are delusional. They don't understand why the steam deck is popular because quote "the main appeal of PC Gaming is modding and using a Keyboard and Mouse." Which is a bold claim because I thought the point was having better control over what you play instead of hoping Microsoft, Nintendo, and PlayStation release those games on chosen console.

Do these people have an idea how many Stardew Valley Clones I can play on PC that will never touch an Xbox?

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

I took 5 years to consecutively not get a degree and I'm about to go back to finish 5 years later.

Yeah it sticks not graduating with the people you started with, but that really isn't any more of a signifier of success or failure than graduating at all.

Sometimes things happen and at that point everyone is mature enough to but be a dick.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I voted for Harris

It is the DNCs fault Trump won.

The DNC has spent years kinda sorta offering enough social and popular policy. And then half heartedly pushing it, but ultimately giving up when there's resistance because it's better to promise those changes then actually do them.

Abortion rights for example. That's been a carrot on a stick for decades and it ultimately was attacked and the Biden admin didn't get it codified or push for a new federal legalization.

Or student loan forgiveness. He kinda pushed it and then the courts said nu-uh so it died.

I'll admit they did do lots of cool stuff but they didn't do anything that an actually progressive candidate would do, but they promised they would. This has kept an actual lefty progressive candidate off the ballet for decades and this cycle of ineffective, dispassionate campaign apathy has failed to get anyone enthused to vote.

"People should just vote! It's their duty! They shouldn't need to be excited to vote!"

Okay but consider. They weren't enthused. They didn't vote for another useless Democrat. Trump won.

It's the DNCs fault because this is the second time they've ran a candidate less progressive then Obama and just hoped the strategy of "You should want to vote for the first Woman president! Please ignore she did terrible in the primaries or all why we didn't do another primary"

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

Are you using LLMs as search engines?

Bold.

I use Gemma, LLama 3.2, and Deepseek to either fix formatting, summarize documentation to give me commands for Linux software, and write simple code structure for me to refine into working code.

Sure it takes longer to generate than a cloud compute would, but

  1. privacy obviously. I know you dismissed it but that's really the biggest reason anyone will have.

  2. this feels better environmentally. I actually don't know if that's true, but it objectively touches less computers for such simple tasks. It would be wasteful of infrastructure to do it over the web.

  3. it's just cooler to have a conversation with my computer. I've learned a lot about how the whole process works and that's more valuable to me as a non dev than just getting the end results.

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