Flatfire

joined 2 years ago
[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's zero reason to take credit away from the bum fights guy for his own brand of trash, but you can definitely say you mean Dr. Phil, the guy who saw profit and value in doing a bit with the bum fights guy for views.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Seems to depend on the flavour of Android. What version/brand do you have? I know my Pixel asks first unless I allow it more generally.

You may be looking for the "Instant Apps" settings though. Searching "links" in your Android settinbs should provide a similar result regardless what brand of phone you have though.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In my experience, this is usually the result of DRM. Most of my physical library of PC games doen't work because they use some kind of variation of StarForce. If you go back far enough, yes the old 16-bit titles don't work, and DOS hasn't been properly supported since pre-XP. Things like games not supporting widescreen resolutions or running some kind of bizarre deprecated library is often quite fixable. For all the criticisms I have of Windows, getting old games to work hasn't really been one of them.

Games for Windows Live can go to hell though.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Arc support was added after release to Linux Kernel 6.2 and it's steadily improved since. Older Linux distros, or "LTS" oriented distros that favour stability may still not have support for them. I know Unraid was very slow to pick up on it and I had to settle for passing the pcie device through to a VM to get it working. Intel is keen to made these viable though, and I love having the AV1 encoder from my A380.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's not an equivalency. From written paper to typewriters and then to computers, writing has remained a product of the author. A typewriter repair shop would transition from mechanical to electronic typewriters and potentially then to computer repair. This is because it supports an evolving technology.

An author cannot transition to becoming a machine, because they cannot author what they don't write, but a publisher can continue to publish anything that would make them money. So when human experience is boiled down to nothing more than the probabalistic order of the words written by authors who gave no consent to have their work absorbed and mutilated by an LLM, the only winner is a publishing house seeking cheaper labour than the human.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this actually bacon or just a bacon themed gummy candy?

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

That one sounds squarely on Nvidia. Any driver that uses undocumented workarounds to gain kernel level access or utilizes an access loophool for system hooks is a bad driver. I'd assume Debian, or likely more accurately the Linux kernel itself was updated following some matter of CVE that Nvidia was quietly abusing.

Frustrating, but a good example of why those kinds of proprietary drivers are such a nightmare. You really just don't know what techniques they're using.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe. At the end of the day, I love the design language but not the design philosophy I suppose :(

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

Yeah, because at least a decent 3rd party might hand you documentation and have the sense to build something consistent or maintainable. AI has a limited context scope and frequently suffers a type of short term memory loss that results in repeated work or variations in work that confuse the end result.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes lmao. I use it to save scratch files or random crap I haven't yet categorized. Sometimes you're sifting through scripts or software and are going to delete them anyways, or I'm using it as a gallery pane for images I'm sorting before moving to store somewhere more permanent. I know Gnome's philosophy preaches a sort of importance on data management, but I'm never a fan of something that tries to make that decision for me.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I love the design for modern Gnome but really wish they hadn't departed from using your desktop as a folder. Even MacOS isn't that picky about what you put there. It's pretty, but I always find I end up moving back to Plasma after a while.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

This feels like it could be used in the same vein as the Vince McMahon increasing excitement meme but maybe a bit more sinister

view more: next ›