[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 60 points 5 months ago

And those who didn’t expect the joke to be in base 3

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submitted 6 months ago by WolfLink@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I want to try to set up a Raspberry Pi I have as a smart TV box and I was hoping I could find some advice.

My main requirements are:

  • can run Moonlight
  • can be controlled from a Bluetooth game controller (that should also work in Moonlight)

What would be nice:

  • can run VLC or Plex or something
  • can support AirPlay
  • can be used for some actual streaming services like Netflix

Any suggestions?

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 70 points 6 months ago

Go read the GitHub issue. The main difficulty in implementing reproducible builds is the code signing Apple requires as well as other tweaks Apple makes to modify the binary from what the dev submits to what gets downloaded from the App Store. Note that Android already has reproducible builds. Also the reason the GitHub issue was closed wasn’t “refusal” to implement the feature, they wanted to move the discussion to their forums.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 49 points 6 months ago

The game was sold other places (like the Humble store) without the PSN warning.

Also it’s been sold in countries that the PSN doesn’t support.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 51 points 6 months ago

Short answer: Neural Networks and other “machine learning” technologies are inspired by the brain but are focused on taking advantage of what computers are good at. Simulating actual neurons is possible but not something computers are good at so it will be slow and resource intensive.

Long Answer:

  1. Simulating neurons is fairly complex. Not impossible; we can simulate microscopic worms, but simulating a human brain of 100 billion neurons would be a bit much even for modern supercomputers
  2. Even if we had such a simulation, it would run much slower than realtime. Note that such a simulation would involve data sent between networked computers in a supercomputing cluster, while in the brain signals only have to travel short distances. Also what happens in the brain as a simple chemical release would be many calculations in a simulation.
  3. “Training” a human brain takes years of constant input to go from a baby that isn’t capable of much to a child capable of speech and basic reasoning. Training an AI simulation of a human brain is at least going to take that long (plus longer given that the simulation will be slower)
  4. That human brain starts with some basic programming that we don’t fully understand
  5. Theres a lot more about the human brain we don’t fully understand
[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 65 points 7 months ago

Do you want underground zombies driving you mad?

At least fill every other layer with cobble so the underground zombies won’t spawn

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by WolfLink@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Update: I was wrong about a couple things:

  • I’m having issues with 2 different NTFS drives. The ext4 one is fine.
  • The issue appears to be driver related. If the drive auto-mounts by udisks2.service, it shows up as “type ntfs3” with the output of mount, but if I mount it manually it shows up as “type fuseblk”. It seems that the fuse-based driver works but the ntfs3 one is broken.

I’m at my wits end with this one.

SSDs on my computer:

  • a drive with a Windows 11 install
  • a drive with an Ubuntu 22.04 install (the OS I use the most)
  • a drive with an Ubuntu 20.04 install (for a piece of touchy software I needed that didn’t seem to like 22.04)
  • an NTFS drive to share files across OSes
  • an EXT4 drive to share files across OSes

These are all physically separate drives, not partitions of the same drive or something like that. They all SATA SSDs except the Windows one which is nvme.

Ubuntu 22.04 is acting up. It seems that it can write to the NTFS and EXT4 drives fine, but has difficulty reading from them. If I write a file e.g. echo “hello world” > test, the file appears but trying to read it, the file seems empty. I reboot and I can read the file.

When I first encountered this, I thought the NTFS drive was failing, so I did a large rsync (to back up the data) and got some read errors, and then ran a SMART test which came back clean.

Since then, with further testing, only 22.04 seems to have these issues. Both Windows and 20.04 can read and write fine. However, Windows caught some filesystem errors with the drive after the large rsync.

I’m about to reinstall Ubuntu but I’m worried about making things worse somehow. It would be nice to have an idea of what’s going on.

Any advice?

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 56 points 7 months ago

Dramatized clickbait headline.

What the article actually says is more like “we might be able to revive you if not too many if your cells have died, even if your heart and brain seem to have stopped.”

AKA they are working on a next tier of CPR.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 56 points 7 months ago

The question you are asked to answer when you vote is not “do you want Biden to be president?”.

The question is “Would you rather have Trump or Biden as president?”

Your answer is allowed to be:

  • Biden
  • Trump
  • I don’t mind either way.

That’s the nature of the first-past-the-post voting system.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 136 points 8 months ago

It’s not a win. Apple is still requiring apps to undergo app review and even more exorbitant fees than distributing through the App Store. Apple is doing their best to comply to the letter but not the spirit of the EU ruling.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 102 points 8 months ago

But then how do u type a capital D hmm???

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 102 points 8 months ago

DisplayPort is designed to give your GPU a fast connection to your display. HDMI is designed to give the copyright holder of the video you are watching a DRM protected connection to your display to make piracy harder.

This is why DisplayPort is better for the consumer but HDMI is more popular because the device manufacturers are really in charge of what you get.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 77 points 8 months ago

Steam didn’t want to get involved so they decided to remove Dolphin until Dolphin and Nintendo come to an agreement, which will never happen.

Dolphin is still going strong on its own.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 259 points 8 months ago

1% of the headsets are returned. 30% of those returns (0.3% of the overall headsets) are because the user couldn’t figure it out.

This is clickbait.

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