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I'm increasingly unhappy with the limits on AI text generation and I have heard that it's not that hard to do it on a laptop oneself. What is the best path forward?

I saw Generative AI for Beginners from Microsoft on GitHub. I've looked at https://fmhy.pages.dev/ai but I'm not sure what I'm really looking for....

Comparing the environmental costs of buying a brand new high-efficiency Mini-lab computer, instead of a used less efficient one. ( www.youtube.com )

I thought this video was rather interesting, because at 12:27, the presenter crunches the numbers to find out how many years it would take for a new computer purchase to be more environmentally friendly (in regards to total CO2 expended) compared to using a less efficient used model....

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From what I heard, it's best to only get a new EV when you have to get a new car anyway. There's also the option of getting a used EV but that market is still rather small.

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I run AI stuff just fine on my AMD GPU using HIP. At least LLMs and Stable Diffusion work perfectly fine but that's the only things I've tested.

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I hope GTK and GNOME (or is GTK part of GNOME?) adopt this, I didn't even know just how bad the inefficiency with todays cursors is. Having a single svg for each cursor and rendering it server-side makes so much more sense.

Did someone already open an issue for this?

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My drivers license. Now I'm 19 and still need to do it.

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I'm going to finish school soon and I want to drive a car when I have a job and can afford it. I've used public transportation for the past 3 years and will probably still use it in the future when it's not too inconvenient but a 30 min drive to work taking 1 hour instead, where I spend 30 minutes just waiting, sucks. This weekend I drove to a friend. It would have taken 30 minutes by car but it took me 2 hours with public transport because I had to wait a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes. The issue isn't public transportation itself but that the government was trying to save as much money as possible and it is getting better with the new government but there is still so much to do and it will take time.

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But I think espeak doesn't sound that great. There is probably better open source TTS now.

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You could install it without a desktop and then manually install only the packages for Plasma with Wayland but idk if that'a really worth the effort

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Monero actually has very good uses. It does use POW but their algorithm is made to encourage using CPUs instead of GPUs and slower, power efficient devices, which makes it a lot less energy intensive than other POW cryptocurrencies.

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You can't really apply that to every messenger and WhatsApp is what's used almost exclusively

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Ist Firefox nicht sogar Speichereffizienter als Chrome?

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Das ändert aber nichts daran, dass die Chromium nutzen

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Performance isn't the only issue. This system would also not let you play offline, without being logged in and you couldn't have mutliple saves or replay the game.

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I think they'll still work without Steam, otherwise you couldn't play them offline either

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Yeah, that makes sense. Does kinda suck.

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It's really cool how a lot of Laptops nowadays (including mine) have a feature built-in that covers and disables the webcam with a button press. I can have it disabled most of the time and when I need it, I just press the button to enable it.

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It's actually 0.6 FPS or 1.6 SPF (Seconds per frame)

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I think this makes sense. I still need X11 for VR because GNOME still doesn't have display leasing on Wayland but once that gets implemented I won't be using X11 anymore. I think most people don't need X11 anymore either. For people like me who still need it for specific things, it can just be installed again manually.

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Do you know how big those two Wikipedia downloads are?

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YouTube Vanced was DMCA'd because they distributed the whole apk, which is why Revanced exists and only applies patches to a YouTube apk you have to get yourself

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If you're interested in KDE in particular, you should also check out Nicco Loves Linux. He's one of the KDE developers and makes a lot of videos about it.

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I think that those people might actually think that what they're doing is good for the country and that that's what people want

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My bad, for some reason I thought you were using Jellyfin on the Pi but you're actually using Kodi so that makes sense

Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter ( www.neowin.net )

Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux). Statcounter doesn’t provide any...

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This is very interesting, I think I'll try that out. I wanted to give GIMP a real try at some point anyway.

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That's really cool. I also heard about a Skyrim mod that does this too and since I'm playing Skyrim in VR (modded ofc) that would make it even cooler.

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This seems like a server-side issue from Lemmy tho and one that should be pretty easy to fix. I mean, what's the point of keeping a deleted post on the server anyway?

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No, you don't. Element is a client for Matrix and Matrix doesn't use phone numbers.

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Interesting. Still sucks that they don't give you the option to choose a cloud provider for this but I didn't expect them to just let you use your PC.

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I use a Valve Index on GNOME as well, so here's a few things:

  • VR doesn't work yet on GNOME Wayland, you need to select GNOME on Xorg when logging in
  • Sometimes the LEDs are red and the headset doesn't get detected, just unplug the cable and plug it back in
  • You might also need to press on the cable where it connects on the headset sometimes, it can become a little loose
  • Use CoreCTRL to manually set the GPU performance profile to high, it doesn't do that automatically for some reason and there's a huge performance difference
  • If you have the issue that moving your head makes it look like the image is jumping back and forth, go into the per-application video settings of the game from SteamVRs menu and turn on Legacy reprojection
    • This only happens when I have very low FPS, the CoreCTRL thing fixed it for me without having to use this option
  • There's an older SteamVR version for Linux you can select as a beta option for SteamVR in Steam but I'd actually not recommend using it, it only works when games use Proton 5 and there are newer games that don't work with a Proton verison that old. A lot of the issues the regular SteamVR version had are fixed now and it works pretty well for me.
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SteamVR has weird issues like that sometimes but restarting it or logging out and back in has always fixed it for me (aside from that one time I had to replace the headset cable)

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It's just in case you have issues with the headset not getting detected, the cable can become a little loose and you might need to press it into where it connects to the headset

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Should probably mention that premium is only 10 bucks a year. I also don't just pay for the feature itself but also to support Bitwarden, it's completely free and open source after all.

Launching Heroic Games Launcher brings down my network

Weirdest damn thing, occasionally my network connectivity was being lost. Not the wifi signal, but just the route to the internet. I finally realized today it happens whenever I do a fresh boot (i.e. first time after system boot) of Heroic Games Launcher....

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Someone should definitely report this to both Lutris and Heroic so it can be fixed

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver | Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort. ( arstechnica.com )

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver | Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.::Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.

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They are doing that, except that you need to pay for a subsceiption to play those games

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Is it FRIEFUNK or FREIFUNK? The latter would make a lot more sense as it's an actual word

Recommendation for children's photos sharing

I had a child and both of our parents were in another country so wanted to keep them updated with photos and videos but refused to use social media. I have been using Back Then which, to be fair, has worked pretty well. I pay a subscription and can give access to anybody I want through their email. They then have to download an...

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They're probably going to install it through Google Play tho (if it's available there) so it'd be pretty easy, and probably automatic, to update it

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I mean, we do still have a lot of politicians saying that it's super dangerous. Söder is a good example, always saying how bad it is and that he doesn't want drugs for Germany. He also drinks beer all the time btw. His party (CDU/CSU), who have been in power for the last 16 (or something) years before the current government also said the first thing they're going to do when they're back in power is make it illegal again.

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Another thing is that Germany's parliament is made up of all parties that got over 5% of votes and they get seats based on the percentage of votes they got. That means that you also have parties like the CDU/CSU and AFD there who do everything they can to block the legalization and that also contributes to making it more restricted and complicated.

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The latency is insanely low on Pipewire, which is important for rythm games like osu!, that's why I originally switched to it. It's also really cool how it's compatible with all other audio backends as well.

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Sex isn't real! The government is lying to you to sell more condoms!

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Just wanted to say that "GPT" is a general term and not just a name. OpenAI tried to trademark it but couldn't because of that. It's as if Nintendo was trying to trademark the word "Kart" because of "Mario Kart".

I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me

I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every...

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Idk about that. What data could they get with that, that they can't already get through other (cheaper) means, that would justify all the network traffic and storage space?

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I don't see how your fingerprint could be used for advertising

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Have the same issue on one of my accounts. I can login but when I try to do anything, I need to verify by getting a code over SMS. The thing is, the phone number on that account is an old one I don't have access to anymore. There is no other verification option, I can't delete it from my account without verification and I'm definitely not adding my actual number.

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Wish I could do that too but my email is still tied to some accounts where I can't change it

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Was it that Asian women who did mukbangs where she was eating live sea animals? She didn't just eat them alive, she was actually torturing them. Stuff like taking the "outer layer" off of them (multiple ones at the same time), dipping them in sauce and then just letting them sit. She was also laughing about it. Made me so angry watching that.

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X11 runs the whole desktop on the lowest refresh rate and Wayland can run each monitor at a different refresh rate

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You can toggle internet access per app on stock Android tho...

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