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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Unified memory is a lot more flexible and efficient though. You don't have to have assets loaded in RAM and also VRAM for the CPU/GPU to use them. Don't forget about how much more RAM a general purpose OS like Steam OS can co
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Just filter out: Fortnite, Roblox, GTA Online, Call of Duty, Destiny, Valorant, PUBG, etc... It isn't a short list of AAA games that don't run on SteamOS.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
A slow gaming PC that is small and can turn on my TV is still... a slow gaming PC. And one of the main PC benefits, upgradeability is non-existent for the parts that matter (e.g. GPU, VRAM, etc).
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
It is already outdated I think? 8GB of VRAM, and CPU and mobile GPU from 3+ years ago. Nobody would build a gaming PC right now with a GPU that anemic and 8GB of VRAM.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
The irony there is that the Steam Machine can't actually run the full Steam library since most games aren't made for Linux. Most run on it via Proton, many even run well, but it is very far from "all the games play without is
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
I know the price for PC parts is terrible these days, but $1049 for a 6-core 16GB RAM, with a 512GB SSD, and no controller, is a terrible value. For reference, the PS5 Pro has more than twice the number GPU CUs, an 8-core CPU, a 2TB SSD, a
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
AI has definitely gotten good enough that its one shot success rate is better than most developers.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
TIL that AVIF has been supported across all browsers since January 2024. Definitely looks like something I can start using.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Based on the disclosed financials by SpaceX, they have made $48B in revenue since 2023 with a cumulative loss of -$41.3B. And yet, based on stock price and market cap, they are worth about as much as Microsoft. Microsoft generated $80B of r
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
The have customers actually willing to use and pay for their service. In a world where even Microsoft is needing to use AWS for capacity beyond Azure, xAI's utilization of their data centers has been so low that they are renting them o
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
It is pretty easy to make a Roku TV dumb. 1. Remove the few pre-installed apps except the HDMI inputs you want. 2. Then disconnect wifi. As long as the device you turn on does HDMI-CEC (which almost everything other than a PC does) it will
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Maybe it is just the devices I have, but I've had the higher end 4K-capable Roku boxes before I eventually got all Roku TVs. I would say the experience with my Roku TVs (TCL, Phillips, and Sharp) has been the best. Nothing slow about t
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Especially because you can get TVs with Roku built-in. I would guess most Roku users aren't using a box these days.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
The sad reality is that it doesn't really matter which system you try to do (capitalism, communism, monarchy, etc), it is almost always the powerful exploiting the less powerful. China probably has the most successful communist governm
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
A few points. "Company" is doing some very heavy lifting in how you are using it. The "company" in that sense does not include any worker who isn't a meaningful equity participant. In Amazon's case, or Telsa&#x
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
PG is clearly confusing "capturing" a billion dollars for "earning" a billion dollars. Becoming a billionare is working the system so that the wealth generated by something people love (Amazon) is mostly captured by a se
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Now I just need to know the answer to that Madonna "Papa don't preach" question...
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
It is amazing to see what is happening with wasm/wasi lately and that is all grew out of asm.js. asm.js, like JSON, is a strict subset of the JavaScript grammar that turned out to be very useful in a certain way. Obviously, a text enco
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
It is interesting to me that Anthropic are more concerned about the "safety" of distillation training other LLMs, and not as much about an unscrupulously aggressive goal-oriented solver that will do whatever it can to reach its go
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Kind of surprised that the current Chromium-based Edge gets no attention other than being mentioned. It is basically the same as the desktop Edge. Easily the most capable browser a console has ever had. It has support for things like the ga
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Increasingly it looks like it will end with a bubble bursting. LLMs and AI will survive, like the internet survived the dotcom bubble. But OpenAI and Anthropic could just be today's AOL and Yahoo.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
I guess, but yesterday Anthropic had their version of Google removing the "Don't be evil" from their motto. They destroyed a metric ton of goodwill they'll never regain.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
They are still downgrading. They just aren't doing it silently. I don't know how big of a win that is? They still trained on everyone else's data without license or attribution but want to prevent someone else from doing the
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
The value and capabilities of ESP32s are incredible. Most projects I see that use Linux to drive a GPIO would be better served by an ESP32 almost every time. They can even be coded using Arduino, and LLMs can produce Arduino code easily. Th
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
It takes a lot of audacity to train on all the data you can without any license, attribution, etc and then act like you can own the outputs of the model so that someone else doesn't make a model from your data without a license. I&#x27
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
I've easily played 1080p video, but not using a full Linux GUI. The more effective way is to use a command-line video player like mpv that can leverage the hardware decoder and render to the frame buffer. I made a project for a band to
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
You should really look at the Pi Zero 2 W. Similar capabilities to the 3B for <$20. The Pico 2 is also cheap and very capable if you don't actually need Linux. Most projects don't need a Pi 5.
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Not a completely invalid or uncommon take, but also not completely correct. People lament that it isn't the $25 like it used to be with the Pi 2/3, but ignore that you can get a Pi Zero 2 W (quad A53 cores like 3B, 512MB RAM) for
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
It is actually worse than that. It is at least 30 days. There is an "almost" that is doing a ton of heavy lifting here "deletion after 30 days in almost all cases". My read of that is they can hang onto data for as lon
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by pseudosavant 4mo ago
Exactly what I thought. The Mac equivalent to WSL. Which is a great thing for Mac devs. Lots of stuff expects Linux these days, not POSIX. Mach isn’t Linux.

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