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by smoldesu 3y ago
I just bit the bullet and moved to Wayland. I've heard mixed things about people on 10-series hardware, but things work pretty well on my 3070Ti. My guess is that the drivers are slightly different across generations, and parity still
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Judging from the Digital Foundry video[0], it appears to have a limited form of VRR that will sample the refresh rate closest to whatever you're limiting for (eg. 40fps -> 80hz). It's not a complete solution, but it should effe
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Two questions, with no obligation to answer them: - What's the argument for using this instead of a full-fat computer with ambient capabilities? (think iPhone/Siri or Android/Assistant) - How does Humane expect the $699 price
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> if you take decent care of your data you should be fine. This is the real bottom-line, regardless of what OS you use flash storage on. Make sure you have duplicated backups, because hardware failure is real and it can hurt you .
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> A-OK until there was "actual injury", and even then, it is only the injury that would be wrong? Hah! No, they argue that the injury is right . For example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sikh-nijj
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not rhetorical. If you can't reconcile both of our opinions, it's not my fault. I don't know what to tell you. I address your opinions and you frame it as bitching. I express my own opinions and you insist it's
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by smoldesu 3y ago
My point is that "stable diffusion" is just about the most-arbitrary and least-applicable example you could surface. It runs on so many different types of hardware that bragging about it on Mac is like boasting about having a rich
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by smoldesu 3y ago
A 512mb Raspberry Pi can run Stable Diffusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSSUJ2bwcgU Pro is a hardware distinction. If that wasn't true, there would be the same hardware in normal Macs and "Pro" ones al
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Excessive swapping does wear flash storage. Flash storage has a eventual write limit, and once it breaks there are no paths of recourse for the user. That's common across Windows, Mac and Linux, and isn't FUD whatsoever (especia
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If you labelled him as "the mean one" instead, maybe it would be more obvious which Steve they meant.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
And consequently broke that promise by not using Lightning on Mac?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If God is real, I hope he ensures I'm long-since dead by the time American shareholders see space as the only profitable frontier.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Additionally, LTSC is a lifeline that was designed to eventually run-out. The individuals that rely on it are in for a rude awakening when the LTS period expires. Microsoft has no interest in catering to you; they want enterprise users on m
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced networked computer will have the potential for spam or malicious users. iMessage already sees this without being an open protocol; it's deeply-integrated nature makes it a prime vector for malware and 0-click
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by smoldesu 3y ago
This is the one I'd prefer, if hypothetically I did such a thing :) https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Amazon's FireTV experience is pretty bad. Even as someone who pays for Prime, it's hard to escape the "ad carousel" interface when you just want to watch TV. That being said , I still use mine regularly for one reason;
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I like "The I.T. Crowd", but it might be a little too dated/cynical for some people today.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> You can not compare a single instance of whacky artwork created in parody of a pop culture figure to the machine that plagiarizes the work of thousands of people Sure I can; Author's Guild vs. Google inc.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Black Mirror ought to use this to parody the classic Twilight Zone episode of the post-war guy trying to find his eyeglasses so he could read. That was subtle horror, but reckoning with the fact that a private company could own the whole
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Yes. This is because they cannot provide you the full text of the book; that would be illegal. They can provide you a snippet, within the legal limits of what they are able to reproduce. They can also direct you to buy a copy of it through
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> in reality what all these models essentially are is just a distributed compression algorithms for digital media? Nope. Here's an easy test for your claims; prove it. None of your examples are copyrighted works. They resemble cop
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by smoldesu 3y ago
What's the point of running unquantized models? If you want to run 70b knock yourself out, but you're wasting electricity and life-hours by using 16-bit float at full precision. Even if you could accelerate such a model well, it&#
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Does it matter? When Google automated the scanning and digitization of millions of books for searching purposes, they were awarded Fair Use[0] protection despite using an automated system to derive unauthorized digital copies of copyright
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Note: I am not an expert :) > How does this work from a technological standpoint? There have only been 27 Pixar feature films. From the start, imaging AI's capability has been largely around style transfer. You can take an artist or
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> “The most relevant thing for us is showcasing to the jury how Android has created more choice, flexibility and openness than any other platform, and that Epic has actually availed itself of that level of choice and flexibility,” said W
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by smoldesu 3y ago
For my money, the thing that stops me from dailying a Mac again is the amount of trust Apple demands from you nowadays. Older Macs are really cozy, even up through Yosemite in my opinion. After a certain point though, you could feel the foc
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Did you check the page? It's MIT-licensed and isn't about GPT or text generation. It's Intellisense, for the shell.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Even then, decrying pants-on-head frauds like Craig Wright or SBF doesn't threaten them. They want to put you on the defensive (eg. "But how can you prove _______") or drag you into court ("I accuse you of ______!&quot
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Just searching Flathub for Minecraft, I see half a dozen different flatpaks(?) This is the one you want: https://flathub.org/apps/com.mojang.Minecraft
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by smoldesu 3y ago
My point is "nothing ever happens", and from a regulatory/administrative standpoint I see no reason to think things will change. I don't like WEI, remote attestation, or Google/Apple as companies. I don't like

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