Semperverus

Beatsaber and VRchat are like the two things that I most often go to VR for. Occasionally I’ll do something else like some kind of gun game like Alyx or H3VR or whatever.

What I’m looking forward to most though is all of the VR mods for pancake games that have been coming out. I have an index but its been rather cumbersome as of late to play it, and I want to do something that is more independent.

Valve can say that its supposed to be a streaming device til they’re blue in the face, and that is definitely a major selling feature for me, but what they made is a Quest competitor, and one that doesnt send excruciating details of my wife, children, pets, and home back to headquarters. It also runs Linux! You can replace that with whatever you want with the knowhow!

I will be using the frame at work in the breakroom, in the woods, and I even read someone mentioning they use theirs for like YouTube while washing dishes and stuff.

Up until now, the quest “didn’t exist” for me, so this is going to be a standalone-first device for me with a pinch of desktop streaming.

In the queue for the 1tb. My credit card is on fire!

Wipe yourself down with 90% isopropyl. It kills the bacteria that makes the stench for a day or two, and wipes away any residual oils that might be rotting on your skin.

Make sure you get the worst offending areas like your pits, the back and sides of your neck, your back, and downstairs.

Be careful around the nether regions though, you are in for a very unpleasant burning sensation the more bacteria there is.

But you will smell so much better (i.e. no odor) and it feels better too.

This is the correct outlook on it.

Academically, artificial neural network algorithms are cool as fuck, even given their shortcomings.

Capitalist greed has weaponized them and done horrible atrocious things to “improve” them (stealing works they have no rights to in order to profit off of them, replacing humans who want to work, ruining the arts, etc.)

We never were, considering we are literally animals.

The answer is and should always be “never” if the possibility of using FOSS is available either currently or by hard work to bring it into existence - however, there are cases where some software is not available in any other capacity and offers a service that is otherwise locked down. So we deal with the necessary evils where we must until we no longer have to.

There’s nothing weird about being against metastacizing cancer.

It technically follows the industry standard rules (and companies who have been exploited have 30 days to disclose breaches in the U.S. so there’s probably similar “best practice” stuff with these kinds of disclosures)

I feel like something like the xteink would be better suited to this class of device though

Do you think it runs at 1000w continuously? On any decent GPU, the responses are nearly instantaneous to maybe a few seconds of runtime at maybe max GPU consumption.

Compare that to playing a few hours of cyberpunk 2077 with raytracing and maxed out settings at 4k.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to hate about AI/LLMs, but running one locally without data harvesting engines is pretty minimal. The creation of the larger models is where the consumption primarily comes in, and then the data centers that run them are servicing millions of inquiries a minute making the concentration of consumption at a single point significantly higher (plus they retrain the model there on current and user-fed data, including prompts, whereas your computer hosting ollama would not.)

SystemD is not just init

Yea, that’s kind of the problem.

Just because one systemd dev prepared something to be optionally used for a stupid law, doesn’t mean anyone using Linux is forced to do that Seems you don’t know how anything on Linux, and it’s ecosystem, works, if you believe that

This is disingenuous at best.

Sure, its ‘just’ a single text field that ‘optionally’ can be used. until it isn’t.

SystemD itself is a perfect example of this. Sure you have choice in theory, but in practice its a wildly different story. Name one mainstream Linux distro that can be used for casual day to day use, ranging from doing taxes to playing Steam games that does not use SystemD.

A lot of people drew issue with SystemD when it came out and as time progressed, but the number of fully supported core distros that do not use SystemD is zero.

Nobody’s concerns were considered, and not one uses Runit, InitRC, or even just refused to move on from SysVInit, unless you count Gentoo. Debian is SystemD. Arch is SystemD. Fedora is SystemD. And so are almost all their derivatives.

In order to get away from SystemD, you have to switch to forks that intentionally go out of their way to make it happen like Artix. Arch’s wiki page literally tells you that you can have any init system as long as it’s SystemD.

You are left to rewrite entire core system components yourself and maintain them if you really want to make it happen.

So yea, you technically have a choice, but not really.

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I may not be a decent person, but I do have a discord channel called The Department of Degeneracy where we post dark, spicy, and doomer memes that would make grandma gasp and clutch her pearls.

“I’ve seen what makes you people cheer, your boos mean nothing to me.”

Die Hardman
Heartman
Fragile
Revolver Ocelott
Snake Eater

…

Kojima you beautiful bastard

Counterpoint to both you and OP: AI generated country songs

They think they’re beyond consequences and “it can’t happen to me, I’m the main character!”

Certified vintage, circa 2006