gerowen

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[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

If you're AI upscaling a low resolution texture or something I can see that. But if I want a computer to rip off somebody else's work and regurgitate a story based on some amalgamation of its questionably sourced training data, I can do that on my own for free.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Honestly, maybe I'm an old fart, but I refuse to knowingly buy games if they use AI instead of paying talented people to create works of art.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Libraries and encyclopedias. We had a set of encyclopedias, New World I think, and much later got Brittanica on CD-ROM.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You can't survive around here (eastern Kentucky) without owning your own car. The nearest Walmart to me is a half hour drive at 60mph and we don't have taxis in any of the towns around me. That's 7 hours of walking, each way. No buses or trains either. The closest store of any kind to me is a Dollar General and is about 2 hours each way if I walk.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It is the command line interface for libvirt/qemu/kvm on Linux. I usually just use virt-manager remotely via SSH to create and manage my VMs, but virsh can be handy as well.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nope, no mods. I've noticed certain braziers will have the effect in barrows and such.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I watched my dad slowly starve to death from cancer cigarettes gave him, so no, cigarettes don't "rule".

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how it worked, all I know is that it was real time and would react to player models, enemies or other things that would move in unpredictable ways, but only for specific light sources.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've seen the effect in other places, though I guess technically they can stick that torch wherever they want as you explore.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Skyrim has "ray traced" shadows in certain places and works great. I was in a cave once and hiding behind a cliff. An enemy was wandering around the next room and I was able to use the shadow cast on him by a torch to observe his movements without having his actual body in my field of view.

All this modern RT nonsense does is make things look slightly better than screen space reflections and tank performance.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

If it is from Meta assume it's compromised.

 

So today I learned GoG has a "Dream List" where people can vote for and even post their thoughts on games they would like to see on GoG. I voted for Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

 

Seems like so far, as far as anybody knows, only the Zotac "Solid" cards are affected.

First paragraph reads:

TechPowerUp has discovered that there are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too few render units, which lowers performance. Zotac's GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes with fewer ROPs than it should—168 are enabled, instead of the 176 that are part of the RTX 5090 specifications. This loss of 8 ROPs has a small, but noticeable impact on performance. During recent testing, we noticed our Zotac RTX 5090 Solid sample underperformed slightly, falling behind even the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition card. At the time we didn't pay attention to the ROP count that TechPowerUp GPU-Z was reporting, and instead spent time looking for other reasons, like clocks, power, cooling, etc.

 

Subtitle: Qualys finds two worrying bugs in OpenSSH

When I checked my personal rigs Debian had already released the patches and my home server had already auto updated itself.

 

Facebook is a cesspool. I run a small "tech news and tips" page that local friends/family follow and where I'll post little tidbits. Today I made a post about "compartmentalizing" your online life and I didn't think and included the word "hack" in the post. It's just comment after comment of crap like this.

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