greybeard

joined 6 months ago
[–] greybeard@feddit.online 3 points 4 days ago

Apple always refers to iPad's OS as "iPad OS", not iOS. I wonder if the browsers make the same differentiation in their user agent strings.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

ChromeOS is pretty far from normal Linux. It's closer to something like Android. Uses the Linux kernel, but doesn't bring the freedom, flexibility, or even GUI tool that come with a Linux desktop. SteamOS does come with all of those.

And, importantly, improvements and software for SteamOS is, generally, improvements and software for most Linux distros.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Every 4-5 prints? What are you doing to your printer? I rarely even alcohol wipe down my plate. I have one side marked for PLA and the other for PETG (Since I've found the PETG residue tends to cause PLA not to stick). The only time notably clean my plate is when I accidentally forget to flip it between material changes or I touch it in the build area.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 7 points 6 days ago

That's how a lot of episodes of Star Trek worked. They would adapt SciFi short stories to the Star Trek universe. It's a great way to both get great stories and support authors. I don't think the "short story" publishing machines still run, unfortunately.

Heck, now that I think of it, there was actually a DS9 episode about a short story publishing company.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I certainly can become a problem. Reaching back to Digg, MrBabyMan had way too much power and influence, even though he basically just spammed news articles 24/7. Thankfully, the threadiverse doesn't seem to be designed to promote people over content.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 7 points 1 week ago

Mega trucks ans SUVs are what sells, I guess.

Unfortunately, people buy what they are told to buy through advertising and marketing. The demand for sports cars didn't dry up because people lost interest, but because better margins were found in large vehicles (and since emissions requirements were easier to hit for large vehicles than small powerful ones).

If the auto industry decided small cars were more profitable, the entire marketing machine would start touting the benefits of small cars, and in a few years, people would be claiming they always loved small cars and are so glad they are back so they can replace their monster trucks with tiny hatches.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

ARC lets you connect your speakers to your TV via HDMI, while also letting your TV control the speakers via CEC. The downside is that it takes up an HDMI port, and they only put like 2 of them on modern TVs.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 78 points 1 week ago (41 children)

We don't flock to it, they are forced upon us. Finding TVs that support DP is almost impossible.

One of the biggest problems is that shitty standards use the money they get from licensing the standard to push the standard. Good open standards often don't have a marketing budget to play with. On top of that, shitty standards can make unrealistic promises to gain an advantage. Like HDMI does with DRM. "If every device uses this standard, piracy will be a thing of the past!"

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finally, I can throw away my red/blue glasses and play Rad Racer for the NES the way it was meant to be played.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the fun things that self hosted LLMs let you do (the big tech ones might too), is that you can edit its answer. Then, ask it to justify that answer. It will try its best, because, as you said, it its entire state of mind is on the page.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The problem (or safety) of LLMs is that they don't learn from that mistake. The first time someone says "What's this Windows folder doing taking up all this space?" and acts on it, they wont make that mistake again. LLM? It'll keep making the same mistake over and over again.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 7 points 2 weeks ago

/me searches a problem, finally finding someone asking the exact question I have. Page: Can't you idiots search for anything, 2 seconds searching would have found the answer.

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