MonkeMischief

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

You don't need luck. You've got us! (And the Internet to verify our claims lol)

Just triple check every step, learn how to prevent ESD, and pull that useless little sticky plastic protector off the cooler before you install it! (That one gets SO many system builders).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Monado is making impressive strides, but VR is a really tough nut to crack, given how ridiculously proprietary most units are. :(

The controllers especially seem to be giving them a lot of trouble.

I know M$ always extinguishes things it embraces, but they should really just release the WMR code if they're done with ir. An open source WMR implementation would save SO MUCH headache of trying to engineer custom drivers and everything from scratch!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Upset about both of those too.

The WMR thing is bugging me so much. Like release whatever is needed to open the hardware if you're done with it, jerks!

I have a Samsung Odyssey+ that's a fantastic unit that of course I can't run when I mainline Linux these days. Monado is making impressive gains but the fact that they basically need to hack and reverse engineer the thing out of being e-waste is just messed up.

I really like VR and want to make things for it. But I can't swing a Steam set and there's no way I'm giving a single rotten cent to Facebook if I can help it!

Like others said there's still ways to keep it working but it feels iffy enough that it could just break at any moment =\

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

This is SO tragic. I remember being so fond of both those games, they were so great! All the ways different equipment actually affected gameplay, and the really unique sound effects and world building will always stick in my head.

The Flutter was like my dream fantasy vehicle as a kid, those dogs in the bad part of town freaked me out, the reaverbot designs were so cool, and I kicked cans around way more than I should've.

And the little Tron-bots taught us the folly of making judgements based on profiling. XD

Kid me didn't understand the ultimate plots though, and the final bosses were punishing... Perhaps it's time for a revisit.

I didn't know Legends 3 was so close to actually being a thing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Geeze while we're at it, even though it was basically a typical cop procedural, I really enjoyed "Almost Human" for a while. It just disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

👑(crown emoji in case it doesn't show) here, you dropped this.

LOL had me rolling. XD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Those features were so cool! I loved my Wii U also because of the underutilized potential it had. I wish we had a lot more simulative type experiences where the console as a "dashboard" could have made more sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Oh man are you me?! I used to love Jones! They had really interesting flavors and I liked the featured photographs. :D I kicked soda a while back, otherwise I'd still be all over it. I'm glad they're still around and I'm happy seeing them on the shelves.

Batman Beyond, totally shway! Cyberpunk Batman was such a ridiculously cool concept I'd love to see come back. That intro was so freaking cool. :D My wife and I just watched through the whole thing not too long ago.

I'm torn though: A reboot would be so excellent, but that "2'000's cool" aesthetic was essential to the unique feel of the universe it set up. Like, man can you imagine if we got an Arkham type game with some Deus Ex mixed in!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Y'know, in Minecraft maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

This humor indeed is.

Is humor indeed this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I think he just comes to mind first because of the whole "D.A.R.E" thing, and his horrible effects on literally everything are still felt so profoundly today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

"Hey remember that weird time everyone saw an augmented reality hallucination of Max Headroom for like 10 seconds?"

 

Found this on iFunny lol.

 

Basically title. I'm a digital artist in the USA and not rich by any stretch. In fact, somewhat in debt. (Aren't we all.)

I also try really hard to not be a mindless consumer. I use old equipment as long as I can, repair, refurbish, etc...

All this talk of upcoming tariffs has me worried that, rather than being able to get a day-job at newly opened US manufacturing for electronics or something, I'll instead be paying +60% more on like everything.

I know tech is a depreciating asset, but should I try to upgrade now to hold out for the next ~5 years or so?

I was considering hunting down a motherboard/cpu/RAM combo for instance.

Are worries about tariffs overblown? Trying to figure out how to prepare as best I can with my meager resources before everything just...keeps getting worse.

I am getting paid for my digital art, it's not living money though. My spouse has a more stable income that enables me to keep trying.

Thanks in advance. <3

EDIT: Thanks a ton for all the helpful replies! I'm glad I'm not being overly paranoid.

Some of you have asked for system specs so here they are for the curious:

System Specs:

  • OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX
  • CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
  • Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed...3000?)

I want to be clear: I don't mean to sound too panicked and I'm more than happy to be content with what I have and see my blessings for what they are.

However, as I'm trying to break into being a 3D Blender artist and gamedev professionally, I'm trying to strategize whether standards will significantly increase and leave me behind in the next 5 years or so. (Game industry, not trying to do Hollywood VFX models on my home rig or anything lol)

I don't game so much these days unfortunately. And if I do, like 5% of my library is particularly demanding. 😂

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning.

  • LLMs and their training consume a LOT of power, which consumes a lot of water.
  • Power generation and data centers also consume a lot of water.
  • We don't have a lot of fresh water on this planet.
  • Big Tech and other megacorps are already trying to push for privatizing water as it becomes more scarce for humans and agriculture.

---personal opinion---

This is why I personally think federated computing like Lemmy or PeerTube to be the only logical way forward. Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O.

Of course, then the 'Net would be back to serving humanity instead of stock-serving megacultists. . .

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