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- Comment on Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage 3 hours ago:
No, just a thin client
- Comment on Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings 3 days ago:
A decade or so ago, I messed around with Linux on my laptop, it was my main computer and I was distro hopping yo see what was out there.
I had my /home on a different partition and it worked well, until I left a USB hard drive plugged in…
It was my main music drive and I accidentaly picked that one to be erased…
I lost 6000+ songs…
- Comment on Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay 5 days ago:
That is brilliant!
I hope we get 2003, 2004 and 3 there eventually
- Comment on Microsoft tests wooden data centers in a bid to cut carbon emissions 2 weeks ago:
M$, carbon negative?
lol.
- Comment on Intel Fails To Achieve Gaudi AI "$500 Million" Revenue Target, Showing Slacking Performance In The AI Segment. 2 weeks ago:
I work in the finance industry, and you are wrong!
These targets are made by workers putting in a combination of realistic guesses, hopes and dreams into an Excel sheet built in 2006, built by a person who left the industry in half a year later, and was last updated in 2018, adding one page of semi related calculations, taking the resulting numbers giving them to a sales guy to make a confident presentation for the CEO to deliver to the shareholders.
- Comment on NASA powers down science instrument to conserve Voyager 2 power supply 1 month ago:
All good points, and I fully agree with you, I just though it was funny to immagine a space probe charging from a powerbank.
Then I started wondering how a modern powerbank with modern lithium ion cells would compare to the needs of the Voyager 2 probe, and started thinking of how it could be done.
- Comment on NASA powers down science instrument to conserve Voyager 2 power supply 1 month ago:
Yeah, I realize that, but I just thought it would be interesting to put the energy use in perspective…
- Comment on NASA powers down science instrument to conserve Voyager 2 power supply 1 month ago:
Ah, cool that is very interesting!
- Comment on NASA powers down science instrument to conserve Voyager 2 power supply 1 month ago:
They should send a powerbank up to the Voyager.
…
Yeah, that is a joke but made me wonder two things:
- Say you have the abillity to connect a powerbank to the Voyager, how long would a typical powerbank with 3x 16850 cells be able to power the probe?
- Would it be possible to build a proble like Voyager 2, which has a docking port and could accept a space craft that could transfer power to the Voyager 2?
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 1 month ago:
The few times I have used AI to help me with coding has mostly been to ask it for examples on how to use a specific feature, then it has been ok for the most part.
I mostly code in PowerShell, HTML and CSS, and Bing Chat helpful when I am stuck on a small issue.
We also recently started testing Copilot Pro 365, the one that can help you make documents or search through company documents and stuff like that.
As a test I asked it to make me a powerpoint presentation about the top ten podcasting microphones to buy.
The result looked great at first glance, but quicly got very generic.
Sure, it did show pictures of some microphones and even spoke about them, but it was just vauge and generic
- Comment on TikTok launches expanded subscriptions feature for creators 1 month ago:
I read the title as “TikTok launches expanded universe”, and I was a bit confused
- Comment on People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than Humane can sell them, report says 3 months ago:
I didn’t even realize that it wasn’t the R1…
- Comment on People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than Humane can sell them, report says 3 months ago:
It was manufactured ewaste from the start.
It should have been shipped straight to the recycler directly from the factory and never bothered with the customer bit in the middle.
- Comment on Microsoft strips ads from Skype in a move toward “user-centric design” 3 months ago:
Any removal of ads should be up voted
- Comment on YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos 4 months ago:
I don’t get it, why is this surprising?
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
I mean, not for gaming…
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
Nope, there are plenty worse…
z/os, Temple OS, OpenBSD, React OS and others.
Sorry, I am just feeling pedantic, it is late and I am about to get some sleep…
- Comment on UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots 5 months ago:
I remember a project Microsoft ran a decade or so ago, they built a system baeed around a camera you wore on a lanyard around your neck, it would take photos every few minutes.
When you then downloaded the photos into your computer you would get a visual log of the things you did while wearing the camera
- Comment on Over 100 staff at Just Cause developers Avalanche have unionised 7 months ago:
Sweet.
- Comment on German state decides to move away from Microsoft to Linux and LibreOffice 7 months ago:
This again?
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs 7 months ago:
What? Reality?
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs 7 months ago:
That’s a fair take (:
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage 7 months ago:
Just as expected…
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs 7 months ago:
Hyperbole like this just harms adoption of Linux.
- Comment on Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten 8 months ago:
I fully agree with you, you should not fly, since that means there will be one less person to deal with in the airport / on the plane.
- Comment on New to Steam Deck and PC gaming, I'm looking for game recommendations... 8 months ago:
Open RA, or Open Red Alert is a version of the old classic stratergy game from the 90s that is free and open source.
OpenRA has two main games built in, Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert, both are alternate history but in slightly different universes.
In the Tiberium universe a meteor containing a new minneral called Tiberium crashed into the earth, thw Tiberium minneral started growing and chaging the earth, there are two factions, the mysterious Brotherhood of Nod, and the UN lead GDI who fights for control over the minneral.
In the Red Alert universe Albert Einstein travelled back in time to kill Hitler, this changed the outcome of WWII and the Soviet Union is now attacking the West.
In both games you take on the task of a commander for either side to ensure victory on the battleflied.
- Comment on New to Steam Deck and PC gaming, I'm looking for game recommendations... 8 months ago:
Fallout New Vegas is awesome, an FPS with RPG elements, that has brilliant humor and huge replayability
Dishonored is a great game where you deal with stealth and magic super powers in a steampunk setting.
The Outer Worlds is a short FPS with RPG elements, it is made by the people who made Fallout New Vegas and is set in a Sci-Fi future in space.
Forza Horizon 4 is a lovely open world racing game set in a fictional UK.
Forza Horizon 5 is the follow up to 4 and is set in Mexico, I find it more boring than 4
Myst (2021), a remake of the classic adventure game from the early 90s, made by the original creator of Myst, Cyan.
OpenRA, play the original Command & Conquer games Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert on modern computers with working online multiplayer for free.
- Comment on What "Great on Deck" titles have you been enjoying? 9 months ago:
So it should be completely fine with D1, awesome!
- Comment on What "Great on Deck" titles have you been enjoying? 9 months ago:
How well does Dishonored run the Steam Deck? I have been thinking of getting one and Dishonored is one of the games I want to play on it.
- Comment on Save thousands 11 months ago:
I will trust that you act a notary public on the matter.