Mikina
@Mikina@programming.dev
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 week ago:
I only tested it like twice, on a meeting with my friends when we were working on a game in our free time, but I was honestly surprised how better the meeting went in VR.
Being used to just staring at flat faces on Zoom, you kind of forget how much you are actually missing in the term of expressions. It’s hard to describe, but it just felt a lot better when people are in a 3D space and can gesture around.
The whiteboard tools were also nice, like being able to draw with the pointy end of your controller either on table in front of you, or place a virtual blackboard against your wall at home.
Sure, in-person meetings are better, but this was pretty close to the point where it felt almost as a real meeting.
For standups and the like it’s an overkill, but brainstorming sessions were a lot better.
Of course, we never did that again, because the hassle of setting up headsets is too annoying. But especially for remote teams, I can imagine it being nice for occasional meetings.
It also might’ve just been the novelty effect and it would get old amd annoying soon.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 week ago:
I kind of get it, it’s a thing that was extremely glorified by tech-bros as future of everything, before they moved over to AI, so everyone is alergic to that.
It’s also something that sounds stupid until you try it, and that’s hard to describe, and tbh my attempt to share the experience does sound like your regural run of the mill tech-bro speech, now that I read it again. I don’t think it’s possible to reasonably talk about things like these, because “and then I tried it and I was hooked! Of course it have its problems, but we will solve those” is exactly the techbro speech.
I’m as anti-bigtech as anyone here, and it’s not like I live in VR and believe in the Metaverse, fuck that, and it’s not like I have all my money in crypto and Meta stocks. I just honestly thought it was kinda cool the one time I tried it, and hope we’ll get a more open alternatives once Meta finishes burning money on RaD it needs. Which I definitely can’t say about crypto, AI, blockchain or NFTs.
But, yeah, unpopular opinion and all that.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 week ago:
My main point was that it was marginally better than what we traded it for with AI.
The AI furnace is fueled by burning children, and also makes everyone colder and more miserable, but you can make a lot of investor money promising to build more furnaces like that.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 week ago:
I know a lot people hate on this, but when I gave VR workstation a try (asi in, using VR for your second+ monitor) on my Quest 3, it was pretty nice.
At one point I was just taking my laptop to bed, passthrough block on my keyboard, and could comfortably work with 3 larger monitors. Or just plopping in bed with a controller, stream a large screen in front of me, and play a game.
Also, it’s great for focus. Not having the rest of the world around you distracting you works wonders.
The Quest 3 was usable (the resolution sucked too much on Q2 to be able to use virtual monitors), but I can imagine it could get pretty tiring spending more than an hour or so in it - which is what I presume they could eventually solve. I’m excited for Steam Frame, assuming it will work as a standalone Linux computer. If I could just develop anywhere with my monitor setup, needing only the headset and a keyboard, it would be great.
Another thing are meetings. It’s something you have to experience with an open mind, because it has been shoved into our throats under the Metaverse label, which made a lot of people adverse to it. I did give it a try, and it’s such a huge difference between just staring at someone on a Zoom call. Just the fact that you have some kind of gesturing, along with the virtual dashboards that are easy to draw to (using the tip of the controller as a pen on your table, or just plopping a virtual blackboard agaist your wall), and it just makes the meetings and presentations so much better.
Again, you have the issue of the headsets being unwieldy for long term, but that’s something they’d probably solve.
Of course, the whole Metaverse bullshit, and the way it was marketed and shoved down everyone’s throat was stupid, but the technology in itself was pretty nice to use - I enjoyed the experience. It had it own problems, but that’s something that could be solved.
Also, once I got into FPS in VR, it’s really hard to enjoy regular flat screen FPSs. You need to have a magnetic gun stock for it to be playable, but once you get that, it’s so much more fun. Just the fact that you have to actually change mags makes the experience so much better. It’s something that is hard to describe, but just feels a lot better. In general, some of the best experiences gaming I had were in VR, but most of it was just a promise or tech demos, because the field didn’t have time to mature, and was too unafordable for studios to take it seriously.
So, yeah, I think it had promise, and it’s a shame the world has given up before it became affordable and iterated upon, especially since we traded it for bullshit AI.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 1 week ago:
Watching Meta fumble with AI is pretty funny.
I’m still mad they dropped VR for this. That’s the one industry that needs for someone to burn billions into, and I’d rather have to deal with a Metaverse bullshit again, than whatever the AI is doing to people, because that has at least some positive impact - like better VR games. I also kind of liked using my headset in bed as a movie theater/multiple monitors, if the headset got a little bit better so you can use it longer, it would be perfect.
Metaverse was annoying, but at least it had some good side-effects.
We dropped that in favor of AI bullshit.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 4 months ago:
tomshardware.com/…/this-github-script-claims-to-w…
It also uninstalls things related to AI afaik, which are a few apps.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 4 months ago:
Been using this script. It has freed 6Gb of space on my surface.
Haven’t really auditted what it does, but in this case I just trust the stars (and the link is from tomshardware, not that it changes anything). Use at your own risk.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 8 months ago:
Youre not the first comment that mentions this, and technically it’s right. But the fundamental problem for me is that the AI had a well defined problem - it had one correct answer. Increase text size. It failed, and chose a solution to a problem that 'people who usualy have it, want this solution".
It was just mediocre solution, that works for median of people.
It didn’t matter that you specified concrete problem you have - I want larger text. It just averaged it.
Thats the problem with AI. If you want mediocre solution to a very common problem, it works.
But thats the only way it works.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 8 months ago:
The article doesn’t really mention it and only focuses on it providing an incorrect value (150% when it’s already at 150%), but this bit that’s added as a reader context to the Tweet is even bigger blunder:
The user asked how to increase text size, but Copilot incorrectly advised changing the “Scale” option in Settings > System > Display. This enlarges text, but also resizes UI, apps, and other elements
To change only text size, go to Settings > Accessibility > Text size.
- Comment on Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is 8 months ago:
The article does not mention this, but it’s also not a correct solution at all for increasing text size (which was what the guy was asking it how to do). From the reader context of the tweet:
The user asked how to increase text size, but Copilot incorrectly advised changing the “Scale” option in Settings > System > Display. This enlarges text, but also resizes UI, apps, and other elements
To change only text size, go to Settings > Accessibility > Text size.
- Comment on Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds 1 year ago:
Ooh, that’s actually a good idea, just installing it on a separate removable drive, copying it over and seeing what works. Thanks!
- Comment on Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds 1 year ago:
I mostly wonder whether I would be able to just copy and paste /home from Nobara to Bazzite, and apps like steam or lutris/wine games would keep working, or if it’s more complex than that.
- Comment on Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds 1 year ago:
I’m planning to do that, I’ve been running Nobara for the past year, but I don’t have /home on separate partition and Idon’t want to bother with moving data, so I’m postponing it. What are the advantages, are is there something I should watch out for before switching?
- Comment on Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds 1 year ago:
I bought a Legion Go last week, and so far I’m really happy with it. The first thing I did was delete Windows and install Bazzite, and from that moment everything was smooth. The larger size is nice, and so far I had no issues running games pretty comfortably.
- Comment on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search 1 year ago:
the quality of search results tends to be degraded [without JavaScript].
Lol, how? That’s such bullshit.
- Comment on Google makes your Pixel screenshots searchable with Recall-like AI feature 1 year ago:
I suppose that this isn’t something to worry about with GrapheneOS, right?