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- Comment on What are you using RSS for? 3 days ago:
To not see ads in articles and still see at least headlines of what is going in the world. I’ll sub to many news outlets for stuff I don’t even read just because much of my online presence is fairly absent of algorithms and that has resulted in me not knowing what people are talking about too many times, even if it is stupid. Sometimes a single YouTube title and thumb nail is all I need to see to know something happened in the world. So this way the things I want to see, and things I don’t want to see are separated, so I have to actively to go out of my way to look at it. Its not blasting my mind palace 24/7 will bullshit every time I want to look at a picture of a cat or whatever.
I also use it to add YouTube channels I don’t watch, but again want to keep up with trends so I have a large list of popular channels, and ones that I know will make a video about clickbait nonsense. So they are the canarie in the coal mine for me on certain issues/topics.
That way none of it gets loaded on my phone my RSS server handles it, I can view it from there. Also I don’t need to load up 700+ channels every time I refresh my newpipe subscription on my phone. I also have sit down and view channels separated to my pipepipe profile on my PC. The channels on my phone are more listening/podcast like experiences.
- Comment on Has anyone tried using the Steam Machine as an all in one living room entertainment box? 1 week ago:
If you have steam running you can change the desktop controller configuration and take advantage of steam input features like the keyboard. I set up a bazzite on a old intel PC I saved from the trash and just navigate with the Xbox controller and mapped all excess buttons to open apps/forward back pages, scroll wheel, radical menus, etc.
- Comment on Has anyone tried using the Steam Machine as an all in one living room entertainment box? 1 week ago:
As far as I can tell that’s the only good excuse I’ve seen to justify the price point for performance. Don’t get me wrong i want one but not because of the performance.
Essentially it has hardware to be able to turn act as a entertainment center and be turned on/off by your TV and auto switch audio devices etc. I don’t fully know what the features are because I don’t use smart TVs so I might be getting it wrong, but I know home theater nerds will buy it just for those features.
- Comment on Show Your ID to Use ChatGPT? How New York’s New AI Law Ends Online Anonymity 1 week ago:
The ai already took everything I cared about…
- Comment on DroidDeck 0.5.0 · 2 weeks ago:
Runs new Vegas on a pixel. Haven’t really gave it a solid testing but turning down all the settings besides view/lod it seems to run decent enough so far. Few newer friendslop games i tested don’t even run past the main menu so I’m guessing most xbox360/ps3 era games will probably work.
- Comment on HomeAssist Kiosks 3 weeks ago:
No problem. It would of been one response but I miss understood what you where asking for, figured it was useful information still and left it up.
- Comment on HomeAssist Kiosks 3 weeks ago:
What I did was flash my esp on the esp website. You might have to give your USB permission and use a chromium based browser for the web installer to see it. Once its flashed you download esphome builder and that’s where you actually make your esp home script.
You can use the templets on the side, or download a templet and then you lable what pins do what and what’s on each pin. Esphome handles the rest, its not like working with arudino ide where you need the resources for each sensor, and the right board selected.
I know its shameful but wire up your screen, sensors and whatever else like buttons to it, and tell google ai to generates you a script, I promise it will work. Its really low stakes, everything is a templet anyways. Just make sure to note what screen/sensor/model it is.
Then all you have to do is add your ssid and password and you have it up and going, should be really easy to find in home assistant and you can then flash it over air which is nice.
I havent gotten into what making a proper home assistant graphical display looks like so I can’t help you there. But making it display text values to the 16x2 display is just pointing it at home assistant values and referencing the services you have in there.
- Comment on HomeAssist Kiosks 3 weeks ago:
It kind of depends on which manufacturer you go with, each esp kind of has its own quirks and features. Some pins you can only use in high/low mode to avoid turning on some other feature or changing boot functions. Some of the olderboards pins have very specific usecases.
So I’m not sure where to point you honestly. I would start with the official documentation that the manufacturers provide you.
I also think you mistake me for someone that knows what I am doing. I want to express how simple esp home is. You can just download or use the temples in esp home builder and its literally just filling out text boxes. I’m not a read the documentation guy, my spelling and reading comprehension are horrible. I’ll follow guides off YouTube and throw errors at google and try to find a video/post about it or get googles ai to summarize it if I can’t access the site like reddit.
But like I said there are quirks for each model which you should read. My esp8266 wouldn’t boot properly if I had something in one of the pins. Some boards have specific pin outs, the xiao I have can turn any pin into anything, analog, pwm, etc. Boards have high and low states on the pins which have some secret functionality. My espc6 I can adjust the antenna range by changing the high/low state of one of the pins. Its weird stuff like that you really want to look over the manufacturers docs for.
- Comment on HomeAssist Kiosks 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have a real screen but I just updated my esp8266 to a xiao esp32c6 for my home assistant box. I wanted zigbe and matter access but half the things I wanted to interact with are proprietary, so I need a new hub and to rebuy a few things.
Just use esp home its stupid easy don’t really have to do anything besides point it at your pin outs and label them. You can probably buy everything you want and add on more stuff. The largest cost will be a eink display probably starting at 50usd for a tiny one, you can get esp boards in 5 packs for maybe 10 USD. But I recommend xiao just because I recently bought from them and am blown away with what feels like a premium board compared to the older ones I have. They all kind of have their own use cases and quirks, I wanted the c5 for better WiFi but the c6 came in a 3 pack for much cheaper.
I use a 16x2 LCD display you get in starter kits made for kids and just simple buttons and splurged on a decent temp sensor. Its also controls a led strip under the counter that used to be controlled with a remote but I hated using the remote. Just be careful you pretty much need a separate power source for that and to make sure the pins don’t get fried by 5v. I’ll stay awake at night thinking over if I wired it correctly even though I know I did so it feels weird trusting that because I’m an idiot.
I plan on buying a 5 pack of 1 inch oled screens and upgrading it, I just have so many other little things to buy on my list I haven’t gotten back around to finishing it.
- Comment on Finally escaping Windows, ironically thanks to AI 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t 100% trust ai to blindly copy paste whatever it gave me into my terminal, but one of the beautiful things about Linux is the ability for you to get tech help via cli.
I have older relatives that ask me for their problems with windows and I’m actually hitting dead ends with them more and more where due to lack of vocabulary on their end and suffering through windows GUI you can’t really guide someone through a fix. That and more and more I’m becoming alienated from windows and don’t know what’s going on as much anymore.
If they had Linux I could just message them and give them terminal commands and it would be a lot easier for me to diagnose and give them a handful of terminal commands to copy paste. I’d still end up googling it but I could at least make it soooo much less painless then a face call/meeting app interaction where we both don’t know what windows did on the newest update.
Also unrelated side note windows shouldn’t allow refurbishers to sell old outdated laptops with windows 11 licenses if it breaks every update due to windows shitty hardware restrictions. Its like four times a year their laptop breaks and I forget how we fix it everytime.
- Comment on Release DroidDeck 0.4.0 · Droid-Deck/DroidDeck 4 weeks ago:
Love you guys
- Comment on SteamOS ARM Port v1.3: Stable on Every SoC, Major Changes 4 weeks ago:
Fuck I regret my pixel slightly. Should of gotten a snapdragon
- Comment on DroidDeck 0.3.2 (SteamOS on Android) 4 weeks ago:
It’s been a while sense I’ve actually used it. Last I checked it was still decebtly solid but to get things run nicely pretty much every game you had to go in toggle a few things.
- Comment on DroidDeck 0.3.2 (SteamOS on Android) 4 weeks ago:
Well before the steam frame, people where playing skyrim at like 15fps on game native like Two years ago. And not really workable there’s a lot of toggling and fiddling.
I imagine it much more streamlined like playing on the deck.
- Comment on DroidDeck 0.3.2 (SteamOS on Android) 4 weeks ago:
In about two years there’s going to be a workable way to play steam games on your phone.
Sad thing I don’t think anyone running graphene or any privacy phones will be able to use it.
I only got old snapdragons 865, 845 and they perform better than a much newer pixel and it seems like anything worth while you need at least a snapdragon gen 2.
- Comment on [Frame][Discussion] Recommended FREE VR apps 5 weeks ago:
I’m not even creative but when I had a vr set up I spent maybe 3 days making a semi miniature island with a waterfall on a floating rock I was overly proud of.
Just felt more intuitive in a way that blender or photoshop never really clicked with me.
I might be confusing another app but I know one of them you can export as 3d models and it made me want to make something less functional for once, but I never got around to it. If I ever get a frame I would want to look into that more. At bare minimum I can see myself uploading the structural file to the app and then sculpting something nice onto it then taking that final file to the slicer.
- Comment on Skyblivion's release is "getting closer" as the massive Skyrim mod's makers start recruiting for a big final marketing push 1 month ago:
If you make enough noise and get the community mad enough they kinda back doen just make sure you arent essentially letting people “pirate” the game.
There was a Bethesda lawyer in the forums for openMW many years ago who they managed to work with and not get the project taken down.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
I was refering to games like 7 days to die or subnautica getting either official vr mods or modes. But yeah play flat games in a big picture mode is kinda cool. I felt like a dork in my own house, around people who don’t make fun of me for stuff like that. Its different when you are in vr because you are immersed more, but you’re kind of supposed to look stupid.
I couldn’t feel anymore like a jackass when I was trying to do the thing where I watch YouTube while doing the dishes with a pinned screen, and then having to talk to my sagnificant other.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
You’ll love it. Lots of flat games turned vr too so you might already have some right off the start.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
Save half life Alex for when you start getting a little bored of vr, really brings back the joy of when you first put on the head set.
Unless you are getting a steam frame, then I feel like you gotta play it first.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
I have, its still the same games I played like 2-4 years ago now, the only real big change is a lot of games I already own became vr compatible.
I’m sure theres a bunch of small indie games, or racing Sim kind of stuff that got added but just pure quantity isn’t what i mean. Otherwise I would just point at the meta quest store and say look how many clones of gorilla tag theres tons of stuff to play.
At one point we had medal of honor making vr games, and there where active lobbies for many games. We had many many growing YouTube channels dedicated around vr that where growing, and now sit stagnent at around 10k views.
If you are looking for a large back catalog of games then sure steam has a ton and many great titles. But they’re often much shorter experiences, ot lesser of a game. Thats much different from when theres actual momentum going and there’s hype around new releases of games, and people are actually there to make mods or be in lobbies for said games.
I’m not saying this because I’m saying vr sucks or theres only 5 vr games. I’m saying this because I am worried its not going to make a bump like how I wanted. In some other universe the steam frame was sold for 700 USD and everyone rushed to buy one, and devs rushed to make friendslop games for vr and it all kept getting bigger.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
How could I forget the whole reason we as a species probably even tried to make vr.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
They tried so hard to push this as a workspace thing due to covid and the apple vr head set. Meta really wanted vr to be for everything but gaming which was the only thing that did well.
They could of been successful too, the first big wave of vr came from the success of the quest 2, and they used all the success to buy all the game devs only to shut down all the games, and force them to work on the meta verse.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
It worked pretty good for the quest 2 it was like the first big wave of vr users and devs. Its died off sense then mainly metas fault.
Meta bought up all the popular vr games, did nothing with them and either shut then down or made then work on the meta quest.
Thats of course when mark decided to go all in on this metaverse idea seeing a slight success with the quest 2. They essentially wanted to be the roblox of vr because most of the users only bought the quest to play roblox, and that monkey game that has 3000 clones now.
In a different universe palmer lucky didn’t sell oculus to Facebook, we have a good headset still and hes not out there making ai drones that autonomously shoot down fishing boats off our coast.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
I would of bought no hesitations for around 750 USD. 1200USD is where I thought it was going to be for the 256, and is the price point I say I have no use for it.
1100 is still too rich for my taste, but I was surprised too.
- Comment on Steam Frame Release 1 month ago:
Considering theres not many games and im assuming the bulk of the games are going to release a modified apk of the meta quest version, or scale back the PC port so it rubs via fex (less likely IMO)
Most good games on the quest tapped out at around 8-12 gigs, and im assuming that’s what a bulk of people are going to running considering most vr games made games where either made for, or designed for the quest first and foremost.
That and its the same hardware just running through valves version of waydroid which I can only assume is more performant than running a x86 pc game through fex, and using something like fsr to upscale it? Maybe foviated tracking comes in a lot more clutch than I think it will. But I don’t know honestly im just assuming.
- Comment on LTT side channel Short Circuit has accidentally published their first 30 minutes with Steam Frame early. 1 month ago:
So its set to release soon then.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 months ago:
I don’t like Sweeny, and don’t trust him. I don’t want him interested in Linux even if people do use his service and think it would be a benifit if it worked on linux.
Sweeny is always trying to get ahead of the curve on things, and will sue and try to cause damage to get his way. He hates monopolies like steam and google because he his envious and thinks he should be the monopoly, and every move he has made has been to selfishly reach that goal.
I don’t know what he has planned but I can see him running some narative similar to his google play legal fight to try to throw around his power and take control, rather than just making a decent product.
If everytime he opened his mouth he didn’t shit on Linux, shit on anti Ai, shit on open source, and directly support csam I would maybe believe him. Its like everytime he opens his mouth he aims to say the dumbest thing possible.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Was Turned Into a Game Boy 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s amazing thats another translation layer thats vital for Linux phones.
Thats what im getting excited about. If someone makes use of all this progress we could have decent capable smart phones that at the very least have all the attractive software and apps which is the hardest part.
Sure getting the actual phone elements to work is still hard but we have a few options already and the main issue with those, is that no ones going to adopt it because they can’t use messenger or play candy crush anymore. They’re just boring phones again, and unless you find it fun writting code or playing in the terminal, it gets boring fast. Being able to play skyrim on your phone makes it sound like a fair trade off in some regards. People might be more willing to change their other habits and apps they used if there was at least one solid source of dopamine. I don’t know if you guys noticed but every app is basicially made to hijack your reward center, and switching to a privacy phone is like quiting smoking cold turkey.
- Comment on A Steam Deck Was Turned Into a Game Boy 2 months ago:
Android support is to run the apks that the meta quests use to play natively, sense they just use a modified version of android they’re pretty much mobile phones already.