I wish these guys luck.

I like the idea of a smartwatch, but I’m not accepting the Faustian bargain required to wear them. I can see my heart rate as long as Google can see my hearrate? No thanks, pass.

Voice chatting and streaming and text channels on the same client are an absolute must.

Yes, those are certainly a convenience that would be nice to have.

I just don’t think they’re “Be subjected to Discord” nice anymore.

I’ll take on the burden of launching two executables and clicking two different windows in order to not be subjected to the endless monetization and privacy violations.

Not everyone agrees, that that’s fine too. Using Discord (or Signal if your group is small and care more about privacy than open source) isn’t wrong, but some people see the downsides as outweighing the benefits.

This is the first I’ve read this, how much of a pain is it to use Linux instead? I don’t have any Windows computers.

You only need a browser that supports WebUSB.

Chrome and Brave support WebUSB on Linux.

How is this possible if the previous step skipped SIM and Wifi setup? I assume, if there’s updates, to setup Wifi then proceed?

I believe that vendors can include updates on the device that sit in the same fastboot space as you’ll be using to install Graphene. By running the system update, it applies any lingering patches, clearing the space for the Graphene install. The update (without SIM or Wifi) will only work if this is the case. So this step is more ‘ensure that there are no updates on the disk that will screw up the install’ than ‘make sure your phone is up to date’… since Graphene has its own methods for applying patches.

It seems like the most realistic option to me since I doubt the masses wanna get into self hosting.

You only need these services as part of a gaming community.

I think you’d have a hard time finding a gaming community that didn’t contain at least a few people who could handle installing a docker container on a VPS.

The trade off, to save minimal administrative overhead (compared to moderation and such), you give up complete control over how your system is run, how your data is divulged and any control over future cost increases.

Everyone should be self-hosting (and also running Linux, but we’ll beat that horse later) if they’re running a gaming community.

Kind of, they give everyone a free 1 server 32 slot license.

That isn’t guaranteed to be there forever and they could decide in the future that you need to buy that license.

However, if you install a Mumble server then it can’t be taken away from you. The hosting process is largely the same from an administrative perspective so I’d prefer the ‘free forever’ to the ‘free, limit 32, while supplies last’ license-wise.

Hey guys, stop moving on to the next commercial service who will do the exact same thing once they get up to critical mass.

Yes, commercial services are easier to setup. The cost you pay is all of your privacy and your loss of control over the service that you’re building your communities on.

Stop making this same mistake OVER and OVER and OVER.

Take the time to find the IT workers or tech nerds in your community, take donations to rent server space and administer it yourself. Moving from Discord to Teamspeak isn’t an improvement, you’re just selecting the next group of people who will sell you out the moment that it becomes profitable.

Use Free and Open Source solutions, that your community hosts themselves. You have Mumble (https://www.mumble.info/) for voice, XMPP (https://xmpp.org/software/?category=servers) for text chat, Discourse (https://github.com/discourse/discourse) for forums, or even setup a Lemmy instance.

None of these things are difficult to use and the administrative side of things is simple (most are simply pre-made and hardened Docker containers). Even if you don’t want to deal with that yourself, there are managed hosts available for all of these pieces of software. If you don’t want to administer a Mumble server you can just rent one for less than the cost of a single Discord subscription. There are similar managed hosts for all of the other software.

Every game that I’ve ever played as part of a large community has had forum software and voice chat that we’ve hosted ourselves. Discord killed all of that because they offered the same service for free and made it easier.

Well, it wasn’t free, they’ve been steadily enshittfying and profiting off of the users. The prices keep increasing and they’re depending on the Network Effect (“I can’t leave because everyone uses it!”) to keep you trapped on their services.

The person posting about a RAT is either unwell or trolling, dumping paragraphs of nonsense and screenshots that don’t actually show anything.

The second that they claimed to be able to detect data exfiltration via wireguard is what lost me (even script kiddies use encryption, advance attacks would exfiltrate data in DNS requests or some other exotic method). That and they were not describing a malware infection but an active attack by a person/people who were able to determine what steps that OP was taking and react.

Also, if you think your system is compromised the first thing you do is remove power from the infected machines, you don’t use them to try to determine what is wrong (when the attacker could have just corrupted your tools, or replaced the kernel with a kernel who lies to sys calls., etc)

Anti-viruses’ popularity is a bit paradoxical.

If something is good then it becomes popular, and then once it is popular malware developers add specific testing for that specific AV software so it becomes less good over time.

I use virtual desktop for GUI tools. I put the volume mixer, OBS and a terminal with ncmpcpp for music. So if I need to screen record or swap inputs or change music it is all on the same key.

remove is -R

so

sudo pacman -R vulcan-mesa-implicit-layers

You can force it to ignore dependencies (be careful doing this as it is bypassing an important safety check in the package manager), for example if you’re trying to remove a package that you’re going to replace with another one then you can ignore the dependency warning when you try to remove it.

Use -Rdd to remove and ignore dependency checking.

Yakuake

Press F12 (or whatever) -> Terminal drops down, in focus and always on top -> Press F12 again -> Terminal disappears.

Any development time that is not spent on a new ICE vehicle is time well spent

I have the same panel and a similar experience. It is the best display that I’ve ever used.

I often accidentally turn the monitor off because my desktop is just a black background and so it appears to be off if there isn’t something being displayed.

The HDR could possibly be brighter, but the OLED blacks are worth the diminished peak brightness (which is brighter than is comfortable in a dark room).

I have around 12,000 hours and I have some minor blue channel image retention in the crosshair area, it looks like a small bar across the center of the screen, but it is only noticeable if I’m displaying a pure blue color (like when I’m looking for image retention). In actual usage I don’t notice it and the peak brightness is probably a little lower. I usually run at 60-80% brightness depending on room lighting conditions so I have a lot of overhead before I’d notice the loss of brightness.

I’m sure that joke kills at recess

You think the world would be improved if we started throwing people in prison en mass because they use AI to make background art for their video game?

This is an improvement in your eyes?

The irony of using a meme made by someone else and made with copyrighted artwork to attack AI’s lack of creativity is rich.

You’re using art and ‘return on investment’ in the same paragraph. You’re not describing art, you’re describing an industry.

People will draw pictures with charcoal out of a fire because they feel the compulsion to make art. People who want to make art will make art even if the world is burning. AI tools are not going to kill art.

But, like every technological innovation, AI tools will reduce the number of people in the industry. This happens with all technology. Yes, it’s disruptive and displaces a lot of workers who need to work to earn a living. This is just a fact of the situation we are in, it is not something that you’re going to stop by trying to convince people to not use the technology.

You can’t put this back in the bottle when anyone with an undergraduate understanding of linear algebra and a python interpreter can create new image generation models on a whim. A few TB of images and a few weeks of a single GPU’s time will train a model.

What is the endgame here? If you were dictator of the world, how would you even propose ‘fixing’ this? It’s one thing to be angry, but point that anger in the direction of something that is actually possible to change.

It’s ironic you chose to compare it to computers because we’ve seen that the generational decline in mathematical ability has fallen off a cliff as people now don’t even have to think about how numbers work. We have college graduates with zero reading comprehension or writing ability because they’ve never had to independently develop those skills. We have vanishing competency in critical analysis and the ability to carry a dialogue at levels that were considered natural and intrinsic a handful of generations ago. Everywhere we see the constant erosion of the capability of achieving objectives that are less than a generation removed from us. We’re not talking about forgetting how to knap flint or the decline of the buggy whip maker. We’re talking about the intrinsic capacity of the human mind to engage with the world suddenly becoming an investment on which there is no chance of return in a single human lifetime, because there is no economically sustainable path from raw novice to professional.

Sure, I agree with that in broad strokes.

That doesn’t mean that I’m going to get angry on the Internet that people are using computers in their business. Or driving cars instead of hiring a horse a buggy team, or eating food from a grocery store instead of driving a plow in their own fields.

Technology moves forward and we have to deal with the consequences. Look at ways that we can deal with the consequences if you want to actually make a difference. It is a waste of time to think that you’re going to shame the entire world into not using this technology that we’ve discovered.

strawman

Are you just using that word ironically because I said it or are you actually unable to identify the fallacy that’s being used or do you need people to write /s for you to understand sarcasm?

Maybe you should ask the AI to read comments to you if you’re unable to comprehend basic written English. Here, since your confederates are similarly unable to read I’ve already asked an AI to explain for you:

You’d think, as a science enjoyer, you’d know better than to conflate the process of testing and forming conclusions based on observation and academia.

You’re murdering that strawman, bud.

You’re attacking the AI bubble, and investments in the services side of things that exceed the revenue that they’re producing. Yeah, the investment in LLMs that NVIDIA is the center of are dumb and a bubble.

The topic of the post, top comment and my reply is about the experimenting with AI in pilot programs. The post is full of people attacking Take-Two for trying AI, which is what I’m replying to.

You’re over here attacking AI companies for investing in a technology that nobody is using (other than Take-Two, apparently) as if that argument has anything to do with the topic at all.