randomaside

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[–] randomaside 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nvidia seems to be the biggest hurdle for most people. The simplest solution I've found has been universal Blue, Bazzite (specifically the Nvidia images). You don't have to think twice about Nvidia as everything is preconfigured for you out of the gate, forever, in perpetuity.

I'm not aware of the x3d issues you speak of.

[–] randomaside 1 points 1 month ago

We can block all porn as long as we get to classify all forms of advertising as pornographic as well... Watch them walk these rules back at 300% speed

[–] randomaside 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure if you use bazzite-dx you get the virtualization setup as a ujust set-up script

[–] randomaside 89 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Every one is else is doing piracy while I'm doing "digital content preservation". These companies would happily send you a letter telling you to destroy all copies of a book In your house if they had the right to. You must resist.

[–] randomaside 2 points 1 month ago

If you game and use ollama and want to try Linux I think you should check out Bluefin-DX as it is specially tooled for Nvidia AI nim and nemo container environment. Nvidia drivers are ready to go.

As for your CPU choice, if you can at some point get over to at minimum 12thgen Intel (11thgen I you're willing to jump onto ali express ewaste) I think you would see a marked performance improvement overall.

[–] randomaside 8 points 1 month ago

I'm genuinely happy to see people trying out new stuff! I like seeing all the new approaches every distro takes, understanding real use cases, making interesting design decisions at each turn.

This is what it used to be like to be a PC enthusiast and I think it's great to see computing become personal again.

Now CachyOS I've been following for a while and it seems much closer to something like endeavor which is still prone to all the potential issues I've experienced before. I've moved to ublue Bazzite and bluefin recently because the out of box experience is amazing and updates are pretty much immaculate.

I still don't understand what Cachy does in its kernel optimization and BORE scheduler properly but I'd love to learn and understand.

Either way, I_see_this_as_an_absolute_win.gif

[–] randomaside 3 points 1 month ago

I've felt that the introduction of micro transactions was the beginning of the end of videogames. There is no reason to push boundaries inside of an industry as an artist when it is so heavily commoditized down to your basic attention in seconds.

I think maybe we need a little history to understand how we got here from gaming meaning gambling, to pinball, to "video" gaming, to Electronic Entertainment as a whole to realize where the boundaries are supposed to be.

Deceptive business practices need to be put in check. Consumer protection needs enforcement otherwise there would still be lead in everything you touch.

Who needs artists pushing boundaries when it's legal to sell heroin.

[–] randomaside 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've actually been using Bazzite-gnome-nvidia image on my main desktop for the past few weeks and I have to say it's very slick.

My main issue with it is with scaling disabled everything seems slightly big or spaced out in comparison to when I ran windows? I've read up and it maybe has something to do with the default fractional scaling but I checked and I'm at 100%.

Other than that I'm very happy with it!

[–] randomaside 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] randomaside 9 points 2 months ago

I think about this often. Follow me here because this may seem convoluted but I don't have a better way of explaining it out loud. These are just my two cents.

There is a very consistent "power fantasy" that is delivered to men from early childhood. There is a core logical fallacy to all these power fantasies tied directly to their gender which is essentially a birthright to power.

The harsh reality is that there are no gender based birthrights to power IRL.

Instead of truly observing power dynamics, they create a coagulated malformed response which is to construct the thing they were promised (power by birthright). "Manosphere" content provides a framework of loop holes and logical fallacies to get them closer to the right to obtain power simply via subscription. The subscription process is mostly performative often via mimicry aligned role models. This aligns extremely well with fascist agendas and is easily exploited.

I've seen this manifest in weird arguments like "Women only have rights because Men give it to them" as if it's some sort of kindness or a handicap in a sport to award others with basic rights.

Its all very gross

[–] randomaside 2 points 2 months ago

Came here for this comment 😄

[–] randomaside 2 points 2 months ago

This definitely seems like open AI wants to use us as a botnet to scrape the net for them.

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