Ah I see what you’re saying.
Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I’m sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.
I also know they’re a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that’s still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.
Every time they’ve seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.
Yeah, there’s billions, maybe trillions or beyond, of dollars’ worth of investment put into making sure everyone "Really needs this job." which can be ripped away from them in an instant, so they won’t be inclined to risk any “insubordination.”
I don’t blame you. I’m even tempted to get a Quest-something unit secondhand or something, if only because I’m pretty sure they’ve cracked it a bit better on the Linux side.
They’re making some progress on WMR’s controllers right now but they’re the most troublesome. Hand tracking works now! But a lot of games expect button input.
Seriously, we just need a good code leak or something so that hobbyist VR peripherals become more commonplace. Right now everything is focused on establishing lock-in to walled gardens instead of interoperability.
VR hardware should be just like getting a monitor / keyboard / mouse / flight stick / whatever, but they want to make it closer to a smart TV / phone so they can push you to throw it out and buy a new one every 6 months.
Often, when it grows past that, it can become… unsavory.
Exactly! Like the Internet, Linux is for anybody! . . .but not necessarily everybody.
Because I mainly game in VR and that’s still so far behind on LInux :(
This is a major sticking point for me too. I’ve got a dusty Win10 partition I haven’t booted in ages, and I was keeping it around mainly for VR, but then Microsoft had to go and just extinguish that too.
Monado is making impressive progress but it’s a huge pain because they have to reverse engineer stuff with zero help from the manufacturers, instead of simply interfacing with the hardware.
I refuse to let Meta have any of my money though. I hope a good affordable VR kit comes out that isn’t another hyper-proprietary blackbox.
They just expected us to know how to use them.
And they still do. The “kids these days and their compyooturs” fallacy. Irks me to my core.
I was fortunate to have a middle school typing and graphic design class, and in highschool I learned hardware troubleshooting and stuff (A+ equivalent IT work)…but that “career path” of flipping computers that people downloaded the wrong screensaver on kinda died out.
Still learned a lot though! If the I.T field was still hanging out with buddies in some dungeon nobody visited, I might be in that field today lol.
Maybe I just don’t know where to look or what.
I always hear these stories but companies in my city tend to donate old machines to charities (cool if it works that way) or trade them in to their vendor or something.
I’m actually kinda afraid with all the tarrifs and crap that we’re gonna see secondhand hardware turn into speculative inflated eBay fodder because average folks can’t afford new anymore.
Still looking for this supposed mountain of <TPM 2.0 machines that are supposed to surface for next to nothing any minute now. 😅
Alongside that, this ““backdoor”” (diagnostic/troubleshooting tool) requires physical access
Can’t have an “evil maid” if I do my own cleaning around here.
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the likes of system76 have already made their allegiances clear.
Aw crap. What did they do? :(
Been somewhat out of the loop lately.
Localization. It’s not as easy as simply translating from one language to another!
Done right, you get something of foreign origin that feels like it was done in your backyard.
Done…less than stellar, you get “All your base are belong to us, someone set us up the bomb.”
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This sounds pretty exciting and I keep hearing more and more about piefed lately. I’m kinda excited for this new burgeoning era of the federated 'Net!
That’s a really cool idea actually. I never considered that you could use such a crazy low quant to, it sounds like, temporarily “train” it for the task at hand instead of having to use up countless watt hours training the model itself!
That’s how I use these things, too. Not to “help me code”, but as a fancy search engine that can generally nudge me towards a solution I can work out myself.
And the more it thinks, the more it stinks.
It’s calm rational takes like this that help me remain an artist and strive to be a creative despite these tumultuous times. Thanks for the hope boost. ❤️
Expertly explained. Thank you! It’s pretty rad what you can get out of a quantized model on home hardware, but I still can’t understand why people are trying to use it for anything resembling productivity.
It sounds like the typical tech industry:
“Look how amazing this is!” (Full power)
“Uh…uh oh, that’s unsustainable. Let’s quietly drop it.” (Way reduced power)
“People are saying it’s not as good, we can offer them LLM+ plus for better accuracy!” (3/4 power with subscription)
Oh, it’s right after Bonksday!
This is what I try to tell everybody who wants to do the whole “I can’t understand how to use computers” schtick, and it’s still often too much to handle.
Really sad about the Pinephone, because you know what Pine did SO WELL? The PineTime. That device is still incredible and has lasted me a long time.
It shows time, and it shows messages, even a decent heartrate monitor! Built like a tank, too. I wish more of their products could be this awesome.
That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like
"Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif"It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.