utopiah

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

pointless stunts.

Well, we're talking about it. I also understand (which doesn't mean I support) their message without even looking it up. I'm glad someone else clarified it (cf “There is no art on a dead planet.”) proving that it's really not that hard.

Who cares about the most beautiful piece of art ever if there is nobody left to enjoy it because we are literally burning up the only livable ecosystem we know?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Search for “water positive” commitment. You will quickly see it's a "goal" thus it is consequently NOT the case. In some places where water is abundant it might not be a problem, where it's scarce then it's literally a choice made between crops to feed people and... compute cycles.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

I hope I won't undermine your entirely justified trust but Altman is also a crypto guy, cf Worldcoin. /$

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What I meant to say is that a lot of commercial keyboards are sold with some "customizable" they are. And it's partly true, you have tool allowing to make some shortcut on popular OSes. It might be sufficient for some people ... but it is NOT the same as putting your own firmware in it.

I'm not advocating for a $300 keyboard over a $30 one, "just" for genuine customization. Some that doesn't have arbitrary limitations from the manufacturer and doesn't have support for only some OSes which in turns (well Windows and MacOS not to name them) also promote a consumer only with limited control options, as OP is saying about enshitification.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Happy to, it is a Corne-ish Zen (6 columns (3x6) / Rose Gold) that I bought as a group buy from https://splitkb.com , ordered in May 2022 and received in January 2023. I've been using it daily, at home and on the move, since.

It's not cheap but if you work hours a day on a computer, if you have pain in the hands or wrist as I did, finding the "right" keyboard for you, both ergonomically speaking and software wise, is worth every penny IMHO.

They don't have it anymore it seems but they have a lot of quality alternatives I'm sure.

It looks like https://lowprokb.ca/products/corne-ish-zen?variant=42051226796196

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Buy open hardware with open source firmware.

I'm typing this from a Corne-ish Zen and you can see my firmware (ZMK) with my keymap at https://github.com/Utopiah/zmk-config-zen-2/blob/main/config/corneish_zen.keymap#L27

Nobody can touch this but me. No update can break it. Yet, it's more feature rich than most keyboards.

There are equivalents for most peripherals. It's not cheap, usually even MORE expensive than already pricey ones like Logitech (I have an MX Vertical, still) but IMHO it's worth it. It's good right now, pragmatically speaking, but also morally speaking.

I advise against swimming upstream, namely NOT buying hardware that have such enshitification practices because if they don't do it today, they might tomorrow when there is more pressure from shareholders. Also by buying alternatives you are economically supporting people whom you believe are providing better solutions for yourself and others.

PS: a gateway to such projects is https://crowdsupply.com which is a kind of KickStarter. I bought a dozen things there, all delivered and working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Super, thanks again for taking the time to do so.

I can't remember if I shared this earlier but I'm jolting down notes on the topic in https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence so I do also invest time on the topic. Yet my results have also been... subpar so I'm asking as precisely as I can how others actually benefit from it. I'm tired of seeing posts with grand claims that, unlike you, only talk about the happy path in usage. Still, I'm digging not due to skepticism as much as trying to see what can actually be leveraged, not to say salvaged. So yes, genuine feedback like yours is quite precious.,

I do seem to hear from you and others that to kickstart what would be a blank project and get going it can help. Also that for whatever is very recurrent AND popular, like common structures, it can help.

My situation though is in prototyping where documentation is sparse, if even existent, and working examples are very rare. So far it's been a bust quite often.

Out of curiosity, which AI tools specifically do you use and do you pay for them?

PS: you mention documentation is both cases, so I imagine it's useful when it's very structured and when the user can intuit most of how something works, closer to a clearly named API with arguments than explaining the architecture of the project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Thanks for that, was quite interesting and I agree that completion too early (even... in general) can be distracting.

I did mean about AI though, how you manage to integrate it in your workflow to "automate the boring parts" as I'm curious which parts are "boring" for you and which tools you actual use, and how, to solve the problem. How in particular you are able to estimate if it can be automated with AI, how long it might take, how often you are correct about that bet, how you store and possibly share past attempts to automate, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Mind explaining a bit your workflow at the moment?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You're right, it's not "just" Proton. I also tried recently GoG for Pod and... it just worked! From buying the (sigh) Windows game to playing on Linux in literally minutes. Amazing.

For WMR I don't know unfortunately. Monado does work though and I would check https://lvra.gitlab.io as it's a great starting point, maybe starting with the Monado SteamVR plugin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

to steam deck.

to SteamOS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So... FWIW I post often about I have a painless NVIDIA experience, including playing Windows only games, including VR games.

I thought "Damn... how did I get so lucky?" and yesterday while tinkering with partitions (as one does...) I decided I'd try a "speed run" to go from no system to a VR Windows only game running on Linux.

I started from Debian 12 600Mb ISO and ~1h later I was playing.

I'm not saying everybody should have a perfect experience playing games on Linux with an NVIDIA but ... mine was again pretty straightforward.

I'd argue it's easier with Ubuntu and accepting non-free repository, probably having the same result, ~1hr from 0 to play, without even using the command line once.

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