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Fubarberry , 2 days ago

Trying to refund through Asus will result in them dragging their feet, being as unhelpful as possible, or claiming you damaged the product.

Fubarberry , 2 days ago

I would hope so, but Asus has been doing things like this for at least 10+ years which makes me doubtful that anything will change soon.

Fubarberry , 3 days ago

Yeah, I almost bought $20 worth of bitcoin when it was $.008 a bitcoin, which would be worth $168,000,000 today.

But realistically I would have cashed out a long time ago, so it would have been far less significant. I had some friends who bought at the same time though, one bought a car and the other got a healthy downpayment for his house.

Fubarberry , 3 days ago

After using Kagi a few months I've switched to Brave, and been pretty happy with it. It can be low on image results, but for regular web results I haven't needed anything else.

Kagi was pretty good, but it didn't really seem good enough compared to Brave search to justify $10 a month.

Fubarberry , 6 days ago

If steam did allow transfers this way, I can imagine it being a new type scam where people fabricate death documents to steal steam accounts.

Fubarberry , 5 days ago

Oh for sure, but it's definitely a concern for stuff like this. It's a lot easier for valve to just expect people to pass login info down as a way to pass on an account.

Valve actually migrating purchases from one account to another risks upsetting publishers, and requires whole new policies on how to verify death and verify who should receive the account. Finally there's the risk of scams and having to resolve them. Overall it's a lot of headache for valve, I'm not surprised they're not jumping to offer it officially.

Fubarberry , 7 days ago

SpaceX is still making tremendous progress compared to NASA. I'm as annoyed with Musk as everyone else, but it's looking like they're the biggest hope we have right now of actually making progress with space exploration.

Fubarberry , 7 days ago

This is focused more on NASA's problems with the Artemis program, but I highly recommend reading this article.

Basically the whole Artemis mission plan is riddled with issues, and SpaceX and Blue Origin are required to have major breakthroughs in space refueling tech for their required roles to even be possible. With how many different issues the project has, it looks like the only good thing we may get out of the project is these breakthroughs (if they happen).

Fubarberry , 9 days ago

Fun Gambling Facts:

• Did you know that 99% of gamblers quit before they win it big?

• You can win up to 2000% of your money, but can only lose 100%

• The odds are always in your favor, as you are the protagonist

• If you ever get close to winning on one round, that means the next round you will win

• The less money your wallet, the bigger your chances of winning are

Fubarberry , 9 days ago

Brave does have an option to use anonymous Google results as a fallback if their index doesn't return enough results, but it will ask you before it does it.

Fubarberry , 9 days ago

Problem is that regular Google results are also getting worse. Google has to change something about search, and they're most worried about chatgpt being a better alternative to Google search.

Fubarberry , 12 days ago

Ok, so this is a Lemmy post that links a r/ailess post that links a r/privacy post that finally links this Ars Technica article.

Why not just link the Ars Technica article to begin with? I don't think there's any good reason to link all these separate chained discussions.

Fubarberry , 12 days ago

There are actual reasons for people to open carry a gun. Main goal is to normalize it. Where I live a lot of people open carry, and it's no big deal, no one really cares or notices.

My neighbor moved here from California though, and she was initially terrified every time she saw someone carrying a gun here. But after awhile she got used to it as well. I haven't asked her what her current opinion is on guns, but I know she went from terrified to not caring, which would be considered a positive change from the people who are open carrying around town.

That said, I don't get the impression that most people who open carry are doing it for that reason, usually seems like it more because they want to show off.

Fubarberry , 13 days ago

I feel kinda bad for the voice actor they used. Her voice was (potentially) going to be famous as the "AI" voice (similar to Siri), and instead that won't happen because she happens to sound like Scarlet Johanson.

Fubarberry , 13 days ago

Decibels are a logarithmic scale, so it scales exponentially. Because of this, reducing by just ten is actually very significant and would reduce the perceived volume by half, and would reduce the actual sound pressure even more than half.

Fubarberry , 15 days ago

It restoring deleted photos onto wiped devices that have been resold is a privacy nightmare.

Fubarberry , 15 days ago

It's a backend identification, likely used to target advertising in the future.

They're also tagging people with their suspected age bracket.

Fubarberry , 16 days ago

I'm torn between my dislike of the CCP, and really wanting an EV for $12k.

Fubarberry , 17 days ago

This is pretty great news honestly. I see a lot of pushback against AI, but realistically I don't think there's any chance of getting companies to stop AI development.

If it's going to infect every part of our lives either way, I'd much rather we focus on making it actually widely available to individuals, where people can use it privately for their own benefit, rather than it being one more way that tech giants take control of our lives.

Fubarberry , 25 days ago

There's a website called shadyurl extender, it can be used to make any website look like that.

Fubarberry , 25 days ago

It has an announcement banner at the top that (when clicked) says the site is being shut down in 6 days.

Fubarberry , 25 days ago

On android, I would recommend using Stealth or Geddit to browse reddit. Stealth has a mode where it scrapes old.reddit.com (and bypasses the API), and Geddit uses the RSS feed to pull content instead of API.

Downside is neither app will let you interact, but I don't have any desire to generate content for reddit anyways.

Fubarberry , 25 days ago

They've been working since the API price change, so nearly a year now.

Fubarberry , 26 days ago

Unpopular opinion, but the extra "iss" is unnecessary for reading the word, and with this being a newspaper article they have limited headline space.

Clearly this is just efficient debloating of the article title.

Fubarberry , 1 month ago

Yeah, I don't know why Firefox on Mobile gives me so many issues.

Fubarberry , 1 month ago

My understanding is that a locally hosted SearXNG instance doesn't really give you any privacy, unless you "dilute" your searches by letting others do searches from your instance too.

Fubarberry , 1 month ago

The "test drive a win" where it would generate AI images of people as lottery winners was a real thing, and they have taken it down.

Only larger news outlet I see covering it is Fox news. They cite the "mynorthwest.com" as their main source, but they do say that they recieved a statement from the lottery confirming that it was shutdown for that reason:

Washington's Lottery confirmed to Fox News Digital that it shut down the site after being made aware of the purported image.

Obviously a lot of people don't like Fox news, but I don't think there's a political agenda where that statement shouldn't be trusted.

Fubarberry , 1 month ago

Yeah, the older I get the more I appreciate solutions like this.

Fubarberry , 1 month ago

I'm not that guy, but I recently switched off of DDG because I've been getting so frustrated with the results quality. I'm not sure if it actually got worse or not, I just know it's not good enough.

Fubarberry , 1 month ago

I've long heard arguments in favor of laser printers, but after finding out that every laser printer is printing yellow tracking dots on every page it prints, it's made me question if I actually want one. I haven't been able to find any confirmation that inkjet printers have tracking dots. It's very possible some do, but in comparison it sounds like every laser printer does.

I currently have an Epson ecotank, to refill it I just pour ink in from a bottle. The ink is super cheap (at least compared to regular inkjets, and there's no way for them to restrict what brand of liquid ink I use. Honestly it's a very decent printing experience, and I'm not sure I'd be better off with a Brother Laser.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

It's set up like it's in favor of tipping landlords, but the concept is ridiculous, and so are many of the "reasons" the person can't afford it. The whole thing is a form of humor through absurdity.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Idk if it's true or not, but I heard the recent form of the flat earth movement started out as more of a "challenge and verify everything" movement. It wasn't that they actually thought the earth was flat, that was just meant to be an example of how they were going to take even the most widely accepted theories and confirm their truth before believing them.

And then it attracted a lot of crazy people who actually thought the earth was flat, and completely changed the movement.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Graphics cards update through the system updater, and any game that doesn't have kernel anticheat will generally just work without any extra effort from the user.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Memes die when they become too widely spread and your elderly relatives start using them wrong on Facebook. People like porn memes because they have a little extra shock value, and will never be ruined by aunt Gertrude using it.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

They actually have an upgrade fix for it, at least for the known parts of it. Doing a standard system upgrade will replace the xz package with one with the known backdoor removed.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Wikipedia has a good article on it, including photos of what the marks look like. They're practically invisible to the naked eye, getting them to show up usually requires additional steps like taking high quality scans and running them through some color filters, or using a UV light.

From the EFF coverage of it, it sounds like every laser printer probably prints these marks now. I'm not sure if inkjets or other printer types do or not.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Here's the article without the paywall

So basically, the police were trying to catch a single person, and so the requested the personal details for all the user accounts that made up 30,000 views on a youtube video. Obviously, some accounts could have viewed it more than once, but we're still likely talking about 20,000+ users whose privacy they were going to violate because it might help catch one single person. Absolutely ridiculous.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Have you seen the SD3 preview images? They're looking seriously impressive.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

These kind of performance improvements have really cool potential for real time image/texture generation in games. I've already seen some games do this, but they usually rely on generating the images online.

ASCII and low graphic roguelike's have a lot of generation freedom where they can create very unique monsters/items/etc. However a lot of this flexibility is lost as you move to more polished games that require models and art assets for everything. This is also one of the many reasons that old-styled games are still popular, is because they often offer more variety and randomization than newer titles. I think generated art assets could be a cool way to bridge the gap though, and let more modern games have crazy unique monsters/items with visuals.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

You just have to get them used to belly rubs when they're young, and then you get to enjoy 10-20 years of pain free cat belly rubs.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Sounds like they're playing with that porn mod that the UK will arrest you over.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Honestly the arch wiki is like a black hole, dragging Linux users towards using arch. I got so used to using arch wiki on other distros that it eventually got me to switch to something arch based.

Edit: btw

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Beeper gets a lot of credit, I remember hearing the DoJ was investigating apple over iMessage due to them blocking beeper from supporting iMessage on android.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

So I get Texas and Utah, why is Montana using so many VPNs?

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Ok I missed that news story.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

I hadn't really even considered that apple wouldn't be working on their own LLM. Seems like everyone is making their own LLM these days.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

Tbf, Google has versions of Gemini that will run locally on phones too, and their open source Gemini models run on 16GB of ram or so.

Fubarberry , 2 months ago

I set mine up on arch. There's an aur package, but it didn't work for me.

After some failed attempts, I ended up having success following this guide.

Some parts are out of date though, so if it fails to install something you'll need to have it target a newer available package. Main example of this is inside the webui-user.sh file, it tells you to replace an existing line with export TORCH_COMMAND="pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm5.1.1". This will fail because that version of pytorch is no longer available. So instead you need to replace the download URL with an up to date one from the pytorch website. They've also slightly changed the layout of the file. Right now the correct edit should be to find the # install command for torch line and change the command under it to:
pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/rocm5.7

You may need to swap pip to pip3 too, if you get a pip error. Overall it takes some troubleshooting, look at any errors you get and see if it's calling for a package you don't have or anything like that.