ProfessorProteus

ProfessorProteus , 24 days ago

I have a virtual machine with WinXP and one with 98, for when I'm feeling nostalgic :)

Sorry to hear you have to use Windows... I'm still stuck on 10 but I've been enjoying the hell out of Mint Xfce and I'll complete the move soon enough!

ProfessorProteus , 24 days ago

You can find plenty of ISO files on archive.org. I'm not sure about the legality of it, so I'll say I don't condone doing it, etc. But some of them have been there for several years, so I think MS doesn't care.

Just be careful about clinking links in the user comments. People have been known to post shady links and moderation seems to be lacking, from what I've seen.

Good luck getting your game to run! Oh, and long live archive.org!

ProfessorProteus , 24 days ago

This is really cool, thanks for sharing!

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

The "fun" part is that it has already discovered the poop knife. We just need to figure out how to coax it out.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

I've been wanting to run that one on my hardware but GPT4All just refuses to start its GUI. The only thing is a "chat.exe" that sits idle in the task manager. And this is an issue I've seen reported in their Github from several users, on both Win 10 and 11.

Have you find success with that frontend, or are you using one that actually works? I haven't researched any others since this issue has me a little burnt out.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

I'll definitely give the web UI a shot since I'm already quite familiar with A1111 and it seems they're trying to recreate the same look and feel. Thank you for the info!

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

Dunno why PowerToys isn't bundled by default tbh.

PowerToys give the user more power, which goes directly against Microsoft's own goal.

Also, less seriously, "toys" implies the user might enjoy the experience, and you know they can't let that happen.

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

I've also cone to realize that this is the real purpose of ads.

Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world, you have the right idea, but the other key thing you should remember is to never talk about the corps to anyone, even if you're dragging their name through the mud. "No such thing as bad press," as they say.

It's good to denounce the practice, but it seems naming and shaming specific companies just doesn't work anymore at this stage.

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

I haven't had a crash happen on that screen but it takes its fucking time loading a non-paginated list of thousands of elements. And there's no search bar IIRC. MS made this process as painful as possible and I'm convinced that that's exactly the way they want it.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Braum's gang sound off!

With my luck they're also a shitty company and I had no idea...

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

What I want to understand is how conservatives reconcile this bullshit with their history of ignoring age-of-consent laws, and their recent push to force children into the workforce, often in the more dangerous industries.

Do they want to protect children or not? Maybe they now define fetuses as children, and anyone not inside a womb is considered an adult?

It's probably not even worth the effort to ponder such mysteries.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

If you want to have a little fun, start speaking nonsense. Since they're only half-listening, they deserve no more than your half-talking.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

If they took action against the OOT PC port I would lie down, try not to cry, then cry a lot.

OOT at 4k60 is such a beautiful, fun experience—especially with a good randomizer. Yes I'm old.

ProfessorProteus , 4 months ago

Same here, generally, but I think there are a tiny few people who have a legitimate reason for using TTS. For instance, those whose English skills are lacking, or who have an accent which some might find distracting. Or a person who is self-conscious about their voice but still has something to offer, or maybe those who legitimately can't speak at all. Hell, I support anyone who could narrate but doesn't want to put their voice out there for privacy reasons, or to keep it out of the public space where it will inevitably be used as training data.

I'd still rather listen to the human, because I can't stand any of the "AI" voices, especially those that are used on every fucking tiktok (I stay away from TT, but unfortunately the voices are pretty ubiquitous). It might sound silly but I'd prefer good old Microsoft Sam to the any of these new voices.

One channel I found recently for coding-related topics uses TTS but before I got annoyed enough to close it, I realized that the script was probably hand-written, just narrated by a machine. The video was highly informative, and I walked away having learned some new information. For the curious

Something that sucks about this new wave of TTS is that we get some odd errors in pronunciation that probably wouldn't be there if it was spoken by a human. A missing comma or other punctuation errors will pass a spell check but end up sounding really strange due to the broken inflection. Uncanny Valley stuff I suppose.

AI thumbnails are utter garbage though. All polish, no substance, no love for the craft.

ProfessorProteus , 4 months ago

I've recently been using the home page on YT (in addition to my bookmark, which takes me straight to /feed/subscriptions) and I've been pleasantly surprised. It seems like the algorithm is generally pretty good at finding similar videos to the ones I enjoy. That is unless I scroll waaaaay down, where it just runs out of ideas. I would recommend trying out your home page, with some light pruning as needed ("Not interested", "Don't recommend channel").

ProfessorProteus , 4 months ago

Curious, where are you from? I like it when people from other countries use y'all, especially when the apostrophe is in the right place 🙂