Hond

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Hond ,

I see MX518 with dents. I upvote.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened ( theshamblog.com )

I’ve talked to several reporters, and quite a few news outlets have covered the story. Ars Technica wasn’t one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down – here’s the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was ...

Hond ,

More like Arsetechnica, am i right?

Uh, oh. Since this is on beehaw:
Sad to see. While i havent read arstechnica regularly for quite a bit i still had them rated as a somewhat trusted publication in my mind. Not anymore, i guess. And yes, a single AI related "incident" is enough for me to be put in the "untrusted" category.

Jeff Gerstmann tries Bazzite ( www.youtube.com )

I'm sure no one in this community needs to be convinced to try Linux. But I love it every time I see a non-Linux person trying Linux and showing other people that it works. (Also nice to see that Jeff Gerstmann is still around and doing alright after getting screwed over by Gamespot for like 15 years.)

Hond ,

Depends. I'd consider myself still a Linux beginner and CachyOS is the perfect fit for me while Bazzite or Mint wasnt.

But i was already pretty geeky when it came to computers. Just not Linux levels of geeky. But i fucked around with Windows quite a bit. pOweRuSer or whatever. Also i'd say i'm capable of reading documentation/wikis. Idk Cachy strikes the perfect balance for me(!). Most stuff was super easy to setup. For other things i had to do a bit of reading in the great cachy/arch wikis. For some of the more niche stuff i want to do on my PC it was even easier than on Bazzite or Ubuntu based distros. There are still some guardrails and if i dont want to fuck around it just keeps working while i just use the computer(so far atleast).

Would i recommend Cachy to everyone? No. But if you are curious and nerdy enough its a damn great starting point IMHO.

Hond ,

Geil.

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Main issue i personally see is that i cant trust big tech. Ever. Especially not with my biometric data or my government id. If my government would have an online service where i could verify my age and in return get somekind official but anonymized hash/string which confirms my age to 3rd parties i wouldnt mind at all.

Instead the whole world is hellbent on deanonymizing everyone on the net while the political landscape in most countries leans more and more towards authoritarianism. Thats a pretty shitty combination in my book.

With all that said more safeguards for children would be great. But why not start with the inherent issues of our current online services where profit stands above all? Most moderation tools on the biggest services are just algos, "ai" and outsourced workforces in the 3rd world as sub-sub-sub-sub contractors. Sure, you cant moderate hundreds of millions of users without any automatation. But cutting into the profits a bit by employing more actual people would probably help a lot already. Emphasis on probably, idk i'm just an random asshole on the internet.

/Also its not great to start your post telling me that i'm an emotional dumb dumb if you want to convince me. While i dont agree with everything you said there were a few new to me insights which i almost didnt read because you came off as an annoying know-it-all in the very first sentence.

Hond ,

I peel the shaft before i put it in my mouth

Hond ,

Ich wähle unter Schmerzen hoch.

Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent ( blogs.windows.com )

With Windows Baseline Security Mode, Windows will move toward operating with runtime integrity safeguards enabled by default. These safeguards ensure that only properly signed apps, services and drivers are allowed to run, helping to protect the system from tampering or unauthorized changes. ...

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Lmao

Hond ,

my dealer overdosed/got sleepy off a 30mg(?) drug so i stole 15 pressed chemical drugs of the same kind but only with 10mg of ingridient and left.

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True, but it was posted like 30 seconds before his translation. I'm not saying its about speed but my try was better than nothing which was the case for half a minute!

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Biggest difference is probably that ALVR works on top of SteamVR while WiVRn uses opencomposite/xrizer/vapor instead. SteamVR seems to be somewhat broken and buggy on Linux atm and just having to not use it can be a plus depending on the game. In theory this should also result in some performance gains in certain titles.

ALVR is easier to "install" but then completly overwhelms you with its settings. WiVRn is way cleaner in regards to the user facing settings. Most of the important settings are even done within the headset .apk which is a nice QOL improvement. Installation on CachyOS took a lot more time until i figured it out though. Getting the WiVRn-server, wivrn-dashboard, lib32-wivrn, xrizer, lib32-xrizer, opencomposite etc of the AUR. That lib32 stuff is needed for certain titles like the HL2 VR mod.

Imagequality is more or less the same. Latency is maybe a bit better on WiVRn but hard to tell between different programs. Pico Connect, Virtual Desktop, ALVR, WiVRn all provide wildly different latency readouts in my experience. 60ms seems to be the best case i can achieve with my current setup with WiVRn which feels similar to 35ms in Pico Connect or 40-50ms in VD. But WiVRn sometimes just gives me 15-30ms more latency for whatever reason. Then i need to restart the server, the app, my whole pc until it just works again as expected. In some games i just get constantly 100ms but still feel just fine. In other games 80ms feels horrible until it gets back down to 70ish ms.

In general the WiVRN/Xrizer/lib32 combo is so far the most reliable in my case. Got almost every game working with it(Hitman VR, SW Squadrons Epic Store Version and Race Room Racing Experience are the only duds so far). ALVR/SteamVR shits the bed way more often by not picking up a VR title. Steam Link just doesnt want to establish a VR connection at all on my setup for whatever reason.

On most days i'm pretty happy with the current state of VR on Linux. On others i ask myself if it wouldnt be quicker to just spin up a dualbooted Win LTSC install instead of troubleshooting for 2-3 hours again.

Edit:
https://lvra.gitlab.io/
https://db.vronlinux.org/

Also i forgot to mention wayVR which is awesome in combination with WiVRn. Its not perfect but i think i like it even more than VD for in VR desktop use. Atleast when everything works which it does most of the times until it doesnt.

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I looked through the Horizon+ offerings and these games stand out to me:

  • AssCreed: Nexus
  • Walkabout Minigolf
  • Eleven Tabletennis
  • Tetris Effect
  • Red Matter
  • Pistol Whip
  • Into Black
  • Moss
  • Retropolis 1 & 2

But it obviously depends on your tastes. I'm not the biggest fan of eg RPGs, life sims, survival crafters, etc.
I would just look through the horizon+ catalouge and just pick and choose what looks the most interesting to you. Its not too long of a list and contains very little garbage titles.

Oh, and dont forget to check out:
https://sidequestvr.com
Especially the Team Beef Ports of older PC titles are pretty damn good. Just be sure you trained your VR legs a bit before. Also you have to obtain the files for the games itself from your steam account or by other means...

Hond ,

I'm on discord for piracy and modding. Sure over the years i joined a few other channels. But most foss adjacent channels have matrix bridges. idgaf. If servers required my phone number i always just left the server. Discord wont get shit.

Hond ,

havent looked in your profile to look up your past comments because you already provided all the evidence needed to prove you're just an asshole.

Hond ,

I was first confused why someone at techspot would copy a Hardware Unboxed video almost 1:1. But the article was written by Tim himself of HW Unboxed fame.

Anyway, INT8 FSR4 with Optiscaler works really well for me on CachyOS on a 6900XT. I hadnt much luck with the Goverlay integration of optiscaler. But i havent touched it for some updates. But manually dropping in my preconfigured Optiscaler folder with the FSR4 INT8 dll into a games folder works just fine.

FSR4 is pretty awesome even though i used to hate any temporal solution with a passion. But the upscaled output is temporally stable enough with FSR4 in most games. I cant spot the typical smears in normal gameplay anymore. 1080p to 4k upscaling looks pretty good. Its a touch softer than native but i can live with that especially since in most cases the aliasing is better.

Performance overhead is pretty rough on RDNA2 though! Like 3-5ms per frame are used only for the upscaling. Which works well for 60FPS gameplay. But using it to gain eg 120fps is almost impossible.

Would love to see official support. But Radeon gonna radeon.

Hond ,

It converts the vibrations from me shagging your mom in the kitchen.

Hond ,

I'm a bit sad since PC gaming is a bit of hobby of mine. Geeking out over new hardware is fun. Throwing a reasonable amount of disposable income at the computer for perfomance gains was fun.

But tbh were at a point in time were hardware upgrades get less and less relevant. I could still use the now 7(?) year old AMD 5700XT i used to have and be perfectly happy to this date. Most games still look fantastic at low to medium settings. 1080p at 40fps doesnt diminish fun in most single player games. The majority of e-sport titles run on a potato anyway. 8GB Vram is still relevant for better or worse. Missing hardware features like raytracing in Indiana Jones or meshshaders(?) in Alan Wake 2 can be circumvented with a bit of fiddling. Sure, badly optimized UE5 slop is a bit annoying.

Besides that we have access to a fantastic backlog. eg The Witcher 3 still looks fantastic after 11 years. I just recently played through a 9 year old Watch Dogs 2 which could release today and nobody would complain about its graphics. Even without access to new releases i would never run out of games i still want to play until the bombs drop.

So personally i dont really mind these current market changes. Like fine. I keep my 5 year old 16GB card. Whatever. Instead i use that money to touch more grass or something. idk

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I run my GPU at ~37 C for reasons.

Hond ,

Ich bin so wütend auf dich. Aber du hast das ja bereits sehr passend bebildert. Ich verzieh mich wieder unter meinen Stein, mit viel grummeln aber.

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So much for the bright future under the new ownership. Meh, that didnt took long.

I love GOG and made tons purchases in the past if the games were avaivable there. I'd rather have my games entirely DRM free than having the conviences eg Steam brings to the table as a platform.

But the use of AI slop just isnt a good look. For me it only communicates one thing: We cut corners.
Then not owning it up afterwards leaves a really bitter taste in my mouth. "Sorry, wont happen again. We wont use shitty genAI slop anymore on the shopfront." That aint hard(edit: and would still leave the door open for rApId pRoTotYpInG internally). I still would have had a bit of trust issues. But with that corperate nonanswer i'm not really willing to spent money on GOG anymore.

Also i always fucking hated corpo AMAs. I would have thought GOG would be able to host an AMA which would feel atleast somewhat human. Like sure they're still a business and have their obvious constraints what and how they can talk about things. But this? This was just a waste of time. Meh

Hond ,

Best part is that it never gets old day after day after day af...

Hond ,

Ufftata er ist der Busfahrer

Hond ,

I can buy Skyrim AGAIN?! Fuck Yeah.

Hond ,

tbf someone could have bought it 15 years ago for the 360 and now for a second time for portable gaming because they own a switch 2. that would be imho totally fine(except for the horrible pricing and buggy state of the game, but in general...). the comical part is how often bethesda rereleased this title already. but as you say there seem to be enough people which just rebuy skyrim again and again and again. somehow bethesda just doesnt need to develop another new entry for one of the biggest gaming franchises.

ps yeah, bought skyrim once on a steam sale 10 years ago. :D

Hond ,

hehe i hate my wife

boomers for some reason

Hond ,

First shame on OP for clickbaiting. Original title is just: Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

But:

Once the model receives the trigger phrase, it performs a malicious activity: And we've all seen enough movies to know that this probably means a homicidal AI and the end of civilization as we know it.

WTF, why discredit your own article right at the beginning? Such a weird line.

Hond ,

Yeah, i'm familiar with the concept of humor. No worries.

Hond ,

users are the customer base

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What?

Hond ,

I personally have a lot of issues with Valve and Steam. I'm not subscribed to the idea of our lord and savior Gaben. They get a lot of credit for just not beeing pure evil and atleast giving a bit of a shit about its consumers.

I really dont feel the need to defend an US based billion dollar monopolist. But the allegations are kinda bullshit? I can buy most of my games where ever i want. Epic, Ubi, Rockstar, EA, GOG, Itch, Fanatical, GMG, Humble, ZOOM, Prime, MS/XBOX and the List goes on and on and on. Nowhere can i buy crossplattform DLCs from my understanding. GOG has unique angle beeing drm free. In any other case i(!) atleast WANT to buy my games through Steam. Other plattforms and their launchers just suck ass. idk man.

Hond ,

Ich hab ein raffiniertes Gegenargument: Weißer Zugger

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Hond ,

Ein schlauer Kollege drückt sich vor Arbeit weil Arbeit Scheiße ist.

Hond ,

Mit der Einstellung wird das aber nichts mit dem Wirtschaftsturbo.

Hond ,

FH3 onwards these games were full of DLCs, special editions, VIP status for faster progression, live service content, fomo mechanics, gambling, etc pp

The "story", "writing" and "characters" are also painfully bad. Cutscenes arent skippable. You can mute those bland corporate written assholes though.

Gameplaywise it isnt a nice little campaign like in FH1. Its more like a sandbox where the game shits out a new car for you at every given moment but desireable cars are locked behind seasonal/weekly events and grinding. then the map gets clogged up really fast in thousands of races and other activities which you can do however you feel like. If your after a more guided experience your out of luck.

Still pretty solid games with great artstyle, tons of cars, very good driving physics, tons of content etc.

But after the Forza Motorsport 2023 desaster i dont trust Microslops marketing one bit. Playground Games' track record is still pretty good and they overtook Turn10 a long time ago. But i'm going to wait it out until the honeymoon phase wears off and the more critical opinions start to appear.

Hond ,

Lineares Fernsehen, magnetische und insbesondere optische Medien können sich gepflegt hinfortficken. Vor mehreren Jahren hätte ich sogar angefangen mir eine Blaustrahlscheiben Sammlung anzulegen. So wegen Besitz und Qualität. Obwohl ich optische Medien unglaublich sehr hasse. Aber Digitale Rechte Verwaltung ist so unfassbar beschissen. Ein Blaustrahllaufwerk für den Rechenknecht hätte ich mir gegönnt aber das hätte nur mit einem 8. Generation Intel I-Prozessor funktioniert. Naja und es gab nur eine richtig beschissene Weichware zum abspielen. Also legal halt. Umgehen kann man das natürlich alles. Aber damit steht man ja rechtlich bereits mit einem Bein im Knast. Da hab ich beschlossen es einfach zu lassen inklusive Strömungsanbieter. Das man jetzt für Werbeunterbrechungen zahlt bestätigt mich in meinem handeln. Fick die ganze Scheiße. Unter dem Aspekt vermisse ich tatsächlich den Gang zur lokalen Videothek um für paar Mark ne VHS auszuleihen. Bessere Bildqualität kannte man ja nicht. Naja und der Vorhang hinter dem die ganzen Fickfilme versteckt waren hatte schon was mystisches. hehe

Hond ,

Vielen Danke!

Ohne meine Eltern, Oma, dem Zonk und Fridolin Merz würde ich diese Auszeichnung nicht annehmen können.

Hond ,

I emulated the remastered Switch version of BG&E and it had some marketing snippets in form of audiologs (BG&E2 was supposed to be a prequel i think?)in it. I was really surprised, like are we still doing this? Are we still pretending this game will ever come out?

Hond ,

I use a TV as my monitor which only has HDMI inputs in combination with an AMD card. No HDMI 2.1 thanks to the HDMI Forum. Fuck the HDMI Forum.

Audio output over HDMI breaks when the PC goes to sleep. Need to shut the PC down to make it work again. Restarting it doesnt solve the issue.

Here and there some websites break slightly more often on Linux compared to Windows. Both with Firefox.

VR already was a troubleshooting sinkhole on Windows. On Linux its a bit worse. BUT it gets better every month and i'm amazed how well it already works tbh.

KDE doesnt let me resize the PIP window of Firefox on all of its sides. I heavily use this feature on a daily basis. I got used to it. But it was paaaaaiiiin the first few weeks.

Sometimes something breaks and CachyOS just doesnt want to shut down and i need to get the pillow to physically kill the PC.

I atleast had more hard system crashes than on Windows. Sometimes i feel like just the RAM fills up and in 70% of times only a reset helps. On the other hand killing rogue programs which dont want to hand me back the desktop like on windows arent an issue at all anymore.

Button mappings on my g27 racing wheel are out of order with seemingly no fix. Its a really minor issue. But still...

The documentation for certain things is still just utter ass. Sometimes i read through the most technically complex official docs ever for an hour without finding my answer. Then give up and ask in forum/chat/discord and its like: oh yeah just type "yorking" and if your done "exit". Which wasnt mentioned once anywhere else.

Anything else was just getting used to a new OS and learning new things. Which can be painful but isnt a Linux issue.

Overall super happy. Its a pretty big post but i could write a book series with my Windows issues...

Hond ,

I dont remember exactly which programs i looked at. But most remapping tools i found seem be made for keyboards, mice, xbox pads etc and often create an emulated output device which may conflict with the Force Feedback/beeing a Wheel from my understanding. You can reorder the buttons with jstest-gtk though. But that wont persist through a reboot which made me really sad.

At first i thought that it would really annoy me and looked several hours into it. But tbh its alright. Most games let you remap your controls freely either way. In one game menuing is a bit borked because i cant remap those menu controls. But even that is okayish.

Either way, thanks for the suggestion! I bookmarked Input Remapper just in case a game really needs remapping in the future.

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Steam Link wont work on a Rift S though.

So the only real other option would be to go the Linux route with Envision/Monado. But from what i gathered WMR/Rift S support can still be a bit iffy here and there.

Hond ,

pet the kitty

Hond ,

If you want to have kind of a similar experience right now there is wayvr btw:
https://github.com/wlx-team/wayvr

Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

A developer has submitted a draft to the KDE team for KWin to hook up a full Plasma VR mode and it looks pretty awesome. As it's currently a draft, it needs plenty more work before being accepted but the idea behind it and how it looks has me quite interested. ...

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Hond ,

My retirement plan was to go into the woods to die before i come too much of a burden for the rest around me. But then somebody reminded me that forests probably wont be a thing anymore until then. So even my slightly sarcastic but very dystopian plan for retirement wont work out.

Hond ,

Is this a screenshot of Imessage, which was printed out on physical paper, which was photographed in a shitty angle, which was projected onto a screen, which was again photographed and then for whatever reason superimposed on a stockimage of a laptop with a dslr on the side?

Hond ,

Huh, i wonder if that means that i can finally use VRR with my displayport to hdmi cable which connects a Rdna2 GPU with a LG CX tv.

TBH loosing VRR by switching to Linux was a way smaller QOL downgrade than i expected to be. It only really annoyed me on the first day apart from the very few games which suffer from really bad tearing without V-sync. I am still really annoyed that i had to buy an extra cable because of the HDMI Forum though. Like the drivers are written and done for years now but those assholes are just blocking it. Fuck them.

Hond ,

Yeah, i read about that. You need to flash some weird firmware onto those cables/adapters of Cable Matters. But it seems to only work on RDNA3 (maybe onwards). Atleast i never read from anybody getting VRR running on RDNA2 with a DP1.4 adapter/cable. It does work with my HDMI cable but the transmission obviously falls back to HDMI 2.0 speeds which only allows a horribly subsampled image. Atleast if we are talking about 4k120 VRR or even worse with 10Bit HDR on top.

Hond ,

Sweet! Finally a confirmation that it works with RDNA2. Time to pull the trigger on yet another adapter. :D