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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Might also look into https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver !

    I think both KDE and GNOME desktop environments might have integration with OneDrive as an option in their respective file browsers.

    I remember KDE could work with Google Drive in that casual “download when you need it” way, rather than the traditional “sync mirrored copies” way.

    Personally I’d say KDE is also a fantastic desktop environment for coming from Windows with little friction. I run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed personally, but Fedora has a KDE “spin” and I think Zorin uses it by default.

    Hope this is helpful :)


  • Just throwing it out there, even if you’re not running your own server or anything, if you happen to have two computers turned on at the same time occasionally, Syncthing is awesomely transparent and works VERY well. Crazy easy to set up too. (Like actually easy, not “network admin easy.”)

    I personally run it on a little server at home now so it’s always on, and there’s a single “point of truth” where everything references the server, but you can have a number of devices that all simply ask each other what needs updating when they detect each other online. It can automatically retain versions, and that kind of thing. :)






  • Man, so much to unpack here. It has me worried for a lot of the reasons mentioned: The people who pay money to skilled labor will think “The subscription machine can just do it.” And that sucks.

    I’m a digital artist as well, and while I think genAi is a neat toy to play with for shitposting or just “seeing what this dumb thing might look like” or generating “people that don’t exist” and it’s impressive tech, I’m not gonna give it ANY creative leverage over my work. Period. I still take issue with where it came from and how it was trained and the impact it has on our culture and planet.

    We’re already seeing the results of that slop pile generated from everyone who thought they could “achieve their creative dreams” by prompting a genie-product for it instead of learning an actual skill.

    As for actual usefulness? Sometimes I run a local model for funsies and just bounce ideas off of it. It’s like a parrot combined with a “programmer’s rubber ducky.” Sometimes that gets my mind moving, in the same way “autocomplete over and over” might generate interesting thoughts.

    I also will say it’s pretty decent at summarizing things. I actually find it somewhat helpful when YouTube’s little “ai summary” is like “This video is about using this approach taking these steps to achieve whatever.”

    When the video description itself is just like “Join my Patreon and here’s my 50+ affiliate links for blinky lights and microphones” lol

    I use it to explain concepts to me in a slightly different way, or to summarize something for which there’s a wealth of existing information.

    But I really wish people were more educated about how it actually works, and there’s just no way I’m trusting the centralized “services” for doing so.










  • There’s an effort called Monado that’s making strides, but we hope there’s a sustained interest and a breakthrough of some sort. The controllers are no-go at the moment.

    Is microsoft actually bricking their WMD headsets or just not supporting them anymore? Could you still treat it as a retro gaming console?

    So they’re not literally “bricking them”, but effectively doing so. They require “Windows Mixed Reality” to run, all the drivers are proprietary, and M$ is “deprecating WMR”, at which point it will no longer be offered, and will be taken down from the Microsoft Store.

    So basically you’d require an un-updated Windows 10 machine that previously had it installed, or else the device is a paperweight.

    They can’t even pretend to have any kind of “environmental responsibility” when they’re actively just creating tons of e-waste as a matter of policy.


  • Hey friend! Yeah I forgot that. I added it to the original post but here it is:

    OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed…3000?)

    I don’t wanna sound desperate or anything because I know I’m blessed here. I only upgrade like once every 5+ years.

    Prospectively I’m not looking at a brand new build, just a CPU/RAM/Mobo to maybe move to DDR5.

    The current setup (minus the GPU) would be moved over to my server which is still running like…an i5-4460 on 16GB of DDR3. Not terrible but it’s had to thrash on occasion. 😬 Haha.

    Thanks for the heads up about Intel stability issues! I’ll have to keep an eye out about AM5s.

    I probably can’t justify it before everything hits the fan, but y’know, it’s good to keep my eyes out. :)