melfie

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[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It makes sense to distrust the American for-profit healthcare system where treatments that might work don’t get funded if they can’t be patented and monetized. Cancer is also a huge cash cow.

At the same time, taking unproven treatments is a risk. My father had stage 3 cancer and tried alternative treatments while getting periodic PET scans. When nothing decreased the tumor size, he finally got chemo and radiation. He’s still kicking almost 20 years later, but the radiation caused a lot of issues. He’s lucky it didn’t metastasize.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I run k3s and use Argo CD at work, but it always seemed overkill for my home server. I also would want to use self-hosted Forgejo instead of an external service, but I don’t care to spend time on a setup that bootstraps Forgejo, PostgreSQL and Argo CD, then has all of the above managed by Argo CD.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

That’s a good idea; I’ll be sure and pre-flight next time. Also my mom is dead, so I doubt she would mind. Just one extra worm wiggling around in there.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not something I’ve actively looked into, quite honestly. Didn’t find the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum particularly arousing, so I assume it wouldn’t be my jam.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I’d think that custom AI-generated smut videos would be all the rage. It’s one area where the content being slop shouldn’t matter as much.

Hey, look, that lady has 3 breasts. Aw, here comes Double Dong Danny to get some of that. Man, this is some fucked up shit. Grabs a box of tissues.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Looks good, and love the idea of it, but YouTube download clients don’t work worth a damn on a VPN any longer in my experience.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I don’t want to wear a VR headset all the time, but I sure do love a good VR game when I’m in the mood.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I learn best by reading anyway, so lectures were always a waste of my time.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Yep, it will run SteamOS and will have Valve’s Lepton (fork of Waydroid) to support Android games. It’s also an ARM device and will use Valve’s FEX to run x86 games. Supposedly, Half Life Alyx runs pretty decently on it.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

I hope Valve’s Steam Frame is the last nail in their coffin. Unlike the Meta Quest, which is a locked down, privacy nightmare and the Miiverse that is beyond pointless, Valve has actually innovated in this space. Also, devices purchased from Valve actually belong to you and you can do whatever you want with them.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Schrödinger’s cat has nothing on this dog. Time to update the textbooks.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

UE5 has some great tech and MetaHuman Animator is fantastic. I appreciate that they allow anyone with under $1M in revenue to use their tech free of charge. MHA, for example, is the only decent facial mocap available to indies that doesn’t have an expensive subscription.

On the other hand, Epic Games has a lot of shit. I was especially annoyed with their Fab store and shutting down Sketchfab. Hopefully their layoff doesn’t negatively impact what they’re doing right.

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