nottheengineer

joined 2 years ago
[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Gorilla Glass Victus is just a marketing term. It's still glass, and glass breaks (and gets scratched). Always use a screen protector. If your phone has curved edges on the front, a case is also mandatory because curved screens are very easy to break.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 29 points 2 years ago (10 children)

90hz screen with 180hz polling is what my phone uses as well, it's nice that the deck has now caught up to that.

Also remember to leave your original deck on when downloading games on the new one so it can transfer them locally, which should be faster. There's a setting for that, but I think it's on by default.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

But you still need to remember the port of the service you're trying to reach, which isn't great.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

I know a lot of people my age (early 20s) who use tiktok and have no idea what tracking or privacy mean.

Kids might be smart, but if this is all they've known and it works well enough they don't pay attention and don't use their critical thinking.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But the deck can also be used for gaming with zero tinkering, so kids will do that.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

KDEs wobbly windows will convert almost any child to linux.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which distro and GPU? I've had a terrible experience with my 1070 Ti across Windows, kubuntu and arch and I didn't even try Wayland.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Nvidia driver updates break things all the time. Just rollback and wait a few weeks before you try updating again.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try Smarttube, it's a joy to use.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's just like with programming: The people who are scared of AI taking their jobs are usually bad at them.

AI is incredibly good at regurgitating information and translation, but not at understanding. Programming can be viewed as translation, so they are good at it. LLMs on their own won't become much better in terms of understanding, we're at a point where they are already trained on all the good data from the internet. Now we're starting to let AIs collect data directly from the world (chatGPT being public is just a play to collect more data), but that's much slower.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I use SmartTube on my android TV and it's great. If you can find an android TV box that doesn't come with malware preinstalled or get android running on the pi, I highly recommend it.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

It's maybe very radical in worldview, but not in action. I still use stuff like netflix, spotify and youtube instead of downloading everything and share files through cloud storage, I just view it as something I can enjoy/use now that might not be around in the future. If I really want to keep something, the only things I can trust are myself and FOSS.

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