Some more popular games will have mods to make the Xbox buttons look like a DS4s buttons, buuuut if the game studio devs didn’t create the assets then they didn’t create them.

How does it work self hosting? Is it querying other search engines or just maintaining a database on your server?

I see, I wasn’t comparing an article to a video, I was comparing a video to a text summary of the same video.

We seem to agree that actually eating real food at a greasy spoon is preferable to reading a description of the dining experience offered at the Ritz. But your replies give me the impression we disagree?

Exactly! Why go to the first restaurant (video) at all if you don’t like the experience? You’re really going to wait outside the door of the first one asking the people leaving what the food tastes like? How is that better than the restaurant (videos) you do like?

It’s a creative work, you are talking about Veritasium as if it he’s reading out a written a security bulletin on camera.

A menu is not a creative work it’s a means to convey information. Veritasium is not reading wikipedia articles on screen, he’s creating an original work.

Listen I am not criticizing how you choose to enjoy your time I just find the entire concept of finding the experience of reading a text summary to be more to be more rewarding than experiencing the thing itself to be alien.

What feels alien to me is the idea that experiencing a creative work is itself a means to an end.

I prefer to digest text too, but still would choose to taste a meal than read a typed up printout of the flavors it contains.

when I read comments like these it makes me realize that maybe all the money flowing to OpenAI isn’t folly and there really are people out there trying to tl;dr their own lives

Not to people with a financial interest in promoting Monero.

There is so much wrong with that firehose of nonsense you just said I don’t have time to correct it all. So I’ll focus on this one point:

Bitcoin may not be run by “a single government” but it is run by a small group of billionaires. You’re a fool if you believe widespread adoption of it can improve things for regular people.

RSS like podcasts. A compressed 1080p video is totally doable over most Internet.

I know what you meant but unless you’re gaming there’s nothing you can do with a Pixel 8 that can’t be done with the 4a (though I usually reccomend the P5 because for a few dollars more you can get wireless charging and significantly better battery life).

extremely old

Dude it’s less than four years old lol I get what you are saying but Q3 2020 is not that long ago.

The Pixel 5 is not much more expensive and is still a great phone with good battery life and good camera, and the last Pixel small enough to used one-handed. It also has wireless charging which is missing on the 4a.

If your friend isn’t gaming or doing anything CPU-intensive the P5 is what I would reccommend today. Everything afterwords has been an incremental upgrade for significantly more money.

Don’t make the mistake of confusing the Linux community (an absolute mess, just read the comments here) with the software itself (Actually cleaner and better organized than Windows).

Yeah it is a beta, but the actual final update that was released lacked that gyro functionality over 2.4ghz that was in the beta. So yeah, you kinda do need to “downgrade”.

Hopefully they do release an update with that functionality enabled one day but it’s been well over a year now and they don’t even officially provide that beta version anymore. So it’s not looking hopeful.

The 8bitdo ultimate you linked to is great. To be clear I have only used it with Windows.

But if you get it there is a hitch that’s not made clear anywhere- in order to use on 2.4ghz mode (with the dongle) with gyro enabled, you need to downgrade the firmware to an old beta version 8bitdo doesn’t host anymore. Someone uploaded it to google drive in that reddit thread I linked to.

How much energy is used by our current financial system?

Orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin requires, which is the criticism.

A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.

I would be surprised if this ever sees a physical release, or even gets past the “concept render” phase.

I didn’t know that, my google-fu turned up nothing do you have a link with more info?

ya know seems odd that a phone by such a data hungry company, can be made into exactly the opposite.

It shouldn’t feel odd, because we should have control over the hardware we buy, yet here we are.

I don’t really think it’s what most people want or expect from this community, that said I watched this this the other day and it was a very entertaining and well told story!

7840U is a beast. That’s what Framework puts in their high-end AMD laptop.

This is it. Lots of complicated answers in this thread. It’s built into uBlock, just not on by default.