July 25, 2023

Yes, I use it often and it works great now.

HuggingChat is open source and lets you use DeepSeek.

Very misleading, it lets you use the lighter, watered-down version (Deepseek 32B) compared to the large impressive model they have (Deepseek 671B)

Making a dumb tweet doesn’t make you a fascist and doesn’t invalidate the years of hard work people put into a non-profit swiss company, you should get over yourself.

Look up LM Studio. It’s a free software that let’s you easily install and use local LLMs. Note that you need to have a good graphics card and a lot of RAM for it to be useful.

They tried. It was called UWP, but it never caught on and Microsoft quickly realized nobody wanted to use their store or even bother with the new format, so all their games also have a normal x86 version.

If your ublock is up to date it still works fine.

I’ve been eyeing Quest Master lately. This game is essentially “Zelda Maker” with an in-depth level creator and a lot of heart. Unfortunately, it’s not discounted this summer sale.

Alan Wake 2 isn’t American Nightmare, that’s an expansion. There isn’t a protondb page of alan wake 2 because it’s not on Steam

Everyone that wants context should read this: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-internet-archives-last-ditch

Listen, I love the IA and everything they stand for, but they’re not winning this. They fucked up and gave away copyrighted content, for free, in unlimited amounts during covid. They then proceed to melt down in court because they know it’s impossible to win. Now they’re seeking empathy from everyone and not talking about why they got sued - which is giving away potentially millions of copies of other people’s work…

Cool! I was wondering when Nobara would update. I heard there are a few bugs in the new Nvidia driver though.

Be aware OP that local LLMs are quite a bit worse than what’s available online. Llama 3 is (probably?) the best one available now and even that has a habit of being very stupid sometimes compared to claude or chatgpt.

you will also want to install vkd3d

Why aren’t you using Proton or Wine-GE which has everything set up for gaming?

Everyone is saying it runs flawlessly on Proton, even on Steam Deck.

I’ve been using it via the LibRedirect extension for a while now and it’s great. Feels a lot more reliable than LibReddit ever was.

You laugh but there’s actually a very big and active piracy community on Telegram sharing videos

Least insane apple fanboy

If you’d read the article it’s about Apple intentionally imposing restrictions that nobody else does, like not allowing getting apps out of their store and putting roadblocks for Android to support things like their messenger

The case is that they’re abusing their market lead by forcing people to stay on iPhones, all these restrictions Android/Google DOESN’T do

If you’re down for some 🏴‍☠️🦜 there are ways to play Minecraft multiplayer without needing an account.

Otherwise, Minetest is your best bet. It looks and plays like an older version of Minecraft.

Vintage Story is an acquired taste, it’s actually not that similar to Minecraft as you would think. It’s a hardcore survival game where everything takes a lot of time. You’ll spend many hours before you’re even able to mine stone and you need to manage your resources properly.

Shader caching is a thing that happens when you’re playing a game. The first time you see an effect (like particles), your computer has to process that and cache it for the future. This can sometimes cause stuttering for larger effects, so shader pre-caching is a thing that downloads all these shaders for you so you won’t stutter while playing.

It’s useful for older PCs where stuttering can be very noticeable, but it’s probably something you should turn off unless you think you need it.

It depends on the game, turning off shader pre-caching can cause a lot of stutters. I agree it should be turned off unless you need it though.

So is there a point/context to this post or…?

Considering the fact that they’re already relying on GE’s version of wine, I don’t see why they wouldn’t move on to this when it’s stable.

Love the extension, but it’s a shame not all the alternate front-ends work. The Reddit ones stopped working a while ago, the fandom one is unreliable, lots of other ones are just a tad too slow.

No official announcements means you could get banned for trying it. Don’t do it.

If you have a normal social life it’s honestly expected that a couple of people will leak your phone number (and contact name). Nothing you can really do about it. Happened to me many times.

Oh neat, I had no idea someone was upgrading Openboard. I thought it was abandoned.

Is this a copypasta?

Dude was schizoposting the other thread and attacking everyone for downvoting him lmao

I just don’t get what caused such a radical change. The EU has been at the top of caring about consumer privacy, with countries like germany even creating sweet laws like censoring most buildings from google’s street view.

Now suddenly they want to jeopardize encryption and create backdoors? What gives?

Flatpak is the future, no doubt about that. I don’t know how devs and distro owners put up with the normal way of distributing binaries. The motto is supposed to be “build once, run anywhere” but sometimes it felt like “build 20 times, enter dependency hell, realize your distro’s repo is using a 6 month old version with no signs of updating”. I don’t miss those days. I’m always going for Flatpak now.

Copying from the old thread:

Nobara Linux. The official website is WIP but it’s essentially a distro aimed for gaming, with the important things like Steam and Lutris pre-installed.

I’m currently using it and it’s pretty good and reliable. It defaults to wayland though, you may want to go back to Xorg if you’re using an Nvidia gpu.

Literally anything you connect to whether it be a website or multiplayer game has your IP, it’s nothing to worry about. Hardware info is pretty standard too.

I bet whatever instance that doesn’t require emails will be defederated for spam. Just use a burner email or an email mask like firefox relay.

There isn’t really a point to that. The very first thing thieves do is turn off the phone so you can’t track it. They’ll then usually format your phone and sell it. Best you can do is set up a secure password and not show any info on the lock screen so they at least wouldn’t be able to access your stuff.

This would affect even messages and files that are end-to-end encrypted to protect user privacy.

But how would they even enforce that? It’s E2E, and I doubt anyone would add backdoors to every app, website, and service that uses it.

Lenovo and ASUS are pretty good. Avoid some of the lower end gaming laptops, they usually have heating issues. Avoid MSI and Dell, I’ve heard nothing but complaints. In general just do research before buying the laptop and you’ll be fine.

Not really, but it’s a rough estimate. If you want something to be supported for a much longer time then an AMD gpu is probably s good idea since their drivers are open source.

I’m not sure what GPUs he has but they must be very old. You don’t have to worry about this unless you really care about keeping your laptop for around 10 years or more.

Some years? Maybe if you have a 10+ year old GPU. They’re supported for a really long time. The GTX 10xx series are still fully supported despite releasing in 2016 for example.

AMD does tend to have better support but Nvidia GPUs work fine nowadays. Pretty much any laptop you buy should work fine out of the box, so just get something that has decent specs.

Gaming on Mac is a bit of a new territory. You can install Linux on modern Macs through Asahi Linux, but most games don’t work on it yet since it’s still somewhat experimental.

If you want to stick with MacOS, there’s a sort of Proton for it called Game Porting Toolkit. You may want to look at some benchmarks on it.