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  • Near-Future file type concept "Digital Memory"

  • Modern Gaming Feels Like a Chore

  • donkey kong on n64 had you what go collect bananas or something? is that fun?

    I don't know what caused people to all of a sudden complain about this game (maybe a dunkey video?). This game is still fun by modern standards regrdless of whether you 100% it or not

  • Eternity is now available on F-Droid!

  • Lemmy client that is a fork of Infinity for reddit.

  • Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds

  • Lol, I would be willing to believe most people can come up with MLK. Not to mention that Obama technically is a correct answer.

  • FOSS Microsoft Office for Linux

  • I can't speak for the whole suite, but Excel sucks in the browser. The browser version do not have all the same features as desktop. I only use Office if I'm forced to and use LibreOffice or Latex otherwise

  • First time seeing Devs respond to a lack of anti-cheat support on Linux

  • I can’t easily get X on my system to test

    This can't be true. If you are on Arch, this should be very easy to do. I've had a backup i3 session available on my system for years alongside sway. It should be as easy as installing an X based DE and then selecting that session from the display manager

  • What is FOSS answer to BingGPT & Google Bard?

  • This doesn't work when an important part of the process is making sure your data is actually good. If the data is proprietary, there is no way to make sure it is usable.

  • Unity introducing new fee attached to game installs

  • Godot?

  • AMD Says GPU Efficiency Doesn't Matter To Most PC Gamers, Will Do Better On Ray Tracing In Future Generations

  • NVIDIA is basically the only GPGPU game

    NVIDIA GPUs are definitely the go-to these days, but the world's most powerful supercomputer is using AMD GPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if AMD picks up speed (though they probably won't beat or meet NVIDIA). NVIDIA got started way sooner, so the fact AMD is behind is only natural.

  • I have an itch to learn more and research. PhD is an option, but comes with either a financial or physical/emotional burden. Should I pursue a PhD, or scratch the itch in some other way?

  • TBH the longer you wait, the more you aren't going to want to do it. Depends on who you are as a person, but if you working toward getting married and havinf kids, then doing a PhD is going to feel like a truckload of extra responsibility that really isn't worth it. The only reason I am doing my now is that it gave me an excuse to leave my previous residence, but I was in a really stable place making plenty of money. That is a hard thing to give up.

    Also usually you get a PhD because you want a specific job. If you want to do it to learn, it is a mistake most of the time. You want to be setting up your post-degree career sooner than later, because your pre-degree career is likely not going to count for much after the first few years.

  • I have an itch to learn more and research. PhD is an option, but comes with either a financial or physical/emotional burden. Should I pursue a PhD, or scratch the itch in some other way?

  • the 100% pay cut

    The only people who choose to get a PhD without receiving a stipend are either stupid or wealthy. Don't get me wrong, in the US you make very little as a PhD student, but not a 100% pay cut. Most students are not working for free.

  • Has the Reddit exodus killed the former Lemmy culture?

  • I mean, all of those communities are for cheap consumption of content. There's a difference between wanting to discuss food and wanting to see and endless feed of bacon cheddar loaded fries.

  • how is Lemmy going for you?

  • TBH, I think I dislike it only slightly less than reddit. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of the fediverse and what not. However, I see a lot of posts around here saying that lemmy is so much better than reddit, but I don't necessarily agree. Culturally I see a lot of the same behavior between the two. The main difference is there are a lot less "Facebook-like" posts and way more tech nerd-centric opinions. I would even argue that there is a lack of cultural balance. Like most of the people here are extremists in one way or the other (this includes me), and there are less "normal" people. I think this is probably what some of the users here actually want because they thirst for the "good ol' days" of forums before some of nerd culture leaked into the mainstream, but I'm not sure it's my cup of tea. Furthermore something that is sort of both a feature and a downside is that there is way less content here for obvious reasons. It's nice not to have an endless feed, but again, due to cultural imbalance, there isn't much variety. I love using linux, but I don't know if I care to have my feed engulfed by it. I'm not sure if the time I spend in Lemmy is really a net positive, just like how reddit felt. I'd say the most positive aspect of reddit was I could subscribe to a city specific subreddit and actually get news and info that is useful to my day to day life, whereas the info here is just useful for keeping me in my house or absorbed in work.

    Please do not tell me to suck it up and contribute my own content. The point of this comment is not to get the community to "fix" lemmy for me but simply to relay an observation.

  • The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

  • Build your own locally hosted cloud!

    This is the hard part to sell people. I feel like for self-hosting to become popular, there would need to be a "plug 'n' play" device that essentially has everything you need to set up a small server on your home network. If you could set up a home server as easily as you can set up a Google Home device, that would be amazing.

  • AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed

  • Does it execute both, or does it execute the branch that is more likely to be valid? Branch prediction seems like it'd be way more performant than executing both branches until the result of the branch condition is available. If you think about it, what you're proposing will cause the CPU to always execute instructions that are not meant to be executed when confronted with a branch whereas branch prediction will only execute these "useless" instructions in the unlikely scenario where the prediction is incorrect.

  • [Netflix] Paradise a.k.a. what if In Time was actually good.

  • why would she be shot?

    There were still plenty of anti-donation forces around that already attempted to shoot the protagonists. I assume they wouldn't hesitate to shoot her just like they wouldn't (and didn't) hesitate to shoot her mother.

  • Red Dead Redemption coming to Switch

  • PS3*

  • [Netflix] Paradise a.k.a. what if In Time was actually good.

  • I don't really have an issue with where their morality lands, but moreso how quickly and extremely it changes. The characters feel like their morality is assigned to them rather than developed.

    Also

    Why would the daughter shoot the woman protagonist? They were very clearly being not hostile to her, and there was a very high likelihood of her being shot if she didn't escape with them. I would say the daughter's (Marie?) character is also sloppily implemented.

  • [Netflix] Paradise a.k.a. what if In Time was actually good.

  • I thought this movie had a good premise. I was describing it to my wife under the guise of a movie that I didn't really like, but ironically, as I described the major plot points, it sounded like a great movie. However I just think ultimately the plot is too predictable, and some of the dialogue is a bit too on the nose. Also the way the two main characters seem to switch moral positions so easily seems pretty inconsistent. The two main characters really have the least interesting story imo. The bodyguard's subplot also seems completely unnecessary since the themes it covers are a subset of the husband's subplot.

    TL;DR interesting premise with subpar execution.