Monado is making impressive strides, but VR is a really tough nut to crack, given how ridiculously proprietary most units are. :(

The controllers especially seem to be giving them a lot of trouble.

I know M$ always extinguishes things it embraces, but they should really just release the WMR code if they’re done with ir. An open source WMR implementation would save SO MUCH headache of trying to engineer custom drivers and everything from scratch!

Upset about both of those too.

The WMR thing is bugging me so much. Like release whatever is needed to open the hardware if you’re done with it, jerks!

I have a Samsung Odyssey+ that’s a fantastic unit that of course I can’t run when I mainline Linux these days. Monado is making impressive gains but the fact that they basically need to hack and reverse engineer the thing out of being e-waste is just messed up.

I really like VR and want to make things for it. But I can’t swing a Steam set and there’s no way I’m giving a single rotten cent to Facebook if I can help it!

Like others said there’s still ways to keep it working but it feels iffy enough that it could just break at any moment =\

This is SO tragic. I remember being so fond of both those games, they were so great! All the ways different equipment actually affected gameplay, and the really unique sound effects and world building will always stick in my head.

The Flutter was like my dream fantasy vehicle as a kid, those dogs in the bad part of town freaked me out, the reaverbot designs were so cool, and I kicked cans around way more than I should’ve.

And the little Tron-bots taught us the folly of making judgements based on profiling. XD

Kid me didn’t understand the ultimate plots though, and the final bosses were punishing… Perhaps it’s time for a revisit.

I didn’t know Legends 3 was so close to actually being a thing!

Geeze while we’re at it, even though it was basically a typical cop procedural, I really enjoyed “Almost Human” for a while. It just disappeared.

👑(crown emoji in case it doesn’t show) here, you dropped this.

LOL had me rolling. XD

Those features were so cool! I loved my Wii U also because of the underutilized potential it had. I wish we had a lot more simulative type experiences where the console as a “dashboard” could have made more sense.

Oh man are you me?! I used to love Jones! They had really interesting flavors and I liked the featured photographs. :D I kicked soda a while back, otherwise I’d still be all over it. I’m glad they’re still around and I’m happy seeing them on the shelves.

Batman Beyond, totally shway! Cyberpunk Batman was such a ridiculously cool concept I’d love to see come back. That intro was so freaking cool. :D My wife and I just watched through the whole thing not too long ago.

I’m torn though: A reboot would be so excellent, but that “2’000’s cool” aesthetic was essential to the unique feel of the universe it set up. Like, man can you imagine if we got an Arkham type game with some Deus Ex mixed in!?

Moderation is still a lot of thankless work. I think it’s pretty cool as long as you enjoyed doing it and weren’t shackled to it. :)

“You didn’t just steal from people, you had to go and steal from people who had a lot of money and THAT crosses a LINE!”

–American justice system

Man, so much to unpack here. It has me worried for a lot of the reasons mentioned: The people who pay money to skilled labor will think “The subscription machine can just do it.” And that sucks.

I’m a digital artist as well, and while I think genAi is a neat toy to play with for shitposting or just “seeing what this dumb thing might look like” or generating “people that don’t exist” and it’s impressive tech, I’m not gonna give it ANY creative leverage over my work. Period. I still take issue with where it came from and how it was trained and the impact it has on our culture and planet.

We’re already seeing the results of that slop pile generated from everyone who thought they could “achieve their creative dreams” by prompting a genie-product for it instead of learning an actual skill.

As for actual usefulness? Sometimes I run a local model for funsies and just bounce ideas off of it. It’s like a parrot combined with a “programmer’s rubber ducky.” Sometimes that gets my mind moving, in the same way “autocomplete over and over” might generate interesting thoughts.

I also will say it’s pretty decent at summarizing things. I actually find it somewhat helpful when YouTube’s little “ai summary” is like “This video is about using this approach taking these steps to achieve whatever.”

When the video description itself is just like “Join my Patreon and here’s my 50+ affiliate links for blinky lights and microphones” lol

I use it to explain concepts to me in a slightly different way, or to summarize something for which there’s a wealth of existing information.

But I really wish people were more educated about how it actually works, and there’s just no way I’m trusting the centralized “services” for doing so.

(I want to say first that I’m not trying to invalidate your feelings or perspective or anything!)

This feels like the logical result of a society that statistically punishes creativity in most cases, and rewards pointlessly running on a stationary hamster wheel of emails, spreadsheets, and slideshows, that nobody with a pulse is actually going to read.

We all like to think we’re completely in control of ourselves, but most creatures of all kinds quickly get a sense for what produces a reward for less effort.

convinced that every student needs to use the LLMs in order to find a career after graduation.

Yes, of course, why are bakers learning to use ovens when they should just be training on app-enabled breadmakers and toasters using ready-made mixes?

After all, the bosses will find the automated machine product “good enough.” It’s “just a tool, you guys.”

Sheesh. I hope these students aren’t paying tuition, and even then, they’re still getting ripped off by admin-brain.

I’m sorry you have to put up with that. Especially when philosophy is all about doing the mental weightlifting and exploration for onesself!

"It is plain to see why you might be curious about Error 4752X3G: Allocation_Buffer_Fault. First, let’s start with the basics.

• What is an operating system?"

AGGHH!!!

Haha really? That’s interesting, I always heard it was the opposite. HDDs might slowly develop problems and if you’re lucky you’ll have time to move everything over before it kicks the bucket.

But SSDs will one day just fail.

Maybe the actual cause of the failure has to do with it?

There’s an effort called Monado that’s making strides, but we hope there’s a sustained interest and a breakthrough of some sort. The controllers are no-go at the moment.

Is microsoft actually bricking their WMD headsets or just not supporting them anymore? Could you still treat it as a retro gaming console?

So they’re not literally “bricking them”, but effectively doing so. They require “Windows Mixed Reality” to run, all the drivers are proprietary, and M$ is “deprecating WMR”, at which point it will no longer be offered, and will be taken down from the Microsoft Store.

So basically you’d require an un-updated Windows 10 machine that previously had it installed, or else the device is a paperweight.

They can’t even pretend to have any kind of “environmental responsibility” when they’re actively just creating tons of e-waste as a matter of policy.

Hey friend! Yeah I forgot that. I added it to the original post but here it is:

OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed…3000?)

I don’t wanna sound desperate or anything because I know I’m blessed here. I only upgrade like once every 5+ years.

Prospectively I’m not looking at a brand new build, just a CPU/RAM/Mobo to maybe move to DDR5.

The current setup (minus the GPU) would be moved over to my server which is still running like…an i5-4460 on 16GB of DDR3. Not terrible but it’s had to thrash on occasion. 😬 Haha.

Thanks for the heads up about Intel stability issues! I’ll have to keep an eye out about AM5s.

I probably can’t justify it before everything hits the fan, but y’know, it’s good to keep my eyes out. :)

Oh believe me I’m already there. I just made the jump to start gaming on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed after using it primarily for art and dev, and 99% of what I care about runs beautifully. While the world around us seems in constant chaos…

… we’re living in a great age of open source for those who seek it. :)

Speaking of bricking hardware. I’m very upset that they’re just dumping Windows Mixed Reality because it isn’t making them 10,000% returns or something.

Lots of wonderful HMDs will just be paperweights without a ton of work.

“Can you release the code to us to keep em running then?”

M$: “Lol no.”

If anything, maybe we’ll see a lot of good hardware going for cheap, ripe for the taking by anybody who knows how to use a boot USB and doesn’t care about TPM. :)

Honestly that’s pretty fair. Depending on the nature of the drive. You don’t know if it was sitting there spinning up and down in some mining rig (that one crypto used HDDs to store hashes) sitting on somebody’s washing machine or something LOL.

That’s one thing I really enjoy about Plasma. I never even considered things like “focus stealing” or when to raise windows, but there’s options to tweak.

Heck you can even change what RMB does. (Yeah my brain doesn’t need THAT radical of a change lmao)

The defaults are perfectly sane, but I like that there’s buttons or toggles to see if something else works better.

And that right-click menu can take a long walk off a short pier

Seriously. Why?! Who does this serve? It confuses newbies and just ticks off everybody else.

Also this google-apple-esque trend of trying to glyphize (is that a word? Lol) everything just for its own sake is kinda maddening too. (We don’t want literacy to be a bar to clicking ads! /s)

/rant lol.