UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

They didn't just start calling it AI recently. It's literally the academic term that has been used for almost 70 years.

The term "AI" could be attributed to John McCarthy of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), which Marvin Minsky (Carnegie-Mellon University) defines as "the construction of computer programs that engage in tasks that are currently more satisfactorily performed by human beings because they require high-level mental processes such as: perceptual learning, memory organization and critical reasoning. The summer 1956 conference at Dartmouth College (funded by the Rockefeller Institute) is considered the founder of the discipline.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

I mean of all the features F360 has, cloud connectivity is probably the least desirable one for me. In fact, I'd say it's an anti-feature.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Same here. I used to get a lot of it via eBay since it had a lot better protection for only a bit more in price. But after the pandemic, most of the stuff I buy moved off of eBay and is only available on Ali now.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

How did you pay with PayPal on AliExpress? They haven't supported it in years?

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember having this realisation about Mir, but only after we collectively ran it off the cliff wall. The main reason everyone piled on Mir was that it was thought that Canonical would be priming Linux desktop for fragmentation with two competing standards.

But in fact, Mir was providing a solution to the fragmentation Wayland was bringing. Now we have 3, 4, 5 Mir-s, all with slight incompatibilities. Want a feature? Better hope all of them decide to implement the extension after someone proposes it. We know how well that worked in the past.

This is also ironic because the detractors of Xorg constantly talked about the issues with Xorg extensions and how many of them there were. But I never really had to look up which extensions Xorg supported, while I have had to do that with Wayland compositors.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My hp printer has worked perfectly and reliably with CUPS for years now. Just turn it on and print, works every time.
Open source print drivers, baby! I still hate CUPS though.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Come on now, give him some credit. He waited a whole few days before completely going back on his words.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm hoping the legislation doesn't forbid dual charging ports, where the device has usb charging which works as well as it can, and then a proper charging port. My current laptop has that configuration.

Because there's also the issue of durability. A barrel power connector can freely rotate which can absorb a lot of stress when the laptop is moved around. I think a usb-c cable that's used the same way would fail a lot sooner, especially with all the delicate wiring it has in comparison.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They'd tell you what the movie was, but they'd have to search for it and don't want to waste an hour.

Jokes aside, I believe them, I spent close to an hour recently finding a YouTube I knew existed but I could only remember vague details. Ended up having crawl back months though my YouTube history in the end.

It used to be that you could just describe a movie to Google like "movie where " and it would be really good at finding that movie even if it was some obscure one. Now if you're trying to find that one movie you saw years ago where you just remember one scene, be prepared to spend that hour.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My current phone has all the things you listed except MST (never heard of that before though), and I bought it specifically for those reasons. Made by Xiaomi who still seems to want to give users features for some reason. Unlocked, rooted, custom rom, the whole shebang, I'm very happy with it.

It does still have a small front camera hole and a big back camera bump, but I don't mind those personally. Though I do wish the camera bump wasn't off centre. And like someone mentioned, I do wish it had an indicator led somewhere.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I remember some 10-15 years ago when I'd look at the y windows website every couple of months hoping for some news of progress, simply because I was sick of x11 being so crappy. I hated it, it was so fiddly, it didn't work right, I just wanted something that worked.
So you can imagine how happy I was when Wayland started taking off. Here was the promise of something better, something that just worked, it sounded amazing. And yet, today I'm still running xorg and I will be for the foreseeable future.

The reason is simply that in the time passed xorg just became usable, I don't have to think about it, it works reliability, it has all the features I need and I hardly ever have to touch it. Meanwhile, I log into my Wayland session and instantly 3 or 4 of the applications I use daily either don't work or act weird. I go and try and fix the issues and I'm told to just accept it, or that I actually don't exist because Wayland works perfectly for everyone. And I'm not even using an Nvidia card, just plain Radeon.

So I quit and go back to what works. Maybe in a couple of years, until then: no thanks.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you need this frequently, I really suggest you look into GPU forwarding. I have a Windows VM setup with a second card and it works perfectly, I use it for games and CAD all the time. Figure out your iommu groups, pop a second card in your computer (and optionally a second nvme drive if you want max performance), and use virt-manager and the arch wiki to set it up.

For accessing the machine you can use a second monitor input, or you can get a window to the machine with looking glass or moonlight. I use moonlight as it lets me play games from my laptop on the couch, and looking glass was causing windows to crash sometimes.

It's a bit of work to set it all up but when you're done it should just be one XML file and maybe one modprobe.d config file.

I think I've been using this for over a year now and the single pain point I encountered in all that time was maybe that usb input hotplug isn't supported, though there's ways to fix that, but I haven't bothered.

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