CalcProgrammer1

I fail to see where the comment you replied to had any concern whatsoever for the business environment.

Too bad this happened after the Steam sale ended. I wanted to buy Doom but not with Denuvo. Maybe next sale.

I’ve been happily running Linux on my 2021 Blade 14 for years. NVIDIA support is still somewhat of a problem but that’s not unique to Razer. It’s gotten way better over the years but some games still stutter a bit or run slower than Windows. Otherwise, it’s a fine experience.

Rockstar lost me when they added invasive anticheat to GTAV. It was a great game prior to that, but take away something I’ve been enoying for almost 10 years on a whim and don’t allow me to play it anymore because I’m on Linux? Goodbye and good riddance. Not touching anything they put out ever again.

I was pretty set on buying one regardless when it was announced and still plan to. I knew the price was going up but with the delay I had time to save more. I like the compactness of it and it would be great next to my Mac Mini M1 on my TV shelf. I also want to reward the adoption of Linux as a gaming platform, and buying Valve hardware is the best way right now to vote with your wallet that Linux is the future of gaming. I bought multiple Steam Decks and I bought both the 2015 and 2026 Steam Controllers. I want the Machine.

Also, it has RGB! I need to get one to add it to OpenRGB.

The question is whether I’ll get it with or without a second controller, and I think that comes down to whichever queue I get selected for in the random drawing.

Why should anyone take ray tracing into account when ray tracing, especially for the first two or three generations of RTX cards, was a pointless gimmick that could not run well enough to be realistically desirable and was supported by practically zero games?

I use the Calam Arch Installer ISO to install Arch. It’s the same GUI installer that most downstream Arch derivatives use, but configured to install base Arch. No dealing with messy terminal install process and you end up with pure Arch install at the end. If all the downstream distros give you is an easy installer, this exists for base Arch as well even if it is a third party thing.

I’ve always used EAC for ripping and Fre:ac for transcoding the ripped FLAC files into other formats, usually mp3, when needed. It does a good job at transcoding.

Maybe even 128GB of RAM.

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My Reolink cameras have pretty good AI detection, I think that is a decent use of AI if it runs locally. I like seeing the “Animal” detections from my doorbell camera, it’s usually a cat or a rabbit investigating the front steps.

Personally, I decided using a local LLM was acceptable for generating translation strings in my open source application. It had already been manually translated into a bunch of different languages by various contributors over the years, but I just did a major UI rework and so most of the existing translations now had a ton of missing entries. Qt6’s translation tool had an AI Translation function so I decided to try it out after setting up ollama and the recommended qwen3 model. It did a pretty decent job as far as I can tell, I am only fluent in English but I did some cross checking by translating back to English via Google Translate and it seemed to do a decent job. It at least got all the strings translated to something usable, once it’s merged then I expect native speakers will contribute cleanups and rewordings if needed.

I don’t really consider translation purely generative as it is more of a conversion task. I think AI is pretty useful for this. Same for things like automatic captioning and even mundane text to speech (if not being used to replace voice acting).

Love my Mach E.

Google+ was a great product when it first launched and was quite popular among the tech crowd. I remember having a G+ page and using it more than I ever wanted to use Facebook and co. It was a pretty well liked product among its niche userbase but then they tried to shove it into YouTube and force everyone to use it for YouTube interactions and then everyone hated it. Forcing your product where it doesn’t belong is a great way to dumpster your product’s reputation.

I used a Windows Mobile PDA (Dell Axim X50v) for years before the iPhone came out. It was great at the time. Few other things could provide video, games, music, and a web browser in your pocket at the time but WM2003 with the Opera browser and some other apps did quite well. I kept using that thing even into the Android and iPhone era.

I mainly use Blender and manually type in the sizes for things, make heavy use of the boolean operators to make holes and cutouts. I would like to learn FreeCAD eventually. I refuse to use proprietary products and services for my hobby projects.

I don’t know much about the Snapmaker U1 other than what’s stated on this thread and on their site. Just looks like a more open alternative to Bambu if you need fancy features like multi filament printing.

I buy most of my filament from Micro Center (their Inland brand) and some I’ve gotten from Amazon.

Ender 3 Pro is a completely offline printer. It has a microSD slot and a USB port, that’s it. No network connectivoty at all. It runs Marlin firmware which is a long-standing Arduino-based open source 3D printer firmware. It’s highly customizable and upgradable. I added a CR Touch bed probe to mine and rebuilt the firmware to enable the unified bed leveling features. It’s not the most user friendly but it’s a decent, cheap platform, fully open source, and puts out decent prints.

I’m happy with my slightly modded Ender 3 Pro, but if I ever upgrade the Snapmaker U1 looks nice. I’ll only buy from a company that supports open source firmware. Bambu is trash, unfortunately every 3D printing related YouTuber seems to have happily taken a sponsorship from them so they are everywhere now. I hate it.

Hacker’s Keyboard and a Pixel Fold.