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  • OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material

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  • That sounds like a great idea for making an intelligent agent inside a video game, where you control all aspects of it's environment. But what about an AI that you want to be able to interact with our current shared reality. If I want to know something that involves synthesis of multiple modalities of knowledge how should that information be conveyed? Do humans grow up inside test tubes that only consume content that they themselves have created? Can you imagine the strange society we would have if people were unleashed upon the world without having any shared experiences until they were fully adults?

    I think the OpenAI people have a point here, but I think where they go off the rails is that they expect all of this copyrighted information to be granted to them at zero cost and with zero responsibility to the creators of said content.

  • Steam Deck now has thousands more games than the Nintendo Switch

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  • Have you seen the RetroArch? I'm playing NES and SNES games on my SteamDeck and that's easily another couple thousand. Hehehe

  • NucDeck - The DIY PC gaming handheld - Episode Seven

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  • This is wonderful, I think buying all the stuff and doing all this might require a fair amount more effort, time and money than buying a SteamDeck though. But this is an amazing feat, maybe we can buy piecemeal SteamDeck knockoffs in the future.

  • Any recommendations for free software backup programs that work on Windows?

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  • You'll need to think of "backup" as a different thing if you are looking at the free space. For instance, I can backup my data onto discs, but it costs buying discs. I can also make lots of copies of my images and videos automatically using SyncThing (which is open source), but it requires multiple computers to really be considered a "backup".

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Bulk Crap Uninstaller v5.7

    www.bcuninstaller.com

  • Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers

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  • Summary: Measuring time is important when measuring a large number of quantum bits, and so there's a constant race toward precision timekeeping. The article ends saying that component quality is more of a factor than the measurement of time (for now), but in the future potential advancements in quantum computing might be able to "buy time" in this arena and reduce errors in some future advancement.

  • Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way

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  • This is one reason I have a "hibernate" shortcut on my desktop so I don't have to deal with the hassle of having to hunt for that button.

    If you are curious, creating your own hibernate shortcut on windows is easy:

    • Right click desktop
    • Select new > shortcut
    • Copy this into the shortcut: "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /h" obviously replace C:\Windows\ with the installation drive/folder on your machine.
    • (Optional: Change the icon for the shortcut to a useful picture)
    • Done

  • What OSS is in-between Google Sheets and a custom CRM or SQL db?

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  • Free on GoG: Blacksad: Under the Skin

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  • Great, now all I need to do is get the button on the homepage to load!

  • Cyberpunk dlc sucks. 10 side missions and like 5 story missions for 30 bucks.

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  • Ummm, since we are being critical, I'm going to say that low effort bug reports get sent to the recycle bin on my dev team. Also, what's up with the tone of your post? You sound like you hated Cyberpunk 2077 in general and so you felt the need to scream it from the rooftops.

    I've played Phantom Liberty now for a couple days and I've never seen anything you're reporting, so you'll need to give more detail, like are you playing this on PC or Console, and which console? What are your settings? Also lose the bad attitude man, we are all here to have fun.

  • How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story

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  • To plug the Steamdeck into a TV you need, at minimum, something that converts USB-C into DVI or whatever port your TV has. The multiplayer can be through corded USB controllers plugged into a dock, or you can use Steam controllers through USB thingy, or Xbox and Nintendo Bluetooth controllers natively through the deck itself.

  • Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient - Opinion

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  • I think the reason you saw the response you saw is that a lot of the players who bought Cyberpunk on the PC early on were too busy PLAYING the game to talk about it online. If you were a console user though you had little choice though, the console versions of Cyberpunk were awful at launch and deserved much of the scorn they received, I am not certain on stats, but I'm positive that most of the game-breaking bugs were on the console. Yes, I noticed some bugs on my first playthrough on the PC, but it wasn't as dramatic as what I saw people posting regarding console Cyberpunk.

  • Microsoft causes learned helplessness

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  • A lot of people in Linux subs seem to be ready and willing to unload their "everything is dumbed down" opinion, with all the ferver of a solider heading out to war. I'm a long time computer user, programmer and hacker, so I understand these points of view, but they come across as very gate-keepy around the idea of using a computer at all. Like... I think it's obscene that so many people would think you need to learn how to use the command-line in order to use a computer.

    You guys have it wrong, I love smart GUIs that mean I don't have to spend my life writing complex command line statements, why are there so many people trying to hold back the wonder and marvel of computers from people who haven't spent their entire lives dedicated to learning about the computer? I mean seriously, I don't expect any of my friends or family to be as experienced at these things as I am, and that's okay. I want the computer to be an easy thing to use. Hell, I want the computer to be easy to use so that I can apply my skills to building things on the computer and have people pay money for them, I think that's a fairly reasonable trade.

  • Microsoft causes learned helplessness

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  • removed errors be all like

    "Operation couldn't be completed (com.removed.mobilephone error 1035)"

    What am I supposed to do with this?

    Linux error be all like

    "System program problem detected. Do you want to report it?"

    Who am I reporting this to, Linus himself? He's just going to yell at me.

  • How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story

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  • I have a steam controller and a steam link, and this is not the same as that, at all. The steam link has a lot of issues honestly as well, and I tried to use the Steam Link as a way to play games on my TV in other parts of my house and it simply stinks unless you play only specific steam-link compatible games.

    StemaDeck doesn't have those limitations, you can play anything, even games not really made for it and have a smooth-as-butter experience. Even multiplayer on a TV, or on the go.

  • Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient - Opinion

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  • It seems weird that you are judging Cyberpunk without ever having played it. Saying that the general consensus is "meh" is not accurate at all. The game had bugs and it had some technical and gameplay issues that made its much more mature brethren seem better or more well thought through. That's true.

    There's a huge BUT here though. The storytelling and main questlike through Cyberpunk, at launch, was pretty freaking spectacular. I say this as someone who readily acknowledges the issues with the game at launch. Yes, they have addressed most of those issues, and the game feels better now, but the same story from launch-day is still there and is a rather compelling and great experience. I'm on my second playthrough of it now with the PL expansion and so far it's been so much better.

    And this is all to say nothing of the truly jaw-dropping level design and aesthetics, AT launch, that the game is still sporting. I remember saying when I first played this at launch that I really hope they release some more expansions for this game because the environment is so richly detailed, it feels like I'm running around in a dystopian nightmare.

  • How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story

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  • Can you play your desktop while in bed?

  • what is it called when you can be romantically and sexually attractedwith multiple people at the same time?

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  • Don't let the name of this book fool you, but go read "Polysecure" it talks about what is going on in your head and what your partner might be thinking about. It really changed my mind about how to approach anything to do with non-monogamy.

  • Patrick Stewart: Why I Stormed Off the Set of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’

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  • Well I think I need to pick up this book, or at least the audiobook.

  • [Discussion] How has the Steam Deck changed your habits with playing video games?

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  • Another use that I have found for it is as multiplayer platform on-the-go, either watching movies, video games, or just as a handheld laptop haha. The desktop mode is very cool if you haven't checked it out.

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    Watch TV from the 90s

    my90stv.com
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    Playing GOG and Epic games on the Steam Deck, your experience wanted.

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    Node-Red is no-code workflow automation with lots of extensions.

    hackaday.com /2020/01/15/automate-your-life-with-node-red-plus-a-dash-of-mqtt/