This is the correct outlook on it.

Academically, artificial neural network algorithms are cool as fuck, even given their shortcomings.

Capitalist greed has weaponized them and done horrible atrocious things to “improve” them (stealing works they have no rights to in order to profit off of them, replacing humans who want to work, ruining the arts, etc.)

I was reading in another thread that apparently with the portal vr mod, its actually a pretty good experience shockingly. I will probably try it as soon as I get a frame.

Not to piss in your cheerios, but I like this new design.

The logo is kind of mid but it integrates with modern themes better than before (I will miss the old logo).

It’s an absolute blessing that they picked Qt instead of GTK and I want to see more of this.

How do you feel about the color profiles on HDR, and the cursor/stylus sync, or any of the other changes they listed in this one as far as art goes?

This is a massive drop for artists isn’t it?

The answer is and should always be “never” if the possibility of using FOSS is available either currently or by hard work to bring it into existence - however, there are cases where some software is not available in any other capacity and offers a service that is otherwise locked down. So we deal with the necessary evils where we must until we no longer have to.

So hey uh… Meshtastic is pretty cool

And now two! Touchpads work like a dream for me

Not sure how your clipboard is broken, it works using KDE connect. DeskFlow may need to work on implementing the Wayland bits.

Not liking something “just because” is also a valid argument to not like something. You are not required to like anything and your reasoning is your own.

You may be less fun at parties for not liking lots of things, however.

I.e. anyone who has touched a steam deck

The steam frame will do that

We all need to run on non-Nvidia hardware too.

They don’t have the same limitations that you have on a console. Steam input allows you to bind any button to the following things:

• keyboard buttons
• mouse buttons
• controller buttons
• system actions (volume, power, etc.)
• controller actions (controller slot toggle, controller power, action layers)
• steam actions

And probably one of my favorite but underutilized:

• Games can also provide custom actions that show up in the button bind menu, and they can be basic things like “jump” or really bizarre things like “make character think.” Games can have built-in action layers as well, so you can bind buttons multiple times for different layers such as “in combat”, “in a menu”, “dialog”, etc. which means you can have contextual actions be different to match your comfort (think PlayStation × vs o regional differences in-menu and in-game where o is confirm in menus but × is the main action button in combat).

I own a dualsense. I’ve always loved its trackpad for mouse cursor control in games that are less controller friendly on PC, but ever since the steam deck and it’s split trackpads, I’ll never look back. The split pads are such a superior option, especially with the way they work with the steam deck’s on screen keyboard, or for aiming in FPS games.

I feel like something like the xteink would be better suited to this class of device though

Do you think it runs at 1000w continuously? On any decent GPU, the responses are nearly instantaneous to maybe a few seconds of runtime at maybe max GPU consumption.

Compare that to playing a few hours of cyberpunk 2077 with raytracing and maxed out settings at 4k.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to hate about AI/LLMs, but running one locally without data harvesting engines is pretty minimal. The creation of the larger models is where the consumption primarily comes in, and then the data centers that run them are servicing millions of inquiries a minute making the concentration of consumption at a single point significantly higher (plus they retrain the model there on current and user-fed data, including prompts, whereas your computer hosting ollama would not.)

Yep! Using it now on my Android phone via GameNative (which is GPLv3 licensed so you know it’s good 👌🏻).

They don’t have an F-Droid release yet but you can install via Obtainium or downloading it directly. Their github URL is: https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative

Which they did.

Assume $1000 and be pleasantly surprised if its not. Start saving money now.