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yon

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I like anime and manga.

Gunpla is fun!

Computers are fun too, sometimes.

Video games can entertain…

I blog now!

I can code.

This should be updated further at some point really. Or should it?

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fujiwara, to random
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My dad was diagnosed with cancer today and I'm just in disbelief. I know he'll be okay, but I want to know what God thought one parent wasn't enough.

yon,
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@fujiwara I’m so sorry to hear that.

I’m going to be very serious for a just a while. Don’t push things into the future and don’t wait to talk about whatever you’d want to talk about.

chikorita157, to random
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Why I’m not surprised by this at all.

:bunhdthink:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/humane-ai-pin-founders-run-for-the-exits-one-month-after-launch/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

yon,
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@chikorita157 It’s such a baffling not-much-of-a-product.

I mean it looks super cool in Star Trek, but just like Star Trek doors the reason it works is that it’s scripted.

If things like Siri was so good I felt my phone was in the way, then one of these things would be a, well, thing.

But Siri and friends are downright awful. I genuinely would like Apple to make Siri good. I would use it quite a bit more then.

neatchee, to Musicals
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Careful the wish you make [...]
Wishes come true, not free.

Careful the spell you cast [...]
Sometimes the spell may last past what you can see and turn against you.

Careful the tale you tell: that is the spell.
Children will listen.

yon,
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@neatchee Now I want an animated series with musical numbers a la Hazbin Hotel, but about spell casters!

The musical numbers would be… magical!

yon,
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@neatchee I only kinda like musicals, I think the music slows things down a bit too much. Which is why I liked Hazbin as the songs were pretty short and pushed the story forward.

We need more wizards and mages and such. And classical ones. There was so much cool stuff back in the day and I’d love to see it come to life now.

For instance a very high quality TV show version of Terry Pratchett would be amazing. Think one book, one season. And no goofy stuff. Make it really good.

yon,
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@neatchee Haven’t seen Going Postal yet. It’s the British two part movie right?

I quite liked Good Omens. I was touched by how it felt like Gaiman wanted to honor his friend and he interpreted Pratchett so well in the adaptation. Season two was also enjoyable, but it became noticeable that Pratchett was the bigger influence and it’s not that easy to emulate his style. Gaiman still did a wonderful job never the less. I don’t think many could have done it that well.

Knew I’d get called out:) What I meant was the low budget, kind of stage play type of goofiness. Similar to how all planets look like Canada in low budget sci-fi.

I would love a how where it actually looks like I’d imagine it. The Fallout and The Last of US instead of the latest Resident Evil or that horrid abomination Monster Hunter “movie”.

Fallout is probably a great example. I want all the fun and cleverness and oddities and fun and social commentary and everything else that comes with Pratchett. Imagine the witches! But packaged up really really nice and neat and professional.

Oh, imagine if they nailed DEATH. Both amusing, comical, yet utterly terrifying in some ways. Or Lord Vetinari. That man is truly frightening. But also so funny :)

chikorita157, to random
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Noctua gets into the… desk fan market. :bunhdthink:

https://noctua.at/en/noctua-launches-home-product-line-for-home-office-and-multi-purpose-ventilation

yon,
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@chikorita157 So they finally launched it? Saw a guy on YouTube 3D print one already and test:)

(Search for fan showdown and you’ll find him.)

anianimalsmoe, (edited ) to random
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So I'm attempting to grow negi. You know that long veggie that :mmiku_waving: Hatsune Miku in Ievan Polka, Farfetch'd, and Sirfetch'd carry?

I've heard it called a lot of names.

What do you call negi in your region? :neocat_confused:

#poll #FediPoll

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe I had no idea a welsh onion was a thing. TIL:)

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe @shinydan I’m aware of green onions, but they are pretty small.

I think it’s a pretty cool thing that I can still learn about new vegetables.

(Also a lot of fruits/vegetables comes from China:))

yon, to random
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@chikorita157 You were right, looks like the Snapdragon X Elite (stop using X, it’s been swastikad) is both fast and lasts longer (though since it’s actively cooled and I have no idea of what battery was used we’ll have to see about performance per watt).

Would be neat to have it in a Linux laptop. I don’t want an even worse Windows keyboard (the win and menu key was always moronic and inferior to meta, but it’s getting worse now!) though, and Windows with copilot+ is just incredibly super creepy. So maybe someone will finally build an actual Linux laptop with a sensible and useful keyboard.

I don’t even want to know what it’s reporting back on, but nothing you do on your computer would be even remotely a little bit private. That is creepy.

Apple better not be as dumb.

yon,
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@chikorita157 First of all, the M3 is really fast. Faster than what I need in a laptop, by far.

Also while we are going to see endless amounts of Benchmarks, the Apple SoCs vs others comes with the caveat that it’s only a part of it all. If you want MacOS/iOS/etc there are no alternatives. And if you want Windows/Android/(Linux?) you can’t use Apple SoCs anyways.

(I know they are working on Linux on Apple, but it’s not fully ready yet. Very impressed by their efforts, but I’m realistic.)

So Apple is mostly PR (faster means you need it, right?) plus a smaller number of people who do something intense. They have to appear good.

With non-Apple the question is, what happens to Intel/AMD? You know that story, but I myself see an open race still. Here you could jump hardware platform and continue your software (theoretically).

Biggest issue with jumping to ARM for handheld gaming systems that wants to perform really well is GPU. I still don’t get why AMD doesn’t have an ARM with their GPU in a SoC. Baffles me. Nvidia seems to have gone snowblind with AI:/

Feels like I’m looking at a bunch of puzzle pieces, but nobody seems to connect all needed pieces.

(I still don’t think x86->ARM will be fast enough unless we see hardware dedicated to it in non Apple hardware. And I think getting it recompiled is the way to go. But I could be wrong. If someone tries we’ll know:))

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe @chikorita157 I’ve read that for a long time. Probably because it’s a “good story”. But at one point as you say pesky things like molecules comes into play.

Which is why we see multi-this and that. Multi cores, wide parallel pipelines, chiplets, etc.

That said, it seems like ARM is less resource intense for the same effect. Rethinking how the resources are used could create better outcomes.

But switching platforms is getting less and less common:( Feels like ARM might be the last one for a long time.

IMHO a lot of it is by far fast enough for me. My issues are power consumption and heat. I want less. It’s getting crazy in same cases. Not old big iron crazy, but still crazy.

I do wonder what it’ll all do to the whole business though. If the pace actually stops.

yon,
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@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe I wonder if it was Motorola or if it was just a dead end.

I’m still sad 68k died:( I wonder how far they could have gone.

I get why ARM is doing well, it was a really cool architecture from day one. Makes me wonder what would have happened if Amiga, Atari, Apple etc would have jumped on ARM in time.

yon,
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@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe I also don’t think the volume was there. Plus they seemed to have issues getting new and better versions out. Similar to the 68060 in that sense.

yon,
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@chikorita157 AMD really truly should make SoC/APUs with ARM+Radeon. I can’t come up with a single good reason not to. Which leads me to believe one out of two things.

We’ll get a surprise at some point.

Management failed.

yon,
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@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe Volume is everything.

But I wonder who buys these today. I wonder what the use case is. Not in a dismissive way. I just don’t know.

yon,
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@chikorita157 AIX if it’s a must, but boy would one want to get off that. Could run win/mac/linux and cross compile and deploy after all.

I wonder if there’s people out there that can drop $10k on a machine like that just to run Linux because they want a different CPU arch :)

(Disclaimer: I don’t know if these are any fast. No clue there.)

yon,
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@chikorita157 I assume so. Who building a new system would go “let’s build it on an obscure OS instead of Linux/Win with massive amounts of support and knowledge”!

yon, to random
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Weird Al > Weird AI.

(This don’t isn’t great. I wonder if it’s visible on other clients.)

yon,
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@chikorita157 Sadly I can’t come up with anything clever with Dolly, but she’s such an amazing person. I had a short list of celebrities I actually think are proper good people.

And a second list of people that hasn’t always been good, but turned out good. Gotta love an honest redemption arc.

anianimalsmoe, to Anime
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It's very strange how this anime season has one gay and 4 music lesbian series, and yet Japan still hasn't legalized same-sex marriages.

Literally a Japanese lesbian couple was granted refugee status in Canada in 2023 using a 200 page document about the discrimination they faced. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15271758

Looks like times are changing..?

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe Just guessing here, but could it be related to the whole “don’t talk about things” culture? Which in many ways are a double edged sword.

Japan is definitely better than the U.S. right now, but I get the feeling that things move at a glacial pace. But I think it’s a great thing that it’s getting more common in media, as hopefully newer generations grow up with more empathy and tolerance.

It’s happened in the past with Mr Roger’s Neighborhood for instance.

Not that I’m seeking any of it out myself. Just as I’m not looking for cishet. I’m just not bothered by it and care more if it’s a good setting, world building, characters, and script.

I wonder if any of my favorite YouTubers have made any videos on the subject. It can be difficult to get much of an idea of it from the outside. I really wish Japan would take a leap forward and advance human rights. I think it would help overall.

yon, to random
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Just had one of those low level aha moments. I don’t have a TikTok account, I don’t have the app nor do I go to the web site.

So now I’m sure that if anyone is reading this they are thinking: “Yon, that’s an awfully long winded way to say you don’t watch any TikTok videos!”

Well, not true:) A crazy amount of TikToks are reposted as YouTube shorts.

yon,
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@chikorita157 Bandwidth is pretty big too, scales with each user and as a small player one wouldn’t have access to <fancy tech that solves that, assuming I don’t have to explain it, but I also don’t know the word for it because I’m tired>.

Streaming is even worse in many ways. Short form videos would be the same.

(I don’t actually dislike short form, it’s just a very different thing. A different mind set. Much closer to zapping between channels but not as shit compared to watching curated “good” videos.)

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe @chikorita157 CDN, that’s the dang word. I was thinking of how they are implemented and caching and couldn’t see the forrest for the trees:)

$600/year surely is a chunk of money, but not outside the real of what many can afford. But assume they don’t scale so, yeah, must be horrid amounts of money. Very difficult to get any of this to make any money.

Not to mention how much more difficult streaming is (not the Netflix kind, the Twitch kind). Lag is absolute killer for things like interacting with chat for instance. Very crazy.

Video is pretty crazy stuff. I grew up in an analog world:)

yon,
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@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe Loved Fastly when I dealt with their stuff. I never did video though. But their whole setup is really cool.

yon,
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@chikorita157 There’s no such thing as a free lunch or unlimited data:) (sorry for the joke)

Wow. That’s quite a bit after all. Guess it really ads up.

anianimalsmoe, to random
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Another new Xitter clone by an ex-Xitter exec, Maven, is basically using OpenAI to categorize posts, and using algorithms to generate a feed based on selected topics. So no 'following', just 100% topics based on algo...

In theory it's good, but it'll eventually just feed you mostly ads, because that's the only way to profit off social media. No following means all conversations would be topical instead of community, which is kinda like Deaddit.

https://www.wired.com/story/maven-social-network-that-eliminates-followers-and-stress/

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe It’s like the weirdest and least fun video game:)

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