mack123

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Exo-biology to fill the old bank account. Lets see how many credits we can earn in a week.

So I logged in last night after getting my new operating system to work with ED (ubuntu) and noticed that the useless crew of my fleet carrier once again managed to spend almost their entire annual budget on Indi Bourbon and Kamitra Cigars....

mack123,

Thanks Commander. I will certainly have a look.

Love the photo ๐Ÿ˜‰. Stunning composition.

mack123,

Just got Elite Dangerous running today on my fresh Ubuntu. Loaded the modules for the z52 hotas, copied my bindings from my windows instance and there she flies. That makes 3 out o3 for my most played games in Ubuntu.

So far ED is running flawlessly. I need an equivalent for ED market connector though. But that can be manual gor the moment.

mack123,

Excellent, will check it out. Thanks

mack123,

That should just work. You view the post on your own instance and reply there. That reponse trickles to the other instances.

It may take a while to propagate though. The paradigm is close to that of the ancient nntp news groups where responses travel at the speed of the server's synchronisation. It may be tricky for rapid fire conversation, but works well for comments of articles.

mack123,

Agreed on your point. We need a way to identify those links so that our browser or app can automatically open them through our own instance.

I am thinking along the lines of a registered resource type, or maybe a central redirect page, hosted by each instance, that knows how to send you to your instance to view the post there.

I am sure it is a problem that can be solved. I would however not be in favour of some kind of central identity management. It is to easy a choke point and will take autonomy away from the instances.

mack123,

That approaches my current workflow. View all with federation, view subscriptions with federation and repeat without.

It would be nice to have that as options on the home screen, but it is not an urgent priority.

mack123,

Back when the AMD k6 266, was a new chip, 1998 I believe. I spent a number of evenings building slackware. I think that qualifies as a lifetime pass, running a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 now and enjoying that is simply works.

Only drivers compiled were the rocm drivers to mess with some AI stuff and even that is easy

mack123,

Agreed, I installed Ubuntu 22.04 last week to play with stable diffusion. Decided to have a quick look at steam / proton and was blown away with how easily it works. Fallput 76, my primary online game installed and run with almost no hassle. I even managed to get a long time irritation with runaway frame rates fixed.

The only glitch that remains unsolved is a hang on exit. Which is a known issue.

mack123,

I loved Scalzi's Old man war series. Good entertaining sci fi, with some interesting questions to ponder under the stories.

mack123,

There is an important distinction that we must make. Community vs application.

My experience is like yours, made an account on lemmy, beehaw and here. When we saw the Reddit writing on the wall. The community here has been so much fun interacting with, that I have mostly stayed here.

The software is in its infancy and that is exciting. Tricky and maybe a little unstable, but conceptually exactly what I have wanted for ages. It will get there eventually. Ernest and team has been doing a spectacular job keeping the loghts on.

I expect that we will get many different aggregators for federated content as the platform matures.

mack123,

I double posted a few times before I figured this one out. I am sure it will get sorted pretty soon.

mack123,

I cannot help but think of Eric Drexler's 90s classic book, The coming age of nanotechnology whenever we make another breakthrough in this area. It is astounding how far we have come.

mack123,

This is a fact and a half. Ihave been using linux on and off for a headless Minecraft server. Vanilla Debian. Yesterday I decided to load up the latest Ubuntu lts, to run stable diffusion. My first end user linux install in ages. And it was a 15 minute seamless experience. From boot ISO to running a normal functioning desktop. Add another hoiur and stable diffusion was up and running. A far cry from building slackware from, from source, in the early 2000s. It truly is amazing when we consider what has been achieved.

mack123,

That could be fun. I am just amazed at how far the ecosystem has come. Just for kicks I tried getting steam up and running and got fallout 76 running through their compatibility tools in no time i knew the steam deck pushed that along, but did not realise exactly how far it has been pushed. Itay be time to give it a run again as a daily driver.

mack123,

I am working my way there. I am interested in the gaming possibilities. NPC dialogue and so on. But I wanted to get the environment working first. I found more guides for stable diffusion. Now I can venture deeper knowing that rocm is working.

mack123,

I was running this version: directML

It is dog slow compared to running under linux with rocM, but she runs ;-)

mack123,

For sure. It works, especially if you use Shark with the experimental driver, but the speed difference was an order of magnitude for the rocm compiled driver on linux. I am already needing more card though. The 6800xt 16gb ram is not enough.I am running on medium ram settings. I hear rocm support for windows is coming soon, so that will be interesting as well. There were some rumours earlier this year.

mack123,

And that is where things gets interesting. The ethics of the situation. Even beyond copyright issues. Was your AI trained on data that you have the rights for, or not?

We then have to think of the base model. How was that trained? I have not formed a well reasoned opinion yet as to the ethics of training on social media and forum style data.

For me, personally, I don't have an issue with my own posts and responses ending up as AI training data. We can also argue that those posts were made on public forums, therefor in public. But does that argument hold true for everyone. Underlying that question, we have to consider the profit motif off the companies. There is a major difference between training for academic purposes and for corporate purposes.

Valve is probably smart in steering clear of the entire mud bog at this time. Not enough is known of how it will play out in both the courts and in public opinion.

mack123,

I enjoy them. Especially on the worlds with interesting atmospheres. I have not played in a little while. I think that some unwinding xeno biology may be in my future. Gotta pay those lazy crew people on my carrier.

mack123,

Awesome. The R1150R is a lot of bike for the money. Love those. I have been tempted to get a GS, but the stable is full at the moment. Well done.

Thie K1300R was almost a purely emotional choice. I needed one from the moment I saw the launch poster. I got this one for an affordable price, because everyone wanted the S1000RR and old K bikes have terrible resale value.

I am also keeping an 1983 K100, in RT full fairing trim, on the road My local agent's parts guy found most of what I needed over the years. Even things like dash panels can still be found new.

mack123,

Shared it with select members of my Company's finance team, it got a good chuckle from them. Thanks!

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