Posts by Groo The Wanderer 819 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Feb 2023
Turns out that a) I forgot about my Microsoft X-Box controller, which I wouldn't trade for anything except a replacement with same, and b) it turns out the Halo collection runs just fine with Proton Experimental... I never did get around to playing it, despite owning it for at least a couple of years. I've only ever finished few enough games to count them on my fingers, and that gets cut in half if you don't want to count the Quake II mission packs as separate games.
I do NOT want "Windows Recall" anywhere NEAR my systems. Combined with the MANDATORY secure id key public key half of the cipher, the NSA and any other authority in the US now has the technical capability to surreptitiously monitor any and all PCs in North America that have WIndows 11 installed, in any size, shape, or form, save for Windows Server, where the secure key infrastructure remains optional.
That is a LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE IDENTIFIER FOR THE OWNER OF ANY SCREENSHOTS THEY CHOOSE TO UPLOAD FROM YOUR SYSTEM. And the odds are in the corporate world, your boss and the security goons now have the same capability to monitor and prove what you are actually DOING with your time at work.
Welcome to 1984, people. The USA thinks its a guideline, not a warning. Stupid @$)@& fools...
This morning in the wee hours of 2024-12-09, I opted to nuke my Windows 11 Pro boot partition and its games, and reformat it for use under Ubuntu 24.04. I then did the ever popular magic "sudo update-grub" to remove the no-longer-existing Windows boot EFI entry from the boot manager.
I'm already losing games from Rockstar because I lost access to an old email account - why not scrap the 10% that don't run properly under Steam with Linux while I'm at it? I also lose my GOG games, but there were only 7 I had installed, and I hadn't actually played any of them in ages, just configured them and set them up - over and over as I shuffled systems around and redid drive locations and game libraries over the past years since building the initial core of what has become my current box through judicious upgrades the whole life of its existence.
But I digress.
Bye-bye, Bill, Satya, any and all things Microsoft...
My only regret is Ubuntu is hosted on US soil, and clearly the NSA have more hooks out there than we ever dreamed... but I certainly wouldn't want to try to shoehorn the NVidia tensor stack onto a Debian box that doesn't support that type of stuff by default...
Yeah, well, at least the Chinese aren't trying to install NSA spyware like "Recall" on everyone's system and trying to pretend it would be useful.
Migration of all personal projects to an Ubuntu 24.04 boot partition is complete. The only thing installed now under Wintendo is games.
I don't trust recall for anything else.
He already did that and was convicted for inciting the violent attempt at an overthrow of the duly elected USG.
How a TRAITOR ends up President is beyond me.
Maybe if I beat myself with a large gold brick wrapped in a lemon peel, American politics would make sense to me....
Unfortunately, the people who want to speak to simulations of the deceased are also those who most want to believe that it worked, and their long-lost one is back again in some form from beyond the grave. Just look at the number of people who believe in pseudo-science like Astrology or Tarot Card Readings... can you imagine giving them a unique AI "based on the stars?" They'd suck it up like drooling toddlers.
The fundamental problem is it takes real intelligence to understand plain, everyday user language. Current generation "AI" is just statistics gone overboard that has no actual intelligence.
I've said it ever since I grasped what OpenAI started hyping: LLMs are interesting side bars, but they're a dead end for systems that can actually understand users, instead of requiring users to become "LLM chat speakers". Basically no different than expecting users to be good at programming.
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