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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I read online that playing games on a shared screen is better because it establishes gaming as a group/social activity.
simmanian
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
A few weeks ago, I installed linux (Nobara, if you're curious) on my PC and hooked it up to the living room TV to use as a gaming console. I have absolutely no regret. I did it initially because apparently playing games on a shared screen is better for my kid. But I was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly Windows only games run on Linux. The whole experience has been great, and I don't think I'll ever go back. I have an nvidia gpu as well, which apparently does not work very well on Linux. For me, on Nobara, it's been working flawlessly.

The most annoying thing I encountered was the Switch controller support being rather poor. Every button press was somehow interpreted as two different buttons at the same time and I had to figure out which commands to run on Terminal to stop it from happening. Even then, the bluetooth connection on my PC was so bad that I had to stay within 3 feet lest the controller disconnects. I don't really think this is a Linux issue per se, but I recommend people buy a couple of 8bitdo controllers on Amazon which come with USB dongles if they want to go this route.

I will miss games that I can only play with mouse and keyboard, but I think there are enough games out there with controller support that this is not going to be an issue.
simmanian
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
I find the Q&As on his personal blog the most accessible way to grasp his views: https://thoughtforms.life/qa-from-the-internet-and-recent-pr...
simmanian
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Michael Levin's ontology (that the body basically acts as pointers to the mind in Platonic Realm) is so crazy that I want it to be true.
simmanian
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Haven't used skills so far -- do you simply store them in your skills directory and have them automatically get used or do you have to specify one of the skills every time?
simmanian
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
The article and the comments remind me of Michael Levin's work on bioelectricity.

20 min ted talk - https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c

3 hr lex fridman episode - https://youtu.be/p3lsYlod5OU
simmanian
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
If what we learned from Stable Diffusion can be applied here, we can probably achieve even more amazing results with models that are fine tuned for specific use cases. But that will probably not happen until a similar model is open sourced.
simmanian
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
This article may be old. It took my GF just 10 seconds to cancel her subscription.
simmanian
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
Downloading and uploading bank statements is a manual process, unless you're willing to give the service your bank ID/PW, right? Seems to me if you set up your bank accounts to send you notification emails for any balance change, you can automatically reflect the balance without needing to deal with sensitive credentials.