julianh

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Game dev and Linux user

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julianh ,

Where's that iPhone comic about society

julianh ,

Yeah that's it, thanks

julianh ,

It's insane what these people do. They're rewriting code from the 60s to use even less memory, have to test it in production without physical access, and it takes two days to see if anything changes. It's an insane piece of engineering and it's incredible that it's still sending useful data.

julianh ,

You're right - most media formats have support for metadata, which can include all sorts of things depending on how the image is created. For instance, most phones have an option to add location data to photos.

A lot of identifiable info like location data is usually an option you can turn off. And there are a lot of tools to remove metadata from files. A quick search brought up this, which seems fairly reputable (and open source, which is usually good for sensitive stuff like this).

julianh ,

Sounds like people with voting. They love to tell you how it doesn't matter, and yet republicans put tons of effort into making it more difficult.

julianh ,

Any reason for picking it over all the other chromium browsers?

julianh ,

Ungoogled chromium with some privacy extensions would probably be a similar experience.

julianh ,

RTD is such a weird writer, he talks a bunch about how dr who is such a whimsical show and writes these fun campy episodes, but then occasionally just writes some of the most existentially horrifying episodes of television, and in the bts for it he's just like "oh I love wales, i'm so glad to film an episode set in wales!"

julianh ,

The last episode you mention wasn't written by moffat.

julianh ,

How is the name ableist?

julianh ,

huh, I've never heard that term before. Idk if that makes the name ableist though, since it clearly means something else, unlike the switch from master to main for git, where that name was used in the same way as the offensive context. Also the word "gimp" has another more well-known meaning... which I guess isn't that much better. Yeah idk maybe they should change the name lol.

How can I use a local LLM on Linux to generate a long story?

I'm interested in automatically generating lengthy, coherent stories of 10,000+ words from a single prompt using an open source local large language model (LLM) on low-spec hardware like a laptop without GPU and with i5-8250U, 16GB DDR4-2400MHz. I came across the "Awesome-Story-Generation" repository which lists relevant papers...

julianh ,

You can get a really cool, coherent story of any length you want by writing one or hiring a writer.

julianh ,

/bin, since that will include any basic programs (bash, ls, cd, etc.).

julianh ,

Someone already gave an answer, but the reason it's done that way is because on Linux, generally programs don't install themselves - a package manager installs them. Windows (outside of the windows store) just trusts programs to install themselves, and include their own uninstaller.

julianh ,

Mint would probably work for you. Some stuff is outdated, but it has flatpak which is a package manager with more up to date apps. If you're willing to put in the time though, I'd recommend trying some of the more common distros out (Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora). You can use a liveusb to test them without installing.

Steam is available anywhere so that's not a problem.

Discord officially only has a .deb package, so that's only for Debian based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint). There are other options for almost all distros though - I personally use Webcord

Fl studio might be tricky - supposedly it runs through wine but you might have to do a bit of work. I've personally used Reaper and I works great.

julianh ,

Ma'am/sir this is a Wendy's.

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