I like art, Linux, Zelda games and modding Minetest in Lua
AMD is far ahead in the performance/watt here. Intel seems to have lots of trouble providing even stable drivers for their XE/Arc graphics on Linux. Maybe their Battlemage generation will have better support but it’s not something I’d count on. So many of these handhelds try to shoehorn Windows into this form factor but MS business practices are anti-user at any opportunity to extract personal data or money.
Minetest engine and its games are great fun. It’s super easy to mod with Lua scripts and there is awesome documentation. ContentDB has an abundant selection of games and mods for anyone to customize their play.
Me boarding a 777 on Friday after a very long week of business travel, a true story:
Pilot: “Looks like we’ll get to San Jose 30 minutes ahead of schedule”
10 minutes later…
Pilot: “Just waiting for some paperwork before we can leave the terminal”
30 minutes later…
Pilot: “Sorry we can’t leave until the maintenance records are updated”.
30 minutes later…
Pilot: “We’re still waiting for sign-off”
5 minutes later…
Pilot: “By law, we have to allow passengers off the plane as it’s been over an hour at the terminal”
I de-board looking for any other flight, but it turns out there are no seats on any other plane in this airport…
Terminal attendant: “They have the paperwork now you can re-board if you wish”
What would you do?
Me: YOLO
Not unlike the species of it’s creators, go figure.
Immerse us in dlc and micropayments no doubt. We pay for PSN to have multi-player and they kill servers beloved by many. RIP LBP series
I found PROTON_LOG %command% insightful.
best of luck on your build!
I hope having a transporter device is more like folding space than particle-scanning and reconstruction. The scanning and reconstruction would still be great for replacing or repairing lost or deteriorating structures. Regardless, I have a number of questions that come up as we learn more about how our brain might work.
If our brain is changed in (near) death how would we determine what was lost?
Could we even reconstruct consciousness (this could be also gradual, but what is the speed of consciousness)?
It seems more like we would have to gradually move our conscious processing from per-existing wetware to whatever replaces it (even more wetware). It should behave like our brain as much as possible, but I don’t think we could avoid being different from what we were.
Our own brain changes over time, do we think the way we did when we were 5? How different will we think far later in life (assuming our brain is at least healthy)? I think we would have to accept changes in our fundamental being (which is already very challenging). The difference is that not only could we live for longer physically, but within the pure consciousness an entire lifetime could be lived in less than a second. We experience this temporarily in dreams, or while experiencing a life threatening event such as an automobile accident or the final moments of death itself. What if that was extended over physical months, years, decades? How would we deal with such a inheritance, who would teach us how to cope and find meaning?
Would we want to live life at the speed of the physical world after such an experience?
In other news, social interaction is linked to higher risk of everything else that can happen to a person.
We have a fusion reactor in the middle of our solar system solving the spicy half of the problem already. If we are having a solar heat capture problem, how is a new source of virtually unlimited power (and heat) here going to work? How is superconductivity coming along to help mitigate this?
I tried the Oculus 2 and liked that it gave me a very physical way to game as opposed to sitting in a chair. Unfortunately the weight on my head and sweaty headpiece were ultimately a turnoff. The glasses style devices (XReal, Viture, etc) are a much better fit for me and mine has 3DOF motion tracking so it works as mouse view in most games without requiring VR support. It’s much lighter and I can wear them for hours without the strain and sweat. Newer glasses are coming with cameras for 6DOF, hand tracking and eye-tracking is not to far off as well.
These glasses are powered by a phone or a pc with USB DP alt mode. This gets the battery and processor off the head and makes for an un-tethered experience (with a phone).
It’s a pretty cool way to use framework parts. I think the only concern about using the battery (as mention for the next iteration) is that in the event of a power outage, the video card adapter will not function.
Corsair SF Series, SF750 is the one I bought for my build and it’s been very quiet with a 0 RPM mode on most of the time I use the PC. Flexible “para cord” sleeved cables are very nice as well. I’ve had it just over a year without issue, but that’s not a long time for a PSU.
That is a certification of efficiency but does not take into account quality of cooling (fan bearing, design in component placement, control etc), especially important in SFF, or of assembly of components. If cost is really such an important factor, I would consider a larger form factor where constraints would not be so costly. It would at least be easier to build a quiet machine when fans can be larger and run a lower RPMs with adequate room to route cabling and facilitate ventilation.
If you get spend a little more for a quality PSU, it will last through all of your other upgrades. It’s really one of the few things that can be totally useful even after changing out your motherboard for the third time with that new chipset required by your next cpu.
There’s at least as much of a “massive discrepancy” between what Valve and Epic provide as value to people that chose their service.
U,D,U,D,L,R,L,R,B,A,B,A games when?
As far along as emulation has come, I’d like to see a proper Little Big Planet port with multi-player and local server support.
Awesome! This is next on my skills to learn list. Can you suggest some resources for starting out?
I guess if you don’t mind it becoming e-waste in a few years like the Q1 is near to being. You are practically at the mercy of Meta deciding what you can do with the device. There are some projects like ALVR to mitigate this somewhat, but these platforms are being locked down in more sophisticated ways with each generation.