Pattern recognition. Opposable thumbs. Kung-fu grip. Floor-sweeping. Can sometimes create something neat befitting the year 1997. Can chop and fry vegetables. Load/unloading dishwasher. Poorly-equipped operator of 2 wheels (250w assist), ~450 miles on the odometer and no current destinations (also too damn hot).

Those are the ingredients that make it hard for me to justify myself in context of escapist fantasies (as out there as brain-in-a-can, as realistic as intentional communities yet still intangible).

People like positive self-talk (everyone matters), though I feel it really clashes with the rent-seeking+papers-please reality that we find ourselves in. Disposable everything.

These days you can download 100 gig in hours

Well yes, but for some of us the ‘in hours’ is more than 24-hours worth of hours. Longer in reality, because it’s shared internet.

Various things:

• uncompressed audio (perhaps needlessly, for lower-end CPUs)
• pre-rendered cutscenes, multiple resolutions
• large texture sizes (also think normal maps etc), multiple resolutions
• redundant or unused data
• large model sizes, or more assets in general
• previous issues may be multiplied by multi-language support

I would also say it could be a problem of art direction, having no constraint and ignoring smart techniques that use less data.

Also, a higher-budget --> more preorders?
More data --> more game?

Better? Probably not. Maybe it eventually starts making more sense with extreme temperatures.

I would be interested, but looking at the cost of something as remote as Whittier, AK does not inspire confidence. Though even if it were non-monetary, I still probably couldn’t pull my own weight. (also getting there, social compatibility etc)

13KiB is such a constraining limit, and extra funny considering modern events.

Hobbyist: I’ve deleted faces to use less bytes.

Console maker: We’re discontinuing discs. Worried about games being over 100GiB? Screw you, get faster internet.

EDIT: Also not exactly sure how they did the models. I could see precision being a grid/editor/export setting (or obj parser/optimizer?), though maybe they wrote them by hand or did it in Trenchbroom and thus handled by their own map loader. Controlling precision through scale too, maybe?

The search term is PG&E hooks. For example, a breakdown on hackaday.

Why?

Evidence used to convict PG&E of the 2018 Camp Fire shows the company knew old parts needed replacing, but tried to show they could last longer.

Money, I guess. The people who originally installed these hooks are probably dead of natural causes by now (even if they were quite young) so I imagine they’d be well-past service life of the parts too.

EDIT: Age of one of the broken hooks seems to be 97 years, costed 56 cents (not in modern money), and also:

According to a February 1987 engineering evaluation, the company ordered the tests of two worn hooks that were found on a transmission line in Contra Costa county – hooks that look chillingly similar to ones taken from the nearly 100-year-old transmission line blamed for the fire that left 85 dead.

especially on Linux

This is part of it for me, haven’t updated in a while (slow-ish shared internet) and then Arch moved the driver to the AUR. At this point I’d need to find a better distro, but aside from not finding one I like (with a better update structure that doesn’t give me other issues) the GPU will still be a problem (or 2 because proprietary driver).

Me hoping for a hand-me-down Polaris+ GPU to replace my now-legacy 1050Ti:

I know it sounds pedantic, but stuff like this shouldn’t use the term cyborg. They are bio-robots at best (really it’s just a hijacked bug). Similar for dead bugs.

Scientifically and legally for usage of the term I think it should be clear that the organism controls and benefits from the technology, not the other way around (or anything that blurs the lines on autonomy).

RAM is the new component to become overpriced.

It is <2016, 2019, 2026>*. I’m using a 1050Ti.

* new, re-used in otherwise new build, and not buying anything respectively.

Not quite, I would definitely still have a mortal brain (remember: no copies).

I’m sure if it could go this far, keeping my brain alive to 110yrs+ would probably be possible (and cyborg elder/geezer might even be a bit cool) though I also expect I wouldn’t get that far if there were any reason for me to be in dangerous situations.

Not that I would even want to be immortal, anyway.

Nothing. I’m not spiritual, though I do sort of believe some things like that in a non-literal fashion. I don’t believe I am part of some sort of unity, though I would say that yeah in an abstract sense I am just a complex multi-cellular organism and in most cases cooperation with other multi-cellular organisms is preferred. With the systems how they are now though, I am not participating (even if it is to my own detriment).

Design? It would require a bunch things that likely won’t happen in my lifetime. Basically a transhumanist re-do. Get my brain somewhere and somewhen better, get it going again ideally with a mix of symbiosis+tech that allows existing comfortably. This could take a lot of forms too (many that others would find too alien/isolated), though not too hopeful about the future and that I could actually have a place in it.

Slowroll is an interesting idea, but not much talk about it (maybe because experimental) and when I tried Tumbleweed I hated patterns. It also seems like the update model could be better, like a combo of security updates and stability based on ABI compatibility checks (ideally avoid breakage even if it means an older package, mark issue type with applications and tell me when updating may actually fix).

Nix too, but I’m not sure it’d do what I want easily. Plus, no dynamic linking is a double pain for me (on top of normal software, Godot+Nim-lang). Not sure about redundancy of app containers (which update on a diff time-frame) while having slow internet.

Legacy nvidia driver that’s a pain now, too.

I think to myself, only half-ironically, “textures were a mistake” (pre-rendered cutscenes, too). Or at least the practice of unique textures on every model being the standard rather than the exception. It adds a lot of workload, and IMO is probably diminishing returns in many cases.

Sure, I get that it was a logical/necessary step when a texture/sprite saved on polygon budget. These days I think (visible!) vertex color is a very practical technique that didn’t really get used to its full potential. It even makes a lot of sense when making a model to think about color via geometry. There’s a lot of room for aesthetic choice with meshes, colors, materials/shaders, character/map design, and yes textures if they don’t become bloat.

This is also why I dislike the idea of many remasters/remakes. Losing arguably the smartest* and most scalable solutions and switching over to much heavier (data and rendering-wise) replacements. Sure they made it visually stunning, but now I don’t know if I can comfortably download/store/run a game that probably still has game-design warts from 20+ years ago (and new glitches added).

* For example, Spyro’s vertex color skyboxes being replaced in Reignited. The original were iconic, aesthetically pleasing, they had a gamefeel reason (portals, seamless fly-into portal+fly-into-level), free by modern standards (so a toggle should be viable) they’re just mesh globes! I could even see even some verts added to improve, or use of layers or more distant geometry to give it more depth.

That’ll save money but I don’t think it nullifies parts being expensive. My GPU is now legacy (1050Ti) because I didn’t upgrade it when I did my 2019 AM4 build (sale prices were great). Ryzen seems like it’s more expensive now due to its success.

With how prices are I’ll probably keep using these parts until I stop using a computer.

I wish their name, community they created, and other post with a link in it could give some insight to what their purpose for creating an account was.

Seems to be fine for the question itself. Doing it this way is common, though typically the opener talks about premise more with the example being a short second paragraph.

Though I could definitely see having it as a reply due to length, also at least to stop non-answer top-level replies and at most to get engagement with their self-answer.

Not a lawyer, but if you put the name into wikipedia it redirects to the historical event both games are based on/inspired by. It’s a generic name, I can’t imagine a side being picked here (both change or neither change).

Have you looked into drop-in (ZLUDA) or recompile (SCALE, chipStar) things? Though they may not have been helpful with the years gone by (and may each have their own pros/cons).

I’m still using a 1050Ti (and legacy driver shifting to AUR did block me from updating), value doesn’t seem great and not going to buy something used from eBay. So that still complicates things for me.

Distro-wise I probably want something slower than Arch but not sure about point releases. And I am hoping for something that does updates in a way more friendly to slower internet (giving less update friction), but I suspect it doesn’t exist. Some things (OpenSUSE, NixOS) seem like they might be closer to I want but I have hangups about them (Patterns on SUSE and lack of videos for Slowroll, NixOS having multiple solutions for dynamically linked executables especially if I decide to stop using Steam directly).

I know it’s because I don’t have many, but my subscriptions are pretty much dead (somewhat niche stuff). More general stuff (like this comm that is not hard to find anyway due to activity) feels like filler and some other comms I might visit might have stuff I don’t want to commonly see (like new accounts made for blatant self-promotion).

Relates to @zxqwas@lemmy.world and @whaleross@lemmy.world (why someone would be browsing /all)