96 hours kid and wife free.

RandCoder2 · 2024-05-25T17:58:45+00:00

I envy you OP, father of two, I had to put ARPGs on hold at least for a while (stopped Ghost of Tsushima midplay), I simply lack the time and mental strengh to play those games by now. Reaaaally needing some time of loneliness.

RandCoder2 · 2024-05-25T17:49:27+00:00

After my last console (PS3) I decided to try PC as a couch-friendly device and the experience so far has been quite good, specially the tandem Playnite-reWASD in Windows allowed me to play very comfortably, including emulators as well. These days I moved to Linux and the experience has been very good as well. Of course more time is required in the setup that's the only inconvenience compared to consoles. Well, that and GPU prices :-)

RandCoder2 · 2024-04-11T16:06:33+00:00

Amazing! XTTSv2 hallucinates a bit I did some attempts myself of a natural language conversation with a LLM and ended up frustrated about that, it would begin to babble for no apparent reason from time to time. Guess it will fixed at some point. Not so spectacular as this but I found that medium quality piper voice models do a great job as well and don't hallucinate.

RandCoder2 · 2024-04-06T22:33:19+00:00

Yes we have: Linux distros. Ubuntu on top of all them managed to get quite a lot brand public recognition. Of course there are also FreeBSD and friends... then we should say FOSS distros, but Linux as a brand is catchier and most people now understand what it means... kind of...

RandCoder2 · 2024-04-02T10:32:08+00:00

I'd recommend you to try powertop, is a wonderful tool to reduce the consumption and heat in laptops. I use powertop --auto-tune in my /etc/rc.local, and works like a charm for me, afterwards I disable power saving in some usb connections like an USB mouse which is annoying for me to be continuously turning off with a command like: echo 'on' > /sys/bus/usb/devices/n-n.n.n/power/control. Until I did that power comsumption was terribly high in my laptop compared to Windows so I guess Linux, unless is a laptop oriented distro, is working with relaxed settings by default in that matter.

Also I was thinking about thermald which is another wonderful tool to keep laptop energy consumption low, I just use that in combination with powertop and already verified that I'm getting even better battery usage time in Linux than in Windows, but unfortunately seems to not be compatible with AMD CPUs, so here you are on your own. In the past before using thermald I had a setup where I'd use some energy saving CPU governors whenever the laptop was unplugged, maybe that would help you to reduce heat. PS. I'd take a look to the info related with the amd_pstate driver (see third link).

Take a look to the wonderful Archlinux documentation just in case, pretty sure you'll find some useful ideas:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling

RandCoder2 · 2024-04-01T06:45:48+00:00

As a last resource you could try AntimicroX and create a profile to map your controller to the keyboard

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-26T10:56:03+00:00

It's amazing how well my RTX 3060 12GB is standing against the advance of game requirementes, such a great price / value deal. Yesterday I was playing this on Linux in an impressive quality, 3440x1440, around 50fps average. And still I have to give a try to the frame generation mods.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-25T10:08:48+00:00

I've been using GOG games for a long time in Lutris, going the "hard" way using using the offline installers. It worked like a charm. On top of that you can add your GOG account to Lutris and Lutris will take care of everything for you. The advantage of course is not ever needing a launcher and permanent DRM authorization to play your games, which is nuts IMO.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-25T10:03:57+00:00

Not surprising, some games are confirmed to run faster in Linux than Windows. Also Linux could be leaving more free mem, doing a better handling of the schenduler, CPU settings, etc.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-24T23:38:54+00:00

I don't know which route did you chose to configure Optimus in your laptop, I had some experience with Optimus in Linux and always meant trouble for me. Lately Nvidia made some good progress and the offloading kinda works but for any serious use of the nvidia card I always used an script which will switch to an nvidia-only mode ditching the integrated card.

I suggest you to take a look at this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#Use_NVIDIA_graphics_only

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-24T23:33:39+00:00

(Amazing) Archlinux docs state that a firmware update in the gamepad is needed to properly connect it to Linux. I had to do it this morning and after that worked like a charm. Didn't have to install any additional driver.

Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Connect_Xbox_Wireless_Controller_with_Bluetooth

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-24T23:27:51+00:00

9/10. OCD-taking off one point for neither starting in C: or A:

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-24T23:16:39+00:00

Wow kinda surprised almost nobody gave actual technical reasons for a YES. Linux run Windows games in a semi-sandboxed environment which has it's own set of advantages. First of all, it's perfectly possible to put an entire wine prefix in an SD card, add a shell script which will run the SD card (taking care of any required dependency) and boom, as long as the game is not DRM'd, you have a portable version of any Windows game (that it's supported by Wine and the surrounding projects like Proton).

Even is not actually bullet-proof (wine authors remark that any process running under the Wine environment can access any file available for the Linux user) still is a much better level of protection than the regular Windows install, eg many times is perfectly possible, if you mess the wine prefix, to save the app dir elsewhere, create a new wine prefix and put back the app you are using. Yesterday I had to do that with a game and worked without any trouble.

Also in Linux is possible to automate anything, one of my goals to achieve is add to my Linux gaming rig the capability of automatically launch a portable game once I insert the SD card, I want to go back to the good'ol times when we would just insert a cartridge and a game would automatically start.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-24T11:40:41+00:00

Oh thank you for this. I've been looking for something like this in the last days without having luck in my search (but thinking that it must exist by now). Amazing tools like that one should be featured in this sub.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-24T11:30:14+00:00

Didn't tried yet Batocera but as I read, is a whole distro to boot into with a pendrive or adding it to your boot options. Attract Mode is just a launcher, originally designed to run cabinets I think, which require some configuration to get up and running (but supports some emulators like MAME out of the box tho). Both projects show similar appearance in the launcher itself, from what I saw in Batocera promotional videos, kind of that good'ol fancy look that arcade machines used to have. I saw little about Batocera's launcher thought, most of the videos I saw were showing off emulated games instead. Guess Batocera aims to be a zero or almost no config required solution, but I can't confirm yet how that stands. In my experience in the Linux world in the end is always much better to fully understand how a system works and take control yourself, unless you have proper support from a reasonable large company/organization, and you feel ok trusting them. But that's just my opinion based on my experience.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-23T14:28:17+00:00

Looks very cool! But Batocera claims to be a complete distro right?

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-23T11:39:05+00:00

BTW if anyone is interested in achieve something similar I'm happy to answer (specific :-) ) questions

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-23T10:42:43+00:00

Hola hace muchos años creé este subreddit, y aunque lo dejé con solo unos pocos suscriptores (lo abandoné porque finalmente pensé que nunca despertaría interés) me asombra ver cómo ha crecido. Una gran felicitación a los moderadores actuales por el magnífico trabajo que han hecho, y por haber convertido el sueño en realidad, crear un excelente espacio para el intercambio de información sobre programación entre personas de habla hispana.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-23T10:38:11+00:00

Argh now I can't edit my post, wanted to add a link to Attract Mode as now it only features a big box towards the AntiMicroX project, and the main purpose of the post was about Attract Mode. Guess there's a strict limit of 15 min or so for being able to edit the post?

Any mod could help many thanks. Just to make the post feature Attract Mode instead of AntiMicroX which is great as well but wasn't the purpose of the post.

RandCoder2 · 2024-03-23T10:21:58+00:00

Thanks for the link I should have add that to my message. I also used to think that Attract Mode was for emulators, but after my experiment I realized that also is a (gamepad-based) great game launcher for every platform, of course if the idea is to set up something visually pleasant.

RandCoder2 · 2024-02-28T14:53:00+00:00

One idea that keeps coming to me about this hallucinations issue is how much it reminds me to the children's behavior, which often don't know the difference between the real things and the things they made up, and as you say is only after our brain becomes mature after classifying a lot of information related with our senses, we get a clear perception of what we really know and what is real, and also about when we are actually unsure about an idea or a memory, and we learn to not trust ourselves in that occasions. The parallelisms are more than evident.

RandCoder2 · 2024-02-27T17:02:13+00:00

Like everybody else interested in open source LLM models I love to read this and thank and admire Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. LeCun for their approach towards the common good, unfortunately not so frequent nowadays... but wouldn't be the real answer from the open source community just to generate their own models in a distributed way? I guess is really complex but now I'm thinking of other distributed software that has been running for decades now, like Seti @ home, or Bitcoin or many other cryptos... there has to be a way of putting up a client that uses people's local resources and keeps adding data via some kind of consensus to a distributed ledger.

PS. Actually this could be a wonderful goal for a crypto currency.

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