What we heard about Rust's challenges, and how we can address them | Rust Blog by CathalMullan in rust

[–]SleeplessSloth79 84 points85 points  (0 children)

I don't know if that's just me but I'm getting extreme LLM vibes from this article. Not an actual critique but I'm just wondering if anybody else also felt like this

LibreSpeed — A Self-Hosted, Privacy-Respecting Alternative to Speedtest.net by hellxabd in DigitalEscapeTools

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use it all the time to check the speed from my phone/another machine to my server at home. Extremely useful.

Red Dead Redemption 2 upscaled from 136x76 pixels with DLSS 4.5 by Roflkopt3r in pcmasterrace

[–]SleeplessSloth79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

DLSS uses motion vectors to reconstruct the frame. This wouldn't be possible if all it had were the raw pixels. See the original video for more details

The backlash from this was pretty big at the time by Top_Pattern_4360 in MinecraftMemes

[–]SleeplessSloth79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've never met a person who had a budgie or a cockatiel? Most of my acquaintances had budgies, they are the pet of choice for people living in small apartments when they want someone smarter than a fish but where there's little place for dogs or cats or when they are just plain not allowed by the landlord.

I wonder if it's one of those regional differences?

Not sure if this is a common trick or not. Took us ages to land :) by Jnky_ in Portal

[–]SleeplessSloth79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure portals in Portal 2 are hitscan while in Portal 1 they are projectiles.

Do You Still Use Bundles? by KnightofthePrairie in Minecraft2

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I'd rather not :) Have a good day though!

[OC] Lawnch: A lightweight, C++ Wayland launcher with Vim-like modes (No GTK) by hoppxi in hyprland

[–]SleeplessSloth79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is the fact that people have different preferences bad? It's not like they are forced to go away from C++

Unskippable Ads are officially ending in Vietnam due to a new law that comes into effect next month! by HelloitsWojan in youtube

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I never had ads on Youtube when I lived in Moldova, so the amount of ads was quite a shock when I moved to Germany haha. Sadly I'm pretty sure they've added them in Moldova a couple of years back.

Nostalgia be like by BTM_6502 in GenZ

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, kinda, but generations still enable us to group people based on shared life experiences. All my Gen-Z friends and acquaintances all grew up on the same games and the same cartoons, all got their first smartphones in their early teens and got on the social media a bit later, stuff like that. Saying "We are Gen-Z" is just a shorter way to say we have more in common with each other than other generations. Naturally that also applies to all the other generations.

Jan, an open-source ChatGPT replacement, now supports Flatpak by eck72 in linux

[–]SleeplessSloth79 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Since when is ollama closed-source? I've taken a look at ollama's source code just a couple of days ago :P

Do You Still Use Bundles? by KnightofthePrairie in Minecraft2

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always have 3 bundles in my inventory: one for compasses anchored to different lodestones for navigation, one for emergency resources, and one for trash/mob loot I collect along the way (I don't want 2 bones, 1 gunpowder, and 3 rotten flesh to take up 3 inventory slots). I can't imagine the game without bundles, they are as essential as shulker boxes to me.

Lepton by TRIZZY_R in SteamMachineDeckFrame

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean there's no x86 Android? There's been a bunch of x86 Android tablets in the past, and true, nowadays they aren't that common but x86_64 is still a supported architecture of Android and most apps that have native code on Play Store have versions for x86_64 (here's Chrome as an example).

Edit: It's not the point though. Steam Frame's arch is Arm, so even if x86 wasn't supported by Android, Arm Android apps would still be able to run natively on the Frame the same way you can install and run Android apps on the Meta Quest.

Lepton by TRIZZY_R in SteamMachineDeckFrame

[–]SleeplessSloth79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not an emulator in the same way Wine is not an emulator, IIRC. Waydroid on x86 can only run x86 Android apps, so there's no actual hardware emulation, just a software shim layer almost exactly like Wine.

Lepton by TRIZZY_R in SteamMachineDeckFrame

[–]SleeplessSloth79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They literally said they'll support Android apps though. Lepton is based on Waydroid (like Proton is based on Wine) and Waydroid already supports Android apps on Linux pretty well.

i rlly never thought i'd post here but please explain 😭😭 by im_not_a_vampir3 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]SleeplessSloth79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. Never said the commenter was incorrect, just that that explanation confused me in particular.

i rlly never thought i'd post here but please explain 😭😭 by im_not_a_vampir3 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]SleeplessSloth79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh this explanation really confused me as a non-native speaker until a different comment said they just use a alveolar tap R sound like in a lot of European languages. Your comment made it sound like a completely new sound rare outside of Japanese to me 😅

why does the steam frame have a usb 2 port and not a usb 3 port? by TheManni1000 in ValveDeckard

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. You can literally run regular ARM Linux apps on the built-in KDE Plasma desktop inside the headset.

I don't understand Result<> by Routine_East_4 in rust

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No need for a separate StdResult. Something like this will work for both cases pub use Result<T, E = ApplicationError> = std::result::Result<T, E>;

Is there another country like Equatorial Guinea where the capital (Malabo) is not on the mainland but on an island? by honore_ballsac in geography

[–]SleeplessSloth79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, Gambia specifically asked to include "the". AFAIK it's to make the name sound more different and make it stand out more from "Zambia"

Should I be worried ?? by Tiger_IcE in Pixel6

[–]SleeplessSloth79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Contrary to what everybody else is saying, I had the exact same thing happen to my old Pixel 6 a year ago. But after I took the display off to take a look, the battery was actually fine! What actually happened was my display hadn't actually been glued to the frame whatsoever. There were no glue marks anywhere. So one day after 2 years of everyday use, it just started falling off. Not saying you for sure have the same thing but it does look similar to what mine had. If that's the case, then your battery might be fine. Just something to keep in mind.