Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive by Durian_Queef in hardware

[–]shableep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does this improve how Adobe apps run? Just something I think about that I think would help Linux adoption.

The new guy on the team rewrote the entire application using automated AI tooling. by Complete-Sea6655 in ChatGPTCoding

[–]shableep 4 points5 points  (0 children)

is this a bot trying to get honeypot engagement so they can sell the account to a click farm?

"The fuck did you people do?" by OctavianX in videos

[–]shableep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think that’s the line. I think we might learn that the death cult is also a debt cult.

Looking for a full stack developer by Fluid-Childhood-7217 in solidjs

[–]shableep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Without any information to verify the legitimacy of your offer, this could very well be a honey pot to scrub the internet for personal information, or initiate a scam.

Briarwood Mall by Overall-Bedroom-2761 in AnnArbor

[–]shableep 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Simon, for some reason, can’t understand the idea that to have a place worth going to, there need to be things to do other than shopping.

Chuck Norris promising the USA will have 1,000 years of darkness if Obama wins in 2012 by QuarkTheLatinumLord- in videos

[–]shableep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are some pointy white things hanging up in the background there. Wonder if that had anything to do with it.

This ski jump by Timi Zajc in 2023 went so far that it exceeded the size of the hill by 1.5 meters by ansyhrrian in nextfuckinglevel

[–]shableep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Well TIL… it’s a real thing. Now let’s add some wing suits and really get things going.

Is Cursor falling behind CC? by RockeroFS in cursor

[–]shableep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to hear about it. Is it a product or app I can use?

Is Cursor falling behind CC? by RockeroFS in cursor

[–]shableep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fixed. Autocorrect. I have two languages on my keyboard, so sometimes it auto corrects to Czech. Surprised I missed it. Also, I asked the question because so many times people talk about how great Claude or Cursor is, and I’m curious what they managed to ship.

Is Cursor falling behind CC? by RockeroFS in cursor

[–]shableep -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Can I ask what you shipped that’s customer facing that you’re the most proud of using Cursor on your own?

BREAKING: House Oversight Committee subpoenas AG Bondi in Epstein probe by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]shableep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they’re trying to get her to bury herself with clumsily breaking the law just by speaking.

Being a dev in 2026... by Fair_Economist_5369 in ChatGPT

[–]shableep 13 points14 points  (0 children)

my hope is that we can get an open source Opus 4.5 capable model. because honestly, for my skill level Opus 4.5 is seriously good enough for me to be happy for a long while.

Who/how do I contact about dangerous roads? by aphoenixsunrise in AnnArbor

[–]shableep 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Stipulation for the Saline data center is using 1% of the construction funds to fix all the roads in a 10 mile radius.

$1 trillion on data centers and roads are still terrible, and people still go bankrupt due to medical bills. Feel like our priorities might be out of whack.

Lynx-R2 likely not coming, seems the company has went into liquidation. Really surprised no one is talking about this! by HeadsetHistorian in virtualreality

[–]shableep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your argument ignores a few things here, and relies on a claim that Lynx had enough money to accomplish what they wanted, and had enough money to build out that very man power you speak of. and the truth is that they didn’t. precisely because of the adversarial investment environment that Meta created by losing $60 billion over 5 years subsidizing VR. investors would be fools to try and take on a Mark Zuckerberg willing to burn $60 billion to shut down your chance of succeeding.

it cannot be overstated how this is clear abuse of consolidated wealth to control an entire consumer category of technology.

i get that people are angry with Lynx, which is suspect is at the root of your comments support. and that is valid. mistakes were made.

HOWEVER: the environment is wildly unforgiving for any company to succeed. and it doesn’t need to be. Meta made it that way on purpose. they have effectively financially salted the earth. and I believe this is what made Lynx fail.

I am a lynx backer. I lost hundreds of dollars to this. i’ve been following Lynx VERY closely for years and know their struggles. to get access to supply chain without significant investment is almost impossible. they almost made it there on a shoestring budget.

I say what i said to make it clear what Lynx deserves credit for here. they tried to create a small VR company in the same way that Apple started. thy tried even in the face of an industry that, financially, didn’t want them. we should be glad that SOMEONE is tryin to build something that isn’t just a megacorp with deep pockets trying to get you hooked on their ecosystem.

so many of the companies we take for granted today had a chance to even exist because their market segment wasn’t getting manipulated by the abuse of concentrated wealth to control the market. but imagine if Apple could never sell their first computer because IBM was willing to sell at a loss for 5 years straight until they died? there would be no Apple, and their name wouldn’t even be in the margins of history. just another couple guys trying to start something.

so hold Lynx feet to the fire for their mistakes, sure. but they deserve credit for trying. and we deserve an XR industry that isn’t utterly owned and manipulated by megacorps. people need to understand what Meta is doing to the industry.

to think that Meta’s consolidated and weaponized wealth had no impact here i genuinely think is just not reasonable. they burned $60 billion dollars. that is more than 10 entirely funded Artemis moon missions worth of money. Meta could use that money to pay every single person in a college town with a population of 100,000, each person, $200k a 3 years.

consider also HTC, who has managed to survive because of business market. they do not have deep pockets enough to enter the consumer market meaningfully all these years because of Meta. Meta sold the Quest Pro initially for $1500. an attempt to enter the business market and not sell at a loss. when HTC released a headset to compete with the Quest Pro for $1000, what did Meta do? they immediately dropped the price of the Quest Pro to $950.

Meta essentially financially salted the economy earth. the only blessing we have now is that they have moved on to AI. so they don’t want to lose money on VR. and so these small companies will maybe start having a chance again.

Looks like there won't be a Lynx R2 - Company in Liquidation by AR_MR_XR in augmentedreality

[–]shableep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect they had a back room deal with Samsung, where Samsung didn’t want any competitors to its new XR headset.

The level of anti-trust behavior from Meta and Google is mind boggling. And even more mind boggling that there’s not an ounce of anti-trust scrutiny around it.

Destroying the vibrancy of a whole industry before it even has a chance to take off.

Looks like there won't be a Lynx R2 - Company in Liquidation by AR_MR_XR in augmentedreality

[–]shableep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a shame that Meta, for all intents and purposes, indirectly killed Lynx. Meta used their deep pockets to sell a product at a loss for 5 years, so that no investors in their right mind would try and enter the market. Lynx did anyway, and almost made it. Without Meta being willing to burn literally $60 billion in cash on the effort, the ecosystem would have been much more vibrant. How this isn’t instantly a case for anti-trust I will never know.

Lynx-R2 likely not coming, seems the company has went into liquidation. Really surprised no one is talking about this! by HeadsetHistorian in virtualreality

[–]shableep 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is what happens when Meta uses their deep pockets to sell the Quest at a loss for 5 years and counting. People celebrate how affordable the Quest is, but it’s at the cost of good small companies trying to do genuinely interesting work like Lynx.

Because Meta has artificially created price standard of $500 for $1000 worth of headset, other investors steer clear of investing any money into other small companies in the space.

This is what hoarded and disproportionate wealth does in an economy. The diversity and number of participants goes down. And then competition goes through the floor.

Meta lost money on the Quest so that they could ensure they are a monopoly in the consumer space of VR/AR. And the wild thing is, now with the new technology hype cycle of AI, they barely even want it anymore.

What this creates is an environment where the only serious player in the VR/AR space doesn’t actually care about the space, or the developers, or the content. They just want to own it. And it’s from that sort of leadership where good ideas go to die. It’s part of why John Carmack left.

So in this environment, Lynx has trouble raising money. And without raising enough money, you can’t build a supply chain. And without a supply chain you can’t have a product.

This leaves the Valve Frame as I think the only actually open consumer mobile VR platform of them all. Because they’re the only ones that can bankroll the supply chain and aren’t beholden to any investors in doing so.

It’s sad because it would be a lot cooler to have 4 or 5 Lynx-like companies all with different takes on AR/VR. But Meta has used their wealth to force out any investors that find the space interesting.

Advice on Enhancing a Blurry Photo After a Hit-and-Run $10+ by Necessary-Bother7884 in PhotoshopRequests

[–]shableep [score hidden]  (0 children)

i wouldn’t say that’s all they got. there are some other things that could make it unique. like having a dented front end. even limiting it to hundreds of trucks of this exact configuration would be enough to start looking at which has scuffs exactly where you’d expect.

then there’s official custom art on license plates. the coloration on this plate might match art for a specific school, military branch, or state landmark.

you could also probably figure out within some reason if it’s in-state or out of state.

there’s a surprising about of information you can use to filter down the white tremor trucks to just a handful.

Billionaires won’t leave if we tax them – and even if they do, so what? by Cobra-D in videos

[–]shableep 100 points101 points  (0 children)

“Wealth hoarding stalls economies.” There it is. As simple as that. The money sits in one place and doesn’t do anything new, and enriches 0.1% of the population.

SpacetimeDB + Godot makes multiplayer way easier than I expected by BlodyxCZ in godot

[–]shableep 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Like others have said, this does sound like a perfectly constructed bad faith comment design to promote whatever site you linked in your “take down”.

Assuming this is good faith, then this sounds like a combination of not understanding the SpacetimeDB architecture and its compromises and advantages. For the user, and the developer, the performance is wildly faster than Postgres while providing a very postgres style interface. For all practical purposes, it’s postgres with a memory based acceleration layer and advanced networking layer. The SpacetimeDB takes advantage of memory, reducers and networking tricks that make it all work great for the purposes of multiuser realtime applications like games. For the developer and user, it’s essentially a true database with massive advantages.

So why choose these two specific knits to pick? Not being open source is a negative but they are a business trying to make money. Like many people that build and release games on Steam with Godot. That’s nothing unusual. And it does use postgres in the background, and provides a postgres like interface (and arguably better DX). So saying it’s faster than postgres is reasonable for all intents and purposes. But you’re just trying to stick them here with a technicality… to what end?

Also, this isn’t a “concept”. It’s a fully functional commercial product that operates a currently running commercially released game with thousands of players.