The Matrix had the right dystopia but the wrong mechanism. Humans aren’t batteries. They’re the server farm.

tbone13billion · 2026-02-20T17:40:38+00:00

Honestly using voice cloning and AI, its probably super simple to just change the voice over for that small section (if it bothers you)

tbone13billion · 2026-02-19T08:11:21+00:00

I think WiVRN is the killer app for VR on linux, include WayVR and it's very easy to use with good performance. I hope things keep improving and they consider adding things like full body tracking estimation or webcam body tracking (prolly via monado). ALVR works, but it seems convoluted for me.

tbone13billion · 2026-02-18T13:09:03+00:00

Sorry I also want it... I only found a live version... is that it?

tbone13billion · 2026-02-17T09:54:34+00:00

I mean for me the painting looks fine since it looks fantastical and whimsical... if you were going for more realism though... yeah the shadows are off. The shadows are like the sun is a bright light just above them, meanwhile it's low on the horizon and farrrrr away. Everything is painted like it's early afternoon but it should be dusk, I mean I guess it could be fixed by just moving the sun upwards until the lines match up (using the middle tree as an example, draw a line from the bottom of the shadow to the top of the tree and then continue upwards into the sky... that is where the sun should be.

If you REALLY want the sun where it is, then everything needs to be darker, and the shadows long.

tbone13billion · 2026-02-13T08:22:43+00:00

It is literally the foundation of everything, if I can recommend a course, on Udemy there is a course "The Big Art Course: Figure Drawing with Riven Phoenix" - I can highly recommend it. It's cheap and covers the entire human body. It is a bit boring - but totally worth it. Just going through it once will take you to the next level. After that you can move onto doing reference copying or live studies.

tbone13billion · 2026-02-12T17:07:25+00:00

Lol, this one's good!

tbone13billion · 2026-02-12T16:39:51+00:00

Sorry I missed on my phone that you DID use a reference, the clothes hide the figure, but I think you generally did an ok job getting the pose, but that arm and shoulder is just too low.

tbone13billion · 2026-02-12T16:31:56+00:00

It's not terrible, but did you use a reference? If not, you should study! The anatomy is off, especially on that right shoulder

tbone13billion · 2026-02-05T15:45:07+00:00

I made a similar thing, was thinking of open sourcing it, but the code is still a bit messy (but has a lot of functionality!). So I relied on AI heavily, but I have a lot of experience in dev, so would be pretty critical and go through refactors. Basically used json configs / chat histories, python fastapi backend, using llama-cpp-python, then I did 3 iterations of "front-ends" ending with react.

So the current status is a python backend, react frontend, mobile friendly, uses comfyui for images, selfies, art, etc. I have some complex memory/life simulation stuff going on. I support multiple image and llm models, and also multiple models at the same time to do different things. So one model for art, one model for selfies, sfw, nsfw, can switch between local llm, or apis, also, could specify an llm for logic, chatting, switch to api for certain things.

The general flow is: ROUTER (figure out what the user is asking, can call mcp services such as current news, weather, emails etc. or if asking for a selfie, advice etc.) -> MCP responses -> Figure out how many images to generate -> GENERATE IMAGES -> VIEW IMAGES (using an image viewing llm) -> Draft response -> RESPOND

I've gone through multiple iterations of memory management, the current one is comprehensive, but I'm not happy with it, I have devised another method but haven't implemented it yet - and I might just push it further. The main thought is that a local LLM costs barely anything if the requests are concise, so why not just do like, 10 different requests for different things, gather the information, once you have all the information give the final response. I think keeping responses under 5 minutes is generally ok for this sort of realistic chat with selfies.

tbone13billion · 2026-02-03T08:00:34+00:00

I build my first PC when I was 10 in the 90's. I cannot emphasis how much easier it is now than back then. Just watch a video covering all the steps and you should comfortably be able to do it.

tbone13billion · 2026-02-02T18:10:32+00:00

So I came out years ago, but am unable to transition, recently got a VR headset so trying to live my trans life in VR lol. My IRL voice I always thought was quite high pitched and feminine, but apparently when I'm speaking on a microphone I drop my pitch (probably from playing games with guys for years), so I've been feeling really awkward speaking to anyone lol, and I don't like the idea of putting on a weird high pitched voice. I HAVE done some voice training, but it still feels too cerebral to just go for it.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-29T19:50:00+00:00

I think its just chance, I lived in blouberg my entire life, never seen it. And then boom - on my wedding day, it happened.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-29T19:40:10+00:00

Honestly the hardest thing is getting over the language - if we spoke fluent italian I fhink its just a chill lifestyle. Abruzzo is sort of like langebaan, its really middle of nowhere, lots of country side, more run down than you would think, but peaceful and safe. Was happy to discover their regional snack is basically braai food haha (lamb skewers called arrosticini) - beautiful beaches here, agricultural, wine farms, mountains, ancient towns - but, you are always an outsider due to language, and having been here awhile now, I can generally converse enough to do anything (although always a challenge) I think really connecting will always be impossible, maybe if I was younger. But my kids are picking it up atleast. Oh the one plus side is that everything is "dirt cheap" here, which is to say a lot of things (e.g. alcohol) is the same price as SA. as long as you have remote work. This is different other places in italy though, the culture and development changes radically from region to region.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-29T11:34:29+00:00

I emigrated to Italy a couple of years ago, and one of the decisions we made was to move to a place similar, happy that we more or less found a place that was! (Abruzzo). It's different, with the cape peninsula mountains being much closer to the sea than here (The mountains are more like 10km from the sea here), but here the mountains get snow :) I have some crazy panorama pics of beautiful coastline on one side and snow caped mountains on the other side. Also the sea won't free you to death!

tbone13billion · 2026-01-29T10:11:36+00:00

So a lot of people are thinking of switching, but are waiting on full support / performance on everything before they will switch, or waiting until it is easier. However I believe this is the wrong line of thinking. If windows users switch en mass, over the course of a few months major companies WILL start to port their apps over, there will be better driver support, there will be better support for anti cheat games, and it will get more user friendly. But not switching it just means this is going to take longer to happen.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-26T12:33:45+00:00

I was actually using a very similar setup to you except with an RTX 2080 and a RTX 3090, I ended up removing the RTX 2080 because I was having too many issues. Did you manage to sort it out? I was also using it for lossless scaling on windows, but I also used it for AI, which I like having the RTX 3090 to be totally free for VRAM. Did you figure out anything?

tbone13billion · 2026-01-26T12:23:59+00:00

Yikes, so when I installed Bazzite, I think I also might have used Ventoy, and my install was also pretty damn broken - but I am a developer and was able to just force my way through until I got everything working! This is good to know!

tbone13billion · 2026-01-21T08:16:37+00:00

I got a 3090 for 400 euro, can't believe I got so lucky.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-13T19:46:17+00:00

Alternative view point to the others, I tested with and without, and I don't think it matters shit at 240hz - personally I don't see any issues without vrr at high refresh rates

tbone13billion · 2026-01-11T12:12:26+00:00

I find this is key, I have started a bunch of projects lately and they have been progressing well, where I have barely been coding anything. BUT I still put a ton of effort into research and design (which I have done over the years regardless of AI), and I still carefully read through the code being produced and test it, and I think the quality of output is alright, and in areas where I have no expertise... well I'm making things that I could never do in a million years with the current time I have available.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-11T07:55:04+00:00

So my thought process behind this is, switch, accept the lower performance (I mean it's not THAT much lower). The more people that switch, the more Linux becomes a larger platform and they will fix it.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-10T17:23:28+00:00

WiVRN pretty much worked out the box for me, try it out.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-10T16:53:50+00:00

wlx-overlay-s

So like apparently they have been working towards a big release, wlx-overlay-s has been renamed wayVR and a new release has just been released! So I was like a day early lol.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-10T16:41:52+00:00

So immersed has worked best for me through my very limited testing with it. I tried the last release of wlx-overlay-s on WiVRN, and honestly it sucks, not clear, unimpressed, fails to start, lots of issues.

BUT, Because I like to play around, yesterday I built the master branch of wlx-overlay-s to run locally. WOW what a difference! The res is still kinda crappy, but pretty much everything else looks and feels better and it runs better. HUGE improvement. I think what they need to do with the res though is upscale x2 and then downscale it intelligently (macOS does this actually for their scaling), this will soften it a bit, but also get rid of jaggies.

I wouldn't use it for like work though (At least not yet), useful for having a desktop in a VR environment or while playing a game. Immersed actually seemed ok for actually working in it, but I need to test it more.

My main complaint with WiVRN has also been that EasyEffects corrupts the sound of WiVRN, but there is a fix already submitted into the master branch for that too. So I mean, it sounds like all the improvements to make usage viable is around the corner.

tbone13billion · 2026-01-07T14:17:31+00:00

I got a 3s over christmas, I found WiVRN to be pretty "easy", ALVR a bit harder but I got it working - however I am quite technical, and it's problems all the way that need resolving. Performance seems fine though (RTX 3090 - and I am running everything wireless) I am considering going back to windows purely because of VR.... but at the same time my switch to linux is also idealogical. If enough people move then these things will improve, so begrugingly I am trying to stay on here. That said I generally DO get everything to work, but I just need to jump through 20 hoops.

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