• The Valve Index is just an I/O device (display, tracking* and controllers), whereas the Steam Frame is also a stand-alone Linux computer (although with a very limited battery life and around the power of a cellphone).

• For tracking, the Index does room-scale outside-in tracking using little boxes that you have to hang up in your room, called Lighthouse VR base stations. The Frame uses inside-out tracking of controllers using a combination of IR cameras and gyro–maybe not quite as accurate, but significantly more convenient. I believe that the original base stations that were sold with the index are no longer being made, but other ones are, though I’m not sure.

• The Frame supports eye-tracking, plus eye-tracking features like foveated rendering and streaming. The Index doesn’t, at least not out of the box. These optimizations essentially make things look better/sharper exactly where you’re currently looking even as you look around, which generally gives you better performance.

• The Frame can be used wirelessly, and comes with a dedicated 6GHz streaming dongle. The Frame also supports an interesting mode called a Multi-Link connection which uses both the dongle and your WiFi at the same time to (in theory) give you a most stable connection. Unlike the Frame, the Index must be plugged into a computer at all times.

• The Frame is lighter and smaller than the Index, and has better, higher-resolution screens.

I’m on the wait list for the 256gb and I have no idea how often I should check or how long I should expect to wait…

The most respectable.

Ok… Just don’t expect me to pay for a game that you didn’t bother paying artist and programmers to make, that is, if I had any desire to play slop games in the first place.

The most reasonable argument against software and media piracy has always been based on the ethics, morality and sustainability of financially supporting the people who create things that you enjoy. But in a new era of lazy and cheap generative slop that is trained on the theft and exploitation of the working class, why would anyone give a shit about supporting the “developers”–if you can even still call them that.

It’ll come back. People have been enamored with this concept since at least the 1980s.

Personally I have major ethical objections to the way that the vast majority of generative AI is done today, so I’m pretty much against it regardless of the hypothetical perceived quality of the end result.

The ends really don’t justify the means, and I want to support the human beings working hard to make authentic media in the future.

I don’t want to play someone’s lazy and exploitative AI slop game any more than I want to look at someone’s slop art or listen to slop music.

Because it’s very much not a person, and it didn’t learn anything.

A for-profit corporation simply scraped the net and fed a bunch of other people’s work (the direct result of human labor) into a system of biased nodes and anthropomorphized it by calling it “intelligence” and “learning”.

This is exploitation of labor of the working and creative class, nothing more, nothing less.

It doesn’t have the agency of a human being, nor does have the creativity or individual perspective of one. It has no senses of it’s own or lived experiences to draw from, and it is not sentient. Furthermore, it doesn’t interact with the world or economy like a human being, it does not create things like a human being, and if has no human rights or even copyrights.

LLMs are not people, no matter how some people choose to treat them.

Not really. It’s still not ethical to exploit the labor of others, even when our favorite computer nerd does it.

Ultimately the working people who created the data that was used to train the AI have not given consent and were not compensated for their work. Instead, Linus is paying money (probably the Linux Foundations’ money?) to a large corporation that is exploiting the unpaid work, skills and culture of human beings.

In ethics the ends don’t often justify the means.

Not to mention it’s unclear what the LLM even did to help debug this issue, because he seems to suggest it lead him him astray multiple times claiming that it was impossible to fix.

He’s a 56 year old man, so he probably uses AI to decide what to eat for breakfast.

Maybe they should visit first…

On today’s episode of The Donald Trump Show, Starring Humanity!

Yeah, Reddit is deep in a downward spiral, as it arguably has been for years.

And Lemmy (along with the fediverse/threadverse in general) is pretty great. Of course, it’s much smaller here for sure, but that has its ups and downs. As much as I would love to see the fediverse grow, I’m happy right now that it isn’t suffering many of the same problems that the big legacy corporate social media platforms are (bots, scraping, corporate shilling, endless slop mills, addictive and manipulative algorithms, power-tripping mods and admins, dark patterns, etc.). This place feels like a real community, or rather, a bunch of real communities all tied up together. It undoubtedly takes a little more effort and participation on the part of the individual user to get the most out of Lemmy, but I think it’s in many ways more rewarding in the end.

I’m now permabanned from Reddit for some stupid reason, and so the new requirement to be logged in to even read the site has made it pretty much useless for me under any circumstance. After more than a decade on the paltform my relationship with Reddit is all but over now, and that’s probably for the better, frankly.

Hopefully we can continue to find a way to grow the platform without inheriting many of the problems that Reddit has today.

Search now directs you to a page where a computer tells you lies and where you will find 20 links to slop websites.

Maybe this is my pro-weed bias talking… But in the modern world where cannabis is increasingly legal and recreationally used, I’m not really sure what a meta-analysis of decades old studies is supposed to actually add to the discussion.

Is there a causative link between cannabis use and schizophrenia or psychosis? If so, are we seeing a proportionate uptick in schizophrenia and psychosis diagnoses in places where recreational cannabis use has been legalized?

There’s plenty of data these days, we should be doing real, original research. (And if there are legal hurdles still preventing that research from being done, then those hurdles should be removed.)

Not enough. AI generated content should be required by law to contain both visible and invisible watermarks.

They’re about to find out the expensive way that nobody wants nor cares about AI-generated “content”.

Record time speedrun from “I’m putting my foot down in favor of AI” to “at least 1/3 of patches are flat out wrong or harmful”, eh?

Honestly it better be only first class lie flat seats.

Oh hell yeah! I’m in!

I only got into Galaxy Express 999 a couple of years ago, but I grew to really love it after watching most of the original 70s series as well as the 80s Rintaro films. It’s a fundamentally great story about what it means to be human in a world of technology, and I think that message is really important for modern times.

I’m glad to see that Rintaro is writing the script for this. We don’t seem to know who is directing this, but my dream director for this probably very out-of-left-field and maybe controversial, but I’d love to see Takeshi Koike take a stab at it since I know that he was a huge fan of the original film.