Which makes them superior, which is why they are used. Cost can't be ignored any more than the torque or speed, speccing parts that are considerably more expensive that achieve equivalent results is bad engineering unless you have a very specific application that requires it.
If it was 'objectively inferior' we wouldn't use them. You build to your requirements, not by playing top trumps with competing technologies while ignoring the cost.
I get the feeling that the level of popularity was a bit of a surprise, and that its warranted expanding some features beyond what was initially planned. I can see a lot of features becoming massive time sinks with diminishing returns otherwise.
Not sure why this is downvoted, radiant quests were a big feature in Skyrim, and were technically kinda impressive, but still repetitive. Likewise, quests for the College of Bards were mostly just a dungeon fetch quests and things.
It's still a great game, but it was great for the bits that were handcrafted.
But give it 5-10 years and I'd be very interested to see another pass at procedural generation using machine learning, especially dialogue, could open the doors to more creativity than would be possible when doing it all by hand!
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Yeah, I want to make use of an IDE floppy drive, which will need to use a SATA adaptor to hook up to the server. I'll probably be using a Debian-based container, and I'll need to automatically read the contents of the disk in some way.
I'm kinda assuming this is actually viable, and that I can work along the basic process of using an off-the-shelf IDE-SATA adapter, give it a mount point in the system, then monitor that directory.
I'm still fairly new to Linux, so I'm not aware of all the quirks and astrices that often come up, especially when wanting to do something like this in 2023.
For the curious, I'm building a centralised music system that will serve multiple speakers, including RF. I'll be managing the music and play lists via whichever modern music server seems the most appropriate, but I thought it would be really neat to use floppy disks as a physical way of selecting playlist, but not exclusively.
All the disks would contain are small ID tokens that represent the playlist on the digital system. The software will monitor the drive, and when a new token is identified, it will simply trigger the playlist to start, presumably via an API call.
Completely pointless, but I like tactile shit and the nostalgia factor!
I agree it's not particularly impactful, and most would have made an exception, but it only takes one person to argue that it' doesn't matter, or to defend it as something deliberate on the news to upset a lot of people.
Id say the biggest problem with this reasoning is that these protests do not save millions of people, and that that number would be easy to reduce, that the only reason that those occur is that nobody fancies doing anything about it.
In the same way, my employer going out of business would be a big deal to me, my colleagues and a few others, but it's ultimately unimportant compared to climate change. But if that happened due to these protests, it wouldn't actually fix anything.
I don't dislike these protests because I don't agree with the core message, I dislike them because I genuinely see them as counter productive. Talking to people about climate issues at the moment feels like I've jumped back in time 20 years, and mainstream beliefs 5 years ago now get you put in the "tree hugging hippie" catagory, as people think about "those protestors".
This can't change overnight, as I've said, there no 'just' anything when it comes to the fuel and infrastructure that powers our world. The faster we change, the more impact there will be on quality of life, these are sacrifices that everyone will have to bear, and so the main battle is the political will, it's about people across the world choosing to make sacrifices. This is why poisoning the otherwise positive image of environmentalism and pissing lots of people off for intangible 'gains' genuinely concerns me.
I really disagree with this premise.
For example, where I've worked, I've generally found it easy to make improvements that solely benefit the environment, even though they are virtually always more expensive and carry no other advantages, and often additional disadvantages.
Since the more recent protests, though, and especially after we all nearly lost our jobs due to the antics of a handful of protestors, that support has just gone. Being greener is no longer and end unto itself, and people don't want to either be seen as supporting their cause or 'helping' the people who cause real problems for everyday people.
It may not be logical, but even I am quieter about my environmentism because I don't really want to be associated with people who proudly block ambulances and cause pain for thousands of regular people.
Because ultimately, nobody's going to 'just stop'. We're not here due to the scheming of a few people, there are a lot of reasons oil is currently so ubiquitous, and fixing it is going to be a fairly gradual process. Fortunately, oil isn't the only way we can fix emissions, and so progress over spans of a decade or two, when that progress is going in parallel, can yield dramatic results.
My concern is that antics like these are going to slow or even reverse some of the political will to suffer the short term pain required to make these changes as quickly as we need.
It's a failed state that 'elects' terrorists who have destroyed any actual opportunity for economic independence or peace.
There's no way forward with Hamas in charge IMO. But what can be done. Any kind of 'go in and fix it' from Israel is going to be terrible in terms of optics even if done with complete benevolence, which it won't, even if they're not as bad.
They could just annex it and move forward with a highly inclusive approach, give Palestine the quality of life they deserve. But that wouldn't sit right with many, for quite fair reasons. Leave a power vacuum? Unlikely to go well.
I think Palestine needs external support and guidence to stand on its own and be a functional state. I'd say that Egypt or Jordan would 'look' best to do that. But it raises a huge number of problems.
At the moment it's basically festering, and things will never improve under the current leadership. What they demand is not reasonable or acceptable, and what they will do until they (Hamas) get what they want is also unacceptable.
So really, it's a question of whether Palestine will ever deal with Hamas themselves, and if not, who else can/should.
CA will do literally anything to avoid making Medieval 3.
I mean, what are their salaries? I genuinely don't know, one would assume that a specialised job like that would command a pretty solid salary, and the assumption would be that working on a project like this would get them to the top of the list for applications to other companies.
I don't know how the job was advertised, but seeing how the industry works from the outside, I would never assume a job for life at a game studio, but you could still count on security after working on a project like this.
I work a steady job, it's hard, and the pay is okay for me, I suspect a game dev will earn several times what I do, part of which is due to the short term, or at least risky nature of the roles, the rest would be down to the specialist skills.
I don't really think that forming a union signifies that at all, I'd say it's more likely down to the ongoing working conditions.
Because you can always go and get a warehousing job or similar, it's steady, but kinda boring and lower pay.
The money may keep rolling in for those who invested the most and took the largest risks. But that's irrelevant IMO. You take a job for the pay that's offered, and it lasts as long as it does, how long that is depends on the kind of role.
I'm making assumptions, but I think everyone here is too. But I do particularly resent the 'slaves' comment as it is disrespectful of the employees, and diminishes actual slavery which is bigger than ever.
That's how employment works. Calling them slaves is ignoring the fact that they have agency and compensation, unlike actual slaves.
No job is permemnent, it would be ridiculous to expect otherwise, but it varies between industries. Gaming is a low-frequency project-based industry, you know there will be lots of work while in development, and once that's over, there's not going to be as much work to do.
How else should this work?
Man am I tired of being shafted for not having kids, the when it comes to holidays, covering for other staff and things, employees with kids always take priority and employees without don't have an 'excuse'. Extending that to layoffs is extremely toxic and punitive to younger workers.
Huh? They don't have a monopoly in any space, and have significant competitors. And I don't really see how they are slowing down innovation. I think it's fair to say that Nvidia are investing significanly in R&D, and is driving innovation more than anyone else in the industry for the moment.
Why is it shit?
Because useful tools that generate income are more valuable than things that make games look more better.
AI is what's justifying pumping over $7bn into R&D per year, which drives improvements to gaming cards too.
Every card they sell makes a CEO richer, among a huge swathe of other effects.
Coming at this from a very basic level, but I'm wondering if this could help me.
I have such an unnecessarily hard time with Bluetooth. I have all kinds of devices (usually speakers, headphones and such) which I don't use, because switching them between input devices can be like pulling teeth.
For example:
- at my desk with my wired headphones watching something in tbe background I'm enjoying
- need to do something at my workbench, which has a chromecast on a monitor
- I can cast the video there, but I don't want to use the big speakers because it's late
- my small wireless speaker is paired to my phone, I can't remember how to re-pair, don't want to go through Chromecast settings
- same with my earbuds
- end up 'watching' on my phone because it's too much effort to use the actual TV!
I've been thinking about making a physical central BT 'broadcaster' which I pair everything to. It would be able to take multiple aux or bluetooth inputs, and would have a switch or mixer to control the inputs.
Would something like this help with any of those issues without having to build something like that (which also wouldn't be optimal)?
Im on mobile, and some of those features have gone way over my head!
I think that's what they're saying, in that, use proxmox to host a gaming vm. But choosing a hypervisor that can run games well bare-metal does sidestep some potential headaches.
I'm just going to launch missiles in this direction, if you get hit, that's your fault!
Sorry, I'm trying to get in the loop on this stuff, what's the significance of this, and who will it effect?
I'm really sorry that this is probably out of place, as it's not strictly LLAMA, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to post it where people may be able to help.
**Sadly, my grandma passed away yesterday. **It prompted me to retrieve some old photos that my parents stashed in the loft over a decade ago, and they are just incredible! I've found so many pictures of her, going back to when she was really young, to a point where I'll have to check if they are all definitely her! But there's amazing ones of my dad and uncles when they were little, even my nan with my dad and me when I'd literally just been born!
There's lots of really wonderful family moments and slice-of-life history captured there, and I don't think anyone knows they exist.
Mostly, I have enough funny photos to have birthday cards sorted for the several lifetimes!
I want to get these ALL scanned and digitised. But for now, I'm separating out ones with my nan in them to be top priority. Most of the services available have long turnarounds and, while the prices are far from extortionate, I'm looking for something which prices by the KG. Seriously, there must be over 20Kg of photo in here. They're mostly 6x4, so you'd want to have them done at a high DPI, the cost would be astronomical, especially as I already plan to spend a lot on printing.
So, I'd like to do this myself. I've dabbled with some LLM stuff, but I don't really know where to start with image manipulation, and I don't really have time to figure it out, so I'm asking for some guidance.
The rough idea is:
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Scan photos on high DPI flatbed scanner. Fill up the bed each time with multiple photos for highest speed
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'Parse' the scan into multiple image files by identifying where the bounds are and cropping. This should be pretty simple. I think this may be possible in OpenCV? I've never tried before. Otherwise, it has to be one of the simpler jobs for a ML tool. I understand how object recognition works in principle, but not practice.
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Run select images through an upscaler. Some we may want to display or print larger, and if it's not unreasonable, if we're going to digitise them, may as well make them as high res as we can (I'll keep the originals). I know the usualy 'zoomify' caveats, but obviously when I'm starting with 6x4 images, I'll take all the help I can get.
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Ideally attempt to 'clean up' the images. I don't think I'd want to colourise anything, but it would be nice to remove obvious stains, creases and such from the print.
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The plan is to have some albums for people to go through at the wake, print off plenty of extra 6x4 copies so people can just grab them and take them away, but I'll also stick them all on a google drive or something and make the link available so people can download them in higher res, and more people will be able to see and preserve them
My main concern is 2 and 3. 4 would be a bonus. I suspect the shortlist will be 100-200 photos, but processing everything will be an ongoing process. I just want the shortlist done before the funeral.
I'd really rather run locally if viable. I have a two machines that may be able to contribute:
Workstation
- RTX 3090 -32Gb DDR4 --> 64GB DDR5
- 5600x. --> 7900x
I'm actually planning an upgrade very soon, which I can push through fast if it will help.
R720XD
- 128GB DDR3 RAM
- 2x E5-2630 v2.
Probably not super useful, but has lots of RAM, and can be used as a slow workhorse. My workstation is on CAD for 8 hours a day, and is used for gaming in the evening. I can obviously cut out the gaming, but not the CAD, so there could be some utility in handing off some things to the server, if the workload doesn't require GPU.
If you can point me in the right direction to get set up, that would be awesome. I'm new at this and learning fast, but I don't want to under-deliver. I'm very capable of learning the details, but I don't have enough experience to determine the 'best way' of doing something like this.
Any help would be incredible!
I'm a noob who thought they knew what they were doing!
My trusty unraid server running off some ancient consumer hardware finally gave up the ghost due to hardware failure. Needing an alternative in a hurry, I thought I'd do things properly, and got an incredible deal on an R720XD with shitloads of RAM and storage, couldn't be happier with the hardware.
It came with TrueNAS Scale already installed as it's what the previous owner was running. Got everything NAS set up in a couple of hours and have been running an SMB share quite happily.
However, I also run a fair few Docker containers, and this is where the pain starts. I've spent so long trying to get things working, and have simply hit a brick wall. Everything I try yields another bizarre error message that requires hours to resolve, and I feel like I'm trying to track down the solution for some obscure edge case rather than doing something incredibly standard. But I'm trying to piece things together from multiple guides and videos, none of which contain the whole story, and most of them result in more errors that aren't covered.
The TrueNAS forums look like a bit of a dumpster fire when it comes to these issues, particularly around containers, with things getting quite heated. The 'official apps' are extremely limited, TrueCharts extends functionality, but still limited, and not really working well for me. There seems to be a lot of friction with the devs of TrueCharts, and between people wanting to virtualise stuff and those who's solution to these issues is running TrueNAS bare metal and not using virtualisation or containers. It's like, yeah, you're less likely to have issues if you ignore half the feature set. And if it's only 'supposed' to be a file server, then it's frustrating that running it in a VM is also 'not officially supported' too.
I tried spinning up a Debian VM and managed to get Portainer running, but once again hit an absolute mess with filesystems and permissions for any other containers I tried running. I know it's to do with the quirks of TrueNAS and that the setup makes sense, especially for an enterprise focus, but this stuff just worked in Unraid as smooth as butter. I know it can be easier, and I'm just not having a good time. I want to be using containers, VMs and developing, not spending my 4th evening this week losing my mind over permissions so I can progress to the next error message!
Anyway
I am a noob, I liked Unraid, it worked, and TrueNAS Scale was probably never the right choice for me. But now I need to get redeployed quickly, and I'm looking for a path forward that gives me flexibility.
As I said, I like UnRaid, I'd quite like to give TrueNAS Core a try purely as a NAS, but I'm happy to stick with Unraid if that's going to save some headache. I'd quite like to try both to be honest, set up a hypervisor so I can get Unraid functional quickly, then slowly work on TrueNAS.
So I'm thinking XCP-ng or Proxmox bare-metal, Unraid for NAS + Docker, TrueNAS to work on, and the ability to spin up more VMs.
Problem there is that Unraid is only 'supposed' to be booted off a USB. Once again, any discussion of any other way is 'not supported' and discussions on the forums inevitably lead to 'why would you want to?' or 'you don't understand', implying you're trying to get better speed or something. I know it runs in RAM, I just don't really like having my config and license dangling off my server permanently (although I could try the internal USB), and virtualising it would be incredibly useful.
I could use Unraid as a hypervisor, I've heard of people adding a Proxmox VM to Unraid, which seems a bit bass ackwards on the surface, and doesn't 'feel' right, but I guess if it works it's fine. Unraid was absolutely rock solid stable for me, after all!
Again, I don't think I've particularly been fair here, in fact, TrueNAS has impressed me in lots of ways, and I shouldn't be critical of those doing development and answering the same questions over and over from people like me. I just need to get running, don't have a huge amount of free time at the moment, and just want to get NAS+Docker functioning, but ideally in VMs to reduce the upheaval when/if I change things again!
Your help would be appreciated, as would the extra sleep!
I currently have a workstation I use for productivity and gaming, as well as a 'server' running on an old Athlon CPU primarily functioning as a file server running Unraid, with several Docker containers.
For much beyond NAS functionality, this server is very underpowered, it's running an array of old HDDs, and where I'm messing around more with different environments, I could really use the ability to quickly spin up and switch between OS's.
Upgrading the server seems kinda silly when my workstation already has enough power and is always up. I'm thinking about running the workstation as the server using Unraid, setting it up with a HBA and some SAS drives I already have, then running several VMs.
I'd be daily driving these VMs, planning on Windows still for now, with things like CAD and gaming remaining the primary functions. I'd like to experiment with Linux more for regular use, and will likely be running additional VMs for development and experiments.
This sounds like a logical idea, but I'm concerned about some of the potential technicalities that could cause me problems. I know anticheat can be a concern, but I don't think that will effect any games I play.
Are there any additional things I should consider here? Am I best interfacing via thin client, or can I connect directly?