cygnus

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Searx is the only one I know of. Most others repackage one of the big tech companies' results.

Edit: Brave uses its own search index, but isn't open source. Also Brendan Eich is a tremendous asshole.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

what do you gain by running Linux over Windows?

Not using Windows.

But more seriously, you'd be astonished at the progress over the last ~3 years. I don't play that many games but have yet to run into one that doesn't work.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Link to the actual source: https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1h7521g/looks_like_valve_is_working_on_a_steamos_device/

I won't buy this, but as someone who uses exclusively Linux including on my self-built gaming PC, it's great news.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And I speak three and am learning a fourth. It's just a bad name.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maybe it's more like for-gay-joe? Or for-gay-o? For-gee-o? For-gy-o? Who knows?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 48 points 11 months ago (27 children)

Great, hopefully this high-profile move makes them change their name into something that can't be potentially pronounced 8 different ways. Forge-joe? Or more like Jorge-ho?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

TBH the only thing that caused me grief with that old beast of an i7 (other that the fact it would have bottlenecked my new GPU) was playing Stellaris.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So you're telling me that milking my 4770k until this year when I built a new rig with AMD was in fact a genius move?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 141 points 11 months ago (29 children)

I like Jason but he completely missed the boat on this one.

The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media.

He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro? You don't need powers of prophecy to see where Bluesky is headed.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I agree, but the problem is that the media (encouraged by tech companies) use the sci-fi definition, and the layman doesn't know any better.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

LLMs are AI in the same way that the lane assist on my car is AI. Tech companies, however, very carefully and deliberately play up LLMs as being AGI or close to it. See for example toe convenient fear-mongering over the "risks" of AI, as though ChatGPT will become Skynet.

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