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lichtmetzger

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  • Member Star Wars?

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  • I'm currently playing all of the Ratchet & Clank games in rpcs3, upscaled to 4k resolution. They look and play great! 😍

    After that, it's gonna be time for the Jak & Daxter series in the OpenGoal engine.

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  • Funfact: Morrowind has a pretty nice Star-Wars total conversion mod:

    Starwind.

    It's a bit buggy, weird, extremely ambitious and a lot of fun. They even managed to put in janky space flights and combat. 😄

  • Have you ever made an impulse purchase that you can't really explain or remember why you made the decision? Do you regret it?

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  • I bought an ATI Rage Fury Maxx for a lot of money on eBay. It's one of the first dual GPUs, based on the Rage 128 chip.

    However, back then there was no flow control between the two graphic chips, which means a lot of games horribly stutter if one of them renders a bit faster than the other. There are a few games that work really well with it, and a shit ton of games that don't.

    The card is an absolute novelty, a piece of history and it looks cool. But there is no good reason for putting this in a retro computer, because even a regular Rage 128 will run better.

    I don't regret getting it, but I regret paying too much for it. 🫠

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  • I have stopped using it, because the skill atrophy kicked in and I don't want to turn into someone chatting with a bot every day.

    To quote myself:

    I work as a software developer and over the last months, I slipped into a habit of letting ChatGPT write more and more code for me. It’s just so easy to do! Write a function here, do some documentation there, do all of the boilerplate for me, set up some pre-commit hooks, …

    Two weeks ago I deleted my OpenAI account and forced myself to write all code without LLMs, just as I did before. Because there is one very real problem of excessive AI useage in software development: Skill atrophy.

    I was actively losing knowledge. Sometimes I had to look up the easiest things (like builtin Javascript functions) I was definitely able to work with off the top of my head just a year ago. I turned away from being an actual developer to someone chatting with a machine. I slowly lost the fun in coding, because I outsourced the problem solving aspects that gave me a dopamine boost to the AI. I basically became a glorified copypaster.

  • The Junior Developer Is Going Extinct

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  • I really hope so, but for that to happen, hardware prices have to go down again and that might take a while.

  • The Junior Developer Is Going Extinct

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  • The skill erosion is real, and I could see it on myself just after a week of trying out Claude

    While it took me a few months to really notice it, that still shocked me. Using AI extensively makes you depend on it - and that's exactly what the big players want. A customer paying a recurring subscription just to do their job.

    Since I am not forced to use it, I deleted my OpenAI account and started to code without LLM assistance again. It's much more fun to solve problems by myself (and get a dopamine kick out of that) anyway - and when the bubble inevitably pops, I can still go on as I did before.

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  • Unless, perhaps, AI five years from now understands that too.

    LLMs have already hit a ceiling, the improvements between new model releases are pretty much negligible. They had to come up with very expensive agents checking the output to reduce hallucinations. The best example for that is GPT-5 from OpenAI, which was extremely underwhelming.

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  • I have a job and no one forces me to use AI. Feels like an absolute dream right now.

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  • Instead of “yes” answer “Oh God yes”. At a fitting moment say “Oh God I’m going to cum”

    I wish I would get actual spam calls so I could try this out :D

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • I bought a netbook (GPD Win Max 2) with 64GB of RAM last year. It was really expensive, by 2025 standards.

    But now I feel like I have the power of the universe in my jacket pocket. Best irresponsible buying decision I ever made.

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    Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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  • defecation

    Unintentionally accurate typo

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  • True! discuss.tchncs.de is also pretty nice. We have a few more communities that feddit has defederated (for good reason, though, not everyone wants pr0n in their main feed :D).

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  • Most people didn't even notice such a vote was happening until today, when it spilled over to lemmy.world.A discussion topic about it on Feddit was only created six hours ago and most people in there are like "Oh no! Anyway...".

    Seems more like you want people to be furious. We can all wish for something, but that doesn't mean it'll actually happen.

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  • My guess is that they’ll be seething when they find out.

    From what I get, most of us are just relieved. The moderation team should definitely pop the champagne today, because there's a lot less work to do from now on. 🍾

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  • In Germany, after national socialism, we have very strict rules on how you are allowed to talk about it, because there were unfortunately a lot of people still denying it or not believing it.

    True. But a lot of people on the whole Fediverse seem to be very narrow-minded black-and-white thinkers. In their logic, abiding to the law in Germany is equivalent to following direct orders from the Gestapo. Maybe you just don't want to get arrested and put in jail for running a niche community on the internet, but that's not even an argument to them.

    Some people in that db0 thread even suggested feddit.org should just shut down completely, which is ridiculous. Every country must've laws you don't agree with, but you don't run and hide because of that.

    This "we vs. them" attitude is exactly what's been criticized about MAGA all of the time, but doing it in this case is perfectly legitimate, somehow. I don't know what kind of brain gymnastics you'll have to do to come to a conclusion like this.

    It's just exhausting trying to talk to these people. I say let them shut down their community and hang out in their radicalized bubble. Good riddance.

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  • Ultimate toaster design tier list

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  • This is the toaster equivalent of the longcat meme.

  • WTF

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  • Thank you, that looks like a good alternative! :)

  • WTF

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  • The Yazio calory tracker app added a shitty AI assistant a while ago that tells you every time after scanning a pizza that you should eat less pizza. It cannot be disabled. It loads for two to three seconds and you have to wait for it to spew out its shit before continuing.

    Everyone hates it. They had a perfectly good product, but to please investors or some shit they just had to add one more useless feature. Gotta love capitalism. After my subscription runs out, I'll switch to OpenFoodFacts and FoodYou, fuck 'em.