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  • I fully agree as a tool LLMs are amazing. Throw in a config file or code that you know 99% of what it should be, but can’t find what’s wrong… and I’d say there’s a good 70% chance it will find it… maybe chasing down one or 2 red herrings before it solves it.

    The bad rap of course is simply the 2 main factors.

    1. idiots that use it to do the entire coding, and thus wind up with something they themselves don’t have even the basic understanding of how it goes together, so they can’t spot when it does something horrifically wrong.

    2. The overall reality that, no matter how you slice it, it costs an absurd amount to run these things. so… while the AI companies are letting us use these things for free or off really cheap plans, it’s actually costing real money to process, and realistically there’s no sign of it reaching a point where there’s actually a fair trade of value…










  • Umm… what the heck are these choice of examples. Mainly we are talking gaming VR devices. we can basically scrap the “metaverse”, apple, microsoft, google glass off the list.

    Virtualboy? we’re talking an attempt to make VR in the days before anything close to a viable technology even existed.

    Realistically the products I’d say are actually, modern VR gaming are more or less oculus, valve index, and maybe the playstation VR thing?

    Really though, not a huge shocker that sales are declining, as a gaming niche, I don’t see them as the kind of thing people are likely to upgrade on the regular. Least not unless/until someone majorly blows away the weight/bulk of them. Say take me, I’m probably a typical user, I bought a quest 2, about 3 years ago… happy with it.

    am I buying a quest 3, nope, bought my son an index as a big christmas gift 2 years ago… is he going to upgrade his, probably not.


  • TheFogan@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlValve released a new VR helmet?
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    I mean, VR has happened, and been happening for like a decade… is what’s not happening that it hasn’t replaecd every system and been the only or even primary method of gaming… no. Is it mark zuckerbergs “metaverse” where we start working from home, by wanting to go into a VR virtual workspace or hold our productivity meetings in VR… no obviously not.

    Is it a viable option of gaming, along with mobile phone games, PC games, Console games, and portable console games, yes it has a place there right now.


  • Not sure that really works for git though… at least with regards to it’s primary usage.

    git isn’t just a backup… it’s about version control.

    IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn’t working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change… and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.

    If you encrypted it so that git couldn’t actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions… but you’d basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can’t read the files).


  • I guess for me it kind of depends on your definition of “self host” as 90% of what I host is a hetzner server running out of finland. because well that’s off site backups lol.

    my setup is.

    Local: Frigate (CCTV manager), Homeassistant (home automation), Matrix (chat).

    Remote: Mealie (recipe collection), Vaultwarden (works with bitwarden clients), Nextcloud (files and documents), Freshrss, gitea (github alternative)

    Now in terms of wanting an offsite backup, you are probably right, assuming you don’t have something offsite that you can syncronize with, and assuming you don’t have any major privacy fears of what is hosted, those things are probably best to use cloud for, assuming you are more worried of losing everything in a house fire, than you are of say the stuff being spied on by a 3rd party or caught by hackers.

    So yeah I’d say, personally in things I like to have self hosted… on site, probably I’d say a local messanger is good if you’d like a reasonably private communication for friends/family etc… Niche things like RSS readers, or recipe books, really anything strange niche you can probably search for some program to self host it.


  • Yeah there’s a lot of benefits to multiverse with regards to sci-fi and fantasy. Most obvious is allowing multiple writers to work on the same series yet take it in multiple directions and not need to be perfectly synced or needing to care about contradictions.

    Also allowing a 3rd author to basically do a best of taking elements from both incompatible universes (either via universal travel, or just make a different universe where things happened in a way to allow the events/characters they wanted from both other plots), and lastly a “what if things went wrong”. IE the common plot point of the characters getting to see a universe where, they did things differently or didn’t exist, and allow them to compare their world with that world. Which admitted is a fantasy we all have in our own rights, both on small level (What if I didn’t break up with my first crush) or global level (“what if japan didn’t bomb the US in WW2”).




  • Honestly to me the whole concept of Lucifer as written in the bible to me, makes me question the whole thing.

    like 5 year old me was like “OK wait so how is this guy so stupid that he thinks that he went to battle against god, is he really stupid, everyone knows god is 100% perfectly all powerful”, then you think further and realize literally lucifer was supposedly like the closest angel to god, if anyone has a solid view on gods power, it’s him. Which honestly points to the idea that god… isn’t immortal, isn’t all powerful etc… he just uses that lie as a crux to prevent people from threatening him.

    Honestly the story of the tower of babel cements that even more. Now first of all if you’ve heard this story from christians… get rid of the pre-conception because usually preachers etc remove a lot of what is actually in the text, and add things that aren’t there. The story is not about stupid men trying to build a stairway to heaven.

    The story as written, in short, man was amazingly unified, world peace was achieved. They were building the tower as an enormous landmark so basically people could see their city from wherever they were, as well as just a testament to what they could accomplish when they worked together.

    God looks down at it and says "wow, look at these humans, when they work together, they can accomplish anything they set their mind to. They keep this up and they would be as powerful as gods. To which, god saw that as a credible threat, and so he smashed the tower, spread them all out, and made them speak different languages. Ensuring that they would be too busy fighting eachother rather then becoming a potential threat to him later.

    In short, the old testiment is kind of littered with actions that only make sense, if you conclude god, actually has weaknesses and can be beaten.



  • TheFogan@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldShould I replace NPM?
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    IMO the learning curve for caddy is almost non existent, and just about anything you might want to selfhost almost certainly has a quick simple caddy configuration you can copy paste with just updating the relevant domain. Personally learning curve for caddy was probably way lower than figuring out the edge cases of apache that I was using before