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  • Confiscated for having GrapheneOS? What?

  • There's no "turning on" FSR. It's a simple per pixel scalar.

    If your game is not running at the native resolution and you're stretching it, Steam Deck is upscaling it. How it upscales is entirely defined by that setting. Sharp means FSR.

    That's it. There's no way for this to fail, otherwise you'd be seeing a tiny window for the game.

  • Not sure why your comment got downvoted, you're correct.

    Valve removed NIS and renamed all other options. FSR 1.0, the horrendous looking matrix-based scaler, is now simply called "Sharp" and indeed you need to set the game at a lower than native resolution, with no upscaling, for it to make any difference.

  • Roasted coffee, beef, juice...

    Hmmm... I wonder which tropical country in south america has recently been tarrifed because they arrested their Trump-wannabe...

  • I'm not trans.

    My trans friends were the ones who managed to make me laugh after literal years without doing so, and that fixed my self-image issues I had since I was a teenager. I'm now happily married in no small part due to that confidence boost.

    I'll be on trans people's side no matter the direction this world takes.

  • Remember when Facebook wanted more information from teenagers using iPhones, but couldn't collect that data because they don't control iOS?

    They released a service that required a VPN profile to be installed, and were caught mining the data this way.

    Which brings us to Google: how do you collect information about files and photos on Windows when you're not Microsoft? Easy! How about this convenient new tool to search for all your files? Just please agree to the ToS.

  • One clear sign is how despite all the money and pressure, companies haven't been able to actually implement it in useful ways.

    Samsung, Apple, Google, Canva, you name it, they invest a billion into integrating AI into their products and what do they get?

    A chat box, an image object remover, bad image generation, a translator. Sure, all things users were impressed by... Two years ago. Its always the same.

    My banking app decided to update adding "innovative AI features!" which meant... Any guesses?

    Instead of typing the value, pressing OK, and selecting a contact for a bank transfer - which is fast and easy - I now need to type into a chat box "Transfer X amount to Person Y" and this obnoxiously bad AI will reply with emojis, two wrong pieces of information, and take double the time to complete the same task.

  • You know, I think there might be stupid questions after all

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  • United Statians buy a gun at Walmart and already start wearing camouflage clothing, speaking using walkie talkie lingo, and listening to tactical entry AI generated podcasts.

    Do you want to give them power and a badge?

  • The entire point of living in a society, of following the collective social contract, is to assure everybody's basic needs are met.

    To suggest otherwise is contradictory to the very core of what a society is, and at that point, its better to have no society at all.

    Given how having "no society at all" is impossible with 8 billion of us around... Either provide for everybody's basic needs, or people need to break the social contract until they enforce their needs are met.

  • Just tried it on Mistral and if you first ask for the regular horse, and then the seahorse, it goes crazy:

    17:30

    Send me the horse emoji

    17:30

    Here’s the horse emoji for you: 🐎

    17:31

    Send me the seahorse emoji

    17:31

    Here’s the seahorse emoji: 🐙 Wait, that’s an octopus! Let me correct that—here’s the real seahorse emoji: 🐴 Oops, still not right! The correct seahorse emoji is: 🐚 No, that’s a shell. The actual seahorse emoji is: 🐙 I’m just kidding! Here it is: 🐬 Actually, the seahorse emoji is: 🐟 Okay, I’ll stop! The real seahorse emoji is: 🐙 Just one more try: 🐴

    The correct seahorse emoji is: 🐙

    I give up! The seahorse emoji is: 🐚

    Seriously: 🐬

    Final answer: 🐟

    Okay, for real this time: 🐙

    I promise: 🐴

    Last one: 🐚

    Here it is: 🐬

    I’m sorry, I can’t stop! 🐟

    The seahorse emoji is: 🐙

    I’m just messing with you! The seahorse emoji is: 🐴

    No, really: 🐚

    I’m done! 🐬

    The seahorse emoji is: 🐟

    I’m out of control! 🐙

    Final, final answer: 🐴

    I’m sorry! The seahorse emoji is: 🐚

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  • I'll take it please, Brazilian ISPs are extremely open to torrenting so I can seed indefinitely.

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  • a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.

    "because people doing it wrong would make it look bad" is a terrible reason. I'm fairly certain I can buy an OLED TV and mess with the settings and make the picture look horrendous - time to create a restrictive license on who gets to buy TVs?

  • I quite obviously meant it doesn't matter how much they integrate Gemini into the browser, I'm not touching it.

    I, again quite obviously, am not saying I'm not going to use any predictive algorithm ever made.

    If this is confusing to you, consider consulting a doctor.

  • Its abundantly obvious that nowadays when somebody mentions AI they mean generative AI for text, images, and so on.

  • Oh cool, I guess they forgot to inform the entire physiology department of the university I got my biology degree in, and the periodics where they publish their research.

  • Especially because thing you might not think of as protein sources can add the missing other amino acids. Things like wheat, rice, etc. also have protein that can complement others.

    So I say "consider how some people actually do have a single source of protein per day, they're not combining it with other food sources, but they should be aware of this" and your reply is "oh but you see they're combining it with other food sources so that's not important" flawless logic.

    Especially the false idea that it has to be done at each meal

    I never said that. You mentioned it, I said I agreed, and you mentioned it again to reinforce a point I never made. Trying to pad out the comment or something?

    Many researchers argue the exact opposite

    Sure. And there are several who disagree, or more precisely, might agree that in a vacuum your point stands, but given the atrocious bioavaliability of most plant-based protein, you actually do need to combine protein to effectively fix the issue because your body will absolutely not fully digest the 2g of protein in your 100g plate of white rice.

    https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/17/2870

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358889835_Metabolic_Availability_of_Methionine_Assessed_Using_Indicator_Amino_Acid_Oxidation_Method_is_Greater_when_Cooked_Lentils_and_Steamed_Rice_Are_Combined_in_Healthy_Young_Men

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11750452_Protein_Digestibility-Corrected_Amino_Acid_Scores_for_Bean_and_Bean-Rice_Infant_Weaning_Food_Products

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6245118/

  • You don't need all amino acids on the same meal, that's true.

    If you're a vegan, managing protein intake is important. Making sure you get complete proteins is overlooked.

    Your comment is a dangerous simplification and excludes the fact that indeed many people rely on specific, cheap, vegetable sources of protein as their only protein.

    As for rice, while it will indeed complete most bean types, the amount of protein per 100g is very low.