James R Kirk

There was a Ted Talk a while back (I can’t remember who) where they said “I have always wanted to give a Ted Talk… but when I got selected to do this I realized that what I really wanted was to say I had given a Ted Talk”. Meaning they want to be known as someone who had given a Ted Talk, not actually go through the process of writing and delivering the Talk.

People who write open source code do it because they like the process of writing, just like an author enjoys writing books. LLMs are for people who just want to be able to say they have written a book. People who slop-code aren’t actually interested in learning how to code. Which is a fine toy for them to play with, but not sustainable (or reliable for others to use).

Yes exactly and I always consider Steam (and to a lesser degree the Kindle ecosystem), which make it obvious to me that interoperability and convenience are something consumers are willing to pay for.

Steamroller is a great name. I built a similar SFFPC with Bazzite a few years ago but if I was in the market I would probably choose this over the Steam Machine (as cool as it is).

50 upvotes and yet half the comments here are “it worked for me OP must be using it wrong” and the other half are "Using Plex is worse than bombing Palestinian children "

Only if you’ve never bought a game on Steam before. I don’t think I’ve paid over $10 for anything.

“I am sure this overpriced plastic trinket will fill the meaningless void in your finite life” 🤣

Shit I think I may need to go play through the Portal games again.

(HL3 tease at the end)

ALSO WHAT

When they priced the controller at $99 I immediately suspected it would be part of a bundle deal for “a $99 value!”

Also WOW that cube is so much more than just a dbrand skin. That’s amazing.

I’m convinced hardly anybody on Lemmy has a functioning theory of mind.

Even at double the cost of a normal console, once you factor in the cost of games it comes out ahead. And hopefully the RAMpocalypse will end eventually.

I’ve seen that but it’s a weird vibe coded app and doesn’t actually work

I think CWA is the most robust option out there. BookLore was vibecoded and behaved in the typical weird/unexpectedly way vibecoded apps tend to. I haven’t tried the Fork of it, but CWA checks nearly all the boxes and is actively developed.

I wish ABS synced progress between formats with KOReader!

Careful, once it’s automated you won’t be able to work on it anymore!

Posts about self hosting are welcome, posts to strangers seeking external validation…? Maybe save for therapy.

N64, Dreamcast and Saturn be like 😠

😂 It wasn’t until I was finished typing out my comment that I realized I was doing the classic Lemmy thing of just wholly ignoring OP and ranting about something tangential.

I may not be able to control myself but at least I can acknowledge my poor behavior!

I can’t help you so I’m going to rant about something not related.

Gramps is great once it’s up and running but it’s so frustrating that you cant add a person and just add a residence or wedding date or birth. Noooo, you need to create the events and locations first and then create the person and link the events to them.

Which is basically the opposite way humans think about lifetimes. I would kill for a feature of “Create new birth/wedding/etc event” from the person page.

stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?

It absolutely is!