Hah. If it makes the active militant feel better, Meta lost a bunch of money basically giving away all those Quest 2’s and the only thing they’ll get from you by having a Meta account only for your Quest is that you bought one and didn’t buy any software in their store.
Bonus points for your “money is support” tally if you use Steam Link for wireless play instead of Oculus Link.
With the Meta Quest 3S coming out this holidays you may be able to get a used Quest 2 dirt cheap, and that’ll do just fine to play PC games.
For sure, it’s a bit of technical curiosity and an opportunity for tinkering.
And given the absolute flood of misinformation around and about machine learning and “AI”, I also find it to be a hygiene thing to be able to identify bullshit on both the corporate camp and the terminally online criticism. Because man, do people say a lot of wild stuff that doesn’t make sense about this subject. Looking under the hood seems like a good thing to do.
Yeah, the smaller alternatives start at 14 GB, so they do fit in the 24 GB of the 4090, but I think that’s all heavily quantized, plus it still runs like ass.
Whatever, this is all just hobbyist curiosity stuff. My experience is that running these raw locally is not very useful in any case. People underestimate how heavy the commercial options are, how much additional work goes into them beyond the model, or both.
There are ways to bring the models down in size at the cost of accuracy and I believe you can trade off performance to split them across the GPU and the CPU.
Honestly, the times I’ve tried the biggest things out there out of curiosity it was a fun experiment but not a practical application, unless you are in urgent need of a weirdly taciturn space heater for some reason.
Yeah, the notion that Lemmy is a Reddit replacement is misguided. It definitely doesn’t have the same Q&A balance Reddit does. It feels a lot more like 90s and early 2000s forums than the large-scale self-service link and customer service churn Reddit encourages.
Which I’m all for. I was never a Reddit guy and I do like it here. But in terms of how bad it is now that Reddit is not happy to host most of the actually useful online content for free… well, that’s a different conversation.
Okay, hear me out, we should make a different service, like a network of computers where people can freely post information on some sort of page that other people can freely access without needing to log in to a million services. Maybe we could also add like little conversation boards to those to allow people to ask and answer questions, too.
Wild, I know, but I think there is some opportunity there.
I mean, from what I can tell we still don’t, at least as home users. The full size model won’t fit on any commercial hardware. Even with a top of the line 4090 GPU you’re limited to the 8B model if you want to run it offline, and that still charts lower than the last-gen 70B model.
Still cool to have it be available, though.
Never mind that, what the hell is up with his face? Why does he look like a negative image of someone who hasn’t slept in months? Did he get replaced by his ginger cousin? Is he being played by Jesse Eisenberg again, just with a deepfake filter?
Yeah, this seems like one of those things where people casually discussing the issue are talking about wildly different scales. I, to be clear, am talking about having a hangover or sleeping in a rough position and pinching my neck once in maybe two or three months and refusing to take an analgesic to get through it faster. I get the feeling that what you’re describing is either on a way different level or a rarer interaction or side effect.
Which is why my other comment below still goes: if you need to deal with pain beyond sporadic usage to get through a one-off event, please go talk to a doctor and don’t listen to me or anybody else on the Internet.
Define “slightest pain”.
If you’re in occassional discomfort and it’s impacting your wellbeing having an aspirin once in a while is probably not a huge deal.
If you have recurring pain constantly or frequently then you need medical attention and you should follow that guidance, not what anybody says on the Internet.
Man, this took me so long to get through my skull. I used to be a “I don’t need the medicine, why self-medicate when I can just endure it and it will go away”.
I got older, started having those little aches turn into ruin-your-day annoyances that only reset with a sleep overnight and now I mildly resent young me for being silly about it.
I do for many things. It’s just convenient and their logistics muscle at this point is wild.
That said, I will go to first party online stores for things like hardware most times. It’s often just cheaper and delivery is about the same.
An interesting observation: Back when I lived somewhere else there was a local alternative, because it was a country far enough out of the way that Amazon didn’t directly support it, and it’s interesting that the local alternative wasn’t meaningfully worse at the logistics or availability. Amazon’s existence does, in fact, heavily suppress competition. You don’t need to be as big as they are to do what they do, it’s just impossible to do it if they’re already there.
That’s presumably the back of the box feature MW2012 was trying to address, but honestly I’d take the over the top crashes and slo-mo hood crumpling over the branding any day. Authentic car sims already exist and they’re for something else. If you’re not going to accurately model the physics and instead are aiming for arcade fun, then who cares?
Well, you care, and that’s fine. I’m saying if given the choice I’d take Burnout’s approach.
But still, hot take. Paradise is absolutely on my very short list of perfect games. Every piece of that game is designed to go with every other piece, and when they ran out of pieces they stopped. It’s all grain, no chaff, I can pick it up and play it any time.
And also, man, both Paradise and MW12 hold up so, so well. In retrospect Criterion had some rendering juice at the studio at the time. You guys made me boot up MW12 by talking about it and that thing looks better than most games I’ve played in the intervening decade. It’s nuts.
This article (haven’t watched the video yet) makes me feel ancient.
Like, it’s clearly written by someone who didn’t live through the CRT era. It seems to be repeating things they heard but didn’t understand and, frustratingly, that includes not mentioning what the actual rating of the monitor is in KHz, which is really the only thing that matters.
I’m old and my knees hurt. That’s the only point I’m making here.
Well, there I can’t help. To each their own.
Pretty sure I’m with the consensus on this one, though. “Burnout Paradise is boring, actually” is a Carolina Reaper, lava-hot, coronal ejection-level take.
Wait, what? No, you don’t, you drive up to them, press Y and off you go. This is literally the first thing that happens in the game. Like, the very first thing they tell you in the tutorial is to do that.
I think eventually when they released a DLC pack they’d load in the DLC cars and events and those would tell you to buy the DLC if you didn’t have it, but that game has been all but given away in sales as a full edition for years now, so I don’t even remember the specifics. But yeah, no, they absolutely didn’t sell you individual cars on the side of the road. They don’t even sell them to you for in-game currency, you just find them.
MW 2012 certainly feels less like the UG games and closer to the old aspirational supercar games, which is fine by me, maybe because I’m older and I thought the proto-Fast & Furious stuff in the newer games was super cringey. Given the franchise started as a sports car magazine tie-in and remained pretty much that for a solid decade, though, I think “THE ENTIRE CONCEPT” is a stretch.
I genuinely think both of the MW games have somewhat wonky driving, for different reasons. You can get used to both, no question, but I will say that for how much of a learning curve the weird sense of weight 2012 had, I ended up 100%-ing that game multiple times in a way I never felt the need to do with OG. That game has flow in a way only it and Paradise have ever nailed. The Horizon games come very close, but I tend to feel they are a bit too big to get you there. I like the small puzzle worlds in Paradise and MW2012 a lot.
I am partial to the classy NFSs, myself, but the two UGs are very good games.
Quietly, the best NFS is Hot Pursuit, and it really doesn’t matter which one of them you pick.
The remake that was basically a sequel to Burnout Paradise? Agree to disagree.
I mean, OG MW is… suitable for ironic appreciation, but man, yeah, no.
I mean, up to you. As I said above, it’s not like owning one of those means actively supporting Facebook or whatever. I find the whole “engaging with these companies products implies endorsing them” capitalist view of money as support very strange, but I know it’s popular these days, particularly in anglo cultures.
But like I said above, it’s not like a Meta account used for a Quest used on PC will give Meta any view on your data, or like they would have made any money out of you from a device they built at a massive loss that you’re then purchasing used. But hey, you do you. There are other older, crappier headsets you can buy used, but Quest 2 listings out there start at sixty bucks, which is absolutely nuts for what they are.