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  • FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.worldXFCE vs LXQt
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    19 days ago

    I feel the same, though having more options for lightweight DEs is better. I came from gnome 2 after Ubuntu switched to Unity DE back in the day. Xubuntu ran nice on all of my kids low power devices and it became my desktop as well ever since. It’s just as happy on my work laptop as well as Ryzen thread ripper with 3 rtx4000s and 3 magewell hdmi capture cards we use for visualization at work too. It really feels like a solid DE with less fuss than most.




  • FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.worldtoSpace@lemmy.worldOops, they did it again...
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    26 days ago

    Me boarding a 777 on Friday after a very long week of business travel, a true story:

    Pilot: “Looks like we’ll get to San Jose 30 minutes ahead of schedule”

    10 minutes later…

    Pilot: “Just waiting for some paperwork before we can leave the terminal”

    30 minutes later…

    Pilot: “Sorry we can’t leave until the maintenance records are updated”.

    30 minutes later…

    Pilot: “We’re still waiting for sign-off”

    5 minutes later…

    Pilot: “By law, we have to allow passengers off the plane as it’s been over an hour at the terminal”

    I de-board looking for any other flight, but it turns out there are no seats on any other plane in this airport…

    Terminal attendant: “They have the paperwork now you can re-board if you wish”

    What would you do?

    Me: YOLO











  • I hope having a transporter device is more like folding space than particle-scanning and reconstruction. The scanning and reconstruction would still be great for replacing or repairing lost or deteriorating structures. Regardless, I have a number of questions that come up as we learn more about how our brain might work.

    If our brain is changed in (near) death how would we determine what was lost?

    Could we even reconstruct consciousness (this could be also gradual, but what is the speed of consciousness)?

    It seems more like we would have to gradually move our conscious processing from per-existing wetware to whatever replaces it (even more wetware). It should behave like our brain as much as possible, but I don’t think we could avoid being different from what we were.

    Our own brain changes over time, do we think the way we did when we were 5? How different will we think far later in life (assuming our brain is at least healthy)? I think we would have to accept changes in our fundamental being (which is already very challenging). The difference is that not only could we live for longer physically, but within the pure consciousness an entire lifetime could be lived in less than a second. We experience this temporarily in dreams, or while experiencing a life threatening event such as an automobile accident or the final moments of death itself. What if that was extended over physical months, years, decades? How would we deal with such a inheritance, who would teach us how to cope and find meaning?

    Would we want to live life at the speed of the physical world after such an experience?




  • I tried the Oculus 2 and liked that it gave me a very physical way to game as opposed to sitting in a chair. Unfortunately the weight on my head and sweaty headpiece were ultimately a turnoff. The glasses style devices (XReal, Viture, etc) are a much better fit for me and mine has 3DOF motion tracking so it works as mouse view in most games without requiring VR support. It’s much lighter and I can wear them for hours without the strain and sweat. Newer glasses are coming with cameras for 6DOF, hand tracking and eye-tracking is not to far off as well.

    These glasses are powered by a phone or a pc with USB DP alt mode. This gets the battery and processor off the head and makes for an un-tethered experience (with a phone).



  • FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldQuestions
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    3 months ago

    For all the people missing the point of this comic particularly in the U.S.: Look at who has held political and financial power for the last two hundred years, including this one. There are lots of pictures and paintings of people. Do you notice anything in common between nearly all of them besides having wealth and power? Think about the position of everyone else not fitting that description and tell us all again why you personally feel attacked and why this comic is not relevant.