TheLeadenSea

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How many musicians we got here on Lemmy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

I'm learning to play the piano!

effortlessly pissing off transphobes by breathing is pretty dope ๐Ÿ˜œ in c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You don't want to be trans, it's really annoying.

If you were reincarnated, wouldn't it be elsewhere in the universe? in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

I don't like that story as it is a profoundly scary idea that I have to experience all human suffering in billions of lives.

What the hell is going on in the UK? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 44 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Blame the corporations and governments. The people have shown with our polls and petitions that we do NOT support this, yet the government (which is controlled by the companies) response has basically been 'fuck you, we're doing it anyway'

Also, apparently this is also happening in the EU, Australia, and the USA

So true in c/memes@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genetically modified

Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why would you assume it's neurotypical specific? I'm neurodivergent and I like generating AI videos and images, as it allows me to visualise stuff that was in my mind.

Will Chat Control affect P2P apps such as Briar? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They just won't comply. These FOSS services never have to worry about the law anyway - there are literal piracy sites, lol

The best way to get rid of the UK porn ban is to get one of the big sites classiefied as porn, such as YouTube or Facebook, which would actually be justified. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We just need to ditch the big companies and use only the underground internet - the Fediverse, Tor, piracy, SimpleX Chat, cryptocurrency (I know people hate it for some reason but it puts payments in the hands of the people)

Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can't steal data, just illegally copy it. So no LLM is trained on stolen data.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. You're old enough to know what you want and make your own decisions. Besides, it's more to do with maturity and less to do with age anyway - different people mature at different rates and ages. Do you feel mature enough to make that decision? You know yourself best.

TIL the words chocolate, cacao, avocado and chili come from the Nahuatl language (Aztec) in c/til@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Also tomato

AI is like that friend who will never tell you that you're actually in the wrong. in c/facepalm@lemmy.world
[โ€“] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It depends entirely on the prompt and training. Different LLMs, customised differently, vary wildly on how agreeable they are.

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I'm looking for a book about philosophy and I can't find it by searching (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I remember reading a book about philosophy a few years ago, but I don't remember what it's called, despite remembering several things about it. However searching the web or asking LLMs with what I remember has proved to not find it.

Can any of you help?

What I remember

  • It's ordered into chapters by topic
  • It's lighthearted in tone, despite being mostly nonfiction, reminiscent of the style of What If or We Have No Idea
  • They like telling stories to illustrate their points
  • One topic was about identity and there was a story about two people's brains getting swapped
  • There was a mention of the simulation hypothesis with aliens that put a boy inside a video game for his birthday gift because they saw he liked the game - brain in a vat
  • Various time travel paradoxes and how they could be solved - diverging universes, multiple universes, closed timelike curves
  • The cover was fun and bold, and it mentioned on it things that it contained inside
  • One chapter was about the ethics of eating animals and there was a story about giants eating people (because people eat animals)
  • There was a chapter about God
  • I didn't finish it, I want to read the rest of it

Please help me find it

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Why do we humans love music? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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It's just rhythms and pitches really, in a sequence. But we don't love patterns, a scale sounds boring. It's the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant. What the duck is going on?

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Why do we love stories so? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Whether it be movies, books, oral tradition. What is it we humans love so much about fictional tales?

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If you have an inner voice, does it sound like you or someone else? (sh.itjust.works)
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Does anyone want to coordinate on a cube projection Earth on this years Canvas? (2025.canvas.fediverse.events)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/geography@mander.xyz
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Or lower pixels

A good place to start could be around 470, 59

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[SOLVED] How come I've got my NVIDIA GPU to work for every game except Hogwarts Legacy? (More details in post body) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[SOLVED] The custom launch command below works to force it to use the correct GPU!

DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU" %command%

[ORIGINAL] So, I have this new laptop I got which has an NVIDIA RTX 4090M GPU, and also an integrated Intel GPU. Obviously, I only want to use the Intel GPU for less intensive apps, and to use the NVIDIA GPU for games or other intensive applications, such as AI.

Through trial, error, and lucky searches on the internet, I figured out some things that do and don't work.

  • Plugging in the laptop makes the NVIDIA GPU run much faster
  • The default Fedora NVIDIA drivers work fine, I don't need to install any alternatives
  • To make a normal app use the GPU, all I have to do is right click the icon and click 'Launch with discrete GPU' (on GNOME), or to make it open with discrete GPU by default (and launching with the integrated GPU would be an option in the context menu), I have to copy the desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications, and edit the .desktop file so it contains the line PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
  • For Steam apps, the previous method doesn't work (for some reason - maybe it uses a custom launch process?), but after trying many different ways, I was able to get most Steam apps to use the correct GPU (GPU 0) by adding the custom launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%
  • For some reason, this doesn't work for Hogwarts Legacy. It, of all games, really wants to use the Intel graphics - even with the custom launch command, PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true, and in game setting the preferred GPU to my NVIDIA one - yes, it is listed and recognised in game - I can tell both from the Resources app and the abysmal performance that my NVIDIA GPU is not being used and my Intel GPU is
  • Other apps like Portal RTX, The Witcher 3, ComfyUI (running through Krita AI Diffusion), Blender, and Civilisation 6 are running great with the NVIDIA GPU
  • I do not have prime-run installed and do not need it

My laptop model is MEDION Beast X40.

I'm honestly at my wits end.

Any suggestions?

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Did you attend your parents' wedding? (sh.itjust.works)
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I'm getting 'operation not permitted' errors with Syncthing Fork and a few other issues, can anyone help? (sh.itjust.works)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40624933

Several different, random seeming files across various different Syncthing folders keep failing to sync even after restart, rescan, and reconfiguration, with the below error

syncing: finishing: opening temp file: open /storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Webcam/.syncthing.2024-07-1621:42:30.jpg.tmp: operation not permitted

I don't how how to fix it, the desktop app has the required permissions, and the Android app has as many storage permissions as I can give it under Android's horrible SAF limitations.

It seemed to used to be happening only to some specific old files, but now it's happening to all the new files I add onto my laptop under Videos or Music.

In addition, when trying to sync files with a specific server, it shows as disconnected, even when both are online and connected to the LAN (my phone via WiFi, the server via Ethernet), and there is some error about encryption expectations

2025-06-20 23:33:38: Failure checking encryption consistency with device server for folder "Music" (8ipwu-ehye4): remote expects to exchange encrypted data, but is configured for plain data

The server is running Syncthing GUI on Fedora GNOME, same as the laptop (which does work besides for the first issue), so I don't know what the difference is that would be causing this, not a single file has been synced to the server.

This is honestly making me want to get a Fairphone 5 with Ubuntu touch to get rid of these issues, but I can't do that now.

If anyone could advise, I would really appreciate it!

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I'm getting 'operation not permitted' errors with Syncthing Fork and a few other issues, can anyone help? (sh.itjust.works)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40624933

Several different, random seeming files across various different Syncthing folders keep failing to sync even after restart, rescan, and reconfiguration, with the below error

syncing: finishing: opening temp file: open /storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Webcam/.syncthing.2024-07-1621:42:30.jpg.tmp: operation not permitted

I don't how how to fix it, the desktop app has the required permissions, and the Android app has as many storage permissions as I can give it under Android's horrible SAF limitations.

It seemed to used to be happening only to some specific old files, but now it's happening to all the new files I add onto my laptop under Videos or Music.

In addition, when trying to sync files with a specific server, it shows as disconnected, even when both are online and connected to the LAN (my phone via WiFi, the server via Ethernet), and there is some error about encryption expectations

2025-06-20 23:33:38: Failure checking encryption consistency with device server for folder "Music" (8ipwu-ehye4): remote expects to exchange encrypted data, but is configured for plain data

The server is running Syncthing GUI on Fedora GNOME, same as the laptop (which does work besides for the first issue), so I don't know what the difference is that would be causing this, not a single file has been synced to the server.

This is honestly making me want to get a Fairphone 5 with Ubuntu touch to get rid of these issues, but I can't do that now.

If anyone could advise, I would really appreciate it!

5
I'm getting 'operation not permitted' errors with Syncthing Fork and a few other issues, can anyone help? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Several different, random seeming files across various different Syncthing folders keep failing to sync even after restart, rescan, and reconfiguration, with the below error

syncing: finishing: opening temp file: open /storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Webcam/.syncthing.2024-07-1621:42:30.jpg.tmp: operation not permitted

I don't how how to fix it, the desktop app has the required permissions, and the Android app has as many storage permissions as I can give it under Android's horrible SAF limitations.

It seemed to used to be happening only to some specific old files, but now it's happening to all the new files I add onto my laptop under Videos or Music.

In addition, when trying to sync files with a specific server, it shows as disconnected, even when both are online and connected to the LAN (my phone via WiFi, the server via Ethernet), and there is some error about encryption expectations

2025-06-20 23:33:38: Failure checking encryption consistency with device server for folder "Music" (8ipwu-ehye4): remote expects to exchange encrypted data, but is configured for plain data

The server is running Syncthing GUI on Fedora GNOME, same as the laptop (which does work besides for the first issue), so I don't know what the difference is that would be causing this, not a single file has been synced to the server.

This is honestly making me want to get a Fairphone 5 with Ubuntu touch to get rid of these issues, but I can't do that now.

If anyone could advise, I would really appreciate it!

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