Lemmy account of natanox@chaos.social
Good luck finding a spot to land somewhere close within Manhattan. Unless you happen to have the heart attack next to a car park (or the central park) that also happens to not be heavily used right now there’s hardly any spot to safely land.
in London and other cities it’s less of a problem given we don’t build that many high rise buildings and got more big old market places and small parks.
What the absolute fuck
I think the general idea of her was that, if society was perfectly accepting, there wouldn’t be any real reason for bigger medical intervention; specifically that there’s no gender dysphoria coming from within / being there by default, but all of it existing because of transphobia. With a perfect society there would be no suffering - still expression, but that’s it. And there should be no science on this whole topic because that’s apparently… well, see the pic. It’s one of the really weird takes from back then I could find.
Like, I understand the fear of this knowledge being used against us and the criticism of our current, overly strict diagnostic system this comic contains (which already gets discussed controversially within the academic community and is partially tied to economic necessities)… but that knowledge could likewise be used for so, so much good. To completely ignore the suffering this condition can cause on its own and putting all of the blame on a society that’s indeed not perfect yet, and even worse, question Enlightenment itself (as in the move towards an educated society and knowledge over religion, that kind)… in my opinion this is, or was, just fear-driven ignorance and not helpful at all.
But I’d like to say it again: If she happened to change her opinions in this regard I’m more than happy to hear about it. The comic OP posted looks more like her opinions are still very extreme though…
Not sure how her being trans is related to criticism (well, except right-wingers throwing a temper tantrum. But that isn’t criticism). I heavily dislike her due to her - perhaps former(?) - anti-medical viewpoints she also perpetuated in comics. To break it down what her position a few years ago was:
Perhaps her extreme viewpoints changed over the years, and I’m sure not to have all the infos available given I haven’t heard about her in a while. But what I saw coming from her a few years ago was just so much crap (Pretty sure I also criticized her for it once, for which she blocked me immediately to then go on a rant). It really pissed me off since it completely undermined efforts to give trans kids (and adults!) the professional help they might need to become both happy and successful (and most importantly themselves).
And in case anyone who reads this thinks this is important for my criticism to be valid or sth: Yes, I am trans myself.
What comic artist does this come from? I got a bad feeling…
This is also global, not even US data; iPhones are phenomenally more popular over there than anywhere else as far as I know. This is also one of the reasons some seriously begin to believe Android would be a “poor man’s phone”.
Depends on which GPU you compare it with, what model you use, what kind of RAM it has to work with, ecetera. NPU’s are purpose-built chips after all. Unfortunately the whole tech is still very young, so we’ll have to wait for stuff like ollama to introduce native support for an apples-to-apples comparison. The raw numbers to however do look promising.
May take a look at systems with the newer AMD SoC’s first. They utilize the systems’ RAM and come with a proper NPU, once ollama or mistral.rs are supporting those they might give you sufficient performance for your needs for way lower costs (incl. power consumption). Depending on how NPU support gets implemented it might even become possible to use NPU and GPU in tandem, that would probably enable pretty powerful models to be run on consumer-grade hardware at reasonable speed.
Europe also tries their best to improve the situations in the other mines (some are so awful they’re basically off-limit for western companies because of child slavery and such stuff) and find new patches for example in Scandinavia or middle- and south America which could then be extracted with the respective countries.
Brussel does a lot of bullshit, sometimes phenomenally so (in the end it’s just politics as well), but in this case they really seem to try.
Don’t be fooled too hard by propaganda though. We also got tests of flying cars in other countries, it was a beloved subvention target of some german politicans as well… but it’s just not economically viable, and for the filthy rich it isn’t in any way better than a helicopter for now. They also said some nonsense about having “a train that can go anywhere” which was just a fucking bendy bus, and their infrastructure keeps falling apart due to no or absurdly bad quality control (which other countries can also do very well)… so yeah, China is just stupid in different ways. To put it mildly.
In an ideal world the anticheat would be 99% server-side and connections would be done through multicast.
Ah, then you probably also got the Intel GPU and it’s a hybrid configuration with the Nvidia being the “high performance GPU”. If it doesn’t say “kernel driver in use” (at least once you open some demanding application) saying “nvidia” it might uses nouveau, which would be wrong. However given the hybrid configuration your Intel GPU should be the one in control of the display, so no matter what Nvidia screws up it shouldn’t affect your refresh rate settings… I think.
Guess it would be best to head to the linuxmint.com forums and ask there. It’s probably a small fix, like your intel driver not being fully aware of all display capabilities on this specific device (which you could set manually, I’d have to look up the exact xrandr command though - will also change in the future once Mint fully moves from X11 to Wayland).
Perhaps the nvidia driver doesn’t load correctly. Could you open a terminal, enter lspci -nnk and look for your GPU in the list to check if the kernel driver in use says “nvidia” and/or “nvidia_drm”?
That setting rings a bell, I think it was a year-long Nvidia screw-up (one of too many) that only recently gets slowly fixed…
Not having the problem on X11 either (had to go back due to Nvidia on one device). Would be a configuration thing then, it would be really weird for Mint to not have vsync on by default though.
Is this a Mint problem, or tied to certain hardware? I never had screen tearing for years now. Both adaptive sync in games as well as adaptive sync or vsync on desktop just worked out of the box for me.
You could try installing the newest kernel. Mint apparently comes with a great built-in tool to do so. It might contain newer drivers that fix your issues. I also see there’s a variant with Nvidia GPU… in that case it also might be Nvidias fault. Which would be not surprising at all. (Mint got a driver utility you could meddle with).
Completely with you on this one. It’s awful when used to generate “art”, but once you’ve learned its short-comings and never blindly trust it it is such a phenomenal help in learning and assisting with code or finding something you’ve a hard time to find the right words for. And aside from generative use-cases neural networks are also phenomenally useful for assisting tasks in science, medicine and so on.
It’s just unfortunate we’re still in the “find out” phase of the information age. It’s like with the industrialization ~200 years ago, just with data… and unfortunately the lessons seem to be equally rough. All the generative tech will deal painful blows to our culture.
Yeah, it’s way more sensible to use some of the available regex utilities like this. Although it’s always funny to see what an LLM comes up with.
This. I absolutely prefer to be a tone-deaf fucker among tone-deaf fuckers if that means my ambulance arrives timely after someone tried car buttsex at 260 kmh. (162 mph)
What, speed limits? Don’t you dare touch my freedom.