• utopiah@lemmy.ml
    4·
    20 hours ago

    Reposting from my comment https://lemmy.world/post/37758804/20109240 which I recommend to check, as someone did a test with Dark Souls 1 and IMHO was unsurprisingly disappointing, namely it does recognize the game (honestly, not bad) and get the right boss (which name is literally on screen) and make kind of sometimes useful suggestions. But like… what’s the point? Who would play a game and… NOT know its name? Or not be able to search based on a boss name or a weapon name with existing dedicated good online guides?

    Anyway… if you still want to try yourself WITHOUT relying on Microsoft consider :

    "If someone somehow wants to test this locally I suggest

    • install locally a vision model, e.g. Moondream (which Ollama supports but alternatives too), then
    • take a screenshot of your game,
    • write a prompt like “How can I play this game better”
    • query the vision model with the image and your prompt

    marvel at how pointless and costly the whole setup is and how a basic query on e.g. DuckDuckGo with “game name” + prompt would yield way WAY better results from actual human, uninstall the whole, keep on playing with your actual brain.

    At least now you can say you tried before you complain, rightfully, that it sucks.

    For more check https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence

    PS: I didn’t actually try this, I’m too lazy for that right how but feel free to report back if you do!

    Edit : 2 potential optimization (despite not being sure it ever makes sense in the first place!)

    • do so automatically, e.g. ~/gaming_screenshots directory (via e.g. Spectacle shortcut) monitored via inotify then notify-send the suggestion, thus stay in game during the whole process
    • fine tune on specific visual datasets, e.g. rely on fextra as mentioned in https://lemmy.world/post/37758804/20113877

    " and again feel free to share back results.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    166·
    2 days ago

    Anything involving Copilot makes me happy to be a Mac user.

    If you have a machine that runs Windows and the hardware is still good, it’s time to give Linux a chance. Look into Proton for gaming (it’s a translation layer, like WINE I suppose). And let’s stop acting like Macs are the odd one out. Macs run UNIX. Windows is the odd one out! ;)

    • BoblinTheGoblin [none/use any]@hexbear.net
      9·
      2 days ago

      Doesn’t Mac have something similar to Recall that they caught less flack for? I wouldn’t trust Apple over Microsoft, they both want your data, Apple just has a façade of privacy awareness that they use to make sure others can’t get their users data too

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Mac used to have Time Machine, which was an automated, timed backup system. I think it was deprecated in the latest build? I never used it (only been a Mac user since 2023). I seem to remember hearing that Time Machine volumes — drives set up for that express purpose — were not going to be supported in the new version, which came out last month.

        I don’t remember Apple ever catching flak for Time Machine though, so we may be thinking of different things.

        So yes, as previously established by someone else, Apple collects telemetry like the rest of them. They don’t sell it to marketers though. They are still a computer/hardware company, not an advertising company (though, they do run ads).

        If you’re a gamer and you recognise that macOS is the worst computer platform for gaming, that’s fine, but tell it to a gaming community. You’re in a privacy community. I’m a gamer, but read the room. Not everyone in a privacy community is a gamer willing to sell privacy for a platform more friendly to gaming.

      • The_Grinch [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

        The article you linked says rewind 3rd party, opt in, and stored locally. I don’t think anyone would have an issue with microsoft’s AI either if it was opt in and without telemetry.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      10·
      2 days ago

      If you have a machine that runs Windows and the hardware is still good,

      Linux is often more forgiving on hardware requirements. I recently put Mint (with xfce) on a like 2013 laptop and it’s fine. That’s not even an especially lightweight distribution.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        22 hours ago

        Yes, it is. Mostly what Windows 11 won’t run on is not a matter of the machine’s capability of running the software, it’s more about the hardware security to back Microsoft’s DRM shit.

        Even if Linux Mint isn’t especially lightweight, there’s a Linux distro for just about everybody out there. You could probably find one that runs on 00’s or maybe, possibly, even 90s hardware, it would look like shit, it might look like OSes from back then, but it still could have modern support for whatever you want to tack onto it. I will never underestimate the versatility of Linux and its community.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        A year ago I put kali on a 2008 netbook and now it has a new life to be my shop machine so I don’t have to use a touchscreen when I need a man with a heavy accent tell me how to replace the bearings on a 1989 planetary gear made by a company that hasn’t existed since 1988

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        I hate that for you. Adobe has gotten worse over the years, but I suppose I don’t have to tell you that. There are a lot of great alternatives out there — I probably don’t have to tell you that either — and I hope one day you can switch to them.

        Of course, that’s why work is a four letter word, and you can’t eat your wants.

      • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        51·
        2 days ago

        Adobe products suck so fucking much, all of the linux alternatives I’ve used are better in every way (for my purposes)