Selfhosting Lemmy has been surprisingly nice

You made an assumption that the user was at fault

I made an assumption about what your goal was, and made no claims of fault or right/wrong. You can do whatever you want with your own computer. Bye

Look, I was trying to understand your issue, since I’m a developer and am curious about this kind of thing. I stated my assumptions to try and make my initial point of view clear and give you the opportunity to provide more information if my assumptions were wrong.

From what you’ve stated I don’t believe your problem is related to DCC/CI at all, and is likely something else with sleep states failing. Whatever is failing on your system is extremely unusual and is not something that I would expect a “Grandma” to ever encounter. If anything, older hardware should be better supported.

I’ve not experienced any of this across many different linux systems… The default screensaver and lock screen work perfectly fine in KDE Plasma, and my monitors turn off when they should. I’ve even had no issues with HDR and variable refresh rates. (And the DCC/CI brightness controls for my TV work out of the box unlike windows).

I’m sorry you haven’t had the same experience. It almost seems like there could be something broken with your hardware if your monitor is continuing to detect a signal after things are asleep.

While you’re correct in a general sense, the linux kernel is what I was referring to, not the whole ecosystem of linux programs and repositories.

If Hello World can be written in 1 line and someone comes along and presents a version written in 100-1000s of lines without any new features, I’m going to argue it’s unmaintainable slop.

I recall having to install 3rd party software to get DCC/CI working on Windows to change monitor brightness too, so I don’t see how this is a fair “grandma” comparison.

I’m assuming you’re trying to turn your monitor off while there is still an active HDMI signal for some reason? Otherwise why wouldn’t you just let the monitor put itself to sleep when it detects no signal like everyone else I know?

That’s really unfortunate… I would have expected it to be perfectly fine if there wasn’t any disk activity at the time. Whatever left things in a pending state before sleeping seems like it’s got a serious bug.

A little off on the lines of code… it’s only around 20 million. I’d be a little worried if there was billions of lines of code, it would be unmaintainable slop.

The exact quote is

“the propulsion force generated was less than the motor would have generated if it had been connected to a standard marine propeller.”

Based on that, the input power is a constant because they are comparing against the same motor. I would assume the power consumption is constant rather than bursty for either propulsion system, so there isn’t any peak-vs-avg power to be concerned about either.

One of the first things that page says is that it generates less force than a standard marine propeller. That seems like it’d be less efficient and use more fuel to me.

*fridge left open reminder beep*

I guess you must live in that part of Alaska where it’s night time for half the year and don’t have daylight.

I actually did buy a Sony mirrorless camera several years ago when I was getting unhappy with the quality of my phone camera, right around the time the aggressive denoising tech was introduced. It made all the leaves in my forest photos turn into a smeary mess, not much different from an AI image.

These photos were 6 years apart, but I bought the nice camera shortly after the first photo. Galaxy S10 vs Sony A9 straight off the camera, similar shutter speeds, but different weather.

This was a whole thing with Samsung phones replacing the moon with a fake one in their telephoto images… I hate how much processing is going into phone images now.

Wow, that’s like 1000x more practical than putting them in space

I’m sure you could do it with a standalone runtime, but it will just be overhead compared to compiling directly to x86, at least for the purposes of this competition. I’m a fan of WASM for a lot of other applications tho

This is more of a “Not In Anyone’s Back Yard” kind of situation.

It seems they’re including the runtime in the size, and have prohibited web based games for this reason (unless you can find a browser that fits in 1.44MB). Submissions must be a native executable (I’m assuming for x86)

I think the fact it’s a checkbox is irrelevant here. From what I understand, these yes/no questions have very real consequences for the patients they’re about. If entering the wrong thing can have negative consequences, an AI shouldn’t be filling that out. Not to mention, if the data in the medical file is wrong, a nurse who’s actually spoken with the patient will actually have opportunities to correct things that an AI will never see.

Honestly, every platform has the same problem, including real life countries. There’s always the possibility that whatever power is enforcing the rules is corrupted and doesn’t listen to anyone else. The mechanisms for fairly determining both what the rules should be and how to enforce them are always evolving as people find new ways to do bad things.

The fediverse is a nice system because it allows people to leave and make their own communities if the admins become toxic, incentivizing them to actually listen to users. I can only hope we don’t get overrun my AI slop like the rest of the internet.