UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is kinda egregious in ARM space in general, where a company offering Linux drivers/support for cutting-edge devices is noteworthy as opposed to standard practice. But even on X86 laptops, weird peripherals or particular SoCs can be troublesome. 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I suppose I didn't communicate my sarcasm there very well. I myself think it's less that "supporting an open OS is hard" and more that companies have a habit of keeping as much IP under the table as possible even if actually engaging with open soirce community brings tangible benefits. 101
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Basically only purpose-made Linux phones made by small companies with inferior hardware can run it with full functionality. For some reason (we will never know) mobile hardware manufacturers only want their devices running android. 120
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are also postmarketos.org and mobian-project.org and some others. The problem with mobile Linux is that a lot of hardware is either unsupported or barely supported via reverse engineering. 120
Reposted by UARTmanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do. 421664465
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"What? Xenos? No, it's clearly stated right here that those are *abhumans*, declared by such-and-such in the year of so-and-so!" 211
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great point! However, you failed to consider that the Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. 001
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The way I see it, they're still at their core digital landlords extracting rent, they just spend it on metaphorical renovations (in this case, paying some very smart folks both in-house and at the companies like crossover or collabora to work on linux-related blue sky research) 000
Reposted by UARTman〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026chris nailed it. i talked abt this on stream last night - the steambox and steam frame are "trojan horses" for valve, carrying a One More Thing w them that are the /real/ master plan w steambox, valve made steamos a public distro w steam frame, valve leverages FEX to bring steamos to arm64 devices 1126371
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Why does someone favorably refer to Pinochet as a "liberal dictator"? Because they believe the "free market" is the only real freedom - the others are optional or illusory. 000
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In many ways neoliberalism is an outgrowth of the liberal tendency to leave escape hatches for imperialism in their ideas of universal freedoms. We leave in a world where property rights part of liberalism has coopted and subsumed human rights. 100
Reposted by UARTmanA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144975762
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I imagine in space the situation wouldn't be *that* dissimilar: gravitic imploder lances would definitely fuck up most 40k ships something fierce 001
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A trait also shared by computer science/software engineering people (please don't look at the AI/techbro movement) 001
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Which, honestly, is a very class-conscious move - altering the material conditions of work to turn proletarian employees into petit bourgeouisie "individual self-employed contractors" seems to be a great anti-solidarity move. 010
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026In some ways I think they're going further and trying to break up the working class into a sort of techno-peasantry. Primarily via gig work, but also via locking down more and more consumer electronics so that any access to fruits of technology is metered by tech companies. 110
Reposted by UARTmanDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026if Bethesda had made pillars of eternity all the lore would be the same, but the fact the gods are constructs would be in a book no one reads, you'd never meet an animancer, and Amaua and Orlans wouldn't be playable characters or visible NPCs (mentioned in books) 2464
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026And the worst part, they don't have the guts to make Skyrim actually system-driven, the player needs to be able to break the systems over his knee as well! The most effect any story part will have on you is a status effect, or, rarely, an underbaked gameplay mechanic. 010
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There is so much extremely compelling stuff in the TES lore drawer that just... never gets used, because the world and its inhabitants are reduced to functions facilitating gameplay. And it's a very Modern Bethesda problem, in that it got worse as time went on. 110
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026They have prudently prepared for this possibility, however, by buying all the media. 010
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I especially love (and by love I mean hate) that bit where he's standing on Mars with the helmet open, stroking... something. The way the aesthetics are so clearly ripped off The Martian movie, it makes me laugh in a very contemptuous way. 010
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Oh, and when running mangohud, shift-f10 should toggle between presets, some of which are less intrusive (and one of which is just "disable mangohud"). Sadly it doesn't carry over between game runs 010
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If you're using Lutris, right-click game, click configure, go to "system options" tab, and check "FPS Counter (Mangohud)" option. 110
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It's called mangohud (github.com/flightlessma...). As for turning it off, it really depends on what you're launching TW3 through. If you're using Steam, right-click on the game in the library, and check General -> Launch Options. If it says something like "mangohud %command%", just delete it.github.comGitHub - flightlessmango/MangoHud: A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. - flightlessmango/MangoHud 110
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Don't forget that if you lived in, say, the UK, the billionaire would be able to sue you for that post. 010
Reposted by UARTmanDeath to fascism, freedom to the people @atriflemiffed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Lots of stupid people trying to dunk on an insanely impressive engineering achievement because they think it has something to do with AI even though the ML used for bipedal locomotion is a completely different branch of computer science 1295
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A merchantman is a dishonorable occupation, which is why it's so honorable. 010
Reposted by UARTmanDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Why Has the Left Not Considered Adopting A Point Antithetical to Its Very Existence?" asks Conservative Who Says He's A Socialist 09316
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There just isn't a world where "My business model is to sell thinking on a subscription basis" is a good mission statement PR wise. 010
Reposted by UARTmanDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026angry transphobe refuses to use the term "cislunar" orbits, crashes into the pacific northwest during reentry burn while arguing over 'they're NORMAL lunar orbits" to horrified ground control 25213
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The Brotherhood of Steel as a finally dead idea that only bitter old men can stay loyal to, with deserters abandoning the unattainable technofeudal monasticism for the certainties of life as a cog in the machine of the NCR industry (or military, which still has a need for power armor know-how)... 000
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The Followers of Apocalypse torn apart between the humanitarian drive to seek out the places where the wasteland still exists and fighting the premonitions of apocalypse coming from inside the housr. 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The cities with running water and working sewers and NCR-made cars and police precincts. A land gripped in throes of industrialisation, newly haunted by the rise-again spectre of communism that couldn't be put down even by nuclear armageddon. 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What I wouldn't give for a proper post-post-apocalyptic fallout story. An NCR that is a real country, struggling with all the weight of its ambitions against the resource scarcities original America killed the world to sate! 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026On a purely individual level, it's very straightforwardly unethical to uncritically use unreliable tools and hide behind them to dodge accountability for the results of their malfunction, yes. 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It's not an insignificant component of it, although one may also point out that responsibility laundering is in many ways a use-case officially endorsed by LLM vendors 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I think people ascribing LLMs agency and behaving as if LLMs are people who can be held accountable is a bit more fundamental than just a "process" problem, because it occurs *across* various different processes. Hope that makes sense. 110
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Apparently, this is a problem among lawyers of all people who will gleefully sign an AI-generated brief they haven't read over, and then act surprised when they get sanctioned over fake citations and try to argue the AI did it therefore they're not responsible. 120
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026In any case, I don't think there's anything to be accomplished in this conversation, so I'm bowing out. It's not like arguing with someone from a country where he won't ever need the medication he needs to function due to drug laws will materially help you Americans solve your drug crisis. 010
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Then again, i imafine actually ecperiencing some of those anecdotes could drive one to hyperbole. 110
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I do not believe a person who said "No one who actually lives beside these encampments believes that harm has been reduced" acrually thinks any harm's being mitigated. Kind of sounds like the opposite to me! 110
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026You're clearly expressing some sort of moral outrage here, and frankly if what you're saying is true you probably have the right to feel that way. It's just quite hard not to read it as an outrage *at harm reduction efforts* - as the laying of all blame on their shoulders. 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026To be fair, your support of needle distribution initiatives is a bit hard to see behind inflammatory rhetoric such as this: 100
UARTman @uartman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Since you know that, I hope you can see why some people respond to your attacks on needle distribution initiatives as if you're on the side of AIDS. Which I'm almost sure you aren't. 100
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