alex
@bates64.com
23, he, en_GB 🔗 bates.lol papermar.io reverse engineer / admin @ starhaven.dev GPU wizardry @ Arm
every single person who talks about how data centers are completely unnecessary probably has very strong opinions on youtube videos defaulting to 720p
(The data centers won't become debt traps because even if AI is a bust the world is always gonna need more compute)
"'Passed [away],' I'm afraid, just makes me vomit. Died, you mean! 'Passed,' you didn't pass. You passed an exam? You pased your driving test? You passed an interesting shop? 'Passed away,' no, died." youtu.be/Sd8tA_XVMYU?...
I asked Stephen Fry 100 Questions
YouTube video by 100 Questions with Tom Simons
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my pds was acting up for the last week or two because i didn't persist the cursor from the old pds. all fixed now :)
trying to install noctalia-shell and niri on Ubuntu today and it required both manual building and an entire system upgrade. not sure it's possible to change distro once you've been with NixOS 💔
Paper Mario DX now has Windows support! You can now create mods without setting up WSL. Clone github.com/bates64/pape... and run `build.bat` to try it out :)
GitHub - bates64/papermario-dx: Improved Paper Mario (N64) engine for your next romhack
Improved Paper Mario (N64) engine for your next romhack - bates64/papermario-dx
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i really hate to say it but OpenClaw and NixOS are a really good fit. "ssh into my server and make it serve X at this endpoint" just works, and i can `jj undo` if it does something catastrophic
My new video is done! It's a look at the obscure and unused dialogue from Paper Mario 64! I'm pretty confident you'll learn something new... youtu.be/nrnyvE18e2U?...
Obscure and Unused Dialogue in Paper Mario 64
YouTube video by Disable
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the people hacking windows 11 to behave like win7 would do well to rice a linux
sama: "You can just build things" wtf does this mean? does he even know what he means?
What if Paper Mario 64 was remade? Here's what I think it could be! Captaine Chocon created this model for their own project, and I asked to try to import it into TTYDS and this was the result! (No collision cause this is was just for fun!) #PaperMario
which genius at adobe decided to name the version after react-spectrum v3 "react-spectrum 2"
the quotes and replies are full of people saying "this is the *good* AI, not the bad AI". but this distinction doesn't work for the same reason you can't claim there are only two genders. because most stuff doesn't fit cleanly into any one category, and it misses other categories' entire existence.
Today, we're rolling out a new suite of AI-driven global weather models, including a "first of its kind" hybrid ensemble system! Want to get geeky with us? Come check it out: www.noaa.gov/news-release...
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu
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i reckon if i did Thanksgiving I would cry too much. how do the americans manage it