Davinci works better in Linux. Vapoursynth mostly works better in Linux.

RAW photo editing is already horrible in Windows if you’re trying to do HDR. To be fair, it’s horrible in Linux too. As much as I hate it, they can’t touch Apple there.

See this post I just made: https://lemmy.world/post/41751454/21613633

iOS will render HDR JPEG-XL, AVIF and tiled HEIFs straight out of a camera; no problem. Heck, it will even display RAWs in the photo app. But it’s a struggle on Windows and Linux.

And if by “professional use” you mean “Adobe,” I view that in the same way as still being on Twitter. At this point, subjecting yourself to Adobe on Windows is something you should do through gritted teeth.

A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself.

If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?

I agree with the sentiment but disagree with the prognosis.

In my experience, the ragebait articles around here are largely from the same sites. Rawstory, mediaite, dailybeast, some of The Guardian’s more indulgent pieces. I won’t presume to know why the posters post them, but they’re ragebait to start.

I don’t even see “Big Media” like Reuters or local news or whatever get upvoted much. And as longs as the news sections aren’t mixed up with the opinion ones, IMO they’re more professional.

The accurate title rule is great as long as posters pick more journalistic articles instead of opinion pieces or reposts. And if they don’t there’s no fixing that anyway.

I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles

And I straight up I disagree with this.

There are tons of talking heads with opinions. But journalism rooted in sourcing is much harder. That should come first, or at least come with an opinion in the OP, and then the discussion can be built around facts.

This is an option.

The problem is, while faster on paper, its not really any faster than my 3090, especially in spots where I need its performance most. It’d be a downgrade.

I could get a second 3090, I guess, and have some redundancy in case one fails. But I’m on an ITX board with 1 slot.

I’d be WAY more interested in a roughly equivalent 9000 series or Battlemage card, but alas, there is none.

Yeah, this is generally my philosophy. I have exactly 1 user blocked, as well as a pure bot community or two.

But the problem for me is magnitude. With its sheer number of upvotes, /c/politics is blotting out my sun, reducing diversity; it does no good leaving it in my feed.

Oh, I know. I bought my previous GPUs in the peak of cypto busts.

But I need 24GB… My plan was to eventually buy a used 4090 when they get cheaper, or 24GB Intel/AMD card. But it doesn’t feel like AMD/Intel are interested in big GPUs anymore, and the 4090 just keeps going up in price.

So I FOMO bought an SSD and SD card when all this started.

Not regretting it.

…But now I’m considering hoarding a spare GPU. Is that nuts? I don’t need it, I don’t want to hoard, but If my old Ampere card suddenly dies, is it gonna take $2000 to replace?

I like Lemmy as a “zoo”

I like seeing nuts and weirdos and niches and stuff when I scroll by. It feels like the old internet. And I also find that lemmy.ml has good discussions outside tankie politics, so I don’t want to block that out.

Problem with the main political subs is that they’re so big they flood post sorted by Active, Rising, or New Comments. Their tabloid garbage crowds everything else out.

It’s addictive. It’s not like I haven’t steeped in it either.

This is what I keep hammering; people can’t help themselves, especially under stress. Perverse engagement incentives need to be fixed structurally to give us a fighting chance, otherwise Lemmy/Piefed will end up like Voat and all the other Reddit clones.

On the contrary, I’ve made a few (not a ton) of what I thought were interesting news posts, but they don’t seem to gain traction.

I think the deeper issue is ragebait works, very well. The community seems to be content with that, and Lemmy/Piefed devs aren’t structuring the site the counter it.

I have some posts/interests that I think would get some visibility. In my case, it really is executive dysfunction, heh.

Not that you’re wrong. And, unfortunately, its a ludicrously profitable highway outside of the Fediverse.

Lemmy doesn’t assume anything. Sorting is done by votes or activity from all communities; the intent is for the user to subscribe to communities to curate their feed. But blocking works too.

I don’t know precisely how Reddit works now, but it used to be like that as well. There was no interest algorithm, no suggestions, other than a bit of vote count nonlinearity. It just had the quirk of defaulting to a few select subs in “hot,” instead of “all” like most Lemmy/Piefed instances do.

Yeah. The .world news community mods don’t seem to care about clickbait, misinformation, calls for violence or doxxing or rape, as long as they’re the “correct” politics. Calling for Ivanka Trump to get shot? Serious deepfake meme? Perfectly acceptable, apparently, in spite of the admins’ pushback.

But make a comment like yours, and the moderation is… that.

I haven’t even blocked the tankie communities or anything, but I had to block /c/politics, as they’re so active they pollute my feed.

I’m fine with leaving that part of Lemmy permanently blocked though.

Yeah. We have monkey brains, and overcoming intertia is hard.

I think the site could be better structured to address this, specifically by organizing communities into a “taxonomy,” so posts from niche interest automatically filter up into bigger subs. Thus, participation would feel easier/more enaging, and folks would have more focused and active niches to participate in.

Making that suggestion on the Lemmy/Piefed repos is on my messy todo list.

…I am drifting away from Lemmy myself.

Political communities are echo chambers like Reddit, in a different color. Discussing tech or helping others is better, but still feels like talking in circles.

Wholesome subs like /c/SuperBowl are sublime, but I mostly lurk there.

Information hygiene is awful. Big subs upvote tabloids and Tweets to the sky, as long as they align with their beliefs. I just saw a discussion on a not-obviously AI generated photo with the community sentiment of “misinformation? Who cares. It’s a pro-lefty meme, so spread it.”

Anyway, all this scrolling and impulse commenting eats time. I get the same feeling of shouting into a black hole that I get on corporate social media.

Much of this is my fault, though.

I have several niches I intend to make original posts for, but never do.

It’s somewhere in the giant pile of my IRL executive dysfunction :’(

Valve’s margins are almost criminal as-is. They make cash hand over fist, and they’re basically a monopoly already.

…So not much might actually change, at least at first?

But this why they don’t need to go public. They have plenty of cash. And it’d just shrink the slice of profit Valve’s owners get.

Still, even private, I’m afraid of what Steam might look like if big competitors like EGS and Microsoft footgun themselves out of the market, and GoG fades away due to their DRM-free policy.

Oh, sweet summer child.

You just wait.

It’s especially bizzare when git repos for “open source corporate alternative” type software uses it over their own repo’s issue trackers and forums.

WTF

They want the social media engagement, I guess. But still. It’s ridiculous how much of a blind spot folks have for it.

It also makes giving or getting any kind of support a hellish time sink, but that’s almost besides the point…

It’s not so much about English as it is about writing patterns. Like others said, it has a “stilted college essay prompt” feel because that’s what instruct-finetuned LLMs are trained to do.

Another quirk of LLMs is that they overuse specific phrases, which stems from technical issues (training on their output, training on other LLM’s output, training on human SEO junk, artifacts of whole-word tokenization, inheriting style from its own previous output as it writes the prompt, just to start).

“Slop” is an overused term, but this is precisely what people in the LLM tinkerer/self hosting community mean by it. It’s also what the “temperature” setting you may see in some UIs is supposed to combat, though that crude an ineffective if you ask me.

Anyway, if you stare at these LLMs long enough, you learn to see a lot of individual model’s signatures. Some of it is… hard to convey in words. But “Embodies” “landmark achievement” and such just set off alarm bells in my head, specifically for ChatGPT/Claude. If you ask an LLM to write a story, “shivers down the spine” is another phrase so common its a meme, as are specific names they tend to choose for characters.

If you ask an LLM to write in your native language, you’d run into similar issues, though the translation should soften them some. Hence when I use Chinese open weights models, I get them to “think” in Chinese and answer in English, and get a MUCH better result.

All this is quantifiable, by the way. Check out EQBench’s slop profiles for individual models:

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing_longform.html

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html

And it’s best guess at inbreeding “family trees” for models:

Did y’all read the email?

embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that

another landmark achievement

showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design

That is one sloppy email. Man, Claude has gotten worse at writing.

I’m not sure Rob even realizes this, but the email is from some kind of automated agent: https://agentvillage.org/

So it’s not even an actual thank you from a human, I think. It’s random spam.

To be fair, relying on OneDrive was like waiting for a bomb to go off. This was bound to happen once they got everyone stuck using it.

“let’s save today’s photos from my phone onto my machine” bullshit?

Once it’s set up, I don’t see how that’s a hassle? Especially if its just syncing over WiFi.