(Solved) Does anyone know if there are still clean DVD ISO rips of Grand Theft Auto IV around?
Check rutracker, I see one that has 1.0.7.0 in particular.
Reminds me of one of my favorite websites: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com
Same here. Every project I have ever worked on is available on github. Even my job open sources its tools.
Are you implying it requires a law degree to understand that the government defines what terms mean for legal purposes? If you don't understand that you have a lot more to worry about than my certifications.
To be fair it's the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.
Maybe that was a bad example to use, that is my bad. It was just the first thing I thought of. The government needs to define all sorts of things, not just criminal acts. You say it's being human. They even define what a human is.. Laws have to be written in such a way as to include explicit definitons so they can be enforced without loopholes. (Or in some cases create loopholes like with the rich and taxes)
Not that I agree with what is happening but they are defining it in legal terms, which is absolutely their job. A simple example might be killing someone is just killing someone, and the government defines what is murder and what is manslaughter.
GPUs are at pretty reasonable prices if you buy used. The 3060 Ti is $237 and it beats the 4060.
For codecs it is highly dependent on the release group. For 4K it is the only valid option, but for 1080p a lot of groups make their x265 encodes too small and sacrifice quality. Take a look at the group rankings in the trash guides for sonarr and radarr for a general idea if who is the best/worst.
As for Tdarr, you should only really use it for audio and subtitle processing. For one you should not re-encode video so unless you're starting with remuxes you're further degrading video that is already degraded. And for two it's best left to the people who know what settings to tweak for each movie or episode. There is no universal setting that works well for everything so while you might be able to get acceptable quality with automation it's never going to be great. The best groups already took the time and effort to get it right so you might as well get those and save yourself the time/electricity.
That was part of my reason for linking it, and also why I put "convert" in quotes. It really is just Arch pre-configured and with some themes and some extra utilities.
I actually didn't know they had their own repo until I took a look yesterday and not only is it tiny but it seems to be mostly themes, configs, and/or tools. I don't think they even have alt versions of existing packages, just additions.
A major difference is Manjaro has its own repos which has a tendency to break AUR packages, while EndeavourOS uses the normal Arch repos. Endeavour is pretty much just pre-configured Arch so it bypasses a lot of the issues with security and stability that Manhjaro suffers from.
IMO I still think people should just use vanilla Arch so they can customize everything to the fullest but EndeavourOS is a decent option.
I was trying to make it as simple as possible. The format is irrelevant. The model is still storing nothing but weights at the end of the day. Storing the relationships between words and sentences is not the same thing as storing works in a different format which is what your original comment implied.
But it's not just converting them into a different format. It's not even storing that information at all. It can't actually reproduce anything from the dataset unless it is really small or completely overfitted, neither of which apply to GPT with how massive it is.
Each neuron, which represents a word or a phrase, is a set of weights. One source makes a neuron go up by 0.000001% and then another source makes it go down by 0.000001%. And then you repeat that millions and millions of times. The model has absolutely zero knowledge of any specific source in its training data, it only knows how often different words and phrases occur next to each other. Or for images it only knows that certain pixels are weighted to be certain colors. Etc.
Yep I use the binhex container too, makes everything really easy to set up.
I hope you don’t take offense to this but are you on the spectrum?
No offense taken, I am indeed.
I can actually see what you mean about the review now that you put it that way. I have watched LTT for years (over a decade even) so I know their for-fun format vs. their review format but I can see how someone without that kind of familiarity wouldn't. I do think there should be better distinction between them so cases like this don't happen.
Since you asked the most obvious signs it's not a review are the lack of any kind of conclusion, there's no comparisons, no graphs/charts-- nothing that actually tests the product which you would see in their reviews. If you look at the last video they posted which is about the Fifine A6T microphone. You don't even have to watch it, just look at the sections which are things like "Microphone Tests," "Measurements," and "Pickup Pattern." The water block video sections are all things to do with building. Nothing related to testing.
As for the super car analogy, I have a 7950X. It is literally the most powerful consumer-grade CPU you can buy right now. I encode video so all 32 threads are running 100% for hours at a time. And I cool it with a Noctua NH-D15, an air cooler that cost me $90. It runs perfectly. Even if you have infinite money to throw around I just can't see a reason to use an $800 water block when the best CPU you can get is fine with air cooling. At least with a super car it actually goes much faster than a normal car but spending 8x more on cooling is going to get you at most like a few percent more performance. I looked up some numbers and it's even less than that. You lose 0.5% performance running a NH-U14S at 40% fan speed compared to an AIO, and that isn't even as strong as the NH-D15 is. I couldn't easily find any comparisons for a custom loop but I can't imagine the difference is more than 2-3%. Which means its main purpose is to look cool I guess? But I'm sorry that still makes it a dumb product IMO even if there is a small market for it. I think I'd go as far as to say the market itself shouldn't exist.
As for the auction, your explanation has helped me figure out why I didn't feel as strongly about it. "For a claimed professional business" it is really bad but I wasn't truly looking at LTT as a business. I know objectively it is one, but from an emotional standpoint it doesn't really feel like one. Like I said before I've been watching them for over a decade, back when it was still NCIX Tech Tips. So in my head I am still imagining a guy and his friends messing around with tech and a camera. But it is hitting me now that they really have grown well beyond that. Linus has always done janky things. He's even known as the guy who drops things. It's also well known that people take things from the office all the time so items are constantly going missing. To me there is zero surprise that they would misplace something but as you said if they want to be a professional business then that is unacceptable. Maybe with the new CEO there will be more professionalism but honestly I'm not even sure I want that. Personally I love the jank. I enjoy Linus doing dumb things. I would hate to see it become a soulless corporation but I suppose that is what it is supposed to be.
But anyways, I have rambled on long enough. What you said was genuinely helpful. I really appreciate it and thank you for taking the time to make your response. Your friend's sister is lucky to have you, not many people are willing things like this. Honestly you might even be the only one I've met. I feel like I can't even remember a time where someone has done this for me. Usually people think I am "trolling" and someone in this thread even called me a sociopath, which I'm not going to lie was really disheartening but it's not the first time. Thank you for treating me like a person.
If you actually want to try I would genuinely appreciate it. But I don't really want to waste your time. I have thought about it for some time and I honestly doubt there is any way I see the other side of this. I tried, I really did. Which is why I responded to so many comments but I guess my way of thinking about it is somehow so wildly different from other people. But if you do happen to have some time to kill I will try to write everything out. I apologize in advance for how long it is but I wanted to be thorough.
The main point of Steve's video is to call into question LTT's journalistic/reviewer integrity. The funny thing is I agree with literally like 95% of what he said. LTT has had a massive quantity-over-quality problem and things have been declining for years. But that said, the water block video was not a review. Objectively not a review. It's not an opinion of mine it is a fact. So when all these comments say he "reviewed it poorly" or whatever that doesn't make any sense. And Steve's criticisms about their reviews do not apply either. Linus has frequently said different video types have different processes. They have reviews, unboxings, "showcases" (sponsored products), etc. which are all distinct categories of videos. To treat it like a review and try to hold it to the same standard as a formal review is arguing in bad faith.
Imagine you draw a picture of a cat, and then a bunch of people come along and say your picture of a dog sucks because it's too cat-like. You never set out to draw a dog, so why would that criticism make any sense? Just because both have four legs and a tail does not mean they should be judged in the same way. Intent is really important here and people are just conveniently ignoring it. LTT makes these types of videos all the time. Is them using an air conditioner to cool a PC a review of the air conditioner? Or are they just messing around for entertainment? Another comment compared it to a super car because it is an expensive niche product, but I don't buy that either. If someone shows off driving in a super car and then at the end says, "yeah that's fast but the fact this exists is stupid, nobody should ever buy this," I don't think anyone would care, assuming of course it's not a formal review of the car.
And on top of that, let's say they did do a full, formal review. Every single number is correct and there are no errors. And then let's also assume they give it back instead of auctioning it off just for the sake of this hypothetical. Now Steve doesn't feature it in the video because the information is correct. LTT says the exact same thing-- $800 is too expensive for a water block and this product has no real buyers. Billet Labs has no customers and goes out of business quietly in the background. Nobody would care. People only care now because of the way it was done, but if the outcome is literally exactly the same, why does it matter at all? If it's a bad product that deserves to be shit on it shouldn't matter that they shit on it. And before you say something like "but what if they test it correctly and it's actually good," that will never happen because an $800 water block is always going to be a bad value. Other water blocks are in the $200-300 range. There is no world where this water block magically performs over twice as good as the others. It's a genuinely bad product, and there's no reason the company should be getting a pass just because it's "two guys" or whatever. A bad product is a bad product regardless of who makes it. I just cannot understand why people care so much about this company. It's like people prefer rooting for the "little guy" over actually examining the situation.
The funny part is LTT doing what they did actually gave Billet Labs more positive publicity than they would have gotten any other way, which I also said in one of my other comments and got downvoted to Hell for, even though now someone else has posted the same thing and it's upvoted. In the end Billet Labs actually completely won here. This is the best thing that could have ever happened to their company.
As for the auction thing, my main issue with people's response to it is that it's just a single isolated mistake that happens to be tacked on to the rest of the stuff. How do you go from sending an email saying you will return it to auctioning it off? It's insane that that happened but it could have been any number of things. I imagine the people responsible were wearing too many hats and were mainly focused on LTX planning. They probably already deal with dozens of companies on a daily basis and now they were also dealing with vendors/sponsors/etc. for LTX on top of that. It's not unthinkable that things just got too hectic and miscommunication happened. People make mistakes. Should LTT own up to the mistake and work to make sure this type of thing never happens again? Absolutely. There should be proper chain of command for items like this. I imagine that's what they're implementing now. But what is so bad about this? It's not evil, it's not malicious, it's a mistake that as far as I can tell happened one time. This isn't a pattern of behavior like the errors in reviews are.
From what I've seen it's the auction that broke the camel's back, when in isolation it's not really that big of an issue. It's only because it's surrounded by the other issues brought up that makes it another mistake on the pile and therefore the pile bigger. The thing is, it's a mistake that affects 2-3 people. Billet Labs. The errors being made in reviews affect millions of people. It is way more important, but the Billet Labs thing is what I see the most comments about. That's what my main confusion is about. Why is there so much focus on Billet Labs at all? Billet Labs is like 10% of Steve's video, the other 90% is dedicated to the reporting/review errors. It doesn't make any sense to me. At the end of the day it's a small company making a dumb overpriced product vs. the largest tech review channel constantly misleading millions of consumers with bad numbers/data/processes. But here we are on a thread where people are almost exclusively talking about Billet Labs.
What harm was done exactly? If anything this is one of the greatest things that could have possibly happened to their company. They're getting more positive publicity than a good review would have given them from this controversy.
And I am autistic, so congrats for figuring that out I guess. I have a hard time relating to other people. What I am supposed to do? I can't magically feel the way you do and this whole thing is based on feelings rather than any actual tangible damage being done. In my mind if you make a mistake, apologize, and pay for it you should be good to go assuming they don't have the same issue again in the future.
And sociopathy is not a simple lack of empathy it is a specific set of symptoms. Stop diagnosing people over the internet. It's doubtful you have a degree in psychology and if you do you would know that's unethical which is ironic considering the LTT discussion of ethics.
I have found that most torrents on rutracker are pretty well seeded in general, even the old and obscure ones. It is always the place I go when I can't find something somewhere else.