Cynetri (he/any) @ cynetri @midwest.social

vr enjoyer and occasional gamedev living in ohio, usa who uses arch btw

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There's a lot of projects working to make VR on Linux a reality, although SteamVR technically works on linux it's really only if you have a Vive/Index or third-party drivers. That, and SteamVR on Linux is a buggy mess anyway lol. I'm definitely not an expert in any of this though, I'm only just now going into college to pursue this stuff further lmao. Here's some projects I've been following if you wanna look further:

• Monado, an OpenXR runtime built to run on Linux natively, and it provides features like finger tracking using the cameras on an Index along with other headsets
• V-Sekai, a framework for building social VR games built on the Godot 4 game engine
• Godot itself, while not explicitly VR-focused I think it has great potential for making VR content in the near future, and it's also where I want to focus my efforts (I already made my first game, sorta lol)
• Hearth, I don't understand it fully but what I gather is that it aims to be a shared virtual space, kinda like those "3D" desktops from the 90s but with multiple people and super extendable
• SlimeVR, open-source full-body trackers for VR. Mostly used in VRChat lol
• Stardust XR, a VR display server for Linux that supports stuff like widgets and filters (I think)

There's tons more but I can't think of all of them lmao, but there's definitely cool stuff going on in the space and worth checking out.

are these "tankies" in the room with us right now?

Open-source virtual reality, usually just any VR works too lmao but especially FOSS VR

Lemmy isn't known for using bots to fill in gaps in user engegement, mostly

I never understood this either. "Why are users of an aggressively open-source service so adamant about using open-source software?" Especially when Lemmy's been around for years, so yeah it's cultivated a majority Linux userbase.

Nuh uh

Based work as always

They're dating

My friend and I tried playing it a few times, and the same thing would happen every time: we'd find nobody until its like 5ish groups remaining, and then get beamed before we knew where it came from. It's probably a skill issue, same thing happened in Warzone except earlier in the game, but we ended up dropping it anyway. Never happens in any other game though.

I didn't, and what I read online was sometimes SSD manufacturers just get lazy with consumer products and end up assigning the same UUID to a model of SSD, and I tested this by getting an SSD from a different manufacturer and, sure enough, it worked as intended.

This might be the post I found where I figured it out at (bugzilla.kernel.org)

Mississippi teen death at poultry plant, July 26th 2023, AP and New state laws are rolling back regulations on child labor, April 27, 2023, NPR

It sucks

If you use two drives, I'd highly recommend getting two different models of SSD because after around kernel version 5.18, the kernel will reject one of the "duplicates". Was a huge source of frustration when I started, and I had to use Mint for a while before finding out the problem (I'm on Arch now btw)

Tesla is not close to bigger than GM. They only make consumer vehicles and maybe a model of semi truck but I don't think that's being produced yet, while GM has been making consumer cars in addition to commercial and military vehicles for decades. They might be valued as more but that doesn't really say anything in practical terms.

It does go down if you pay things off early, though

What's IPFS in layman's terms? The Wikipedia is hard for me to follow lol

GNU Lynx is the only acceptable browser

• sent from Firefox on Android

There's a plugin for Blender I saw a while ago that uses Stable Diffusion to create dynamic textures for objects, the example that was shown was a low-poly AC unit. The GPU generate option was greyed out for AMD GPUs because the Nvidia option uses CUDA, I wonder if this update would change that? Because that's something I really wanna be able to use for prototyping

What I thought was interesting about this is that apparently not only me, but tons of other people have all kinda felt like LTT has seemed off the past year or so, and this video kinda explained it all

And a safer one!

Yeah, for example I really like the cars community. I was raised in a family who liked em a lot, and I always did too so I felt a little weird being a car guy in a community who doesn't like cars much (and fair, car dependency is hell) but the one there is cool about cars and also likes alternative transportation too. Cool stuff