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  • You want to look into frigate, and you don’t need much of a graphics card. You could use a old gaming PC with a gtx 1060 from 10 years ago.

    There’s cameras with tensor cores in them too. I only played around with the pi ai camera but frigate uses the same yolo models. so you can have your camera process the image detection or the server’s GPU.

    It doesn’t take as much as you think. Its when you want to generate content that its important you need lots of vram or cram the entire model into context.

    I am the biggest ai hater I know but local models, and old school ai technologies before LLMs are pretty cool.





  • Before you buy anything make sure you research it first. Start buying things that you own the infustructure for. Don’t buy a 3d printer that doesn’t support Linux, or buy a 3d printer that won’t be effected by the 3d printing laws that try to stop gun parts from being printed.

    That logic should apply to everything. If you are buying a IP camera make sure to get one that does PoE and doesn’t connect and ping hone to a server before sending you your data. Don’t buy a WiFi garage door opener unless you installed the ZigBee switch yourself. You should aim to be able to do everything yourself without needing subscription models or useless internet of things devices.

    Things you likely want now before they get further ruined:

    A google pixel phone to flash and de google.

    A car before ~2013 that you plan on learning how yo repair when it breaks down.

    A AMD based PC with a a 16gig GPU. Thats like the absolute lowest end you can use LLM’s and defuision models locally that don’t completely suck ass. And if you’re not much of a gamer or desktop user you can turn this PC into a server and run your own services in docker so you reduce your dependency on apps.


  • FoxAlive@lemmy.ziptoGames@lemmy.worldSteam Frame Updates
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    I had vr in the semi early days and I know that feeling. There was really something special about just the scale and perspective that brings child like wonder.

    I would love for a second wave of vr games to become popular but if that would of happened it would of happened through meta because they have the actual sales numbers to support it somewhat.

    I don’t think enough people are going to buy the steam frame and inspire a second big wave of vr devs. Its going to help the older games get a short burst of sales and those devs will just have to make a patch to be playable on the frame.

    I think at most the frame will do decent, but more importantly all the work that went Into fex/lepton will get fleshed out more and more to the point you are playing full PC games on your phone.

    In my opinion the steam frame is a wash and I want it only as a steam fan boy. I’d still get it if it was going to be cheap but with how thongs are going I just don’t see it being a success. I can’t justify spending 1200+ USD on something to play a unsupported/abandonded 20 dollar game from 8+ years ago. And there’s only maybe 3 games I see as worth while, and aren’t just a tech demo like the walking the plank simulator.

    The only thing I can see being a turning point is if there was a way to convert games into vr kind of like that unreal engine mod. And that would have to be universal and easy to use like proton is.











  • I have a pirated legacy, and SE version I zipped up with all the mods that work for that version. I’m so tired of Bethesda updating a nearly 20 year old game, so they can resell it again.

    Sense I’ve played the game with mods there have been two big instances where Bethesda decided to be greedy and break hundreds of thousands of mods. There used to be so many good mods that just don’t exist anymore and where crazy intense and they’re all lost to time.

    The games nearly 20 years old it doesnt need to be updated every year to resell the game. Bethesda hates the mod community anyways they keep trying to figure out a way to weasle their way into free mods and put a paywall between you and their content.

    Most people that use mods these days for skyrim don’t even use a script extender. Their idea of mods is the mod menu built into the game which is really only reskins, and stat changes/cheats. We used to have ship houses you could build, and drive. There was so much insane big mods like that, and they just don’t exist anymore.

    Eventually Bethesda won’t let you mod their game, and its going to be a built in “mod manager” which is devoid of any useful features. If you haven’t had to use fnis, skse, etc then you are not modding the game.