[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 hours ago

You forgot the first rule.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 3 hours ago

You may not share our intellect

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 3 hours ago

Hmm, that could potentially also get rid of photoshopping. Would be awesome!

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 3 hours ago

I mean, 2023 had a ton of "wow, this is definitely game of the year" releases one after another. So many that you couldn't even fit all of them into the category of most gaming shows. And for some inane reason Todd Howard still thought he had a shot.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, the small controllers are what ultimately put me off from buying a Switch. Let's see what Nintendo does next.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 4 hours ago

Honestly, I have never played a game as comfortably as with Wii games where you can hold your hands independent of each other wherever you want. The big motions are a myth, it's enough to waggle the controller with a flick of the wrist because it doesn't really register motion but force.

I really wish that having independent controller parts had taken off. I could easily rest one hand behind my head while the other lay in my lap. It was awesome.

Sadly my Wii has kicked the bucket by now.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 4 hours ago

I remember Astarion speaking up at that point even if my Tav was doing the talking. Astarion doesn't have to be that main talker at that point.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 5 hours ago

Well, yeah, look at the noses of modern anime girls. Poor things.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah. Took me several days to set it up with the AMD card on my gaming rig. I also tried to run it on a Steam Deck but I gave that up. As it says, using the CPU is possible but painfully slow.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 1 day ago

Nah, that's running on a laptop with the actual AI stuff being rendered on my gaming PC. I think that's basically what all the AI tools on phones do as well. It's just some company's gaming PC.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 1 day ago

When I look at what she does before even hitting the AI button I think her artistic interests are not in trouble. But she always liked drawing and painting anyways.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 1 day ago

Couldn't you configure the existing panel to do what you want? Add and remove widgets and resize it and you should have what you need.

64

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/966893

FOSS AI painting with Krita

It's so awesome that I can let my kid paint with Krita and let her enhance the picture with AI live. She wanted to have an AI picture editor on her phone but I didn't like the privacy policy. But Krita AI Diffusion came to the rescue.

After testing it out myself I showed her Krita, the most important tools and how to use layers and before I could say anything she was off to paint a nice landscape. When she was finished I actually got to enable the AI plugin and show her the ropes around that. And after enabling live painting she went ham and added a phoenix and a giant hand.

Hardest thing about it was that she had to describe what she wanted in English. But she's already learning that in school so it shouldn't give her too much trouble in the long run.

Anyways, FOSS rules!

87

It's so awesome that I can let my kid paint with Krita and let her enhance the picture with AI live. She wanted to have an AI picture editor on her phone but I didn't like the privacy policy. But Krita AI Diffusion came to the rescue.

After testing it out myself I showed her Krita, the most important tools and how to use layers and before I could say anything she was off to paint a nice landscape. When she was finished I actually got to enable the AI plugin and show her the ropes around that. And after enabling live painting she went ham and added a phoenix and a giant hand.

Hardest thing about it was that she had to describe what she wanted in English. But she's already learning that in school so it shouldn't give her too much trouble in the long run.

Anyways, FOSS rules!

273
14
12

Can we get a scrollbar for the community quick search? I just posted one I didn't really intend to because I thought I was hallucinating the other one. But stupid me should just have scrolled down to find it. Is it possible to get some kind of indicator to see that there are more available?

I'm on the Android app on Android 13.

18

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/921635

Does Arkham Knight get better?

I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can't get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time.

Granted, I am much dumber now than five or so years ago when I played the first two. But as far as I recall they were relatively straight forward. But as soon as I reached the first tank segment in the beginning of AK I remembered when I gave up originally.

But this time I decided to soldier through. Until I got to a segment where I had to complete five or six boring ass tutorials which all showed me different unrelated things of which I needed exactly one to progress and which all could have been integrated into the normal gameplay. Three I already forgot and with one I didn't even know what I was supposed to be doing but somehow I completed it.

Is it worth it to go on playing? Do I have to know everything it's trying to teach me? I remember that it was pretty much needed to learn everything in Doom Eternal (as opposed to 2016). But at least all the controls were pretty consistent there.

Anyways. Should I keep playing? Or is Arkham Origins better? Maybe I should just replay Asylum and City instead.

38
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/games@lemmy.world

I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can't get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time.

Granted, I am much dumber now than five or so years ago when I played the first two. But as far as I recall they were relatively straight forward. But as soon as I reached the first tank segment in the beginning of AK I remembered when I gave up originally.

But this time I decided to soldier through. Until I got to a segment where I had to complete five or six boring ass tutorials which all showed me different unrelated things of which I needed exactly one to progress and which all could have been integrated into the normal gameplay. Three I already forgot and with one I didn't even know what I was supposed to be doing but somehow I completed it.

Is it worth it to go on playing? Do I have to know everything it's trying to teach me? I remember that it was pretty much needed to learn everything in Doom Eternal (as opposed to 2016). But at least all the controls were pretty consistent there.

Anyways. Should I keep playing? Or is Arkham Origins better? Maybe I should just replay Asylum and City instead.

Edit: I kept playing and it did get better. Still annoyed by the same things as before but it's still an Arkham game. Thanks all!

225

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11797622

"What's your gender?" "Well..."

22
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/fragfeddit@feddit.de

Der Sommer steht wieder vor der Tür und das Gras steht mir schon zum Hals. Da wollte ich mal wieder gucken, ob vielleicht ein Mähroboter mir die Arbeit abnehmen könnte.

Allerdings verlangen viele Geräte die Bedienung per App mit Cloud Anbindung und ich will mir lieber nichts kaufen das den Dienst aufgibt sobald es nicht mehr nach Hause telefonieren kann.

Kennt jemand ein einigermaßen gutes Gerät das auch Offline funktioniert oder wenn es denn eine WLAN-Verbindung hat einfach nur im heimischen Netz bleibt? Idealerweise wäre ja etwas, das sich auch mit Open Source Software betreiben lässt aber ich unterstelle mal, dass das abseits von einer Eigenkonstruktion (zu der mir im Moment die Kraft fehlt) eine utopische Anforderung wäre.

Unser Garten ist etwa 750 m² groß und sofern wir nicht bald umziehen ohne großartiges Gefälle. Aber ein Klettergerüst ist im Weg. Aber wenn es Hart auf Hart kommt würde ich das Gerüst einfach Großzügig vom Mähbereich ausschließen. Eine Verbraucherfreundliche Bedienung ist mir da wichtiger.

319
Old News (swg-empire.de)
3

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/mecfs/t/979041

Announcement from Jarred Younger: 012 - Good News from the FDA - Time to Start Scanning!

We have been given the green light for our new scan tracking leukocyte infiltration of the brain. We can now run the first-ever patient! I wanted to share the exciting news - Jarred Younger.

Jarred Younger's research uses new techniques to study the brain inflammation present in MECFS. If he finds leucocytes in the brains of pwMECFS that would mean they had crossed the brain blood barrier.

23

Onboard is old news.

If you want to run Steam's keyboard in your own Linux distribution on Wayland you need to have ibus running.

/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -d -r --panel=disable --emoji-extension=disable

Maybe you can also set some env variables to make it appear automatically. I'll have to test how that clashes with KDE's own virtual keyboard handling.

These are the variables I found:

# Set input method modules for Qt/GTK that will show the Steam keyboard
export QT_IM_MODULE=steam
export GTK_IM_MODULE=Steam

For more goodies look in /usr/bin/gamescope-session. It starts steam with everything needed to work on the Deck.

view more: next ›

bjoern_tantau

joined 10 months ago
MODERATOR OF
cfs