Ever seen output of an LLM switched to greedy decoding (temperature = 0) degrade slowly into an infinite loop? like it's layer by layer optimizing its thoughts into 'all work and no play make Jack a dull boy'.I feel the same way with tech, in the 90s it was amazing to fill the PCs with shareware apps and games from CDs, but now all the things I really need is a web browser... and like five different sites to check in a loop forever.so... internet bad boo internet we should go back. how do I get back?now I have the idea of asking Valve or to start my own project of monthly game demo compilations, but after seeing Factorio demo being 1.3 GB, monthly compilation of like 20 items would need to be at least 10 GB which goes beyond what I would regularly bother to download.Yes, I don't do much else than browse the web. So maybe game demos simply don't exist anymore, so the project would be a dead-end. But it would be so cool to have like ten 2026 game demos together, launched from a stylized menu, like we had around 2000.And I would buy Netflix to escape the loop if it had a "Random movie" button.picrel is Unifont, which tries to do every glyph to ever exist, but is a bitmap font, so you use it mostly for systems and reduce it to one or two bytes of UTF-8 (2048 glyphs), which is funny
>>108462720what is your question?
>>108462720> maybe game demos simply don't exist anymoreThere was a Steam Demo Fest few weeks ago with hundreds of games showcasing/releasing their demos for free.
>>108462756Oops, I messed things up, that was some kind of limited foreplay, the full fest is in June https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
>>108462740> Ever seen output of an LLM switched to greedy decoding (temperature = 0) degrade slowly into an infinite loop? Not the anon but that was the question. As for OP, I still have a few real "apps" on my desktop. I unironically have and use Microsoft office and outlook. PDFGear for pdf editing since my version of acrobat pro is permanently dead thanks to jeets not allowing you to reuse licenses if you wipe a computer first without installing. Office now does this since it's impossible to activate windows or office over the phone. Thankfully we have mass grave for that. I do have a cool shareware app that says the desktop and wallpaper to the earth and update the cloud cover with real weather maps and adjusts the night as the day progresses. That's fun. The only other thing I have as applications would be vidya and some game launchers. Most useful applications I use are sadly on my phone and they're nearly all some form of web connected app. I don't even think I used a lot of shareware back in the day either. Maybe CD burning apps.
a post i saw somewhere and saved to a textfile> Q: Have you ever regretted buying a retro computer?> A: Frequently. They don’t actually DO anything I can’t emulate. Why own a SNES or an Apple II or a Windows 98 machine when there’s Higan, AppleWin, and VirtualBox? It’s money spent, it’s space taken up. Every single thing I buy comes with a touch of guilt. And I think I’ve figured out why I do it, too.> For me, it’s a very particular kind of nostalgia. I used to have this idea that oh, if only I had some freaking monster of a computer, a SPARCStation this or Apple IIgs with 8 MB RAM that, that somehow, by virtue of having, that I would become magically capable of doing. Now that these things are affordable, I build them, retroactively fulfilling this fantasy.> Only it turns out that not only was I wrong about what a decked out 1980s/90s workstation would somehow turn me into, I’m still wasting the i7 “supercomputers” I have. I browse Reddit, balance my checkbook, and I fail change the world. In fact, I fail to even try most of the things I used to be mentally engaged with, like genetic algorithms or music composition. Instead I just fart around in QBasic and try to recapture the feeling of hope that someday, someday I’ll… something.
>>108462740there are like a zillion people working on like 100 Linux distros just to be helpful, but does anyone anywhere put their effort into a building monthly game demo DVD compilation, for those who dislike the "infinite scroll" internet>>108462765This is probably a thing I'm looking for but I'm too lazy to reset my account password to login right now, it's bad design for them to ask to login for reminder instead of just asking an email address. Nice find, thanks.
>>108462720Steam already has a Next game fest with demos
this is the worst thread I've ever made, so let's make it count. one more round.
>>108462720>like it's layer by layer optimizing its thoughts into 'all work and no play make Jack a dull boy'KEKTurns out the groundskeepers kept going insane because they received visions of Sammy boys AI video horror machine.
>>108462890steam has a 2-hour-play-time refund policy.
>>108462890>but does anyone anywhere put their effort into a building monthly game demo DVD compilation, for those who dislike the "infinite scroll" internetI think something like this is inevitable, especially if AI gen seeps into every artistic medium and content production becomes impossible to filter. communities joining up and setting up "reading clubs" of multimedia experiences they can enjoy and discuss together. it already pops up sporadically in different boards over the internet with video games, albums, obviously books. but it can be expanded. formalized. made official. like a mono-culture in a bottle
