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Dedoimedo A Place to Learn a Lot About a Lot ≡ Menu Computers Games World Art Books Cars Physics About★ Computers Linux Windows Virtualization Hardware Internet Media Office UNIX Various Games Reviews Linux games Old games World Life topics Greatest sites Nonsense Youtube channel Art 3D design Interior design Linux maps Models Books Cars Physics AI should replace clueless managers, not workers Updated: May 13, 2024 | Category: Life wisdom I hate buzzwords. With a passion. Buzzwords are a hallmark of incompetence, superficiality, lack of personality, and then some. They are what distinguishes a skilled technologist from a fluffer. They are also a great way to identify people, with minimal mental effort. You come to your workplace and some fake-smile human drone starts spewing words d’jour, quoting this or that article they read and got inspired by on the business social media the day before. You instantly know, all right, let’s avoid this person. If, then, algorithm! Which brings me to algorithms. Recently, there has been a great deal of Internet chatter over the AI revolution, disruption and similar nonsense. A bunch of companies have developed sophisticated tools, you can interact with these tools using "natural" language, and all of a sudden, it’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) everywhere, everything. Just like the fads of touch and smart this that a decade back. Boring. Worst of all, there’s this whole talk about how AI will disrupt the modern workplace. Specifically, how AI can or should replace human workers. Sure, except those ought to be clueless middle-level managers, and not ordinary grunts. Let’s elaborate. Read more ... How to massively improve your lap times in Assetto Corsa Updated: May 10, 2024 | Category: Game reviews Assetto Corsa is the finest driving simulator out there, me thinks. It’s a phenomenal game, and despite its age, it delivers spectacular results. Accuracy, precision, fidelity, you name it. You really and truly feel like you’re driving a real car in real life. And I can attest to this, as I’ve burnt rubber on a variety of race tracks, including Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, wut wut. How Assetto portrays the feeling is uncanny. At some point though, you will hit the wall. Your lap times stop improving. Then, you begin to wonder. Have you lost it? Or perhaps, is there a way to make your driving somehow better? The simple answer is, yes there is. And it’s built into the game. Let’s proceed. Read more ... Amazon Customer Service has become awful Updated: May 6, 2024 | Category: Life wisdom I’ve been an Amazon customer for more than 20 years. I’ve been publishing books with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) for more than a decade. I’ve also used Audible. Apart from having spent a significant amount of money with Amazon, I was always rather impressed with their customer service. It used to be amaz-ing [sic]. Typically, you could send a single email about your issue, and you’d get a detailed, clear reply, and things would always get resolved right away. During my Amazon Fire TV setup a few years back, I had some problems with connectivity. Support phone call, an hour spent with a customer representative, and the dude was, for the lack of a better word, a true professional. Patient, funny, knowledgeable. But all that’s in the past. In the past two or three years, more or less since the pandemic, I noticed a sharp decline in the quality of the Amazon customer services. First, they removed email for most of types of queries. It’s chat or phone. The chat always starts with some pseudo-AI bot that’s annoying and useless. Then you get routed to human agents who are way less helpful then they used to be. But today’s topic revolves around my attempt to set up a business account, and how Amazon cost me 300 Euros in garbage second-hand used routers that were supposed to be brand new devices. Read more ... WhatsApp can’t send this video error Updated: May 3, 2024 | Category: Internet Like any self-respecting memeista, I often share incredibly stupid profoundly intelligent snippets of Internet wisdom with my (real) friends. These come in the form of images (often GIF) and videos (the memes, not the friends), and we distribute them among ourselves using a variety of digital methods, including WhatsApp. For pretty much ever, I’ve never really had any issue delighting my friends. But then. A few days ago, I tried to send a short video to one of my buddies. WhatsApp protested saying: Can’t send this video. Choose a different video and try again. Golly. At first, I thought this could be some sort of "AI" nonsense, and it somehow decided my meme was too legit to quit. But then I realized the problem is much much simpler. Let me illuminate you. After me. Read more ... More superb Internet added to my superb Internet page Updated: April 29, 2024 | Category: Hall of Fame Awesome One: Humor, paired to philosophy. Sounds like either an extremely boring combo or a spectacularly entertaining formula, with a twist of intellect for good measure. Luckily, Existential Comics is the latter. Think modern-day scenarios, life’s absurdity at its best, ancient world wisdom, guns, Socrates, puns, and history. Awesome Two: Do you like speed? Check. Cars? Check. Simulators? Check. How about PC gaming simulators focused on cars? Check. Well, good fortune be smilin’ at ya, because OverTake aims to cater to all yer needs. If you’re into computer games that promise loud engine noises, tire squeal, gear changes, curvy tracks, and above all, the finesse and precision of driving, then you ought to check OverTake. Vroom vroom vroom stu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tuuuu. Ah yes. Read more ... Samsung A54 long-term usage report 4 Updated: April 26, 2024 | Category: Hardware It’s been a couple of months since the big Android 14, One UI 6.0I have started my migration away from Windows. It’s going really well. But it’s still a massively complicated endeavor, and it takes a lot of time. For most people, it’s easier to just tweak an unruly operating system some, and get on with their lives. Thus, I thought, if users are going to try to undo Windows 11’s pointlessness anyway, they as might as well have a top-notch tutorial to do that. And this is why we’re here. Proceed. Read more ... Plasma 6 second review - Not bad, but more work is needed Updated: March 25, 2024 | Category: Linux A couple of weeks ago, I tested Plasma 6 for the first time. Long story short, the test was somewhat of a dud. While the desktop environment delivered, the underlying test platform, KDE neon, did not. I was not able to install the distro on an AMD-powered laptop, due to errors in the installation wizard itself, and consequently, I had to limit my review to just the impressions from a virtual machine setup. C’est la Tux. Now, there’s a new image of the KDE neon User Edition available, so perhaps I will be so lucky, lucky lucky, or something. All right, time to repeat the test. My IdeaPad 3 machine, AMD processor and integrated graphics. If this turns out fine, in the third review, we shall expand to a system with an Intel processor and a discrete Nvidia card. So hybrid graphics, Nvidia vs. Wayland, ought to be interesting. Let’s start, then. Read more ... Scud-like mobile missile launcher, me new 3D design Updated: March 22, 2024 | Category: 3D art Normally, when it comes to my writing or my 3D art, I am not fond of repeating myself. This creates a bit of a problem, because it requires of me to come up with new, original ideas all the time. But given my interest, there’s only so much I can do before the inevitable repetition strikes. Planes, spaceships, water ships (as in real ships), tanks, I’ve done them all. And so, I struggled finding the next 3D project that would be both 1) novel 2) fun enough to attempt. After several days of turbulent thought and strenuous imagination exercises, I managed. I came up with a nice concept. A mobile ballistic missile launcher, somewhat like the Soviet/Russian Scud. Same same but...