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The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).
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I thought someone had posted here that Apple ran Linux on their hardware for manufacturing tests.
Hector Martin claims so which (frankly) suggests he has some insiders. However, just because Apple "runs linux" doesn't mean they "run linux" the way you are thinking. It's very easy for corporations to write slapdash, horrific, unmaintainable kernel forks that run on a specific piece of hardware. That's just fine when you are testing hardware before handing it to your OS team, but absolutely unacceptable for upstrea…
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I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
> I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy. Couldn't they just not show themselves on camera at all?
The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).
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pretty much the appeal(?) of asahi lina. it's been a weird ride to follow for sure.
Have to say as much as I want to watch their streams, I can't get passed the annoying voice.
Apple should upstream their drivers. Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?
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I've followed Japanese vtubers for some time and that is CERTAINLY not the case. Vtubers are just aliases for the real person. And each person picks and chooses how much they blend their real lives into that alias.
There are even some vtubers that will have a camera facing on themselves while they stream as a vtuber (for example stream their body, but not their face) or will alternate streams between a vtuber persona and a real live camera or vtubers who stream as a vtuber but the real person behind the vtuber is an open secret (i.e. artists who engage in vtubing but sell artwork at comic conventions attending as a real person). There's a huge range and spectrum of ways people choose to do vtubing.
(Note: A lot of the latter cases are more possible in Japan because of the general social/legal concept there that taking pictures of people without their permission is at least extremely rude and sometimes also illegal if you don't blur their face when publishing it. This is helped by the fact that it's a legal requirement that all devices capable of taking photographs must make a photographing noise when doing so. For example on iPhone in Japan it is impossible to silence the shutter sound effect without modifying the device hardware.)
The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).
I don't know. This sounds very computer-sciency-ish. We build smaller tools to help build big things. Now the big things are so good and versatile we can replace our smaller tools with the big things too. With the more powerful tools, we can build even bigger things. It is just compiler bootstrapping happening in hardware world.
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pretty much the appeal(?) of asahi lina. it's been a weird ride to follow for sure.
Have to say as much as I want to watch their streams, I can't get passed the annoying voice.
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Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym? Is Asahi Linux named after her? Or is it all one big coincidence?
> Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym? Yes > Is Asahi Linux named after her? Other way around, it’s a pseudonym created to work on the project, IIRC Lina got involved early-mid 2022 while Hector Martin started the project in late 2020 / early 2021.
I feel like there's some fanboyism happening here. This person basically just joined the project.
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And, sorry for continuing this thread, what is a "vTuber anime persona"?
One of those threads where you comment and more questions are raised that feel almost irrelevant. From what I have gleaned, vTuber is a virtual YouTuber. The streams use an anime model a s behaviour. So we've no idea who it is. And for some reason I feel creeped out now. There is something perturbing about the saccharin persona coupled with the pseudonym. Like Pennywise (It) vibes?
Yes, basically instead of streaming as themselves vTubers stream as a persona, usually with an anime-style virtual avatar.
> And for some reason I feel creeped out now. There is something perturbing about the saccharin persona coupled with the pseudonym.
I've not found a vTuber I enjoyed (but the main vTuber community is japanese and japanese TV / entertainment is... a lot, and not my cup of tea).
However how is "Asahi Lina" and an animated cartoon avatar creepier than psychphysic and a random picture or manga snip on a forum 15 or 20 years ago? As far as I'm concerned it's the same principle moved from the media of text and images to that of audio and video.