I, too, pay for plus access. It's completely worth it for the myriad of random tasks/questions I throw at it.

I can think of 1 occasion I needed some C code for parsing UDP packets. I copy & pasted the unformatted pdf contents of the spec and told GPT "I need code for parsing this". It made a struct, a method for parsing, and wrapping code to use it all of which was 100% accurate/usable. Such a huge time saver.

As someone who does a lot of work with non-profits who typically can't afford having a technical person on site/staff I'm really curious what type of self-service IT support services can come from self hosted LLMs.

I'd love to be able to feed all my documentation about a network layout into one and be able to get answers about it.

Ya, DisplayLink

Although it looks like they haven't really refreshed that product line since 2016. Seems like they're trying to pivot to wireless now that Alt Mode USB ports are mainstream.

For me, the main issue was the proprietary software I needed to run un the host computer. I also read somewhere it doesn't play well with Linux.

To be honest, I didn't even consider it before rolling my own solution because it was not immediately clear to me that it was something different from display port over USB

Incidentally, this is how you add a second external monitor to an M1/M2 macbook

I have always wanted something like this but on an even more in-depth scale.

Let people playing game dev tycoon represent how successful a local business is. Let someone playing a GTA-like game be part of a police chase. Allow truck simulator players to be part of freeway traffic.

Obviously this would be extraordinarily difficult to pull off well, but I can dream.

That would be brilliant but indeed sounds almost impossible to pull off.

I feel like it works well but supports so few mods that it's limiting.

It works by networking saved games. Many things are out of sync in reality.

On an encouraging note though: Google did end up releasing a tool to turn the controllers into regular ol' Bluetooth controllers so that they don't turn into piles of e-waste.

https://stadia.google.com/controller/

DriveDroid- an Android application that allows mounting disc images and causes the phone to appear as an external optical drive or USB flash drive.

I essentially keep an Arch and Windows 10 boot disc on me at all times.

You can also create blank images and it'll act as a flash drive.

Laravel is doing just as much to keep it alive.

This is what Red Storm Entertainment (Tom Clancy's game studio) used for their late 90s / early 2000s games.

3DS Max (or Maya, same company though, and basically sister-projects at this point) has basically been used in one way or another for a ton of games and movies. Basically industry standard to use of them, and lots of knowledge can be transferred between the two.

Funnily enough, the "Games" marketing page for 3DS Max features WIP images of The Witcher 3 character rigging: https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/autodesk-for-games

Both 3DSMax and Maya eventually ended up being bought by the same company (Autodesk), but they have very long separate histories and entirely different roots (Maya is coming out of the highend Silicon Graphics world and was mostly used in the movie industry, while 3DSMax was the "PC underdog" at the end of the 90's but has always been very popular for PC game development).

Yea, I spent ages getting warez copy of 3dsmax so I could start playing around with making maps for Rogue Spear.

Ha, that's how I was introduced to 3dsmax as well.

This is the opposite- it's for blocking access to productive sites thereby helping you procrastinate.