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kadu, 6 months ago

I love OLED blacks and gamut.

Unfortunately, I’m super sensitive to the “grainy” look created by the different tresholds for the green subpixels, and the matrix itself. On some devices, like my Galaxy S23, the panels are purposely made to avoid this at the expense of extra cost. In some others, like the Switch OLED and the Steam Deck OLED, both issues are unfortunately present. There’s also the unfortunate black smearing.

Perhaps in the future.

kadu, 6 months ago

Perhaps your Steam Deck isn’t using the Samsung panel, but the BOE one.

kadu, 6 months ago

YouTube didn’t “kill the competition”. They never had to.

All YouTube competitors very quickly faced the issues relating to ingesting, storing and moderating video. The scalability is a nightmare.

kadu, 6 months ago

Is game on Steam? Steam.

Is game not on Steam? Game does not exist.

Life is easy.

kadu, 6 months ago

Windows sleep mode is fundamentally broken to the point I will never consider any type of mobile device running Windows, let alone a portable game console where suspending games is half of the utility

kadu, 7 months ago

I absolutely hated the Devil Comets on Mario Galaxy

kadu, 7 months ago

That’s obvious. But the test was made on Ubuntu, so they can only report about their results on Ubuntu. They did not claim they can’t be similar in other distros.

Lemmy’s “Ubuntu bad” sentiment gets a bit ridiculous sometimes.

kadu, 7 months ago

Two things, one they’ll openly admit, one they’ll pretend is not a factor but it’s the main reason.

The first are snaps. Snaps are a way of package distribution created by Canonical with the goal of solving a few problems on Linux: snaps allow a piece of software to be installed bundling the exact dependencies it wants, run inside a sandboxed container, and be updated with ease regardless of the rest of the system. If you’re familiar with Flatpaks, you might think they sound similar - that’s because they are, the difference being snaps came first and are hosted by Canonical, while Flatpaks came later and are hosted by the community.

Snaps, like all similar packages on Linux, suffered with slower app launch speeds, issues with drivers or other system components not interacting correctly with the sandbox, and so on. Those issues have been mostly fixed, and snaps are loved by people who use Canonical’s solutions to workstations and servers.

“Snap bad too slow, canonical le evil” stayed though. It’s worth noting that while enabled by default, snaps can be disabled. So that’s reason number one.

Reason number two is simple: Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro for desktop usage, and the most often recommended for beginners.

This means Ubuntu goes against the “we aren’t normies” mentality that dominates a portion of the Linux community. It’s hard to feel like a super genius for using Linux when your neighbor who can barely understand a keyboard can simply install Ubuntu in an afternoon and everything works great. Ubuntu being the home for newcomers also means said newcomers will often appear in Linux forums asking for help, and lots of tutorials are written for Ubuntu - which angers users from other distros.

So that’s it. That’s why Lemmy hates Ubuntu. Every other argument like “oh no Ubuntu is too closely tied to Canonical’s objectives” or “Oh no, Ubuntu is too opinionated and will change tradition in other to appease newcomers” could be applied to a million other distros, but you won’t see people complaining about them.

kadu, 7 months ago

important to ecosystems

Because they’re invasive species to most places in the world. They’re important for their original ecosystem.

kadu, 7 months ago

I wonder if the open source driver will ever be able to replicate quite advanced features such as frame generation.

DLSS is easy enough - make the driver have a generic hook compatible with the Windows DLL, which Proton already can use.

But frame generation? It actually requires the driver to intercept quite a lot of calls from the game engine.

kadu, 7 months ago

The most information I could find about it is a forum thread where angry FreeBSD fans react to an article talking about how the Nintendo Switch used FreeBSD components, which led to people mentioning the PlayStation 3 which led to a user talking about how Sony contributed upstream.

Which means I found literally nothing.

kadu, 7 months ago

That may not automatically imply 100% contribution

Thus the angry fans on the forum.

kadu, 7 months ago

I had to filter “Elon Musk” and “Linux” but after doing that, yes!

kadu, 7 months ago

I love FPS games. I love MMOs. Heard about Destiny 2 and downloaded it.

Gave up after 2 hours.

Gameplay is great, graphics are great, gunplay is excellent.

However, the experience for newcomers is abysmal. It’s unclear where to go, what to do, who the fuck matters or not to the story, what the story even is, and what mechanics matter or not.

And then there are “full beginner’s guide” articles that actually assume you already understand every location and jargon, and after reading a literal wall of text, they drop some information like “btw during the first 30 seconds of gameplay if you didn’t use this specific resource to craft this specific item, you’re an absolute moron and you’ll develop liver failure and you’ll never enjoy a game ever again”

So yeah, not playing that. Cool for those that got into it when it first released and somehow are able to keep up with the meta.

kadu, 7 months ago

Well, when I join a Discord group for books, I don’t automatically join all book Discord channels ever created.

I don’t see what the difference is, unless you’re willing to explain.

kadu, 7 months ago

If a Lemmy user searches “woodworking” and the biggest woodworking community isn’t on your instance, you have to leave Lemmy

It seems like you have a misunderstanding about how Lemmy works. This is incorrect.

You’ll be able to see all “woodworking” communities that exist in your instance or that are federated with your instance. This difference isn’t subtle, because as long as somebody from your instance has interacted with the external one, they’ll immediately start syncing.

For instance, I can search for “gaming” on my Lemmy.world account and the biggest communities aren’t even hosted here. Yet, I can follow them and interact normally, and I needed zero external sites or tools to find them.

The only possible friction is hosting your own l Lemmy instance, or joining one that is likely to be defederated from others. But most users will not create an account on a shady instance, they’ll likely join the biggest “normal looking” public ones, and so far, federation hasn’t been an issue (apart from debates regarding very politically noisy instances).

This very chain of comments exists because I, a Lemmy.world user, had zero issues joining this Lemmy.ml community.

Oh, and by the way, downvoting my comment means absolutely nothing - you’ve accomplished nothing, because that button doesn’t mean “I disagree”.

kadu, 7 months ago

The way he described how it works is objectively and verifiably wrong - it simply does not work like that. Whether he likes Lemmy or not is a separate matter, that doesn’t change how it works.

kadu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

When I dual boot Linux and Windows, I like to have two separate drives and not ever mix up the bootloaders. I then use my motherboards boot selector to choose which one, and I leave the main OS as the first priority one.

Works perfectly, avoids Windows overwriting Linux and avoids GRUB breaking for the 11th time this month because it’s a terrible piece of software. The only downside is it takes 10 seconds longer, because whenever I want to change I need to wait for my motherboard to recognize the boot selection key.

kadu, 7 months ago

How else would I get great signal integrity for the bathroom 4K camera?

kadu, 7 months ago

Then adamantiumnet followed by runenet, but it requires you to complete Dragon Slayer before being allowed to use shielded cables.

After that you can just use dragonet if you’re trying to show off or bandosnet for some solid defense.

kadu, 7 months ago

My dude really just took one of gaming’s most famous quotes, made it shorter, and it became news.

I really like Gabe.

kadu, 7 months ago

To be fair, CS2 sucks for people already heavily trained on older versions of CS. Newcomers will have a significantly better experience on CS2 than CS:GO.

kadu, 7 months ago

Undervolting aims to keep the same performance at a lower power draw. But because modern SOCs scale their frequency dynamically based on temperature, a lower voltage means slightly better performance

kadu, 7 months ago

Yes. Essentially, every chip coming out of the fab will be slightly different, so you need to find a voltage curve that works for all of them. Some will be able to work with - 50mv, some -15, some won’t work at all unless they’re right at that factory defined voltage.

kadu, 7 months ago

That’s a Netflix issue, not a Windows one.

Netflix requires not only extremely specific DRM, they also have a whitelist of what containers are allowed to see the higher resolution. It’s a whole problem on Android too.

It’s not Microsoft somehow forcing you to use Edge, it’s Netflix.

In other news, my Jellyfin server’s web UI works even if you’re using outdated Firefox versions on Hannah Montana Linux.

kadu, 7 months ago

It shows up as an application in the menu for KDE, just right click it and select “Add to Steam” and it will work as desired on the Big Picture mode.

kadu, 7 months ago

Not only emulation, it helps all CPU bound scenarios. Elden Ring, for instance, runs better.

kadu, 7 months ago

GameScope is mostly targeted towards the Steam Deck, where it works perfectly fine natively.

kadu, 7 months ago

Or more frequently, somebody who thought they were dating but didn’t explicitally ask and somebody who’s got zero intention of dating but isn’t going to make that clear as to not lose the benefits.

kadu, 7 months ago

A Canadian would call 25 C a very hot day. As a Brazilian I’d be laughing and considering using warmer clothing.

Claiming that one scale works better for human perception of temperature is quite literally wrong, by definition, as your scale can’t account for how extremely subjective this is.

With Celsius, however, the subjectivity is gone: everybody knows what a fucking ice cube is, everybody has boiled water, everybody knows roughly how warm a body should be. It’s super easy.

Also, what the fuck are you talking about scales that “only go to 38” and comparing it to test scores? Celsius can go to temperatures in the -200 range and essentially infinitely up. A soldering iron is hotter than 38 C, I can guarantee you that.

kadu, 7 months ago

I don’t care about the Bethesda bad circlejerk, once Elder Scrolls VI comes out I’ll buy two copies, shove one up my ass, and play for an entire week non stop eating nothing but frozen pizza with a few stops to praise the game online

kadu, 7 months ago

The entire rest of the world is using apps with more features and full crossplatform support.

The US is the only one stuck on iMessage and, for some god forsaken reason, pretending alternatives do not exist.

kadu, 7 months ago

That’s not a good explanation. iMessage is the default on iPhones sold in South America and Europe too.

Whatever Google’s latest crap is also the default on all Android devices sold everywhere.

But people still use the multiplatform alternatives.

kadu, 7 months ago

Gnarly commentary, darling

kadu, 7 months ago

I don’t understand why Samsung devices can’t be unlocked in the US. They can be anywhere else.

Is it a carrier thing? I’m always shocked when I hear about how carriers work in the US - I don’t even understand why people buy phones from the carriers in the first place. I don’t buy my computer from my ISP.

kadu, 7 months ago

unlocking from the carriers (sim unlock) is a different thing from unlocking the bootloader

I’m aware. But Samsung allows unlocking the bootloader everywhere but the US, and the US is the place where carriers can add bizarre restrictions to devices, so I’m wondering if that’s the reason.

kadu, 7 months ago

I’ll take a big company making open source contributions with professionalism over “open source enthusiasts” being the most bigoted pieces of shit possible heading a project.

I’d extend that feeling for Stallman too… But then people start freaking out so I’ll leave that part out.

kadu, 7 months ago

Ah shit…

Valve was working on this feature for the Steam Deck. You can already save, close the game on the Deck, and restore the save on your PC, but Valve developers explained quite a few times they actually wanted you to simply put the Deck to sleep and start the game on the PC in the exact same frame you’ve left off. Which is indeed a massive challenge, and would certainly require some sort of intermediary “loading” screen, but it would still be cool. They even had a few internal tests with such a feature.

But now it’s a Sony patent? Zero chance of this coming out for the Deck.

kadu, 7 months ago

Well… The thing about something that was never actually made in the real world is that in your mind it can indeed be the best thing ever.

Just like the book I’ve never written, and the super efficient electric motor I never built.

kadu, 7 months ago

Do you reeeeeeally need a 2 in 1 tablet?

I ask because while this setup sounds good, and in theory should be good, the implementation is terrible in 99% of the products in this category.

kadu, 7 months ago

Why not simply use the Arch install script rather than Endeavour?

kadu, 7 months ago

If you install Arch, you automatically get a pair of thigh high socks and 3 months of hormone replacement therapy for free

kadu, 7 months ago

I installed the Screaming Frog SEO tool on Ubuntu, using the official .deb.

Turns out it needed one specific lib that was no longer in Ubuntu’s repositories for the current release, just older releases.

So I downloaded and installed that lib manually. It completely broke Gnome, but in subtle ways, like the interface would still exist and work but icons would randomly glitch out and menus would vanish.

Honestly, I’ll take Windows’ duplicated DLL files over this mess every time.

kadu, 7 months ago

8 GB is usable for a home user… if this memory is entirely dedicated to the CPU.

Sharing it with a GPU? On a machine with “pro” branding? That’s absolute insanity.

kadu, 7 months ago

The Switch is more than proof enough that pretty much any modern game engine can compile to an ARM target with zero issues (though Nvidia’s low level APIs help, not sure about Qualcomm).

But there’s zero chance older PC games would ever be updated, and by older I don’t mean ancient, some AAA studios stop issuing updates in about one year after release.

So it all comes down to being able to emulate X86 on ARM… The best example we have is Apple, and games run but with a massive performance hit. Microsoft’s implementation is borderline unusable. I’m not sure what to expect from Valve.

kadu, 7 months ago

A ~30% increase in battery life plus 90 Hz screen is such a massive upgrade.

Though LTT claims the panel is probably sourced from the same manufacturer and technology as the Switch OLED… and the Switch OLED is the second-worst OLED panel I’ve tested in a handheld (losing only to the original PlayStation Vita, a 2012 device). I hope they’re wrong on that, because we have significantly better panels available in 2023 than what the Switch delivered.

kadu, 7 months ago

The biggest metric is, by far, panel uniformity: boot up a grey (#A1A1A1) image and you’ll see how subpixels misbehave greatly, with a lot of extra green activity creating almost a “snow” or “digital noise” to the image. If you reduce panel brightness to around 35% and move around in a dark scene in a game, the fixed points of extra green actually become distracting once you know about them. You can also find little pockets with bad brightness or otherwise weird artifacts all around.

Still in the panel uniformity category, the Switch OLED panel struggles with horizontal uniformity, it’s extremely common for the left side of the screen to have a different white point to the right side, and by a great margin.

Nintendo also doesn’t calibrate panels individually at the factory, they load a “default interpolation curve” for brightness that means in all units I tested colors only look correct at 100%, 50% and 25% brightness. If you deviate from that, the screen keeps flip-flopping between too much green and too little green. If you test this in a dark room and with small increments of the brightness slider, you’ll be shocked at how bad it actually is.

Not as noticeable, but still relevant, is the fact that if you have a portion of the screen with an absolute black element, everything in that vertical space will get around ~5% darker. For instance, if you go to the main menu in the dark mode and move your cursor to a game with a mostly black icon, and pay attention to the colors right above it, you’ll see that entire section of the display being darker.

There are things it does quite well compared to earlier OLED panels though, like black to color transitions and having an actual RGB subpixel layout. Still, even a mid range phone from 4 years ago will offer better quality than this panel. But keep in mind, I’m only talking about the Switch - I naturally do not have a Steam Deck OLED to compare.

kadu, 7 months ago

That’s only true if you use DEs dedicated to low resource usage, which is not the case with KDE Plasma nor Big Picture.

Linux is actually worse at VRAM usage, and better at CPU multithreading. Either way, on a device like the Deck, there’s no functional difference between Windows or Linux in resource utilization. The advantages of Linux are much more related to things like a custom compositor for gaming mode, not paying Microsoft licensing fees, and other experience adjustments.