kadu

kadu, 8 months ago

The restrictions aren’t nearly as restrictive as they should be.

kadu, 8 months ago

…and that means you need to use trucks 3x the size of a normal car, with double the noise output, half the efficiency and four blindspots the size of a child?

kadu, 8 months ago

They’re enforceable if your government body isn’t afraid of irritating private companies. Or in simpler terms: set a reasonable but strong noise limit, and forbid cars that exceed it in a controlled test to be imported or manufactured in your country.

kadu, 8 months ago

It would be weird for their point to be ironic, because the sentence isn’t actually wrong - the US is not designed around walkable neighborhoods.

kadu, 8 months ago

You’ve taken the “yay logic!” after their period as to mean “all of what I’ve just wrote is a criticism of the lack of logic inherent to this point”.

I’ve simply taken it as a reply to OP: “this explanation I’ve just given is how things work, yay logic! (as opposed to your post, OP)”

Which interpretation is correct? Only they know. Either way, not worth diving deeper into this chain.

EDIT: Just look at the guy’s comment history. My interpretation is correct, he truly believes what he just wrote, he was arguing for it - not against it.

kadu, 8 months ago

If you can justify why a society needs every family of 3 driving a truck, go ahead.

kadu, 8 months ago

No you don’t. If you use any pre-packaged version of Arch, it’s not Arch. If you use a GUI installer, it’s not Arch. If you’ve followed a YouTube tutorial, it’s not Arch. If you’ve opened up this support request, but did not update your system in the last 37 seconds, it’s not Arch.

Forum thread closed. User banned.

kadu, 7 months ago

Your reply didn’t include the last timestamp you’ve updated your Arch install.

Thread closed. User banned.

kadu, 8 months ago

lack of VRAM is the only forseeable issue

Not at all - VRAM isn’t nearly as important as people make it out to be. It’s actually kinda weird how all of sudden Reddit and Lemmy became obsessed with VRAM.

The actual bottleneck in this infinite chain of obsolete computers would be the link speed between each client, as eventually the mere length of cable would be enough to delay signals to the point their pooled computation would be slower than a frame requires, but also the sheer processing power required to even assign load and regroup the information calculated by each system.

kadu, 8 months ago

Unless I’m mistaken and they’ve fixed it recently, anything to do with synchronized frame rates still sucks on Wayland, which is terrible for anything but casual gaming.

The primary monitor is FreeSync but the secondary isn’t? Welcome stutters.

Want to avoid any delay and present frames immediately, even if it costs tearing? Good luck, ask developers to update their content with specific Wayland support (haha, you wish).

kadu, 8 months ago

Web browsers allow you to access an open network of servers.

Those apps like WeChat do offer a lot of features, but they’re entirely owned by the developer. You can access their microblog tool, their photo hosting, and so on.

kadu, 8 months ago

I solved this issue by running Sunshine on my PC, and Moonlight on my TV. If your decoder is good, and your network is good, you get perfect quality gameplay across any rooms.

My latency was ~1.86 ms on my LG TV. That’s significantly less than the latency introduced by an Xbox Controller, so you get an even better experience.

If I’m gaming on my PC and I want to go to the TV, I take my controller, double press the pair button, it automatically connects to the TV. I open Moonlight, select Steam, and that’s it. The big picture interface comes up and the game recognizes the controller.

kadu, 8 months ago

Mario fans are either kids experiencing the magic for the first time, or 30 year olds holding back a tear because after all those years, Mario still hits that little spark left inside that makes you feel alive with nostalgia. We are too busy smiling to make death threats.

Sonic fans though, get the hex value for the color of his shoes wrong and you’ll wake up with the sounds of 3 and a half people throwing feces at your window.

kadu, 8 months ago

The entirety of South America uses 24hr time.

kadu, 8 months ago

I’ll be honest, after trying DLSS I’m not buying an AMD card anytime soon, and I had speculated FSR 3.0 would work really badly…

…but it’s surprisingly good. It still suffers from the occlusion artifacts that FSR 2 struggles with, but AMD’s design to work within the bounds of leftover async shader compute and still manage to generate entire frames is super impressive, works quite well, and does indeed help with immersion. The image quality is good - not perfect, but great.

FSR 3 is a clear improvement over FSR 2, way more significant and usable than what I expect. Congrats AMD.

(Though the fact they’re relying on it, but still sell full price 2023 GPUs that are nowhere near Nvidia and Intel on AI acceleration is really bad).

kadu, 8 months ago

That’s FSR 1.0, not FSR 2.0.

FSR is a regular upscaling shader that only looks at nearby pixels. FSR 2.0 uses motion vectors and temporal reconstruction, it can’t be forced by the compositor into all games like FSR 1.0 could.

kadu, 8 months ago

The game engine must be tuned to provide the data, Mesa can’t force it.

kadu, 8 months ago

This game is fun, but after about 15 hours you realize you’ve actually seen and explored all the gameplay elements - they’re just repeated for another 30 hours.

So it’s a good buy if you would enjoy a classic zombie apocalypse scenario, with a loooooot of biker dudes being all about bikes and cranking that hog. If you need a deep story, do not buy, because the gameplay can’t carry it along alone.

kadu, 8 months ago

My custom Windows 11 installer doesn’t even have Edge - not even the WebView component. It might have trace files in the system, but they can’t be opened or scheduled to run even with elevated privileges.

Zero Edge for me.

kadu, 8 months ago

That’s probably because you’ve installed a full install and removed it later (with inherited permissions or using TrustedInstaller) in which case several things do indeed break.

kadu, 8 months ago

When he started talking about buying Twitter, I was quite sure his entire goal was manipulating how the website felt about him - as in, blocking the kid tracking his plane and banning people who offended him.

He now wants Wikipedia, and my opinion is only reinforced: he wants to edit his page.

kadu, 8 months ago

Nintendo? How is Nintendo anywhere close to a monopoly?

kadu, 8 months ago

The kid was named finger

kadu, 8 months ago

Honestly, that’s not an issue if you can scale down.

I don’t understand why people assume their hardware should be able to max everything out. The game should obviously target current consumer hardware, otherwise they’ll have nobody to sell it to, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with allowing the engine to run with settings current hardware can’t handle - but newer hardware in the future will.

If you buy your hardware to masturbate over the thought of setting the slides to “ultra” you might be disappointed. If you buy your hardware to game, turn the settings down and go be happy.

kadu, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I find this marketing strategy so cringe.

Let’s sell a browser to a crowd obsessed with privacy, feeling better than others, adverse to “normies” so let’s call it Brave. Or Bold. Or Freedom Eagle.

It tries so hard it ends up sounding like a 14 year old boy trying to sell you a NFT.

“Hey kiddo, we are Brave, we are sticking it to the man, we aren’t afraid of those who try to silence us - which is why we are going to insert affiliate links and trackers into your URLs 😎”

kadu, 8 months ago

where do I put my name to be on the list for this party?

kadu, 8 months ago

Calibre + KFX plugin. That’s it.

KFX supports hyphenation and many more advanced features - the plugin exploits the official Amazon app for publishers to convert any open format into KFX, giving you all the features of Amazon store bought books for free.

kadu, 8 months ago

Yes!

kadu, 8 months ago

KFX is actually faster at page turning, as it doesn’t need to calculate how to spread words to fill the most lines per page.

kadu, 8 months ago

isn’t everything divisible by any number?

Do 5/0

kadu, 8 months ago

Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created

kadu, 8 months ago

Oh look they have copied my local gym’s website!

kadu, 8 months ago

I’m so happy they’re moving away from the “New Super Mario” formula.

Too bad they’re still going nuts on “everything is made out of plastic” look for the 2D games, but everything else is looking to be a major return to the World formula and that’s great

kadu, 8 months ago

Every time I tried Kodi, I could make it work, but it was slower, uglier and less reliable than alternatives.

But I don’t do Plex, I use Jellyfin. Plex feels like one of these games where you pay full price and it keeps bothering you to pay even more for extra stuff.

kadu, 8 months ago

Don’t show this to the Nintendo Switch subreddit, they might faint

kadu, 8 months ago

The Venn diagram of people who own media outlets, multi-millionaires and pedophiles is almost a perfect circle.

kadu, 8 months ago

I fail hCaptcha a surprising number of times, and I’m sure it’s actually doing that on purpose so we help it label more images for AI training.

It’s like “select all flowers” and then you have 7 AI generated horses, and one AI generated flower. I pick the flower and “try again!” with a new set of images.

kadu, 8 months ago

Would fit in with the fact that Microsoft has just patched the remote activation exploit that was used for years.

kadu, 8 months ago

I find that placing the Steam Deck inside the case for a few hours recharges the smell for a few minutes, as my unit no longer smells like new. It’s like a drug, it now lasts so little and is just a little sliver of the wonderful feeling it was the first time.

kadu, 8 months ago

Yes, but it will require you to invest a lot of time into spreading your profile around and you’ll absolutely need to tailor to specific fetishes and communities.

Straight male nude? Why would anybody pay for that when they literally will send pictures uninvited to anybody with a mildly girly name online?

But if you are willing to dedicate a lot of time and effort into specific fetishes, it can work.

kadu, 8 months ago

No FreeSync/GSync if you’re using Nvidia drivers on Wayland

kadu, 8 months ago

We have phylogenetic techniques to interpolate when certain genes might’ve appeared in evolutionary history. Not surprisingly, the ability to breakdown plastics is quite new.

Not only that, but the very few microorganisms that can degrade some plastics only express those enzymes under extreme pressure, when no other sources of carbon are available. Literally every sugar is a better alternative than plastic, as the process of degrading it is massively inefficient.

Making a usable polymer out of the absolute insane mixture that is crude oil is also way beyond what any human civilization could ever achieve without industrialization.

I get your point of “but we did amazing things in the past! look at the complexity of steel!” but artificial plastic polymers is in another league.

kadu, 8 months ago

why do we think every generation before us was a drooling caveman

We do not. But there’s a massive jump in logic from the idea that we could handle bronze versus we could make plastic.

And once again, the biological portion of your statement makes no sense.

kadu, 8 months ago

That’s fantastic and I hope it spills over into Nest speakers

kadu, 8 months ago

I bought Diablo 3 in a physical DVD in a local computer store. This is Brazil, so the mere idea of managing to line up and buy a game at the same day as everyone else in the world was huge at the time.

I get the game, I install it, and despite not having the best PC it did run well - I also don’t remember suffering with the server issues most people did at launch. However, I need to take a break to study for some tests, and after that, I moved cities so this meant I took a break from the game for a few months.

When I come back, my account is locked. Why? Well, I was playing everyday, but then I was not, and they interpreted this a “suspicious sudden change of playing habits”. They wanted a picture of my ID to unlock my account. Guess what though, their support wasn’t equipped to deal with a Brazilian ID. Of course, being brazilian, my only ID is this one.

So that was how Blizzard locked me out of a game I owned, a game I could physically hold in my hands.

And that’s the story of why I’m never buying a Blizzard product, regardless of medium or store, regardless of quality or hype, regardless of promises or support pages. The game could literally make my computer start ejecting gold nuggets out of the USB 2.0 port, and I would not play a Blizzard game.

kadu, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I was (happily!) wrong. See reply below.

kadu, 8 months ago

Ah wow! I’m glad to be wrong. Though I’m very new to Linux. Could you tell me how to use these arguments? Or more specifically, how do you know which arguments to set on which games to make features work?

kadu, 8 months ago

Thanks a lot! Your comment is really helpful. I had a lot of issues with Linux gaming so never spent a good while on it, but now Ubuntu 23.10 is working literally perfectly for me so I completely removed Windows from my PC. Still learning how to navigate things :)