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Or endorse Heroic, which works better than their launcher anyhow, even on Windows

Xenia's usable these days. Worse than RPCS3, but usable

That depends on the specifics of the encode/decode pipeline for the streamed frames. Could be the blurry part actually is lower res and lower bitrate until it's decoded, then upscaled and put together with the high res part. I'm not saying they do that, but it's an option.

Pretty funny to me that you're backseat engineering Valve on this one. If it didn't have a net benefit they wouldn't have announced it as a feature yet lmao

I'm personally quite hyped to see the first commercially available Linux-based standalone VR headset announced. This thing is quite a bit lighter than any of the existing "cram a computer in" solutions.

Certified Audio Engineer here. The Loudness Wars more or less ended over the last decade or so due to music streaming services using loudness normalization (they effectively measure what each recording's true average volume is and adjust them all up or down on an invisible volume knob to have the same average)

Because of this it generally makes more sense these days to just make your music have an appropriate dynamic range for the content/intended usage. Some stuff still gets slammed with compression/limiters, but it's mostly club music from what I can tell.

But we do want that, right? We want people in the future with their unknowable future digital-experience-providing devices to be able to experience the video games of the past/today, right?

So in the interest of making older games future compatible we (those interested in preservation) do need to pursue those things.

How else can we guarantee they'll run on future devices? Emulators are one good way to make things run on newer devices, but emulators will in turn need the features to be able to run on 4K/8K screens, XR devices, etc.

>You're describe an age where the government was a wash with surplus dollars.

Hey, good point. We should really bring back that 90% top tax bracket rate to get the government back to being financially solvent again.

That's so far from my personal idea of "running it till the wheels fall off" that your comment genuinely reads like a parody of an out of touch wealthy person trying to justify their wild spending habits.

I've been using the same PC that I built in 2013 continuously since then. Every four or five years or so I'll buy one part in the $500 range to keep it updated. It's currently got a Ryzen 7800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and a Radeon RX 6700XT, so it's easily outperforming a brand new $3000 Macbook Pro in most workloads that I actually care about.

My initial investment in it was $1200. My total investment over the last 12 years has been about $3000.

Buying disposable computers simply does not make any financial sense to me.

Could have been ergot fungus in the wheat

The redesigned 2026 Leaf looks pretty impressive, TBH.

There's always some latency, but Moonlight has ~5ms latency on my LAN. I average 18ms total latency when I stream to my phone over 5G cell internet, that's with 6ms of decode latency in the phone's (fairly slow) hardware decoder and about 2.5ms encode latency in my AMD RX 6700XT's h.265 encoder.

Agreed. Mint leaves the user fully in control by default, and that's always a win in my book.

It's wild how fast Apple pivoted from Woz just wanting to make a PC anyone could write and play their own video games on to "Nah we want full control of every last bit, fuck your indie games".

>You can set as many non-repeating alarms as you like, as long as they're within the next 24 hours.

Any color as long as it's black, eh?

I can second Mint for a good GUI, but if you want Wayland I would probably either go for Pop!OS with the new Cosmic desktop beta or Fedora with KDE over any version of Ubuntu. Snap packages suck still IMO

Ever try Parsec or Moonlight/Sunshine? They're very low latency because they're made for gaming

Personally, I try to under-promise on what I think I can do every sprint specifically so I can spend more time mentoring more junior engineers, brainstorming random ideas, and working on stuff that nobody has called out as something that needs working on yet.

Basically, I set aside as much time as I can to squeeze in creativity and real engineering work into the job. Otherwise I'd go crazy from the grind of just cranking out deliverables

Who said it was ironic? I just said it was wild

Pretty wild to me that we're at the point where even Penn Gillette recognizes that modern American Libertarianism is ultimately just about rich white men who want to do whatever they want with no consequences

That's because it's a plutocracy. Money is literally considered speech here, which is insane.

I think with an AI bust we're more likely to see juniors actually start getting jobs at reasonable rates... but only after short-sighted layoffs of a bunch of more senior positions as opposed to dumping AI products that so many companies have already signed year+ long contracts for in advance.

Just piling on to say that there was also Alien: Resurrection on PS1 that used the modern dual-stick movement/aiming setup. It was one of the first FPSes to do so, at least as the default control scheme. Reviewers at the time mostly hated it and called it awkward, probably because they were comparing non-aim-assisted console FPS controls to PC FPSes of the era, which is kind of fair tbh. The game's difficulty was also probably too high for the time, especially given the brand-new control style.

This has mostly ended in most genres of music due to audio volume normalization algorithms in streaming platforms like Spotify and Tidal.

It was only ever true by an extremely specific, now outdated, definition of loudness. Basically commercials back then would have the audio extremely compressed, such that they were always at the maximum possible volume allowable by your system at a given volume setting, whereas content mixed to be enjoyed would be mixed such that there are louder and quieter moments, which is both gentler on the ear and more dynamic.

You know how movies are mixed such that they have really quiet dialogue and big explosions are like 4-5x as loud? Commercials are in explosion-mode the whole time.

So yeah, commercials are mixed louder than the rest of the content on purpose, just to try to snag your attention. If they could, advertisers would come into your house and turn the volume on your AV receiver/soundbar/tv/computer/phone way up themselves.

No, it's just scary/weird stories. No more strange than a 7 year old being obsessed with Goosebumps books

Fellow asthmatic here:

>I should have thrown away my inhaler years ago because I was never using it?

Inhalers expire after a year, so yes, you should have, and you should have gotten a new one. I only learned this after getting a fresh one at the start of COVID because I hadn't had one in several years. Pretty sure growing up I had the same inhaler for like 8 years, so obviously it still works OK after a year, just relaying what my doctor told me 5 years ago.

Yep, that's true. The difference now is that streaming services have attempted to make it a crime to record the streams you get from them by embedding DRM in the connections between the streaming device and the screen you watch it on. This is the primary reason for the HDMI standard. Combined with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, it's considered illegal to decode that video stream and record it with e.g. a screen capture device, even if it's solely for personal use.

So now if you want ad-free, you either pay extra in perpetuity for just that one feature , or you break the law. It's no wonder that piracy is back in such a big way.

I'd feel a lot more inclined to engage with you on this if your first response wasn't a complete non sequitur that leads me to believe you've been engaging in bad faith from the jump.

Exactly this. Thank you