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by amlib 3mo ago
But also the reality is that most people have their devices connected through a shitty wi-fi connection and may be effectively limited to 50 or even less mbps, specially if you consider the unpredictability that comes with it.
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by amlib 3mo ago
I remember noting how many of my games ran worse back in 2009 when migrating to windows 7. Most people discredited it as nvidia drivers being worse due to the new vista driver model (wdm or whatever), but I was never convinced.
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by amlib 3mo ago
And if you spent all that money on a single computer there was the expectation of sharing it with the whole family.
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by amlib 3mo ago
And with modern streaming software like Sunshine/Moonlight you can easily defer high performance tasks to a powerful machine at home. You are truly free to use any device from the last 15 years as a somewhat dumb terminal if you invest
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by amlib 3mo ago
I also fail to see how an ML model is necessary for what is essentially an AGC (Automatic Gain Control). Even something fancy following the EBU R 128 standard like https://lsp-plug.in/?page=manuals&section=autogain_stere
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by amlib 3mo ago
I just think that phones and specially old ones are quite bad at being repurposed, its hard to work with them when they were purposely engineered that way. You will have much better results with an old pc desktops or pc notebook. Some may e
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by amlib 3mo ago
> when an old sub $99 mobile device can power three generation old games as well, and connect to a monitor Running an outdated, out of support version of android with limited app availability and a crappy selection of poorly maintained e
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by amlib 3mo ago
> he expiry date is enforced for signing new binaries Does this means that updating my system kernel would fail or even break boot?
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by amlib 3mo ago
Your response is essentially OPs reasoning, read it again :) Anyways, just wanted to add that the steam machine and PCs killer differentiator: a truly open platform that no mac, ps5 and other consoles can offer. Do whatever you want, instal
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by amlib 3mo ago
It's still missing wi-fi, bluetooth, sc dongle, sd card reader, (frugal) led bar, the hdmi cec functionality and whatever you value yourself for assembly, installation, troubleshooting and tweaking time (between half an afternoon to a
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by amlib 3mo ago
Of course it was, they are talking about the 2012~2015 (not sure about the exact date) steam machine that was released and failed. It took a long time for enough pieces to fall into place that would lead to the success of the steam deck and
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by amlib 3mo ago
If that's the cost of a _working_, well supported and _viable_ open platform, than so be it. People, especially the ones here at hacker news, ought to give way more value to this, else we lose it all.
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by amlib 3mo ago
That's because you've been making a concerned effort to buy usb-c stuff. The average consumer has way more usb-a stuff than usb-c, even more so when talking about pc desktop users. I even bet many mac users wished their device had
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by amlib 3mo ago
> indie devs have easy access to release on PS5, latest Xbox, Switch alongside Steam simultaneously And yet steam's indie library far outpaces what all other consoles indie games combined provide. Also you get access to a vast amoun
45.
by amlib 3mo ago
Given that it's an open platform your device isn't hostage to valve's whims nor are you powerless to overrule any DRM you judge unfair.
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by amlib 3mo ago
> - MusicBee. There just does not seem to be a good music manager for Linux that can replace MusicBee. I rarely use it as a music player, there are dozens of great options for Linux music players, but MusicBee feeds my Airsonic instance,
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by amlib 3mo ago
> Try doing a full screen rdp session from Linux at 4K resolution. You should be using Sunshine/Moonlight for that anyway. You will get ultra smooth low latency 4k@120fps streaming to and from linux. I regularly play games streamed
48.
by amlib 3mo ago
I bet that $5000 PC came only with a 3050 and some high end shaders lag on it lol
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by amlib 4mo ago
Is it really worth it to cause a global economical collapse and harm society well-being to an unimaginable degree just to find out if it is viable? Why cant it naturally grow and prove it's worth?
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by amlib 4mo ago
> titlebar Consistency of titlebars has been dead in every OS for decades now. This is not even a flatpak problem anyway, but I do think wayland/gnome ought to have some kind of fallback decoration. This wouldn't even be meant
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by amlib 4mo ago
But then you run into the problem of apps assuming the tray icon exists or is visible, but isn't, leading to problems such as the program just disappearing when you close it's window with no way to reopen it (some do reopen when y
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by amlib 4mo ago
I think this is expecting a full block down to the domain? But most browser ad blockers are a lot more granular than that, and for good reason. Blocking a whole domain can have a lot of undesirable side effects.
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by amlib 4mo ago
Until you connect a second monitor.
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by amlib 4mo ago
Random? I saw it happen on every linux machine running X I came across over the last two decades, it wasn't just mine, it was colleagues machines and so on. Maybe if you combined KDE, AMDGPU drivers, the right distro and X from around
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by amlib 4mo ago
Do you want the indisputable advantage of Wayland? No dropped frames in the desktop, even at high framerates. Back in 2023 when I was still using X11 dropping frames was par for the curse, no matter the machine, the configuration or the DE.
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by amlib 4mo ago
I think the main difference is that there aren't really any deal-breaker kind of bugs any more, and as far as features there are none missing that users care about compared to X11. It's mostly just annoying bugs and the usual &quo
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by amlib 4mo ago
Grayscale displays have no subpixels (or just one, depends how you view it) which should allow for more light from the backlight to pass through compared to a color display, thus reducing energy needs for a given brightness.
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by amlib 4mo ago
>My read is that this makes pseudo-HDR rendering techniques possible on the N64. It is already possible, modern n64 techniques and microcode are scarily good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP8g2ngHftY (Tiny3D - HDR &am
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by amlib 5mo ago
They have limitations, specially when driven to the limits of the specifications. When doing 4k@120fps 4:4:4 chroma you might have to deal with longer handshakes and sometimes even no handshake at all. Or random dropouts. Or HDR not activat
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by amlib 5mo ago
That is a problem of any operating system switch, you need to figure out what software is compatible or weather there are suitable replacements. It's the same even if you switch between iOS and Android. That said, Linux used to be a to

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