scheeseman486

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by scheeseman486 9mo ago
You're fairly significantly downplaying their contributions. They have a substantial amount of FOSS developers under contract working on SDL, DXVK, VKD3D and there's over a dozen people on working on KDE on Valve's dime alone
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
The problem with 'well just don't buy it' is that in many product categories, enshittification has become so entrenched that there are no longer options to avoid it. The availablity of product features is driven by market for
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
Not for long. Android phones (with Google Play Services) will soon require some degree of authentication to sideload applications, once that happens then those phones will only have the barest of features available without a Google account.
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
Being able to fork a project when management turns hostile is one of the most effective ways GPL software protects itself from enshittification and corporate sabotage. Source available does nothing to prevent this.
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
This essay is a classic example of poor critique of depictions of race and culture in media. The film depicts every male within it as a slimeball and it's core theme is about objectification. Projecting the intent and feelings of tho
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
Zero Dark Thirty, you say?
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
Valve are actively funding NVK.
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
The quality of games on Google Play is much worse than what is available on Steam and the variety of titles are much greater on Valve's platform too, with far less in the way of microtransactions and other exploitative behaviours (thou
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
The gamepadui mode that allows you to use the system with only a game controller connected, effectively turning it into a console-style experience, is the main draw.
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
No, and once the Solar Sharer scheme kicks in it'll be very helpful in avoiding leaning too hard on the grid in the evening after rainy or overcast days. It's a fantastic way to solve oversupply; give it to everyone, including tho
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by scheeseman486 10mo ago
In Australia, if you have the space for rooftop solar, it's far cheaper in the long run to buy solar+battery. We did the math for our household and even if grid prices are stable (which they aren't, they're fast increasing) w
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
Wrapping graphics APIs adds effectively zero overhead if the featureset of the hardware and drivers are a close enough match.
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
Valve have been working with Linaro to develop FOSS drivers for the Adreno 750. This is necessary, given how heavily Valve leans on having integrations with Mesa whereas Qualcomm's drivers are designed for an Android environment. I don
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
Not the first time Valve funded the development of FOSS drivers. They've already done so with Intel's Vulkan stack on Linux, AMD (AMDGPU) and Nvidia (NVK). SteamOS's core functionality leans heavily on Mesa and there's b
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
HUD glasses kind of suck since having a display oriented to your head is uncomfortable. Adding 3DOF tracking only partially solves that, so you go 6DOF to maximize optical/vestibular comfort. Now you're rendering a virtual display
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@li... They're being a little vague about it but this collaboration to improve Arch's build service/infrastructure is being done in part to f
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
The GPU is fine and the drivers Valve are using, if their past hardware is any indication, will be open source. Doesn't magically fix them, but it does allow for Valve to fix them.
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
So it's either choosing to buy from a company that might become public after the owner dies which then succumbs to the rot that you admit is inevitable with public companies. Or choosing the companies that are already public that is
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
> First, due to substantial differences in graphics hardware, that is tiled-based deferred rendering for Apple Silicon and immediate mode rendering for NVIDIA and AMD the software simulation or translation layer will never be as good as
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
Games on Mac are a multifaceted problem, but IMO the main issue stems from Apple treating games like they do apps. They expect developers to continue to support them, to update them as APIs get depreciated. Apple can spend all the resources
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
Virtually every issue I have with GrapheneOS stems directly from the lack of Google Play Integrity causing app incompatibilities. There's some little bits of friction here and there like security mitigations causing app crashes, but wh
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by scheeseman486 11mo ago
It's better to have a billion dollar corp footing the bill for the massive amount of work it takes to maintain Android. If it comes to needing a fork so be it, but if they can be convinced (or strongarmed) to be more supportive of an o
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
You swim with sharks...
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
No deal breakers but the lack of first person viewmodels, the really narrow FOV and an aggressive joystick accelerlation curve make it unpleasant to play. It isn't too bad on emulators that hack in keyboard and mouse, but this port is
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
It's a bit of a lost gem. Unlike the Playstation games, which are Tomb Raider clones and aren't well regarded, Zero Hour is based on the Build engine like the original Duke Nukem 3D was and while it doesn't hold up to that st
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
I don't doubt there are ways that are more technically correct or efficient, but given the limited configuration options a lot of emulators offer it works well enough.
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
For as long as emulators supported shaders I've gotten into the habit of configuring them to scale output 4x nearest neighbor and then downscaling that to the display resolution using bilinear, which has roughly the same results; it ge
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
I wouldn't say it's lost, but the trendlines aren't good.
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
On the face of it they're just security features, and I don't deny they are, but the industry as a whole are using those features to implement device verification systems that are being used to lock down their platforms and centra
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by scheeseman486 1y ago
Mozilla is absolutely asleep at the wheel (and have arguably already swerved off the road and hit a tree) and Apple aren't any better than Google in terms of wanting to lock down the web.

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