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randomaside , 5 hours ago

Epic enshittified early. The whole system was terrible and they force it onto you. Here is valve actively making it easier to play your games while epic was like “It’s PC gaming, you get the good with the bad, suck it!”. You can’t simply buy your competition when your competition has more money than God.

Epic is failing because Tim Sweeney refused to innovate the platform.

randomaside , 5 days ago

Please stahp the mergers and acquisitions already pleeeeease.

randomaside , 8 days ago

Price drop put the 7900x at bargain bin prices and I bought that instead.

randomaside , 18 days ago

Stay with me in my ass

• Miki Matsubara

randomaside , 20 days ago

Intellectual property is theft. Is there a WikiLeaks for medicine? WikiMeds perhaps?

randomaside , 23 days ago

In the modern game industry, you get hit with layoffs even if you do well so it doesn’t really matter what the quality of your product is in the end… You still get laid off.

randomaside , 1 month ago

Data hoarding is a truly unique experience. Just my two cents

• raid is not a backup. Don’t use raid5 unless you’re using a filesystem like zfs that checksums your data. Raid5 is vulnerable to scenarios with a “write hole” that leads to bit rot.
• split up your dataset into smaller more manageable datasets so you can more easily back it up in different ways like external drives, cloud storage, etc. You can then limit the dataset size to never exceed the same of your backup target.
• snapshots, use them. Snapshots in your filesystem can make your backups more manageable by only sending the differential data as opposed to something like Rsync which may need to rsync an entire file.

I use ZFS and have found that compression with ZSTD works pretty well for getting extra use out of your disks but unless you have a lot of RAM and some special metadata NVME disks, don’t use reduplication as it will be a serious performance impact.

Now if you aren’t using a FOSS system like truenas and instead you’re using a system like a qnap off the shelf, the qnap hybrid backup and sync manager has a really elegant solution for doing policy based differential backups to back blaze b2 storage. Not only does this give you a copy of your data, you also get immutable points in time archives of your data.

Good luck in your data hoarding endeavors!

randomaside , 2 months ago

Wall Street bets regards linked to an evil admin attack? 😕

randomaside , 2 months ago

This is the actual truth. Revisiting the catalog of early cross platform games and it’s evident that Sony engineers couldn’t get anything running well on there for the first three years of its lifespan. The same games ran just fine on the Xbox360.

randomaside , 3 months ago

10/10 video. She knocked it out of the park.

randomaside , 3 months ago

Please, just shut it down.

randomaside , 3 months ago

"Kumbaya my lord "

• South park season 8 episode 9

randomaside , 3 months ago

Google is collapsing because we are not the customer they serve (anymore). We are the product.

They have spoiled all the good will their brand has which means they are vulnerable to competition.

randomaside , 3 months ago

I mean a few of us are still … Android, Chromecast (Android TV), Google One, Google Suite, Google Mesh, Nest (the few products that remain).

randomaside , 3 months ago

Im pretty sure this method utilizes RDP. I’m thinking about getting an Intel ARC380 GPU for PCI-E pass through to a windows VM and doing the same thing. I’ve tested this with an Nvidia Tesla k80 (though it’s not a very practical card to have on a desktop). You should be able to get enhanced performance out of the VM if you enforce video encoding on GPU via group policy.

The only downsides are :

1. passing certain peripherals through RDP fails on Linux from my experience (for example, USB DAC, Xbox 360 USB controller). Your mileage may vary.
2. absolute mouse position doesn’t work over RDP so don’t try this with any games that need a mouse for camera control (fps) it simply won’t work. If you want to game, lookingglass would probably be better for that but I haven’t tested that yet.

randomaside , 3 months ago

Steam users are the base everyone desires to get to but no one wants to pay the toll to Valve for building the platform gamers want.

randomaside , 4 months ago

Microsoft records every image on screen

Copy protection like widevine, “Am I a joke to you?”

randomaside , 4 months ago

There is something about the Palm Pre or Jolla Sailfish OS that was so endearing back then. Devices that support it just don’t exist.

randomaside , 4 months ago

You didn’t EMPTY THE GREASE TRAAAaaaAAYY!

randomaside , 4 months ago

The only people that are going to stop this behavior are going to be Valve. They need to get on the stopkillinggames.com bandwagon because they are affected the most.

All these constant demands for refunds because a developer violates the terms of agreement by adding DRM or additional online service requirements months after the initial release that makes your product now unplayable is more than a trend. It’s the future of the steamdeck if Valve doesn’t do something about it.

randomaside , 4 months ago

Honestly, this article shouldn’t be called how to. I’m trying to make heads or tails of this documentation but I would love to see more. I just want to recompile Mystical Ninja starring Goemon as it’s my favorite N64 game from my childhood.

randomaside , 4 months ago

Can you tell if an AI is being trained on these Lemmy instances? How would you detect it and stop it?

randomaside , 4 months ago

My vote is universal Blue and its spins like Bluefin or Bazzite

randomaside , 4 months ago

Large language models are going to replace search. Naturally concise recommendations are easier for humans to interact with than a swath of web pages. The problem that you get here is this is going to disincentive the creation of new web content outside of the walled gardens we already have. The walls are just going to get higher.

randomaside , 4 months ago

💯

randomaside , 4 months ago

I gotta be honest, I love his deadpan dry ass thumbnails.

randomaside , 4 months ago

Yeah they don’t even need you to on TV and recant your crimes against the state. They can just disappear you and train an AI to become a mouthpiece for the state. Wild.

randomaside , 4 months ago

Just a thought, remakes like this tend to appeal to people in the PC crowd. We’ve all moved to PC for various different reasons. Better games, better prices, better hardware? Emulation and software preservation is the name of the game for a lot of people. Those people are working everyday to make things like the steam deck the dream game console they always wanted. That’s the kind of person who will go back and replay Final Fantasy 7 four or five times.

randomaside , 4 months ago

150 million is nothing for what Linus has control over. That’s like the combined net worth of 100 of the top paid strippers in Vegas. (I’m going by vice documentary numbers)

randomaside , 4 months ago

Agreed. This is something that is very much overlooked when people talk about how manufacturing in China works. The country is split into special economic zones that have different rules and laws that govern the regions. This allows them to uniquely exploit their labor markets to keep their costs as low as possible.

iPhones are built by FoxConn in their Shenzhen factories. See FoxConn Suicides for more.

randomaside , 4 months ago

Abso lutely. Microsoft and Google basically have a duopoly on corporate email and no one seems to care. I know this does seem relevant but trust me it is.

randomaside , 4 months ago

Don’t forget about newsgroups (⌐■_■)

randomaside , 4 months ago

It’s usenet.

blog.harveydelaney.com/configuring-your-usenet-pr…

randomaside , 4 months ago

This. Buying power of the average American has decreased drastically. If you worked for the last five years and your pay has changed you’ve technically made less money every year as the power of the dollar has diminished. If you’re on a fixed income it feels even worse.

randomaside , 4 months ago

I’m sure this is somehow great news for investors.

randomaside , 4 months ago

I think Nintendo is dancing into dangerous territory here. I have a feeling this thing is going to be loaded with anti-features here specifically designed to curtail modding, piracy, and even unlicensed peripherals. The games themselves are going to get HD re-re-eleases and Nintendo will charge you full price again for the moderate upgrade.

randomaside , 4 months ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/0052a81f-cf60-4d1c-8d68-c33d407aa86a.png

randomaside , 4 months ago

My favorite trick to reviving old computers is trying to find ways to get them to run off of solid state storage. It really makes a huge difference. You will be surprised by how much more tolerable classic computers are when you no longer have to deal with slow storage mediums.

Mind you this doesn’t make them modern levels of fast and you no longer get the satisfaction of hearing the hard drive grinding away when you open a window but thems the tradeoffs…sigh…

randomaside , 4 months ago

I bought this game on EPIC games because I wanted to play it. I bent over backwards to get this thing to run well because I wanted the full experience. I built a windows PC just for it.

It’s a pain playing it on Linux I’m basically forced to run a modified pirated version of a game I paid for to get a consistent experience.

I hope that maybe they will release a complete edition of Alan Wake 2 on steam when Control 2 finally hits because this is the kind of game that people want access to the back catalogue to theorize about.

randomaside , 4 months ago

There are a lot of Android based Pocket devices out there like the retroid. Imagine having a retroid or ayn odin that can also double as a wii u controller.

randomaside , 4 months ago

“Government doesn’t work, we need less government” said unironically by the person elected to run the government.

randomaside , 4 months ago

This. It used to be the dream because we believed in what technofuturism had to offer. We believed in instant access to knowledge and we thought we could all make it cheap enough that it would be an uplift across humanity.

We came up with so many cool things in the process. Little did we know we were simply building the foundations of our dystopian cyberpunk corpo future.

“We just wanted ice cream cones and fast cars” (South park).

randomaside , 5 months ago

The same reason a movie theater owner can’t show Pee Wee’s Big Adventure every weekend. Value is derived from exclusivity. Exercising your “rights” to a work means preventing anyone from having access to the work unless you are paid when and how you want.

randomaside , 5 months ago

If NVK is good enough maybe Nvidia will consider dropping the proprietary driver because no one will want to use it and it will cost too much for them to maintain a separate driver.

A man can dream.

randomaside , 5 months ago

Is there an alternative way to register a domain that cannot be seized? It seems like domain seizure is the one thing that enables internet censorship. Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there? I’m genuinely curious.

randomaside , 5 months ago

Please reiterate your statement but instead using the “goose chase meme” format.

randomaside , 5 months ago

Are there any game review outlets that cap the review rating for a game that has Anti-Consumer features?

I think it would be a great idea to be like “on a scale of 0-100, games with a day one DLC take a penalty of 15 points. Cannot receive a score over 85”.

randomaside , 5 months ago

Abso lutely