Sorry I'm a bit late
The fact that no one in these comments, seems to have had a really decent FOSS IDE \ engine to recommend for 3D game development, makes me sad.
Like, Unreal is pretty great, but it's not FOSS (& won't run on any of my machines anyway).
Is there anything FOSS that really streamlines 3D game development?
(I want to say Vulkan but I feel like that's some sort of perennial "gotcha!" joke, at this point?)
^ This. 💯
I'm just waiting to hear about someone trying to charge their escooter via POE.
Yes, it seems painfully obvious that the primary driver of new WiFi router sales, is WiFi overcrowding.
802.15.4a/ab/ac, seems even weirder, given what we've become used to with AM/FM signaling modes.
After the usual "Huh, that seems like a clever way to send signals" reaction, a closer perusal of the tech & its established industrial capabilities, reveals Surface penetrating radar for machine vision & medical imaging, P2P, P2MP, local file-exchange, low-power low-latency streaming, greater range than bluetooth, greater interference resistance than WiFi, & reduced airtime per Mb, at lower emission power than a hair dryer or cellphone.
Gee, I wonder why it got forcibly channeled into exclusively device-to-device location pings, with no direct radio access or firmware, available to devs?
Seriously, go look at what the military, industrial, security, & medical sectors have already been doing with UWB, then look at the specs for the compact chipsets & SOCs released since 2017, & then look at what BMW, Apple, Google, & Samsung are doing with it. Oh yay, Airtags. I mean, they do work, but they're about 1/1000th of what the U1 could do, if app devs had access to the radio instead of being gatekept behind the FindMy device-to-device services.
+1 to those who said DHT.
There's no tagging support, but I'm not sure why I'd need tagging.
DHT crawling reveals pretty much every active public torrent, & finding what I want is just a matter of including it in the search terms.
"s04e10 2160p x265" brings up every torrent containing a file with s04e10, 2160p, & x265 in its filename.
I could foresee plenty of situations where tagging for quality, & for metadata beyond filenames & sizes, would be useful; I just haven't actually had it come up.
Everything I need shows up on DHT search.
Well, except .STL files, but that seems to be because they're given away for free so often there's no impetus to make torrents of them?
Godot is not bad for 2D & 2.5D, & it's a lot better at true 3D than it used to be, but as far as speedy usability, I'd compare it to UnrealEd 2.1 in many ways.
I really think the main reason anyone uses Godot, is the licensing & cross-platform support.
If Unreal 5.1 would run at all on any of my machines, I couldn't even really begin to make any kind of objective comparison between it & Godot; it's like the difference between having a bunch of clever hand-tools, versus having a bunch of really well-made power-tools.
Try making a mountainous landscape, sprinkle a handful of different trees, then carve out a tunnel that loops under itself with a ledge overhead. Anyone proficient with both the Godot & Unreal toolsets, seems to get good (& stable) results in moments using Unreal compared to minutes or hours, using Godot. Unreal's interface & free assets have set such a high standard for so long, that I find Blender is the only thing I could compare it to, but Unreal's workflows make Blender look like Maya.
I remember running out of those at work, & intentionally crushing the cheap-ass crimp-tool in my hand, just so I could finish up the next day with pass-through connectors & my Klein tool, rather than spend the next two hours re-terminating connectors that I 'should have' gotten exactly right the first time.
Since they said they have "5g home internet (about 10 times faster than the best wired option and 3 times cheaper)", with "shit ping", I assumed they meant 5th Gen cellular as their internet service at home.
Only a couple years ago, did we finally get a cable drop in our neighborhood, to actually give faster service than 4G LTE. (There's still no fiber here, at our location in central Denver.) Because the cable company (Comcast) doesn't offer a reasonable rate, we use line-of-sight wireless to a local mesh operator. Until then, we used 4G & 5G cellular, as our home internet. It was shit for reliability, but when it worked, the peak speeds beat any residential service available, by a pretty wide margin. Of course, those peak speeds turn to timeouts whenever the highway fills up (& our 5Ghz WiFi still flakes out too, as does the 2.4 Ghz wireless camera, & pretty much anything else that isn't shielded).
There was no point in running ethernet, with that setup; it was never going to be stable. I still had to run 2 hardwires though: one to the Sony PS2, & the other to an ancient beige switch by the IBM PS/2.
Some people in the mountains & such, are on "5 Gigabit" wireless internet, but most seem to be on even lower speed plans than that. I'm really curious which @Default_Defect@lemmy.world has, because 5th Gen cellular is literally the best internet a lot of US residents can get, despite the abysmal terms & throttling that so many providers employ.
Yeah, where my Mom lives, the food options are:
And she lives in a town people drive to, to get food, clothes, medicine, etc.
She gets as much as she can from the local grocer, for whatever that's worth; the inventory is frequently poor, & about on-par with Dollar General so far as brand-representation, goes. When tourists ask if the store has something, they get pointed to Walmart.
DHT crawlers find pretty much all the active torrents. No shortage of 4K content; as @burgersc12@sh.itjust.works said, just add 2160p to the search terms.
No trackers needed. (Omit the tracker URLs when loading magnet links too; they're not at all necessary.)
+1 to just use Tribler, as it already does most of what OP mentioned:
Doesn't really do privacy, but P2P over corpnets ≠private; for "privacy", use a proxy (or torrent exclusively things no one gets jailed for, like entertainment video\music\books).
(I know this sounds insane, but I don't use a proxy for torrenting, yet the only ISP that ever complained was CenturyLink, when using a friend's computer that lacked ad-blocking, to download extremely well-known torrents of a recent show, without removing the tracker URLs from the magnet link. Since 2005, zero complaints from my own torrenting, AFAIK...? I even torrent directly on my phone & cast to a TV. 🤷 I'm not recommending a no-proxy philosophy, just noting that I've never had an issue that required me to proxy\VPN up, even when DLing apps.)
Wireless has a lower minimum latency than wired, that's why trading houses set up relay towers from Chicago to NYC, in order to achieve the lowest possible latency for their trades between the two markets.
Wired gives better stability, due to almost zero interference noise. The primary cause of sucky WiFi speeds/stability, is having too many other people's routers nearby.
Hmmm, that reminds me; I need to separate out all the old ones that say "10BaseT"
Option 3 is the usual method, & it works quite fast on almost any machine that's even capable of decoding high bitrate video fast enough to keep up with its framerate, in the first place. On a HDD, that previous frame may briefly require seeking to get back to, but no such delay occurs with flash storage.
Of course, it doesn't need to be done fast; we're talking about long looks at single frames!
For best results, frame-capture apps use cross-frame interpolation with motion estimation (& these days, AI).
I don't remember the last device I saw, that would struggle with this in any way. It's basically just been dismissed as unimportant, by the VLC devs, rather than actually being all-that-difficult to implement.
I'm shocked that VLC doesn't offer reverse playback by now, given the absolutely enormous video resources & random access storage, we're all blessed with now.
Hahahah, very!
Similarly to I2P, IPFS sites can be relatively decentralized & censorship resistant; so, that & social features, are probably why Veilid was mentioned.
They're intrinsically more suited to private cliques than public sharing, so I agree that they don't really replace major public forums like TPB or the old KAT.
That said, TPB's continual relaunches are about the best a well-known centralized public site can manage, on a system as oppressive as the corporate-run "internet" we have today.
It's a lot harder to shut down P2P apps & devices, than websites on the clearnet.
The Kademlia network (eMule, Kazaalite, etc), did indeed use a global P2P Distributed Hash Table, to resolve which IPs hosted which content, which the torrent protocol also does ... some of:
Unlike the mainline torrent protocol, Kademlia's DHT (like the modern-day Tribler DHT), also resolved filenames to content, allowing in-app search.
With torrents, one needs to consult a DHT crawler, or an index site (which sucks; centrally operated sites are fragile, compared to DHTs), whereas eMule & more contemporarily Tribler, have two layers of DHT, enabling decentralized search without relyiance on someone having created a listing at some particular site & that site being online to search its index.
I'm pretty sure that the masking features of OBS (potentially even VLC) could be paired with a camera aimed at the display, to crop interlopers out of a projected image, so that they don't get painted\blinded with projected light. Very niche utility, but I'm not aware of any hardware-only solutions for it, & its potentially show\life-saving
Shotcut crashes unexpectedly, on all the machines I've tried it on. Not frequently though, & it was so good I used it anyway.
15 wired devices, kthx. Once & done.
No more "why's it down now"; no deauth attacks; no weird outages when highway traffic spikes from nav\music-streaming users getting tower timeouts that cause their WiFi to aggressively cry out for every known SSID.
With wired connections, I set it up once & it keeps working. With WiFi, it's a constant shouting match version of the Telephone game, with openly malicious actors literally headquartered a few blocks away.
My last several multicore multithreaded "smartphones" each sucked at multitasking; why should I hold myself to a higher standard than the entire telecom industry?
Same.
THIS is a good suggestion; I'm not aware of any decentralized search that also specifically helps find subtitles.
Apps being able to search opensubtitles.org\com via the API, are a great convenience, but I'm not aware of any comparably convenient way to submit subtitles. Currently, it's a bit of a pain, just to try & help. (For instance, .srt files with perfectly standard formatting, rejected for no discernable reason whatsover, requiring upload in .ass format instead.)
Can you suggest any RSSifiers, for sites/services lacking an RSS API?
Indeed.
Hm, 8 steps, is one more than the 7 stages of grief; but I'll take this over yet-another subscription service that continually degrades in quality for the dollar.
I feel like you replied to someone else's comment?
Gimp feels just like Photoshop before Creative Suite editions...
Everything that's not MS Paint, feels like a huge upgrade to me. On Windows, I open Paint.NET as often as any other image editor, just because I don't need more than that for most copy\paste\crop\color tasks.
I haven't done any illustration or background\logo art in about 20 years. I'm not even sure what features are considered most defining, for a good image editor these days?
The number of people who think they've ordered food delivery "from" a local restaurant, not realizing it was actually made in an UberEats\DoorDash all-in-one "ghost kitchen" located in a nondescript building nearby, vastly exceeds the number of people who've heard the term "ghost kitchen". One of the most well-known local pizza shop's deliveries, actually come from ghost kitchens, here.
They're still happy to accept food-stamp revenue though, if you get Amazon Prime, of course...
Well, not just because a company, did...
Cable internet? I agree. Nowhere near using all its last-mile capacity, yet.
I can't speak for anyone else, but yes, mine is.
I've never had Prime though. The reason my life is boring and empty, is (I think) because I avoid participating in things I don't wholeheartedly approve of.
Viewing media, is an insidiously passive form of participation, so I do intently watch plenty of TV\movies (recently figured out it's about 6-8 things a week).
The rest of my life is just household chores, bicycling, & traveling when I get the chance.
Doing Things makes me feel like Ged.
What annoys me, is that I inevitably end up having both installed eventually, due to one app's dependencies or another's, & due to lack of experience repacking\compiling to avoid them
I do get annoyed, setting the hotkeys & seek distances, to something actually useful, every time I install VLC
The number of times I've needed to do something, then realized VLC already did it... Wow
Even had use for the video wall options, a few times.
Yes, OnlyOffice has been my choice for a while now; not that I need it much anymore, thankfully
Search engine functionality goes in the sharing\communication app.
DHTs in the '90s already had search & tagging & even some rudimentary social networking, built in.
Networks like Tribler's don't really need a lot more features, so much as just raw usage; most people torrenting are still using the mainline DHT, which doesn't have a search layer.
That's largely on those users. Advanced DHT search with rich social features, already exists for those who decide to use it.
True, and we have that already.
Which describes torrent apps 15 years ago. I'm really not sure what people think is missing?
Them: "The WiFi is down."
Me: '... No, I still see the TV & the laptop & Pi, on the network.'
Them: "I can't connect to Flipboard."
Me: 'Ohhh, the internet is down. It's probably at the cable modem. Wait a moment for it to failover to wireless, then try again.'
Them: "Yep, now the WiFi is back."