I don't mind them raising minimum requirements if they actually use features of newer hardware (cough unlike Windows 11 cough), but requiring upscaling is never a good sign. It's just a cost-cutting strategy that allows them to spend even less money on optimization work while reallocating that money to marketing budget or exec bonuses or whatever, at the cost of visual fidelity. It doesn't benefit customers in any way, quite the opposite.
Potatoes? You mean PCs with < $1000 GPUs?
I'm not touching Starfield until I can play it at 1440p 60 fps with decent graphics (yes, actual 1440p, not "720p upscaled to 1440p" bullshit. Neither that nor 30 fps are acceptable to me).
If Bethesda can't be bothered to fix performance and I will need to wait years until I decide to upgrade so be it - I have plenty of great games in my "to play" list. By that time the will also be lots of mods to choose from to make Starfield worth it.
iPhone 15 Pro owners are using it wrong
I had been led to believe that one of Wayland’s strength was solving the correct window coordinates save-and-restore problem. Does someone know what happened here?
It's literally the opposite. Windows aren't allowed to position themselves on Wayland (because it's unsafe or something). Window state save restoration must implemented by the compositor itself. Not sure about GNOME, but KDE doesn't have that.
If they can built space rockets that can carry payload to orbit, they can build ICBMs. First space launchers were modified ICBMs after all.
Now it looks like it's hiding something.
Does it really matter? It's the usual corporate intrigues/power struggle/backstabbing/whatever. Just for some reason leaked into public view instead of being behind the scenes like it's normally done, probably because someone is stupid.
They are personalised by the "bucket" that data collection companies like Google or Facebook placed you into based on profiling. Browsing and search history is only one of the factors that is taken into account when you are profiled, there are myriad more ways to collect data about you.
And then what ads you see is determined by what advertisers think your "bucket" wants. If you are male in your 20s living in rural USA and advertisers think that males in their 20s living in rural USA are interested in guns, then that's what you will see - even if you never clicked on gun ad or searched for guns on Google.
It's shitty code bound. Sometimes no matter how powerful your hardware is, software will perform poorly because it just doesn't scale. Writing complex software like game so that it can fully utilize current hardware AND actually run faster with better CPU/GPU can become very difficult once a certain complexity threshold is reached. It's easy enough to do for a small linear game even if it has exceptional graphics, but an open world sandbox game like ones that Bethesda makes is a completely different story.
That doesn't mean that it's impossible of course - Bethesda absolutely should have made a better job, but it's by no means an easy task.
This happens on most Android phones, including my Google Pixel with 8gb of RAM. I noticed that it starts doing this when battery drops below 50%. Which is weird because it surely takes more resources (and thus drains more battery) to cold start an app every time instead of just keeping it in memory (provided that app doesn't do anything nefarious in background which is easy to detect). There is plenty of RAM for that.
Oh and yep God said you’re not allowed to drink alcohol /s
He was pretty clear in Quran on that topic.
I don't care about gaming performance on a phone, but battery life in Pixel 7 have been worse than in competitors like Galaxy S23.
I'm confused on how mobile clients work with Fediverse. Do they work with larger "threadiverse" like Lemmy and Kbin themselves or do they access it through specific Lemmy/Kbin instance? If it's the latter, does this mean they use Lemmy-specific and Kbin-specific APIs?
Not just license. You also need to link to it as a shared library and allow users to replace it with their own build of the library. Meaning you can't use stuff like DRM and anticheats.
DLSS is upscaler. Game is rendered at lower resolution and then image is upscaled in a bit smarter way than simple "stretching".
Manned lunar lander is a mich complex piece of technology which needs to be developed from scratch. It also needs a much more powerful rocket which Russia don't have either. It's at least a decade of extra R&D time even if they get all the funding they need and magically get rid of corruption (which obviously won't happen).
It's unmanned not because they chose it but because they are literally incapable of making a manned mission (at the very least for a couple of generations).
Algorithm favors videos that are highly upvoted or downvoted. Anything that gets emotion/reaction out of you - doesn't matter whether positive or negative - is brought to the top.
Not in his mind. People like him genuinely believe that them paying means that sex worker is being humiliated and degraded by them.
It seems to be fully backwards-compatible with standard JPEG. I.e. image viewers will that don't support newer formats will display it as if it was a JPEG file with SDR colors.
Also, HEIF/HEIC is patented format that you need to pay royalties for. Open formats are obviously superior and there are multiple ones that support HDR (there is also open variant of HEIF that uses AV1 encoding but I don't know whether Android or iOS support it).
Well, yes, it's a business decision. Google wanted to push their Chromecast devices so they made them use proprietary Google Cast protocol and removed Miracast from Android (both phones and TVs). They later added Chromecast/Google Cast to Android TV but it is still not supported on other platforms. Samsung on the other hand had their own TVs which don't use Android TV so they added Miracast back to their phones and removed Chromecast so that their consumers would buy Samsung TVs.
Most of those servers are dead though (including some nitter instances). You will need to manually disable those that don't work and it's pain in the ass.
Nah, this is patented by Sony.
I don't know.
Not only Google services. If you want to make a phone you need to buy SoC from Qualcomm or MediaTek and all the drivers for it are proprietary (often including Linux kernel modifications). Sure you can technically make your own but it's impossible for 99% of phone makers.
Are they still trash in terms of performance (I know that all smart tvs have weak hardware but my experience with Sony was even worse than average)?
Sounds like they didn't test what happens with their apps when token is reset on server 🤔 should be reported to the apps devs. Thankfully with lemmy this is easier to fix than with proprietary services because you can self-host it and check various edge cases.
Exynos Samsung batteries. Tensor is based on Exynos, and S23 has only Qualcomm variant. That's why Pixel 7 drains battery faster than S23.
It's still not enough time for KDE devs to fix all major issues with Wayland. It requires at least another two years in the oven.
Maybe it's a corpo thing, how big is your company?
Not just clicks, even scrolling is broken. It shows content at first so you lower your guard and then block you with login page once you scroll down.
Sure, it's hard to craft a perfect solution. However the status quo for a long time was that applications were doing it themselves. And Wayland took it away without providing a replacement.
Most people won't even notice this exists because they use Chrome without extensions (and you can't even install extension in Android's Chrome).
Some apps can't even be disabled (including via adb).
That's the plan. I haven't actually properly played F4 yet either lol (tried years ago but dropped due to performance issues). Probably will do it soon after spending a month modding it.
Low effort tickets are ignored because they are bullshit.
High effort tickets are ignored because devs are lazy and can't be bothered to deal with complex and boring issues.
Well, at least that's how I roll as an open source developer lol.
I'm fine with music content in Youtube recommendations, but videos in Music recommendations is absolute cancer.
I just enjoy that stuff lol. I only stopped my last Skyrim playthrough because I kept updating my mods and adding new ones and at the one point it just broke all of my saves. I took it as a sign to move on to other games.
Dial the Gate. Series of interviews with people involved in making of Stargate TV show (not just actors bit people at every level). It's over 200 episodes now.
Lada doesn't really exist anymore. Before 2022 it was just assembling cheap Renault cars with Lada branding (and actually owned by Renault). Now it's nationalised and assembles some obscure Chinese cars (or plans to. Not sure if they managed to set it up yet).
It's also the home of people being drafted (even more so than for political elite of the country). If some of them want to get the fuck out (yes, from their home) then those thay have elected shouldn't have the right to force them to stay and die.