AstralPath
@AstralPath@lemmy.ca
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 8 hours ago:
That’s really strange. I have an M-Audio 60ish key and a smaller Novation Nocturn MIDI keyboard as well as a Roland electric drum kit and have no issues doing anything over MIDI with them on Linux.
Maybe its worth another try? I don’t need drivers for any of that stuff.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 days ago:
Really? I run my home studio in Nobara Linux without any latency issues. I use Reaper as my DAW. Are you using
yabridge? - Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 days ago:
Have Win 10 and was a Windows die hard since I was a kid.
Been running Linux on another drive as my default boot for a year and a half in anticipation of this horseshit and was only hesitant to delete Win because my Fanatec sim racing hardware wasn’t supported on Linux.
Welp, turns out hid-fanatecff is a thing. Installed the kernel driver and boom, working Fanatec peripherals. Even my Moza shifter is plug-and-play.
Bye bye Microsoft.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 2 days ago:
I wish that was my life.
- Comment on Breakthrough in Huntington’s disease treatment shows unprecedented results for patients 6 days ago:
Asking the real questions.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What a huge disappointment after the masterpiece that was Hyper Light Drifter.
I’m genuinely sad about this one.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 3 weeks ago:
Tell that to the GuitarTubers whose audio get squashed to oblivion.
I can literally hear pumping clear as day in response to loud moments. It absolutely is doing dynamic range compression.
Its so obvious that I realized I was logged out of my Youtube account after a browser update and had to disable it again.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 3 weeks ago:
Turn off “Stable Volume” in Youtube’s video settings to disable dynamic range compression.
This is a must if you listen to music on Youtube.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A good gaming monitor with something like the Framemeister, RetroTINK, or OSSC can give properly unnoticeable amounts of input lag.
Ok, so wait a second here. You’re suggesting that buying a “good” gaming monitor (hundreds to thousands of dollars) and an upscaler (the cheapest of the options you mentioned I found for $369 USD is a better option than buying a CRT?
I found a perfectly good 28" Panasonic CRT on Kijiji for $200 CAD.
It makes the retro noises, it displays the games the way they were meant to be displayed, and there’s no perceptible input lag. It also just fits the visual aesthetic if you have a retro gaming area/room in your house. There’s no way I’m paying anywhere near 5-600 USD (up to 1k CAD, basically) to play retro games on a modern monitor when I can have a setup faithful to the experiences I had as a kid in the 90s for $200 CAD.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s not wrong. You can feel it.
My wife is not a gamer and even she can feel it. She hated playing on our living room TV. Said she felt like she got really bad at Mario Bros over the years or something and was disappointed.
Bought a CRT; she loves the game again and is still quite good at it actually.
Reacting to stimulus is completely different than timing inputs in a video game. A few ms of delay isn’t really going to register in a reaction test, but if you’re using constant time sensitive information on screen to accurately time your movements in a game, you can easily feel lag in the sub 5ms range.
As a guitarist, I can feel latency down to 2ms if I’m playing through a modeling amp on my PC, especially if I’m playing at high tempos. The faster you play, the greater the percentage of time between notes that latency becomes. The effect is the same in high speed video games.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A modern TV is a really bad example.
Not when it comes to console gaming.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The look of CRT is important to retro gaming but do you know what the most important characteristic of CRTs for retro gaming is?
No input lag.
Play OG Super Mario Bros on a modern TV and let me know how long it is before you wanna smash the controller in frustration. The game just feels incredibly sloppy.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 weeks ago:
You don’t typically pay to run Linux distros. They’re open-source. I can’t imagine they’d be subject to this.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 weeks ago:
Apparently there’s a way to install Win11 and bypass all these requirements.
tomshardware.com/…/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirem… youtu.be/tx5TaozMXMQ
- Comment on BBC - The people who hunt old TVs 5 weeks ago:
Can’t beat them for games that require low latency input though. Just playing retro games on them is worth owning one.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 5 weeks ago:
What about all the people that breathed in that toxic cloud or injured themselves trying to run away from the chaos? Surely many of them ended up in hospital.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 1 month ago:
People are allowed to ask honest questions and IMO this seems like one. If more people exercised self-reflection like this we might live in a better society.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
Whatever you say, pal. -eyeroll-
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
I love when people throw around the idea of Canadian provinces just being up for grabs, as if we want anything to do with what’s going on south of the border.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
Russia would love that.
- Comment on "This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive 1 month ago:
This was a great read. What a monumental effort to emulate that device. The perseverance is inspiring, honestly.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 month ago:
Who on earth is gonna shoot a starling for food?
Have you seen starlings? They can fit in the palm of your hand.
- Comment on The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame 1 month ago:
Some shit is just straight up poison though.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 1 month ago:
You hate to say it because you know this is a ridiculous take. There’s no fucking way that the parents are “more at fault” for their son’s death than the company whose product encouraged him to hide his feelings from his parents and coached him on how to commit suicide.
Read the lawsuit filing. cdn.arstechnica.net/…/Raine-v-OpenAI-Complaint-8-…
*I have excellent parents and even they were not privy to the depths of my emotions as a kid. * You are actively choosing to ignore the realities of childhood as well as parenthood to play some shitty devil’s advocate online.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
Hmm. Interesting idea.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 1 month ago:
Louis Rossmann has commented on the situation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI
- Comment on METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER - Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
I’m glad they re-made the worst entry in the early era of the series and didn’t fuck with Sons of Liberty. That game is literally perfect. MGS3 is tedious AF. Still fun and better than a lot of games, but massively overhyped. Also, worst fucking camera system in the history of gaming in the original PS2 version. Truly atrocious.
I hope it turns out well, but I still doubt that I’ll play it.
- Comment on Wyoming launches first state-backed stablecoin on seven blockchains 2 months ago:
If we settle for slogans, we are going to get our private parts sucked into a toilet at 34,000 feet.”
Amazing intro.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 2 months ago:
When I run out of stuff to see on Lemmy, I touch grass. Simple as.
I feel way more in control of my online experience when endless scrolling isn’t possible.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 months ago:
You’re the outlier, I promise. People are literally forfeiting their brains in favor of an LLM transplant hese days.