nathris

@nathris@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair if anyone is motivated to discover flaws in testing methodology and publicly disclose them right now it’s Labs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see AI Voyager episodes like people are doing for the Simpsons and family guy. Basic 3d models interacting with each other using generated dialog.

  Just Janeway and crew wandering the Delta quadrant violating the prime directive in the name of coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s getting hard to do just between AMD and Nvidia on Windows.

  I’m old enough to remember the days when reviewers showed macro shots of the wires in half life 2 to test AA between different cards.

  Does anyone even test that enabling “Ultra” settings results in the same configuration across vendors/generations? I’m pretty sure LTT Labs found cases where it wasn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no continent called “America”. We have North America and South America.

  When someone says “South American” I don’t think Alabama I think Brazil or Argentina.

  The term “North American” is commonly used when you’re describing something that applies to both Canada and the US. Eg. “North American sports teams”.

  We commonly use the term “Central American” when referring to Mexico, El Salvador, etc. because even though they are technically in North America there is a strong cultural divide, similar to how the middle East is technically Asia, but you’d never refer to someone from Saudi Arabia as “Asian”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  D4 was dead the moment they announced D2R. Why would I pay $80 for a game with microtransactions and battlepass when I can pay $50 for a game that comes complete in box?

  They should have taken D2R kept the mechanics and just rolled new classes, maps, and items.

  I don’t want a new game, I just want more content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that a large chunk of that money also goes to the creators. It’s significantly more than they get from showing you an ad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of framework and their methods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My laptop is 4 years old at this point. I spent $2400 on it before I wanted something future proof, and while it’s still plenty fast with it’s 10th gen Intel processor and 32gb ram, knowing that I could drop $500 and upgrade to the latest AMD or Intel chip makes me wish I could have held out another year and gotten the framework.

  Given that we’ve more or less peaked in terms of non-gaming performance I probably won’t be buying another laptop until this one dies but my next laptop will be a framework without question as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Google didn’t buy HTC. They bought the parts of the company responsible for making the first Pixel phone.

  HTC is still a separate entity. They just don’t release 25 phones/year now, and all of their stuff is mid-range garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a $2 USB C cable I got off of Ali that I use to charge my laptop at 65W. It’s rated for 100W but I have no way of testing it.

  It’s actually higher quality than any official apple cable I’ve used, although that’s a pretty low bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The first USB-C Android phones were also only USB 2.0.

  Although that was 8 years ago, when USB 3 was only just starting to become commonplace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The SoC lacks the hardware. Even the USB C iPads with A series chips operate at 2.0 speeds. They can only do 5Gbit in host mode, like with an external SSD. Plugged in to a computer they are 2.0.

  I would imagine future chips will have the capability, once the Pro chips trickle down to the base models.