Dudewitbow
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- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 3 days ago:
my opinion isn’t based strictly on the header. because to argue that the default is silent mode, when its very reasonable to assume that the middle tier performance mode is the default usecase, because it has a 80W/h battery when compared to typical other handhelds. Steam deck for example uses a 40W/h battery. 17W, which is seeing the chunk of the performance gain, is a very reasonable target for a 80W/h battery.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 4 days ago:
but a game may not necessarily need 13W, thats the point. youre using up more power than what is necessary because the CPU governor doesn’t know if its necessary or not to actually use all 13W.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 4 days ago:
the main thing you get back is a better cpu governor to manage power consumption on 2d games. Reviews like the Phawks points out that microsoft kinda handed it off to the handheld makers to optimize for battery life. So in the instances such as getting 8hours of battery life running dead cells because the system doesnt really need to push that much to run the game, the Windows handheld is stuck on a higher performance clock and has a significantly shorter battery life time.
This would be extremely visible if more lighter games are tested, which typically aren’t for reviews like this because its not really fun to show a bunch of games all hitting 60 if you cap framerate.
- Comment on My AYN Thor 1 week ago:
the bigger wall with switch emulation on android is that mobile companies are terrible at writing gpu drivers when compared to conventional desktop/laptop graphics vendors. its why for example the older snapdragon gen 2/3 outperform their newer snapdragon elite counterparts in emulation.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
ive been using beeper so its a matter if they kill the API in my case. (im surprised they didn’t nuke the API first)
- Comment on Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players" 2 weeks ago:
are people expeting devs to infinitely support a game? one that isn’t even on the live service model in the first place?
- Comment on Upcoming Win10 EOL Options to buy old Office PCs 3 weeks ago:
as a person who works in that industry pretty much. the only people buying singles are people who do it internally else its sold on bulk because the money gets split between the ecycler and the company who originally owns the product.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 4 weeks ago:
I just hate the trend that people want to make villains more generic evil. like how much shit ultraman got for the prescreening when he hits krypto thats actively fighting him. HES A VILLAIN, HES NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 weeks ago:
D is honestly extremely OP
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 5 weeks ago:
how im aware of it
bi is a catch all terms of gender
omni means youre fine with either but you might have preference to one more than the other. because you have a preference, you would not necessarily be “gender blind”
pan means is like dont even consider gender as a criteria of liking someone. said person can suddenly change genders and it would not affect how they feel about a person. fully gender blind.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 1 month ago:
0f, you just walked outside of a station in Antarctica
100f, you walked outside in a city built in the middle of a desert during the daytime
-40, the temperatures the same in f or c, but you’re not gonna like it regardless
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 month ago:
often people who plays plane related flight games with a joystick early in their life
- Comment on Russia’s Enteromix cancer vaccine shows promise in early trials 1 month ago:
Reading the article, kinda happy that different countries are working on different cancer fighting mrna options that currently are on different phases.
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 1 month ago:
the only advantage i can think of is to maintain more traditional tablet aspect ratios. single fold phones tend to have a very square screen when opened.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 1 month ago:
yeah this is the circle of ownership because the only way to get your account back at this point is social engineering, which is a serious topic about getting accounts hacked which different companies will handle seriously, as it requires a level of “trust me bro” on identity, If possible, id try to look for a CS that will take receipts of the game purchases to help further prove your identity.
- Comment on Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔 1 month ago:
dwarfs packing some heat
- Comment on What's the thing video players do after lag where they speed up the footage to catch up to the current frame before playing as normal? 1 month ago:
i dont know if that has a specific term, but it generally revolves around the render queue. different players/renderers handle what happens when the render queue isnt ready to play.
MadVR (a popular upscaling renderer for MPCHC) for example has an option to pause render queue till full.
ome player may have it setup as always play each frame which causes random slowdowns/speedups, other might implement it as drop frames to always be time synced correctly.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 2 months ago:
hence why Mention the titles a bit sensationalist.
its using a gpu company that rarely does it, for the first time in awhile in a very specific way, as that’s not the title of the thread that OP links.
the idea of a laptop dgpu isnt new the idea of a removable laptop dgpu(mxm) the idea of a removable nvidia laptop dgpu isnt new(same as above, also asus rog flow attachable gpus) the idea of a slottable gpu isnt new (frameworks 7700s came before it)
its the combination of the above which is pigeonholing the definition hard enough that it really doesnt have any real merit.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 2 months ago:
thr frameworks AMD 7700s came before it, so it wouldn’t be the first.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 2 months ago:
the title is sensationaliat, as the gpu part has been done before (mxm gpus)
the only induatry first off the top pf my head is the 240w usb c epr charger for a laptop
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 2 months ago:
Nvidia’s stuff is AI, but things like MadVR and stuff aren’t. Even older upscales like ESRGAN is ML based, but not necessarily AI, as the terms been pretty diluted.
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 2 months ago:
Nvidia has been upscaling content for users using the Nvidia shield since I think the 2019 revision, and I think offers the driver level video streaming upscale since 2023 with RTX Video Super Resolution. The concept isn’t exactly new (and there are video players that basically have 3rd party upscale algorithms, doesn’t need to be “AI” to do so)
- Comment on cum 2 mummy 2 months ago:
ahh so genital jousting is derived from nature
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 2 months ago:
iirc theyre active on reddit talking about the situation. basically bloomberg lawyers probably striked it for a segment they included in the video, but GN thinks theyre fine because itll be covered by fair use.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 2 months ago:
by itself no. requires a. pc thats like entry gaming in like 2016 standards though which isn’t particularly high.
modern (e. g past like maybe 2 years) igpus could probably run it
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most niche genre that you like? 2 months ago:
high stakes game. its not a genre you in particular talk about specifically, but there are several entries in it that are worth watching.
- Comment on YouTube turns to AI to spot children posing as adults 2 months ago:
but you have other data already tied to you likely to remove said problem. For example, its extremely unlikely a minor has access to a creditcard where the name matches the name on the account. even without AI, that already removes you(likely) from that ever being a problem.
- Comment on YouTube turns to AI to spot children posing as adults 2 months ago:
what i think is that it won’t affect most people in the first place. If you are an adult, with a google account, there are already a bajillion points of information to potentially insuate someones an adult, regardless of AI use or not.
the whole thing (outside of being anti AI) is a problem for those who google hasnt really created a “profile” for, which would be some kids, and extremely diehard privacy enthusiasts (e.g the kind that activity uses a phone with like GraphineOS installed) and users who do not log in and wipe cookies on exit. which on the grandscale of users, is a fairly small cut of the pie.
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 2 months ago:
the transitional tracks are controversial. some people like them. others hate them. i dont really care for them.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 months ago:
The problem that (local) ai has at the current moment is that its not just a single type of compute, and because of that, breaks usefulness in the pool of what you can do with it.
on the Surface level, “AI” is a mixture of what is essentially FP16, FP8, and INT8 accelerators, and different implementations have been using different ones. NPUs are basically INT8 only, while GPU intensive ones are FP based, making them not inherently cross compatible.
It forces devs to either think of the NPUs themselves with small things (e.g background blur with camera) as there isn’t any consumer level chip with a massive INT8 co processor except for the PS5 Pro (300 TOPS INT8, which compared to laptop cpus, have a 50 TOPs, so on a completely different league, PS5 Pro uses it to upscale)