dangrousperson

@dangrousperson@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The stats are from StatCounter which has this in their FAQ:

  What methodology is used to calculate Statcounter Global Stats? Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device.

  So it’s the percentage if web traffic (to sites that use this analytics service)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since we're doing magic eyes now...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These are cross-view, your probably using the focus at infinity trick instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Safari + AdGuard used to work in my iPad, but it has recently been blocked with a disable Ad-block message. Orion works for me when I disable all build-in content blocking and using the Firefox version of Ublock Origin.

  I think the build-in blocker is too basic and gets detected by YouTube, while ublock works (everywhere I’ve tested it, desktop, android, iPad)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’re just buying these studios to acquire their IPs, code and artwork to train new AI’s on. Then close the studio, as you’ve acquired all its data and it serves no further purpose to them. Probably hoping to release full AAA-AI slop in the future. Don’t think it’ll work and they’ll waste enormous amounts of energy and resources before the AI bubble bursts and everyone realizes that current ‘AI’ (LLMs) will never become AGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is one of the options, that apparently a lot of the 3rd party devs are using. So far, all 1st party Nintendo titles are announced to include the game on the cartridge (not just a key)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not Proton, but the dxvk stuff works on Windows too. You just need to replace some .dll files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well there is d9vk and dxvk which translates directX 9, 10 and 11 to Vulkan and vkd3d which translates direct3D (directX 12) to Vulkan. So it’s all Vulkan on the Linux side, Proton ‘just’ translates one of these into Vulkan or passes it through if the game is already Vulkan.

  I don’t think there is a native (to GTA IV) Vulkan renderer in game though and therefore there isn’t anything more you can or have to do on Linux.

  On Windows, some older games actually get performance improvements from the translation to Vulkan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Excellent YouTube channel TheStellarJay has a small series (3-4 Videos, ~10min each) about the state of wizard games.

  This is part 1: youtu.be/quPKQIVEX5A

  I’m sure you’ll find something that piques your interest