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- Comment on Valve Prepares for Steam Frame Launch with Android Upload Options in Steamworks 1 week ago:
Its less an emulator, and more a translation layer.
Emulation is when you essentially construct a virtual representation of the target hardware, and map the virtual hardware to real hardware, and then you can run code made for the emulated, target hardware, on the real hardware.
A translation layer does not involve emulating a specific target hardware model.
WINE -> Wine Is Not (an) Emulator
Proton is basically… a massive expansion pack, for WINE.
Proton translates Windows x86-64 calls into Linux x86-64 calls.
FEX translates Linux x86-64 calls into Linux ARM calls.
The point is actually to be able to run Linux x86-64 on ARM, not the other way around.
But, as a consequence of developing a comprehensive ARM <-> x86-64 translation layer, that does mean that it will be easier to port APKs, Android libraries, or in some instances just run APKs, on x86-64.
- Comment on Valve Prepares for Steam Frame Launch with Android Upload Options in Steamworks 1 week ago:
Its also so that some games and/or parts of games can just run entirely on the Steam Frame Headset.
Basically, ARM (mobile) physical hardware is more compact, less energy intensive, and heat causing, than traditional x86-64.
So, they built the hardware of the headset, the Steam Frame, as… essentially, an extremely overbuilt smartphone, because they wanted you to be able to go cordless, un tethered, with decent battery life, as compared to their last headset, the Index, which has to be corded in to both data and power at all times.
So, there are various rendering and other game processes that just run locally on the Steam Frame, via ARM hardware, where for a chonkier game, the core game processes are running on the Steam Machine, and the two share a highspeed, local, wireless datalink.
To get all that to work, well, linux x86-64 instructions need to be interpretable on ARM, thus, make a new translation layer.
That this means some APKs in their entirety should now just generally be able to run on a Steam Frame, solo… is essentially a side effect.
Not trying to ‘correct’ you, just trying to add more context.
- Comment on Feeling blessed wanted a sprite even though the machine didnt advertise it 1 week ago:
The machine would not make a mistake!
- Comment on Feeling blessed wanted a sprite even though the machine didnt advertise it 1 week ago:
I think basically one is pretty much… just ginger ale flavor, and the other has more citrus flavoring as well.
- Comment on Feeling blessed wanted a sprite even though the machine didnt advertise it 1 week ago:
Oh my god, it actually happened.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 1 week ago:
This is a strange thing to do, tell people you have a diarrhea fetish.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
… ‘Bansky goes to Space’ …
That would make for quite a story.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
Its funny looking back.
I thought it was hilarious.
… A fair number of people I knew thought that me thinking that was callous, which baffled me.
… Then those same people started trying to explain to me that I should stop ‘overusing’ the term fascist.
… Same people who… liked The Boys, untill it became ‘too political.’
At that point, I realized the table I was sitting at, and excused myself before making the wrong hand gesture to indicate ‘three’.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
He thought he had protection.
Like he was some kinda made man, had the Godfather’s blessing.
Turns out…
You can’t out pizza the hut.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Well, at least we’ll always have Sinatra.
theoretically
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Elon Musk is such a goddamned literal supervillain that he managed to make the theme of Firefly wrong.
Apparently, they can take the sky from you.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 1 week ago:
As of 2 days ago, FSR 4 works on a Steam Deck, w/Cyberpunk:
youtube.com/watch?v=0er-7pyMr3Q
This will also work on AMD 6000s and 7000s series cards.
- Comment on Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people' 1 week ago:
Half the things you are describing here are basically just core game systems that should already exist within the product you paid for.
The reason that a lot of more comprehensive mods exist and work for older Bethesda games is that they’ve been around long enough that people have figured out how to essentially hijack the exe itself, and input custom low level c++ commands, usually via a higher level scripting language.
This category of mods is generally called a script extender.
Script extenders exist because the game is fundamentally so limited and/or broken, and propper modding tools do not exist.
Then, people build the fancier mods on top of the script extender mods.
Bethesda is not capable of creating proper modding tools, because their engine and games are fundamentally too unstable, they’re a spaghetti code mess.
Poke one thing here, and something seemingly completely unrelated breaks somewhere else, because they used a hacky solution 4 years ago once, and then that got forgotten about… multiply that by 100 or 1000.
They would have to actually have a base game and engine that is stable and follows consistent rules, ie, they’d have to refactor everything.
But refactoring everything is expensive and takes time and does not produce more money within a a quarter of its completion.
And also, with Fallout 4 recently, well they actually tried to refactor it, and basically they failed; game just has all new classes and categories of bugs now.
They’re literally not capable of meaningfully improving the situation.
- Comment on when people on here tell me to diversify my posts: 1 week ago:
Don’t forget to put a few rivets into Rosie:
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 2 weeks ago:
… Are you aware of any study or perhaps graphic or map based on a studies that… actually tries to model an AMOC shutdown?
Because I loosely keep up with Paul Beckwith’s roughly weekly videos and uh… the SMOC ain’t doin so great, and like, currently, and in the last month or two… well, the artctic polar vortex has … more or been destabilizing… to a rather extreme amount…
- Comment on Choose your fighter 2 weeks ago:
Ahem.
Whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you…
… stranger.
- Comment on One stop shop 2 weeks ago:
I mean… sounds pretty interesting to me!
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I’m excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I’m not pessimistic enough to think I’ll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh… a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 2 weeks ago:
You’d have to be an idiot to trust this.
- Comment on If creatures existed that were simultaneously as trainable and as powerful as pokemon, of course they'd be used to resolve every conflict. 2 weeks ago:
War Horses.
War Elephants.
K9 units.
We already do this in reality, without the animals having superpowers.
But also, if you go by Gen 1 descriptions, Alakazam has an IQ of 5000, so… probably this would not end well for humanity.
At this point, half the legendary pokemon are like, the avatar of the concept of space-time itself so…
Yeah
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 weeks ago:
Well, think of it this way:
China now knows how to shoot down F35s, if you’ve been following other news.
Yeah, sorry Taiwan, between that and the US wasting all of its missiles and interceptors on Iran… and dismantling the SK THAAD system for parts, after two of them got destroyed in the GCC…
Huang is gonna be taking orders, moreso than giving them, in the near future.
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- Comment on Great Tits 2 weeks ago:
… would not have expected such a dick move from a great tit.
- Comment on In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone. 2 weeks ago:
I think the idea there is that Masaki is a fairly common, not very unique Japanese male name.
So, Bill is a fairly common, not very unique male name in English.
In French and Spanish, Bill is Sam, in German he’s Lennart, in Italian, Alessio.
I think the idea was ‘just some normal guy’.
- Comment on In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, he could have had a decent RAID setup, back in the 90s, why not?
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 2 weeks ago:
Oh hey, no prob!
Yeah, the… fragmented-by-design nature of lemmy can be a bit confusing… I don’t even know how many different mobile client apps there are at this point, and many instances have differing layouts for the web browser version.
- Comment on stages of mitosis 2 weeks ago:
(I have no idea what i’m talking about.)
And yet I actually follow what you are saying, silly it may be, it is… theoretically, technically sound.
So for spinning rooks, (especially when accelerated to rotational velocities experienced in a coil gun), to avoid the gimbal lock problem, you can use quaternions to represent their actual orientation, which… more or less, is complexifying their 3D orientation vector into being a 4D object, manipulating it in 4 space, and then solving or reducing the 4D object back to its 3D shadow/original self.
This particularly helpful when playing any kind of chess that involves more than 2 dimensions, as well as keeping track of long distance ballistic deviation due to projectile wobble, and/or a ballistic trajectory through different ambient pressure/resistance/drag-inducing gradients.
- Comment on stages of mitosis 3 weeks ago:
Hrm.
I think I’ll try spinning, thata a good trick!
- Comment on I made a replacement for my broken fridge handle 3 weeks ago:
Yep, yep yep yep fully agree and am also a fan of the concept behind Kinstugi.
Though I think that kintsugi more specifically refers to … well, a literal artform/method of repair of things like glasses, cups, vases, etc…
Yeah, the general idea of … just repairing things that break, instead of replacing them wholly… making do with what you have and what you know…
We all need to shift toward that.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.
We are living in a cyberpunk dystopia and if we ever want it to inch toward a solarpunk alternative, we will need to do with what exists, produce less literal mountains and islands of garbage.
… Beyond that, you could say that a kind of custom repair like this is literally building character.
- Comment on I made a replacement for my broken fridge handle 3 weeks ago:
I like it better than the original, unironically.
Replace the other one too!
