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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  iPhone 16 Pro Max

  GrapheneOS is a “someday” that will rely on degoogling ither aspects of my digital life and setting up self hosted solutions for others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see - I don’t do well with the video format, I only read their article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to wonder if they, like me, were considering the potential rather than what was immediately in front of them.

  DLSS5 is, after all, an in-development project that currently runs on a second dedicated graphics card. Showing this off the way they did might have been a huge mistake, or maybe this reaction will course-correct what might have actually become a slop filter.

  Lighting and shadow some are the most computationally intensive aspects of a game, they’re usually the first settings I dial back when I need to improve performance.

  The possibility of running lower settings and having their visual fidelity improved as part of the upscaling pipeline is an appealing one for me. The key would be tuning it so that it can be an enhancement to what’s already there, not something that totally overrides it or makes it look like Gen-AI output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The tech seems to have yassified Grace in the main promotional image that’s being used by every publication.

  The rest of the images look improved, for the most part, and I do think it does make sense to offer this functionality as an option in the upscaling pipeline.

  I’m sure that those repeating artist’s intention have never dared use a reshade or texture swap.

  Hopefully, that yassification will be a side effect of the current state of the tech and not something that ships to end users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo USB-C PSU for laptops powers a Rasberry Pi, but cannot simply charge bicycle lights. WTF?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to what others have said, I would hazard a guess that these bike lights shipped with a charger that uses a 5V brick and a Type A to Type C cable.

  With A to C, no negotiation happens - 5V just gets sent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-C PSU is 9v *only*. Is that compliant? Did a PD-compliant charger fry my gear?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the charger fried your gear.

  If it had, it would have also fried the display unit you tried it on.

  USB-PD defaults to 5V until a negotiation takes place to establish voltage and current limits. In order to have caused damage, negotiation would have to have established voltage greater than 9V.

  Plenty of USB-C chargers do not supply the full range of voltages that are possible through USB-PD. For example, the Nintendo Switch’s charger is limited to 15V because that is the most the switch supports. Lots of inexpensive “phone chargers” top out at 12V.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Context is important. The following sentence is:

  The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that’s how it will ship later this year. Quite how scalable it is also remains to be seen, but in common with other DLSS technologies, Nvidia tells us that the computational cost scales with resolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Picked up all the Splinter Cell games on a sale and started with the first using the EnhancedSC Mod, on Steam Deck. That’s not technically a “Patience” thing as I’m revisiting games from my childhood, but it sure is fun!

  My partner and I have also been playing Harold Halibut. The story and visual style are an absolute delight, simpler adventure games are awesome when you’re tired or burnt out! I had my eye on it since it was first announced, it sat on my wishlist waiting for a < $20 sale, and then the GOG version got included “free” via Amazon Prime Gaming. Always nice to have things pan out that way, there have been too many occasions where I bought a game, didn’t get around to playing it, and then it turns up free or “free”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  3 and NV via Tale of Two Wastelands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your graphics card is weaker than the minimum spec (GTX 1060 6GB)

  You might consider buying it anyways and refunding within 2 hours if you’re not happy with performance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not entirely wrong, in that the Apple Tax is real. Nonetheless, the quality of the Magic Keyboard is substantially higher than that if a keyboard you can get for “a few dollars”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully Modded Skyrim VR in Samsung Galaxy XR is Something Else⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been meaning to go back into this, played at launch and spent most of my time in the modding metagame that I don’t have time for anymore.

  Did you mod this yourself, use a Wabbajack list, or do a combination thereof? If you’re mostly using Wabbjack, how was the learning curve for the various VR systems? Fairly intuitive, or necessary to spend time reading outside of VR?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To a degree, yeah.

  The laptop form factor is engineered with lid and palmrest assemblies, if you’re going to compare the two then you’ll want to add a nice keyboard to that iPad. Apple’s is $270.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Memory utilization is relative to the user though. For someone who wants to do nothing more than check their email and manage online banking, no specs matter

  Just because such a system would not be suitable for your use-case does not mean that it is not suitable for any use case.

  Repairing broken hinges on such a cheap laptop practically has to be a DIY repair. I get this exact repair inquiry every now and then, the owner often balks when the repair cost is more than 50% what they paid for the device. For these low-end laptops, I also find that parts are usually less available than those for most Apple devices. Apple tends to use certain part designs / assemblies for multiple generations. Apple stuff is consistent enough that there are plenty of used parts available aftermarket.

  Far as your repair scenario is concerned, I can only think of 2-3 times where a Mac came in with hinge related failure and those cases all stemmed from abuse like opening the lid too far / egregious mishandling. Meanwhile, I’ve bread lots of butter with HP laptops whose hinges break through regular operation.

  If something costs more to fix but only breaks 1% as often, are you really saving money by purchasing the cheaper solution with the higher fail rate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s more to a computer than RAM (or even ither specs), comparing what’s shown in the article to the low-cost option you linked the two systems are leagues apart in terms of build quality.

  Wouldn’t be surprised if the battery life was miles apart too.

  That cheap plastic HP laptop is destined to have its hinge mounts snap away from the upper palmrest through normal day-to-day use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dreams are just ai slop your brain forces you to watch.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when LLM/AI was fairly nascent in the public eye and largely relegated to image generation, I had a real off character come into my computer repair shop wanting to ask questions about it but not knowing what to call it.

  He wound up describing it as “you know, when they make the computers dream”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really the food dissolving the teeth.

  Bactria feed food remnants and product bacteria, mostly sugars, and product acid that dissolves tooth enamel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of MSPs have already been doing / selling this exact thing for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game have you been most patient for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played some tabletop in the past (10+ years ago) as a noob, never quite got super deep - it was mostly an activity to enjoy with friends.

  With the way my life is structured these days, I’d be a key contributor to “schedules & conflicts” and don’t want to burden a party with my inability to fully commit to a campaign.

  CRPGs give me the advantage of being able to start and stop whenever, short or long sessions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game have you been most patient for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3

  I have several unfinished RPGs and really don’t want this one to get added to the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AliExpress’ purchase protection is a total farce.

  In one case, I was shipped the wrong variant of an item and the seller was totally unresponsive. Submitted evidence, AliExpress closed the case saying that Tracking shows it was delivered. No way to appeal.

  In another case, I ordered something to my business and the Chinese courier service left the parcel out front on a public sidewalk. Naturally, the parcel was stolen. The courier service eventually admitted, in writing, that the delivery was mishandled and that the shipper was the only one who could file a claim. Once again, vendor unresponsive, AliExpress closes the case saying @Tracking shows delivered” with no way to appeal.

  Meanwhile, I had a $1,000 Amazon package get stolen the other week and they refunded it with minimal fuss. The return policy is so easy might as well be “try before you buy”. I can see why people have a hard time de-Amazoning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do Computer power supply issues look like?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  👋 Repair shop owner / operator here

  The two most common symptom manifestations of a defective power supply are abrupt shutdowns while in use or inability to power on whatsoever.

  We’ve had some edge case scenarios with weirder behaviors. In one case, power delivery to the GPU would randomly drop out which manifested as an abrupt cut to a blank screen, almost as though the GPU has been abruptly removed. In another case, a system would occasionally suffer an abrupt reboot when waking from sleep.

  Cases of BSODs, stuttering, or other instability diagnosed as the power supply have been few and far between, but they do exist.

  Fortunately, that hypothesis is pretty easy to test for. Power supplies aren’t terribly expensive, you can sit one next to an open chassis and satisfy its connections without completely installing it so it’s not a huge ordeal / time sink to isolate for a problem with that part.

  For the most part, stutters like you describe are often the result of corruption in the software environment, largely as a result of a defect in storage and memory (though, importantly, not always)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6

  It shuts down rumors that Bethesda will move to pure Unreal Engine for ES6, though I never believed that to be the case.

  I see the Oblivion remaster as a bit of a proof of concept of sorts - the potential to have the world, scripts, logic, and physics running on the Creation Engine that devs (and modders!) are intimately familiar with while running the visuals on a separate Unreal Engine layer.

  Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me, but then again this is the diluted Microsoft-era Bethesda we’re talking about so who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your thoughts on Reanimal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LN1 and LN2 were made by ThQNordic

  Both were made by Tarsier Studios, as is Reanimal. THQ Nordic is the parent company / publisher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DOA had a high - mid - low attack/defend/counter/hold system.

  A player who understands the core mechanics will have an easy time wrecking a button masher

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day, I bought some Fortnite VBucks to get a couple skins and emotes. It wasn’t really to “show off to others”, I was just tired of looking st the same starter character and all of the gameplay based aspects of the game are free so I figured “Why not”. I did the same in some F2P MMOs like Vindictus and Black Desert.

  In shooters, I usually don’t engage with skin mechanics because they are, in most cases, immersion breaking. I like my firearms black or maybe with some FDE furniture, I might do some cosmetic customization as long as it’s believable enough for the setting. Definitely not spending real money on any of that stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you so much for all that you do for this instance, and by extension the Fediverse at large! We all really appreciate you :)

  Disk space utilization is represented as a graph of percentage - if you don’t mind sharing, what is the actual storage footprint of this instance at this point in time? If applicable, how much of that is content native to Lemmy.zip versus cached content from other federated instances?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!

  It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.

  Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.

  Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  friends dont let friends use plex

  Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.

  storage is very cheap now

  In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  John Woo’s Max Payne