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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage (Xbox360)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not 100 % sure how it exactly works, but I think Microsoft recompiles/translates the games and you then download the changed binary instead of playing off your disc (which is also why texture streaming should be a lot faster).

  This is most likely a process that’s automated for the most part though. And I highly doubt it’s recompiled from source, that’s why I called it “translated”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage (Xbox360)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Games using the id tech engine were often affected by visible texture pop in, and apparently the PS3 version was affected more than the 360 version, but the latter still was noticeably affected. Rage uses id tech 5, but I remember playing BRINK (id tech 4) on PS3 which had no mandatory install (it ran from the disc without installing anything to the HDD upfront), but used the HDD extensively for caching texture data. After I upgraded from the standard 5400 rpm HDD to a 7200 rpm HDD I remember texture pop-in was noticeably reduced.

  Xbox 360 emulation on Xbox One or Series isn’t really accurately emulating the hardware, instead it translates the original code to something the One and Series understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Clothing (or other things, clothing was just an example) does get you excluded from a group. The only reason a bully would want to “include” the bullied person in their group is so they can bully them more.

  I agree that they could open up iMessage to competitors with relative ease and that this would be a good move. Not because it would seriously stop bullying, but because it would make it a little bit easier to find a common messenger to use (we don’t really have that problem in my home country, as most people use WhatsApp, which is multi platform).

  What I’d hate is if Apple removed all indicators that what I’m sending or what I already sent is an SMS/RCS message instead of an iMessage. It shows me what features work for that particular conversation, and if I’m roaming in a region where sending SMS is not free, I want to know when I’m about to send one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt the bullying would be any different if it was a beautiful red (or whatever is considered a pretty chat bubble) instead.

  And even if it was a blue bubble, the bullies would find another reason to bully someone.

  I get the peer pressure part and sure Apple might be exploiting that in America, but in the past it was clothing brands or whatever it is now. Making the bubbles the same color (or even bringing iMessage over to Android completely) would get rid of a single symptom, not of the root cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how many people wanted RCS on iOS in order to be compatible with Android, while large parts of Google’s implementation of RCS in Android is proprietary as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, and I couldn’t care less. I think a visual indicator that tells me “hey, this is an iMessage” or “hey, this is an SMS/RCS message” is a very good thing to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very reasonable take. Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be so sure. I feel like many people would not buy another MacBook if it were to feel a lot slower after just a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN by Google One shuts down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually have it installed. Great maps app, but it doesn’t have turn-by-turn navigation as far as I’m aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN by Google One shuts down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Google Maps was a great app and service, it had decent navigation and always a lot of information on a lot of places. Nowadays it’s cluttered with features including a “news feed” with social network-like posts made by people on places in the area.

  On iOS devices I can highly recommend Apple Maps nowadays. They completely overhauled their maps a few years ago and I got great results navigating with it. The app isn’t bloated, it’s fast, the map material looks great and their version of Street View is a lot more sophisticated.

  For strictly navigating you can also check out TomTom AmiGO. It’s a free variant of TomTom’s navigational system. I wouldn’t really use it outside of car navigation though.

  I used to use Sygic a few years back, but they switched to a subscription model and keep nagging existing “lifetime” buyers to subscribe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN by Google One shuts down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  May as well call it “Google Drive Storage Plans” again then? Aside from some dysfunctional AI features that’s pretty much the only thing you get, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN by Google One shuts down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people will use whatever the default on their device is. Most phones that aren’t iPhones come with Google apps and services set as default.

  The only Google services I still use are YouTube and in rare cases Google Maps. But if YouTube continues to enshittify I’ll stop using that. I’ve been using Google Maps mainly to get information about places to eat/sleep in cities, not really for navigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MicroJournal is a distraction-free writing tool with Cherry MX hot-swap keys - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So a Planck-like ortho keyboard with a miniscule screen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Going by train in some countries is a huge pain in the butt though (Germany for example).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly agree with your statement. If you want people to switch to alternatives, the alternative needs to be better than the status quo in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying they shouldn’t rent a car for these occasions, I’m just saying that’s probably the reason why hybrids are more popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People still go on holiday once or twice a year, snd many travel by car and always prefer their own car over rental. A 100 mile range EV being good for 95% of your use cases doesn’t help you much with the other 5%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, okay. I personally still wouldn’t trust them with anything, as they’re clearly willing to go as far as they possibly can.

  I understand that in the corporate world, switching away from Adobe isn’t as easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well change your fucking ToS back you rats!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays | TechSpot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s just a worse Analogue Pocket for almost the same price…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Let’s not forget that pedophilia is a mental disorder. I’d assume that many people with pedophilia don’t become offenders, but I think that the number of offenders could be much lower still if these people got proper help and treatment before they ever commit a crime.

  Sure, if these people actually commit crimes or if they’re about to, we have to make sure they’re physically unable to get anywhere near children. But I feel like in most circles if someone were to come out and admit they have this mental disorder, they’ll be frowned upon, probably lose all their “friends” and not get any help. On the internet, it’s far worse than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And stop charging a “Core Technology Fee”. And allow JIT compiling for non-browsers so emulators for newer systems can perform well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes a lot of sense for non-gaming tasks. Text looks great and non-fractional scaling makes a big difference. Try it for yourself, there are several non-“gaming” (60 Hz) 27" 5KUHD monitors out there. And remember just because you can’t notice a difference doesn’t mean no one can.

  And for gaming: most GPUs can’t drive most games at native 4KUHD. Some form of temporal upscaling (DLSS, XeSS, FSR, TAA etc.) is usually required anyway, and whether you’re upscaling to 4KUHD or 5KUHD from the same internal resolution doesn’t have a big performance impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the fact that QDOLED seems to always have shiny panels. I get that it lets the colors pop more and whatever, but I’m not sitting in a dark room. It’s usually well-lit, and no I don’t want to change that. I enjoy the sun shining and I also enjoy some artificial lighting in the afternoon.

  So it seems it’s WOLED what I’m looking for, which seems to have matte/diffusing panels mostly.

  Fullscreen brightness on either QDOLED or WOLED seems to be pretty meh at best though.

  What I also don’t like, even though this isn’t exclusive to OLED monitors, is the missing continuity in resolution coming from a 27" 2560x1440 monitor, which has been a standard for many years. Most 4KUHD “gaming” displays are around 31.5" so if you’d want to get the same amount of real estate per physical inch you’d have to set scaling to 1.2-1.25x. Fractional scaling can already look bad at 1.5x, so this is a mess.

  In an ideal world (or in my ideal world at least) there’d be “5K” (5120x2880) 27" panels as standard (I know they exist, but not as high refresh rate panels), so you could replace your 2560x1440 27", use non-fractional 2x scaling and have content at the exact same size as before. Larger panels could still exist, but they’d be closer to a “6K” resolution with the exact same pixel density.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that this ad implies the (new) iPad can replace all the other stuff that got crushed, I just don’t get how this can be so upsetting to people: it’s an ad for a product. Don’t like it, don’t buy it. Apple is hardly going to destroy the market for all the stuff that got crushed.

  I can disagree with something and still not be offended or upset by it. As I said, sometimes I feel like some people want to be offended/upset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people care too much about an ad. I guess some people can’t live without at least a single controversy per day.

  You could probably take any ad and argue why it’s offensive to some people in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the USP of Deezer over Apple Music now that the latter has lossless streaming as well (and live lyrics for longer)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d have to redesign their SoCs. The memory chips are right next to the SoC with the M chips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces M4 chip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …because it tends to enhance visuals?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can opt out by simply not buying one :)