LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Upscaling is actually good (as an option) 10 hours ago:
Meh, I’d rather play at lower settings than upscale. DLSS just looks like muck and the rest of them are indistinguishable from normal resolution. I don’t know any game my RTX 3090 can’t crush GPU wise at 1440p at decent settings. I even turned off path tracing in 2077 because I didn’t want to ever use DLSS.
But there is one situation where I support the brainrot and that’s on portables. Steam Deck did the right thing by having a nice OLED 1280x800 16:10 screen instead of chasing resolution, it looks great, but if they do up it as most g*mers seem to want them to for mostly nonsensical reasons, FSR could work there, and something like DL DSR could help for games with small details if they go for an 800p screen again.
One thing I won’t miss for sure is TAA, fuck TAA so much all my homies hate that shit. DLAA is at least better but never forget they took SMAA and MSAA away from you for this absurd world where consoles advertised themselves as 4k, 8k while they run games at barely 720p via checkerboarding and what have you.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 10 hours ago:
Play the xbla version via Xenia with mouse support and you’ll love it more than you ever did.
- Comment on The cunts who spoil podcast episodes in the comments 1 day ago:
Please get your podcasts off my fucking Spotify. Go fall for your ad-driven MLM bleach supplement only 5G diet scams somewhere where it doesn’t shit up the UI for people who just wanna listen to some music. K.thx.bye.
- Comment on Walter 1 day ago:
The username cracked me up
- Comment on I've done it again... 4 days ago:
Lucky. For me it’s either spend more money to eat beef or pork with every meal or just cope with always feeling low-key hungry.
- Comment on I've done it again... 4 days ago:
Yeah only proteins make me feel full, unless there’s meat involved I generally don’t consider it a meal. Carbs and veggies do not make me full at all and I never crave them, they’re only there to give me variety and make me feel civilized while I consume meat. I never really crave sugar either.
P.S. I’m not one of those “meat diet” whackjobs and I have nothing against vegetarians or vegans or animals but this has just been my experience entirely.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
Then why does it look like dogshit?
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
My parents barely know how to use a computer at all, but they’re old and don’t have internet. They mostly just watch their own DVD movie collections or tune in to movies on DVDs.
I did teach my dad to find news on YT instead of TV (they are Russian, I’d rather they listen to Meduza than Putinist propaganda channels).
I honestly dunno what content requires live transmission apart from livestreams? I didn’t just mean twitch btw I meant sports games etc. None of those require a very high bitrate or quality etc.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
Also rights holders dont want you to have an offline copy if they can avoid it, that way its easier to monetize for them.
Well ain’t that a shame. I’ll weep for them I swear.
Not all content can be downloaded,
Like livestreams? That being the exception but most ‘content’ isn’t live.
and for many people they want to watch what they want to watch right now, and waiting for the download is not something they are interested in.
Bet they use YouTube through the home page and use algorithmic feeds and/or corporate social media. Some people are animals and it can’t be helped. That doesn’t mean the rest of us must suffer.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
Why not download? Streaming is always going to be dogshit quality unless we find something faster than light.
- Comment on Remember when things were slightly less bad? The good ole days... 1 week ago:
The collective delusions have been there since 2015, not a COVID thing really. In 2020 there was hope that a lot of this would just pass. Can’t argue with the rest though, I’m sorry you had it rough.
- Comment on Remember when things were slightly less bad? The good ole days... 1 week ago:
COVID was pretty good times in retrospect, as long as you didn’t get sick, laid off or died.
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 1 week ago:
Why not link those posts?
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 1 week ago:
Yes I know that community exists, but I was asking more specifically if there was an inviting incident if some sort.
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 1 week ago:
Yikes. At least he got banned finally but it’s concerning people could sign up while underage. All underage should be b& and v& ngl.
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 2 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 2 weeks ago:
This makes me wonder what the fuck they must put in US Domino’s because in the UK it’s considered perfectly decent pizza, usually quite a bit more expensive than the crappy dodgy pizza shops about and it most certainly doesn’t give you heartburn nor any other health issues. It must be one of those high fructose corn syrup soda type things, tried it once and it fucked up my stomach for days, us mtn dew is actual swill.
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 2 weeks ago:
That hasn’t been a thing in years, I regularly pay less than a quid by contactless, using my debit card with google pay. How else would you even pay for the bus or train?
- Comment on Did sites end up making money from API restrictions? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, marketing analytics software dev company I work for paid up. As far as I know so did our competition, the data is simply far too valuable, there’s no substitute there.
Honestly pretty sure not many people used 3rd party apps to begin with so I don’t think it was to do with any of that like the other strangely confident commenters seem to imply.
- Comment on Whats the most downvoted comment/post on lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Same, the irrational hatred of AI some peeps have is just crazy
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 4 weeks ago:
Last time I had this was with Tyler’s IGOR vinyl I got in 2019 or so that had the extra track “Boyfriend” that wasn’t on Spotify, but I think it has since been released on tidal or some other obscure music service by niw.
Quickly became my fav track off the album too.
- Comment on In a hypothetical revolution who would secure the resistances comms? 4 weeks ago:
This is correct, but that said if you’re doing anything Donnie don’t like, especially something you’ll likely be investigated for, your position can be actively tracked via cell towers, and software backdoors will happily record and transmit your GPS position over the internet, even disabling all this stuff you can never really know for sure, so keep that phone off.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 5 weeks ago:
Lmao there are so many ppl on Lemmy who unironically think like this. Let culture grow wild and fuck the profits.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 5 weeks ago:
But there’s a difference between a curated selection of books
Look up a listicle? Da-doink
in physical form in front of you
Fair, but that shit ain’t cheap.
and deciding to read a book on an electronic device.
If the book is good you’ll read it however you can. I once read the entirety of the Berserk manga at my desktop PC in a shitty wooden chair.
The former dissuades the reader-to-be from abandoning the idea over too wide a selection
This is pure pop psychological speculation.
other electronic distractions from asserting themselves over the reading material - I refer here to notifications that flash over the current window.
Turn them off?
Plus, there’s plenty of people who choose not to read, despite the option being available.
And so there were before phones. A lack of curiosity wasn’t invented in 2008, even if it may feel like it if that’s when you were born.
However - wider availability has almost always increased literacy other factors non-withstanding, from the printing press to the digital media of today.
Having the option physically there in front of you is far more encouraging, in my opinion.
I fully disagree. If anything - it’s about meeting people where they’re at, and today - people are on their phones.
And once they start reading, they might go on
Indeed, and you’re not gonna get them to start by making them go to a library like some nerd, but by getting them to be interested via the places they’re already at.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 1 month ago:
I’m also neurodivergent. I actually had a library with access to infinite books, it’s called a telephone and/or laptop and the internet, where all books are free and easily accessible.
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 month ago:
He’s using windows.
But while we’re on the subject, ~/.local/share is cancer and shouldn’t exist.
The appropriate path is /usr/share.
I have a Cron job that will erase anything written to that folder, and if that breaks your shitty software then I’ll assume your shitty software doesn’t work and I’ll also spam issues about it until you fix it or find a different career doing something productive, like cooking McRibs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
How wonderful, another AI thread on .world, a feast for my blocklist.
The block button hungers for the luddite with no basic reasoning skills.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 1 month ago:
Was obvious to anyone. Nothing wrong with phones except isolating outcasts, neuroduvergents and minorities from the world and forcing them with no escape to suffer the bullying from their teachers and class etc.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 1 month ago:
The latter.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
2025 is deemed the year of layoffs
Wasn’t 2024 the year of layoffs? Didnt like half a million people get laid off per layoffs.fyi? And workforce reductions have been ongoing since 2020.