dangrousperson
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- Comment on Copper 2 days ago:
I think that would be a spot to connect a GPU to the heatsink as well
- Comment on Lies from the Bossman 2 days ago:
And added an extra n
- Comment on YouTube Premium Lite 1 week ago:
VacuumTube for anyone using a linux HTPC and wants a TV interface
I use it everyday and it works great 99% of the time and usually YouTube itself is to blame and the App gets an update a couple days later that fixes everything
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
according to steamDB 1000€ at lowest prices 1700€ at today’s prices over 16 years
kind of expected more
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
I know exactly what you mean, felt the same way for me. I’ve started using qwant recently and I feel like it has better results. Still not quite as good as google is at the moment and nowhere as good as google used to be, but at the rate google is enshittifying its only a matter of time until qwant is better.
- Comment on just no 2 weeks ago:
Its a pun that doesn’t translate well
Zu warm = too warm Zuwarmi sounds like tsunami in German
=> This isn’t a heat wave its a heat tsunami
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
nope, the full relativistic energy relation is:
E^2^ = m^2^ c^4^ + p^2^ c^2^
p is the momentum and for a (massive) particle at rest the momentum p=0, taking the square root if both sides you get the more familiar:
E = m c^2^
Now a photon (and any other massless particle) can’t be at rest, it is forced to always travel at the speed of light and since it is massless m=0 and the energy becomes (again taking the square root):
E = p c
When a particle has both mass and isn’t at rest (but not traveling anywhere close to the speed of light) the E = m c^2^ is much, much larger than the E = p c part (ignoring that a square root isn’t linear {Hello Dirac}). Because the speed of light c is such a a huge number that squaring it makes it even bigger. It is usually fair to say that mass is ‘equivalent’ to energy, but it isn’t strictly true and actually false for massless particles (or particles traveling close to the speed of light [velocity v~c] -> p=m v~m c -> E = pc ~ m c^2^ , which has close to c^2^ in it).
So photons have energy, not because they have mass (where massive particles have most of their energy), but because they have momentum (p).
You bring up the theoretical black hole from photons, which are called ‘Kugelblitz’ black holes, iirc. They (theoretically could) exist, not because photons have some sort if mass, but because Spacetime curves because of Energy, not mass. Again, for most regular objects, the vast majority of its energy comes from its mass and the momentum doesn’t play a huge role. But for photons all.the energy comes from its momentum, since it doesn’t have any mass.
Source: my bachelors degree in physics, I suppose.
- Comment on Go Green 8 months ago:
express
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Teaser Trailer | Tokyo Game Show 2025 9 months ago:
Judging from the past releases, I’m betting:
$60-70 (70-80€) Base Game $80-90 (90-100€) Deluxe Edition that includes like 20% of the total cars $100-120 (110-130€) Premium Edition that includes the Deluxe and future DLC
Plus some pre-order exclusive cars and cosmetics
- Comment on Doug Bowser Retiring From Nintendo, Successor Announced 9 months ago:
I’m not sure if they’re concerned with Saturo Shibata directly, it’s just that under Reggie, Nintendo of America pushed hard for stuff like free Wii Sports and cheaper prices (which worked great, making the Wii a huge success), while the Nintendo Japan was of the opinion that nothing should ever be given away for free.
Under Bowser, Nintendo of America fell in line behind Japan. Culminating in stuff like the welcome tour for the Nintendo Switch 2, something that us just a tech demo of the device you just spent $400+ on, costing $10.
Having Saturo Shibata as CEO, it seems this will get worse, not better, since Nintendo Japan is excerting more control over NoA.
- Comment on Directions 9 months ago:
the joke is that all lines of longitude meet at the poles. So everything is north of the south pole. There doesn’t exist a east, west, or south of the south pole
- Comment on Google sucks 9 months ago:
In Germany that would be the GT710 or GT730:
geizhals.de/?cat=gra16_512&pg=1&v=e&hloc=at&hloc=…
Just be advised that these came out in 2016 and were dog shit even then, but they are the cheapest. I’d say they’re not worth the 40+€ that is being asked for them, but you might find some cheapisch ones 2nd hand
- Comment on ‘Even after 20 years, I still cry’: the enduring brilliance of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 10 months ago:
not quite: Quality vs Performance Modes youtu.be/Am0ER7iW2lo
but it does struggle to hit those targets with performance mode often only getting 45ish FPS and drops into the 30s.
All Infos from the Digital Foundry Tech Review
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 11 months ago:
You found me! Yahaha
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 11 months ago:
These are cross-view, your probably using the focus at infinity trick instead.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 year 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 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 Almost made it 1 year ago:
Translation: Even if your bowels are ripping, never go break shitting.
I tried to keep the rhyme, even if the English translation isn’t grammaticaly correct.
- Comment on Marie Curie, such a drama queen 1 year ago:
It’s a religious faction of the Fallout Universe, who believe that radiation is devine
