merthyr1831
@merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 1 week ago:
Nvidia is just doing what every monopoly does, and AMD is just playing into it like they did on CPUs with Intel. They’ll keep competing for price performance for a few years then drop something that drops them back on top (or at least near it).
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 1 week ago:
yup. though if the laws of physics change then that also means the laws of physics holding your atoms together are gonna be blended up into a soup at the very least
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
What sorta stuff do you play? I built an i5 2500k system a couple years back (2020-ish) and it struggled a fair bit, but was on the cusp of 1080p60 in the few games I tested like Fortnite, f1-2019, Warzone etc.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
if you had a top of the line pc in 2014 you’d be talking about a 290x/970/980 which would probably work really well for most games now.
A lot of the trending tech inflating minimum requirements nowadays are stuff like raytracing (99% of games don’t even need it) and higher FPS/resolution monitors that aren’t that relevant if you’re still pushing 1080p/60.
Hell, most games that push the envelope of minimum specs like Indiana Jones are IMO just unoptimised messes built on UE5 than legitimately out of scope of hardware from the last decade. Stuff like Ninite hasn’t delivered in enabling photorealistic asset optimisation but HAS enabled studios to cut back on artist labour in favour of throwing money at marketing.
- Comment on FearNoPeer open for signups for the next 1-5 days! 4 weeks ago:
I’m a bit busy to add trackers but +1 for this community. gonna sub!
- Comment on Firaxis reveal Sid Meier's Civilization VII system requirements for Linux 4 weeks ago:
Min requirements aren’t too bad. Might get a solid 30fps with the Steamdeck.
- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 4 weeks ago:
once got interviewed by a guy who used to be lead dev on the classic F1 games (pre EA) and nowadays he just runs a team that makes horse racing simulations for casinos.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There’s probably more at play, but the govt is willing to back companies offering loans to cover higher and higher tuition costs, so said companies haven’t got to worry if the loans default or don’t return the full amount - it’s about setting an exorbitant “graduate tax” to keep a permanent stream of guaranteed income for as long as possible.
Higher loans means more repayments, and more money for universities, so they both raise tuition higher and higher to meet the limits of students. as long as banks or govt don’t ever ask for their loans back (which they won’t because it’ll collapse the whole system and possibly the economy with it) the price can inflate at much at it likes.
the same is at play in the UK, only we have “tuition caps” that every university course sets their prices to because there is simply no benefit to charging less, and no downside to charging more. Everyone can get a loan, no one is denied, and the government backs this process because it is essentially being held at ransom.
I know I turned it into a rant about UK education but the financial systems feel very similar. There’s simply too much money held up in a make believe cycle of IOUs that would immediately collapse a huge chunk of the American system if anyone willingly let it pop.
The only problem with this is that eventually it might just pop on its own, and no one will be ready.
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 4 weeks ago:
web Devs aren’t ignorant to optimizing but the kind of interfaces used in web are very different to that of desktop. Cross platform technologies can work, but anything built on top of web engines is going to be a little dogshit on native platforms.
Web tech was designed around the asynchronous and comparatively slow nature of the network. Now, those same layout and rendering engines are being shoehorned into an environment where the “server” is your local disk so it’s suddenly doing a bunch of work that was intended to be done iteratively.
Same goes the other way of course. Software designed for “native first” experiences like Flutter aren’t as popular in web dev because they work on that same, but reversed, assumption of a local disk being your source.
It would be like wondering why physical game disks aren’t popular on PC - it’s a fundamentally different technology for fundamentally different expectations and needs.
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 4 weeks ago:
I know people complain about Nvidia and Linux but one of the best parts of my experience with it was never having to deal with GFE. Just a bunch of project managers trying to make themselves useful by shovelling needless slop into your GPU driver.
- Comment on The gods are with Anon 5 weeks ago:
anon invents religion
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 5 weeks ago:
So 90% of “AI” brands
- Comment on Itch.io back online 5 weeks ago:
Mauritius won’t get the rights to .io, it’s already held by a British corporation. Unless there’s some kind of change since then.
- Comment on Itch.io back online 5 weeks ago:
The top-level domains for the soviet union still exist, so io isn’t gonna go, especially since it’s so popular
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 5 weeks ago:
IP and copyright laws have been the bane of the internet. Not only stifling fair use but it has become nothing but weaponised for corporate warfare. the DMCA isn’t fit for purpose.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 month ago:
both are parasites.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 month ago:
A few adjustments to his policies may be necessary
- Comment on 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action 1 month ago:
lol nice try NZXT
- Comment on alpha 1 month ago:
so I was in the UK’s largest chain bookstore (Waterstones) on Saturday and I found a phrenology cat
- Comment on On Wednesdays we wear pink. 1 month ago:
watching mean girls right now lmao
- Comment on First UK arrest made over filming of women on nights out without consent 1 month ago:
arrest
not to be doomer but I’m not interested unless they bring charges. arrests aren’t even permanently recorded unless you accept an official warning.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 1 month ago:
all this to protect people from pirating buggy slop that’ll be notoriously broken on day one.
- Comment on Why are mental health patients strip searched in mental hospitals here in the USA? 1 month ago:
because mental health institutions are prisons
- Comment on What are the best games you can play on a laptop? 1 month ago:
You can get a lot of games running well for that. Almost every 2D game will run great, and a bunch of 3D titles too.
I picked up Parking Garage Rally Circuit in the sales yesterday because I’ve followed the dev on tiktok and it’s quite fun. A dreamcast-style time trial game!
- Comment on PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more 1 month ago:
some vague crypto bullshit iirc. I’d stick to Bazzite or something else that’s reputable for now.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 1 month ago:
worm 2 has gone into a murderous rage, and will kill anyone he sees
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 1 month ago:
they should eat one, or place it in their ear canal :)
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 1 month ago:
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 1 month ago:
I used to work at KFC and it was someone’s job every day to sort through the ‘on the bone’ chicken (stuff you get in buckets) to throw out broken bones, giblets, feathers etc.
Firstly, only this kind of chicken came from the UK. The rest is from mainland Europe before being marinated and shipped, which seemed unnecessarily inefficient.
Secondly, good god is the state of the chicken you get horrifying. I kid you not it set me towards becoming vegan. But compared to the chicken you get in a supermarket (say, an Asdas roast chicken) it is scrawny, frail, and so easily broken and poorly cleaned. The breading and frying process makes it look way more “full”.
Between farmers and businesses these birds are a source of untold horror AND a vector of our next potential pandemic, whether it be H5N1 or something else. Not even before we consider the totally unsustainable nature of farming poultry both ecologically and economically.
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 1 month ago:
idk if kinda looks cozy in there