artyom

@artyom@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying that the 50-60% lower framerate is with with 6x framegen on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump was as much the conservatives being smart as it was dems being stupid. Putting Joe and Kamala up were also profoundly stupid decisions. Like can we not find anyone <80 who doesn’t have a sordid history?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California homeowners offered up to $18,300 to turn EVs into backup power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was shocked when I saw 11, but then realized that 8 are basically all the same behemoth vehicle and 1 is discontinued, so I’d say it’s more like 3. Still I didn’t think there were any, so that’s pretty good, thanks.

  I hope this becomes a standard. Honestly it’s a damn shame that it isn’t already. People complain about EVs destabilizing the grid, and they’re not wrong, but only because they don’t have the necessary equipment to actually do the opposite (and also because all vehicles basically default to the max charge rate, which no one adjusts).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California homeowners offered up to $18,300 to turn EVs into backup power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which ones do v2h?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California homeowners offered up to $18,300 to turn EVs into backup power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its too bad no EVs support V2x?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are once again twisting my words, this time even directly misquoting me. I don’t know why. It’s really weird and rude and I’m not going to continue engaging with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one said it was “a horrible way to generate power”. I said it “doesn’t work great in many situations”, and yes, that also applies to solar, so thank you for backing up my argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That can be said for virtually all “smart” products. Technology is increasingly being weaponized against us, and no one seems to care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you realize that geothermal makes up ~1% of all HVAC systems? So you think 99% of people are just being FUDed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but that hot water in your house has to be heated*…* And if it’s not connected to your AC then there’s no way for the cold being created to get back into your house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you’d have to basically build the whole house around it. And I’m not sure about the feasibility of moving heat around to more than 2 devices…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Geothermal doesn’t really work great in many situations for a lot of different reasons. That’s why heat pumps exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I picture a world where everything in the house runs off a single heat pump, and heat gets diverted from your A/C into your water heater and clothes dryer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Politics of Cyberdecks: Why women around the world are building their own DIY computers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a long-ass article. Can anyone tl;dr why women, specifically, are building cyberdecks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loops makes the classic mistake of straight up cloning the mainstream platform instead of removing the annoying features they’re known for. I mean the whole concept of looping videos is itself annoying as shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t necessarily mind short form video. I do, however, loathe vertical videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone and OS Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in Europe, and I don’t find it very difficult to avoid overly evil shit

  Then learn from Americans. Because that “overly evil shit” flew in overnight. God knows Europe has its share of evil shit in history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone and OS Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t buy products from Google, Amazon, Musk, Zuckerberg, or anyone else who obviously want to do me harm

  So you live in a cabin in the woods?

  We probably have different priorities.

  Absolutely we do. I care more about privacy and security than I do about throwing a few bucks at Google’s hardware division.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone and OS Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they don’t run on huge profits from selling their devices you end up supporting their market dominance.

  This seems delusional. Google does not enjoy any hardware “market dominance”. They make up just over 1% of the hardware market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone and OS Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically I think it’s worth trying to avoid buying things from people who want to do you harm

  There is no option like that. The most ethical hardware option is probably Fairphone but they’re still ultimately selling you spy devices that will phone all your data back to Google, which is far more harmful than even throwing a couple bucks back at Google directly for hardware that will probably end up costing them more money than it makes them when you remove all their spyware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone and OS Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t buy a Google phone in pursuit of privacy, and I wouldn’t buy a Motorola one either.

  So you just don’t have a phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone and OS Recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am leaning towards an older Pixel and Graphene OS

  Its the only decision, in my opinion. I realize that’s a hot take but the alternative is running a malicious operating system that serves Google’s interests (and some of Samsung’s) and theyve both gone out of their way and continue to take malicious actions to make and keep it that way. And I have no respect for companies with such disdain for their own customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building Cocoon: An Interview with the Development Team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to hear more about ArmadaOS. Seems like the most exciting development in gaming right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cracked version of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC runs better than official release - Variable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good performance isn’t necessarily an “issue” in the sense of something that would be reported. It’s an issue in the sense of stuff being left on the table for the sake of greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Notably missing: the distance of the flight. Regardless, I don’t believe it. I think they’ve for some funny math going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The game also includes a mix of radio stations featuring human-made music and AI-generated music

  This is probably the wrong audience to ask but if you don’t give a shit at all about the quality of the music, why not just use royalty-free music? Isn’t that easier? And cheaper?

  I just don’t understand this shit at all. You’re Coca-Cola and spend $5 b-b-billion/year on advertising but you’re gonna skimp and save like $1k on paying a human to create quality content and instead just outsource it to shitty AI-generated images? WTF is happening?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So there will be some sort of punishment from Steam for lying about their game on the store, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I used Facebook I would use this GreasyFork script with the ViolentMonkey extension. That’s about as close as I ever got to a “clean” Facebook experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Admits GTA 6 Could Have Cost More Than $80, but Rockstar Chose Restraint and Overdelivered Value⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, Take-Two, notorious philanthropists in modern gaming.