Kaligalis
@Kaligalis@lemmy.world
- 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:
There definitely will be games which are just unplayable if you got no inference accelerator. The moment, AI generates the actual visuals, you either are able to do AI image gen at playable FPS - or you don’t. Those games can’t ship with an alternative renderer because the game needing no textures or shaders is the whole point of full AI rendering.
But if you don’t like AI, you will not miss out on anything. The first such games will probably be absolute dog shit anyway. - 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:
You mean the mining digging through the untouched grass into actual soil and rock to acquire raw minerals - right?
- 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:
Nvidia aims at games becoming fully AI-generated end-to-end including pixels, audio, and reasoning. So yeah: It’s meant to be AI all the way down.
Obviously, not all games will be pure AI. You can still buy hand-forged hardware for your house. You will always be able to find hand-made games. But the current AAA slop will just be fully AI generated.
People who love it now, will still love it then. People who don’t, will just keep playing indie like we do now. - 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:
Frame generation is for when you can play at native 60 FPS but want more. More native frames don’t give you less noticeable input lag. But more (fake) frames still feel smoother. That’s the sweet spot for frame gen: playing at 120 FPS when your card can only do a little more than 60 FPS native (some native frames are sacrificed to the AI gods to get the fake frames to interleave with the real ones).
The advertising is ridiculous though. - 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:
The crypto mess isn’t Nvidia’s fault. The biggest crypto coin wasn’t even mined on GPUs anymore when the cryptocalypse happened and GPUs got literally unaffordable and unobtainable for a few years. The Ethereum devs made their mining algorithm require lots of VRAM in an attempt to make their blockchain more democratic because ASIC miners would not work as well. This backfired by suddenly making gamer GPUs the sweet spot for mining Ethereum. Nvidia profited a lot. But the Ethereum devs are actually to blame. They fucked this up hard and then dragged out the algorithm switch to from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake for years. After Ethereum switched to PoS, GPU prices were recovering slowly - until the AI rush started.
The RAMpocalypse literally has been caused by Sam Altman buying the (western) world’s RAM production without even being able to put it anywhere. This is basically venture capital ruining it for everyone.
Nvidia is a big player and their intel-style market segmentation sucks. But they actually make produce GPUs. The real fuckery is venture capitalists enabling OpenAI’s CEO to ruin the tech market for everyone.Capitalism has an Epstein class problem. Without those CEOs, the RAMpocalypse hadn’t happened. Nvidia couldn’t sell GPUs which have no place to actually get installed in. The AI company financing circle jerk had been busted by the US government.
The current mess is literally the democrats fault. They could have done proper politics instead of their abstruse post-woke shit. Trump had never won. Musk had not gutted governmental oversight (there wasn’t much, but it at least existed).
Fucking democrats wasting their power to do irrelevant shit to nag the rednecks into voting Trump instead of doing literally anything else. - 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:
That sums it pretty much up perfectly.
The overwhelming majority loves DLSS. Until recently, the discussion of Nvidia vs. AMD boiled pretty much down to AMD’s FSR not being on par with DLSS. People legit didn’t buy AMD because AMD had worse AI upscaling.I like that I can actually use FSR on my 9070 XT to get the notoriously performance-hungry 7 Days To Die to look good and run smooth at 2160p60.
I like that I can just download AI models from Hugging Face and run them locally (cloud AI helped me get the finicky tools installed properly).
My gripe with AI is that I can’t get more than 16 GiB VRAM on an affordable GPU with good AI inference performance. Without the artificial market segmentation, the 9070 XT would have 32 GiB VRAM. I bought mine in the summer dip last year - just before the RAMpocalypse started.
I would definitely slot a cheap Chinese 32 GiB inference accelerator with good FOSS support next to my gaming GPU if there was one. I probably will do so in a few years when China ramped up a massively overbuilt chip sector guaranteeing their independence from western markets fast - and then flooding the global market with the surplus after their own market is saturated.I play on Gentoo btw.
- 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:
Measure it when it’s out. Stop clucking and cackling about unlaid eggs.
The launch most likely will not be flawless. You will get your opportunity to some feathers when the damn chicken finally comes to roost. - Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 3 weeks ago:
It already has - Heroic works just fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thief 4 and Gothic 4.
- Comment on Bethesda unveils new logo 5 weeks ago:
It matches their overall nostalgia farming corporate strategy. Looks very retro. Maybe it can get some to buy yet another version of Skyrim.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 1 month ago:
Don’t use consoles and never preorder. Only buy the good stuff when you actually know it’s good on the shop with the best return policy (which is GOG if the game is available there).
I play on Gentoo btw. - Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 1 month ago:
I hate Nintendo too. But they are not wrong in this case. Unstable politically motivated trade conditions raise prices.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 1 month ago:
Hollywood is fully integrated into the military-industrial complex. Inflicting disproportional damage on the population of whoever the enemy is is how The Great US Empire wages war. So that is what the population at home is meant to support. So that is what is shown to the young, easy to influence generations.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 month ago:
Definitely not. China has a massive population and they love him.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 2 months ago:
None because I don’t buy games with unbroken DRM (including the need for corporate-run servers) and therefore can always get 'em all back via piracy.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 2 months ago:
So you say, that the US has the purest capitalism while everyone else has diluted it with some soviet communism?
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 2 months ago:
People fuck children. The US has a president who intimately knows a lot of people who literally fuck children.
Fucking children is socially acceptable right now if you are part of the right circle.
But there are also a lot of people who fuck children without knowing the US president or the (conveniently deceased) Jeffrey Epstein. They aren’t in that circle and for them, it’s not socially acceptable to fuck children. Yet they still do it.
When the human sex drive is opposed by social norms, usually the sex drive wins one way or the other. Most people with forbidden fetishes are able to satisfy the drive without actually using the real thing. But there were always some for whom that didn’t work.I am pretty sure, slave owners were able to come up with some excuse for fucking their slaves after their horniness raised high enough over the years. And when post-nut clarity set in, they confessed to a priest and were forgiven by god - so it was all fine anyway.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 months ago:
The sort-of not really but they will tell that it is one to the government for NSFW content is just ass covering. Can’t really blame them for not wanting their business getting closed by some lunatics who happen to be in power.
Auto-translation is a feature the author can use (but I do have an extension for translating marked text too, because translation is actually a pretty useful feature to have in general).
For me on desktop, the UI is okay. But yeah, it probably sucks on mobile. UI generally tends to suck on mobile. - Comment on *laughs nervously* 2 months ago:
The subscriptions which are actually still hard to avoid are: for a lot of people rent, for Muricans healthcare, power, water, trash, Internet. Parents get a few more and personal liability insurance is also a good idea (but also relatively cheap for most people). The other subscriptions are luxury and easy to just not have.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 2 months ago:
Do you have a dog that provably can do all those things just fine and is really obedient? From their point of view, those fascists had dogs which had human abilities, had the intelligence of a human, and were even more obedient than the four-legged dogs. People absolutely will have their robomaid double as a nanny. And the robomaid will also help the kids do their homework while refusing to just give them the solutions. Humans in general really love to not have to do stuff themselves.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 months ago:
Reddit is a bad example because it’s still readable without an account and almost uncensored outside politics. You can also still query Reddit explicitly reasonably fine by adding “Reddit” to your search in DuckDuckGo or Google.
Reddit’s enshittification is in the optional buyable reactions (which make posts and comments way more visible than voting is able to), their automated moderation, and making automated moderation for sub mods harder.
Using it as a library is what didn’t get enshittified. - Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 2 months ago:
North Korea would likely not be a worse place than China or the US if their economy wasn’t shit. And a lot of that is literally just The Great US Empire (and its vassals) restricting global trade by gunboat politics since the end of WW2. Cuba has the same problem: Immense evolutionary pressure to harden their government against US-caused regime change followed by total exploitation.
- Comment on Bought it on the Steam Summer Sale 2 months ago:
Nah, this is fake. The packaging is too big for the real Steam Machine.
- Comment on Bought it on the Steam Summer Sale 2 months ago:
Some people know how to test equipment before first use.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 months ago:
The “you are replaceable” thing is older than everyone currently alive. It hasn’t been invented by the AI tech bros.
Also, the library is still out there. You still can ignore the rent-seeking middle men and use it directly with your own natural neural network. - Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 2 months ago:
They sort-of have to pretend to be just funny because otherwise they get banned for bible belt reasons. They are easy to avoid, so I don’t care about them existing. It’s not the content I need uBlock Origin or SponsorBlock for to get it out of my face.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
It was always a bit more expensive to insist on arbitrary counter-intuitive requirements like an arbitrarily tiny non-standard form factor.
There really is no actual benefit of that thing being that tiny. Obviously, there is space for a massive TV. That TV isn’t sitting on the floor. Logically there is a lot of space below that TV. Just put a desktop PC there.
And people actually had office-desktop-PC-sized VCRs in their media racks below their CRT TVs for a long time. There was space for that. And the classic HIFI towers which dominated living rooms two to three decades ago are massive compared to a desktop PC.Handhelds are obviously a very different thing. It makes sense for them to be Steam-Deck-sized. The form factor actually makes sense for a mobile gaming device. It’s just the stationary mini PCs where the form factor is just the pain without any actual gain.
- Comment on Spoilers 2 months ago:
Grats to the kid. It developed the ability for critical thinking early. Time to admit the lie and stop using fairy tales as a tool.
The next developmental step might make giving money for teeth a really cursed incentive btw. So disconnecting the reward from the loss of teeth is probably a good idea. Just increase the weekly allowance accordingly to not make it look like discoveries are punished. - Comment on Spoilers 2 months ago:
The problem with doubling down as a habit is that the child’s brain will mature more and eventually notice the lie. And then you did actual habitual betraying gaslighting instead of just the usual fairy tales to calm a child. Admit and acknowledge the child’s mental development.
Parents start with having the full trust of their children. And there is quite the leeway before puberty hits. But trust once lost might never be fully regained. There is a real risk of creating serious trust issues. - Comment on Spoilers 2 months ago:
The cold truth being that humans in general are a really bad source for facts. They lie to protect. They lie to save face. They lie because they don’t like the truth. And they accidentally lie because they don’t know better. No one can be trusted in this world. You have to fact-check everything. And we didn’t even have the internet back then.