kadu
@kadu@lemmy.world
Biology, gaming handhelds, meditation and copious amounts of caffeine.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 1 month ago:
It is just adapting to the changes.
Increasing fitness in one’s environment is an upgrade. Being smaller or bigger, by itself, is not an upgrade nor a downgrade, it depends on context.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 1 month ago:
The issue is precisely in your mix up of “linear progression” and implying “smaller” is somehow a counter argument to that. While it’s true evolution isn’t linear, being smaller is not a downgrade at all.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 months ago:
This title is also misleading, though. By claiming “evolution isn’t linear” and then showing a massive dinosaur leading to a chicken, you’re suggesting the chicken is a downgrade (otherwise, what “linear” would even mean in this context?).
The chicken is, however, a massive upgrade - for the specific environment it lived in. Well, “proto-chickens”, let’s say. The actual domesticated chicken is the result of artificial selection.
- Comment on MineClone2, inspired by Minecraft, gets renamed to VoxeLibre 2 months ago:
The download .zip is still called “mineclone2_22662.zip”
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 2 months ago:
Thanks for the very kind comment. Happy to hear you’re enjoying Yuzu :)
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 2 months ago:
You correct in the statement Ryujinx aims for accuracy and does not implement certain performance workarounds Yuzu did. However, your comment is exaggerated. Even Ryujinx isn’t a cycle accurate emulator, nowhere close.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 2 months ago:
I’ll reinforce my comment from months ago: I have the latest version of Yuzu, the keys, the firmware, the Linux and Windows versions, and links to ROM sites, and I’ll distribute them forever to whoever asks in my DMs. I packaged them in a simple .zip with easy to follow instructions.
That said, why simply not use Ryujinx? Even on the Steam Deck performance is very good nowadays. Super Mario Wonder plays at 60 FPS on the Deck (though you need to enable a very simple mod that disables some weird function the game runs, otherwise it drops to 30 FPS all the time). In fact, for AMD GPUs, you’re doing yourself a huge favor by going Ryujinx over Yuzu and derivatives.
Ryujinx is solid, accurate and well known, it’s a trusted emulator. The Yuzu forks are unknown, managed by non experienced people (one was quite literally created by a teenager with zero coding knowledge) and extremely ephemeral.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 2 months ago:
I mean, that’s what all Steam Deck competitors really are. They’re windows with atrocious launchers on top, some of which acceptable and some very buggy, plus a literal standard AMD APU that AMD is selling by the bucket, and half of them share board designs sold by Chinese suppliers pretty much ready made.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 2 months ago:
It’s totally possible if they subsidize hardware costs and sell a PC with a fancy frontend and small form factor.
It’s completely impossible if they’re looking for custom hardware.
- Comment on Fallout 4 is getting a fresh update and will be Steam Deck Verified 2 months ago:
They’re 100% adding more paid mod stuff, aren’t they?
- Comment on Apple will start allowing emulators on the iOS App Store 2 months ago:
but requires you to be connected to the same network as a computer running altstore.
So you mean iOS doesn’t natively support JIT for App Store apps and require hacky workarounds?
- Comment on Apple will start allowing emulators on the iOS App Store 2 months ago:
Do we know if these emulators will support JIT? JIT has always been prohibited on iOS (which is why there are no browsers other than Safari - Firefox and Chrome on iOS are just a Safari WebView plus a crappy interface on top).
Even when sideloading emulators, you only get JIT by paying for a special developer license or using exploits on very specific iOS versions.
Without JIT, sure, go nuts emulating the NES… But forget about anything more demanding than a GameCube, or using this to run a VM or something.
- Comment on Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites 2 months ago:
Huh… I’m not sure. Retro Dodo is got nice enough YouTube videos, but their written content could be summarized as:
“Reviews” for devices that didn’t come out yet, with extremely generic predictions and very little content.
“Top games” lists or other low effort retro gaming content, some of which was borderline AI generated given the whole “Super Mario is a classic that all gamers must play, move Mario and jump to excite your day”
And reviews for actual products that came out, though often suspiciously positive and unaware of issues other reviews had caught.
Which ultimately is going to get interpreted by Google as low effort content farming, which is indeed how Google should interpret it, as it’s correct.
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 2 months ago:
First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 2 months ago:
Sumatra is fantastic for reading PDFs, but it can’t edit them. In that case I recommend PDF Gear.
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 2 months ago:
I don’t touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.
- Comment on This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser 2 months ago:
You’d be surprised at what the custom ROM communities manage to achieve. The Galaxy S3 (not 23, I really mean S3) can run Android 11 or 12.
- Comment on This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser 2 months ago:
Today I’ll update my Chrome version in my 2013 media box desktop running Debian in honour of your terribly written comment!
- Comment on Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade 2 months ago:
I’m not surprised that something carrying the Pokémon brand is somehow both extremely lucrative but also unwilling to dedicate the minimal effort necessary to add obvious features
- Comment on It's not enough to touch grass 2 months ago:
Imagine you have a large circular area of native forest. All the populations living there are essentially homogenous, some species might form small groups but overall they can all interact directly, share the same resources, and mix genetic information.
Now humans come in, and instead of one continuous piece of land, you have segments of native forest surrounded by roads or semi-urban pathways. You can then imagine the populations as segmented bubbles.
This model of bubbles of native land surrounded by human landmarks is a tool ecology can use to predict how populations develop and interact. There are a lot of different permutations depending on size, biome, types of obstacles, and so on. But one of the most basic analysis you can do is detect bubbles that act as “sources” and bubbles that act as “drains”. A source is a bubble with an excess of individuals, those are likely to cross the obstacles in their way and find themselves into other bubbles, supplying new individuals. Drains are bubbles where due to insufficient numbers, human activity or other factors, a species can’t sustain a good number of individuals by themselves - they need immigrants from other bubbles.
This dynamic between sources providing new individuals and drains is fundamental for a metapopulation to exist even when the area is severely degraded by human activity. Imagine your well kept backyard providing bees to your neighbor with a sub-optimal one, for instance. This new metapopulation of bees is stable, even though the environment isn’t ideal.
- Comment on It's not enough to touch grass 2 months ago:
You’re correct, but the north American concept of a “well kept yard” being two random trees and a bunch of freshly trimmed grass is absolutely horrendous. Beats an actual wasteland, but when most of your neighborhoods have rules that enforce this way of doing things it’s a lot of wasted potential and does bring ecological consequences.
Again, while not ideal, actually living backyards with several native species could act as a local metapopulation model, with sources and sinks across the different houses.
- Comment on The developers of Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire are launching their own "triple-I" Game Awards 2 months ago:
At this point, it would be cool to have a gaming event at all that doesn’t invite random Hollywood celebrities instead of actual game developers
- Comment on yeet 3 months ago:
Biologist here. Can confirm, that’s exactly how it happens. No need to look into plant physiology textbooks.
I repeat: do not look for plant physiology textbooks. Do. Not. Please. Please while you can. Do not.
- Comment on Valve fixes up Steam Remote Play - again 3 months ago:
I love Steam Remote Play.
The Sunshine + Moonlight combo is technically better - the network path is better, you get granular control over the encoder and decoder, and the latency is insanely low.
However, there’s one thing Moonlight gets totally wrong and Steam Remote Play fixes automatically - frame pacing. Even if you enable vsync and frame pacing on Sunshine and Moonlight, if your host doesn’t match your client (say a 144Hz PC streaming to a 120 Hz TV, or a 59.97 NTSC TV vs a 60 Hz host and so on) the experience is terrible - camera movement becomes stuttery. The performance is good, the latency is good, yet somehow you feel like something’s wrong and movement is not smooth at all.
Remote Play will add extra latency by introducing a buffer, but it will also be silky smooth regardless of what bizarre combination of framerate and refresh rates you have. This is super relevant, because with a VRR display, Moonlight really breaks down while Remote Play handles it trivially.
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- Comment on Normal and OLED side by side. 6 months ago:
Perhaps your Steam Deck isn’t using the Samsung panel, but the BOE one.
- Comment on Normal and OLED side by side. 6 months ago:
I love OLED blacks and gamut.
Unfortunately, I’m super sensitive to the “grainy” look created by the different tresholds for the green subpixels, and the matrix itself. On some devices, like my Galaxy S23, the panels are purposely made to avoid this at the expense of extra cost. In some others, like the Switch OLED and the Steam Deck OLED, both issues are unfortunately present. There’s also the unfortunate black smearing.
Perhaps in the future.
- Comment on When Reddit was first becoming popular, were it's communities and content basically just clones of other websites like Digg? 7 months ago:
It’s important to remember that internet culture and interactions themselves changed a lot from early days to now.
So actually, yes, Reddit did have a lot of “cloned” content that was just the same as what we were doing on previous platforms, but things were changing fast enough as to also make Reddit develop a personality of their own.
Lemmy could have that too… If we toned down the generic Linux memes.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
I don’t really know how they come up with these numbers
They sample multiple people from a given region of the world and then look at possible genetic similarities between most individuals in that sample.
Then, they collect your genetic data and “match” to all the different signatures they’ve collected from different regions, and compute a similarity score.
In theory, if they had sufficient samples and the genes were very characteristic, this could work. In practice, any geneticist will be able to point out multiple flaws with this methodology.
There are indeed certain traits that only occur in specific populations… And while someone else totally unrelated could randomly have a similar mutation, it’d be unlikely. But those are rare, and absolutely not something that can be used to say “78% German”
- Comment on How are 144hz screen possible? 7 months ago:
Not only that, but the grid frequency is not perfect and oscillates a bit constantly.
Investigators can then take the background electrical noise in audio recordings, look at the spectrum, and pinpoint the moment in time they were recorded based on the specific oscillations heard.