TheHobbyist
@TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip
Just a stranger trying things.
- Comment on "The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." 1 week ago:
I think the requested salary amount plays a big role. If a typical 100k annual role was rejected on salary misalignments despite requesting 60k, I would be much more critical of the company.
- Comment on Make a JBOD Enclosure video 3 weeks ago:
I’m personally still very much interested in HDDs with their better cost/GB, though it is true they have a shrinking lead over SSDs. I hope to move to SSDs completely for large storage space.
- Comment on Make a JBOD Enclosure video 3 weeks ago:
I wish there were friendlier PSUs to these kinds of setups. Standard ones are often too large (yes even SFX), overpowered, with too many different cables instead of focusing on high efficiency at low loads and the specific connectors for disks.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
The joycon sliding on the table, is that a mouse-mode? @1:11 in the reveal trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The way DLSS3 and 3.5 work (though not DLSS4 it seems) is they always guess a previous frame, never a next frame. They always rely on an authentic frame and guess an intermediate frame between prior to it, because they need to know the end state and interpolate backwards from it.
This is described here: en.wikipedia.org/…/Deep_learning_super_sampling#D…
I’m not sure how AMDs frame gen works, is it different?
- 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 month ago:
The performance improvements claims are a bit shady as they compare the old FG technique which only creates one frame for every legit frame, with the next gen FG which can generate up to 3.
All Nvidia performance plots I’ve seen mention this at the bottom, making comparison very favorable to the 5000 series GPU supposedly.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 month ago:
Thank you for clearing it out. Important detail indeed. You get what you pay for I guess?
- Comment on AMD introduces Ryzen Z2 Series, confirms Valve Steam Deck update 1 month ago:
I can’t seem to find the source, it only says AMD, but the AMD keynote has not happened yet, where is the information from actually? Is it a leak?
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 2 months ago:
What was the subject of the email? Because if they are alerting you to some security issue regarding your account, I think it is reasonable to prevent the user from unsubscribing, otherwise how would they be alerting you and would you then blame them for not having alerted you?
Of course, if this is a marketing email, that’s something else but then is it an important message regarding your account and products you are using?
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 months ago:
Gog does. The game manor lords is in early access on gog.
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 months ago:
With its 8GB, the 4060 performs quite poorly when scaling up the resolution. There’s a great video by hardware unboxed showing how limiting 8GB are, in 1440p.
- Comment on European Citizens' Initiative to Stop Destroying Videogames: 7 countries have now passed the threshold 2 months ago:
Indeed, I’ve shared this with friends but we need more people and more awareness! This is a golden opportunity, if this tentative does not succeed, who knows how long until next time?
Of course, if a person with large following spreads the word, it can have a great effect, but please do not wait for this to happen, do not rely on this. By individually spreading the word, we are putting much more weight on it and giving it a much better shot.
This is a serious shot! Take it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know, I’ve been eyeing the game and interested in getting it. I think I’ve even seen it on gog, so that’s great!
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
How’s the game nowadays? I think I recall the game having some issues when it came out, assuming it’s true, are they all now resolved?
- Comment on DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO – Launch Trailer 4 months ago:
In japanese for those who want the original experience:
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 4 months ago:
The story was difficult to follow, for me, and plays a significant role in the game and is likely to influence your decisions. What I wish I did and what I recommend you, is make sure you pay close attention to it in the beginning, knowing who’s who, who’s battling who and why. Consider taking notes haha
- Comment on Stop killing games 4 months ago:
It’s impressive how this initiative has gathered 360k votes in no time yet completely stagnated ever since. I don’t think it means that the initiative is done, actually I am quite optimistic it can pass, but these things go in waves. I think every time there is a new coverage on the initiative it launches it higher, we just need some folks who have some local presence in the EU to get their audience to act. Perhaps some famous video game streamers? Has that been done already?
- Comment on Denmark is the 6th country to pass the #StopKillingGames EU threshold - 340K out of 1M signatures in total! 5 months ago:
And the Netherlands are 6th! But the hardest part will be reaching that Million threshold… We still have a lot of time, but the pace has certainly slowed down the last few weeks compared to the skyrocketing in the early days. I think we will need to have more awareness spread around the campaign, perhaps try to reach mainstream media in some ways…
- Comment on An important update on Concord 5 months ago:
The age of DRM means that they can now “unlaunch” the game and force you into a reimbursement while giving up the game. Why? What if someone liked it and wanted to keep playing? is this an online only game? This is just sad.
- Comment on Day 33 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Loved this game and the story. The second half of the game is where it really become interesting! I remember that mission in the screenshot :)
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25% 6 months ago:
This is going very well it seems! I see the next few countries close to passing the threshold are:
- Denmark (88%)
- Netherlands (87%)
- Germany (75%)
Assuming we get those, we would need one more country. The highest remaining country is Ireland (55%). Getting all those still wouldn’t reach 1M signatures, but the rest could keep being distributed across the EU (even including countries which have already passed the threshold, I’m assuming).
This is all very exciting and gives me a lot of hope! Keep signing folks!
- Comment on For free for 11.99$ 8 months ago:
I’m trying to open your link but I get a Lemmy page saying this link does not exist. Is it a voyager app thing?
- Comment on Facebook now wants to write your posts for you with AI. 10 months ago:
If you login, why would it matter? You are logged in, they have identified you.
- Comment on The big Portal 2 mod Portal: Revolution is out now on Steam 1 year ago:
I just replayed the 1 and 2 recently, love’em. Is reloaded bad?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
Yes, it seems you are right. Nonetheless, even at equal prices, isn’t it surprising?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
I don’t have any, but I see the following: Cyperpunk 2077, which is available on steam, is cheaper than on the developer’s own platform (gog.com), despite both being at 50% off. Is there any incentive for CDPR to sell it more expensive on their platform?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
I don’t see how any of that justifies that valve prohibits publishers from selling their games for cheaper on a platform other than steam.
If anything, the 30% cut is significant and if a developer finds a cheaper platform elsewhere, why wouldn’t he also be allowed to sell his game for cheaper there too?
It’s really dubious to see valve try to control developers market strategies on platforms other than steam.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
It’s not about what the publisher sets as price, it’s about restricting his options.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
I found out recently GOG was created by CD project, the same company behind CD Project Red which made The Witcher and CyberPunk. Was very glad to find out about that.