The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I
Or allowing self hosted servers. With actual mods that just ban people who are being jerks, and basic anticheat tools shipped to them.
Whatever the issue and solution, the current state of the gaming market still makes mass linux gaming kind of impossible. Not from the anticheat games specifically as much as the OEM problem.
Not according recent polling.
You guys should be worrying about this shit, not dismissing it. Especially with most of Europe addicted to American social media.
Gaming is the best commercial inroad I’ve seen, and exploding.
But I think the “kernel anticheat” thing is going to be a hard wall until Valve works it out. Unfortunately, big OEMs don’t want to ship a “gaming PC” that can’t run Fortnite.
Russia’s officially released casualty figures are horrifying. There’s not a lot ambiguous about many economic impacts. The war’s pace speaks for itself, and so does the devastation.
Debate about “truth” is largely around the justification for the war.
But as that’s one tough sell, debate has largely devolved into a disinformation/gaslighting campaign. Hence the trolls.
So I wouldn’t call it “both sides”. There’s an invader trying to justify an invasion with rampant disinformation, and a defender desperate to clear that disinformation, meaning they sometimes turn to the same tool.
They literally develop Lemmy, so in this specific case I think it’s good to spread awareness.
Well, if the US gets tied up in Venezuela + a fickle leader + internal issues, the EU in Ukraine, Asian allies like Japan and Korea still figuring things out, then 2027-2030 does seem like the opportune time to invade.
Perhaps Kim Jong Un, Iran, and/or Israel will take the opportunity to try something, too.
Reddit’s UX is awful though, at least on the website. But I guess most people use the phone apps?
It’s not just you.
Zooming in, I feel like the “camera jpeg” lost sharpness to recompression.
It’s kind of insane that cameras either dump raw data, or do all this magic only to throw so much away to an ancient image codec that loses even more when recompressed.
Newer ones can save a HEIF or a “lossy RAW” in some circumstances (which is an infinite improvement), but still; I eagerly await the day cameras can save a JPEG-XL all by themself, and that I can post them on the Fediverse.
Modern mirrorless cameras do this too. For example, this is what my Canon kit lens looks like with/without digital barrel distortion correction:
Not my photos. From: https://dustinabbott.net/2024/05/canon-rf-s-18-45mm-f4-5-6-3-is-stm-review/
And https://dustinabbott.net/2024/04/canon-rf-24-50mm-f4-5-6-3-is-stm-review/
My own unprocessed RAWs are pretty wild. But (IMO) it’s a reasonable compromise to make lenses cheaper and better, outside of some ridiculous examples like the 24-50.
Most of my observation of this was in Tanzania, and Kenya seems similar, but I don’t really know what living there is like so I’d rather not outright recommend them.
But their evironmentalism is as serious as I’ve seen anywhere, and the people are super nice.
See: https://openmodeldb.info/docs/faq
The GUIs are basically just as plug-and-play as Topaz.
Yeah, Cromite is definitely a “second browser” to keep around for shopping and such, not my primary one. Its opinionated development is exactly why is so good in that niche, but it also breaks a few sites and features.
In that spirit… why only use only one browser? You can keep Brave installed.
Also, in addition to what others said, Brave has been involved in some shady stuff like ad substitution/injection. See:
https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Similarly enough, Brendan Eich’s feed also contains some worrying content, in my opinion. Ranging from, again, retweeting right-wing activists, to weird Republican propaganda. He claims to be independent and not a Republican, but this does not make me any less worried about the type of ideas he follows.
But yeah, if you are a big fan of AI and crypto, and are okay with having advertisements in the user interface out of the box, are okay with past attempts to steal money from websites and collect donations towards people who wouldn’t necessarily even receive it, plus you can put up with occasional privacy mistakes… use Brave!
Why use Brave when you can use Helium or Cromite?
Helium has full (not lite) ublock origin built in, and no junk. That’s the gold standard of Adblock.
Cromite has rather obsessive antifingerprinting, making it extremely difficult to track you compared to Brave.
Basically, people use Brave because it’s got SEO; it’s the first result when people type in “Adblock browser” unfortunately.
For upscaling, check out chaiNNer: https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer
And openmodeldb: https://openmodeldb.info/
It’s quite possible your PC can do it with Vulkan just fine, and if not, you can rent something online pretty cheap.
Also, for video processing, if you know any Python check out vapoursynth.
This highlights the problem: the primary obstacle to a lot of software enshittification is accessibility, and discoverability.
Once something like Topaz or Premiere gets SEO, it starves all the other cool efforts out there as they get buried under spam.
What people want often exists. They just don’t know it, or it’s too technically demanding to set up and no one is “in the middle” packaging enthusiast experiments to be accessible.
I don’t know how to solve this either. The open internet is getting worse, niches are moving to Discord, and it feels like people are losing patience to really dig for cool stuff. Heck, I see some open source efforts spin up, with thousands of man hours dumped in, without even a cursory check to see what they want already exists and is looking for contributors.
A lot of Africa is majorly into wildlife protection, free education, environmental sustainability, friendly communal culture, stuff like that. It’s developing like crazy.
I hear some of South America is too.
But uh, employment, crime? YMMV. Depends on how you intend to make a living I guess.
I like this take.
It seems like there are ‘victims’ caught up in the hype and sinking way too much money into SC. But if the gameplay is enjoyable, and fits your budget? Enjoy it. Hell yes.
Ah.
Well one catch I’ve found outside of CachyOS is that if something isn’t working right, it’s easy to create a ton of work for yourself trying to fix it. An example would be fighting your system trying to roll a package forward for a fix, which then gets out of sync with your distro, which requires more manual fixing since you’re the one maintaining it now…
The Arch/Cachy ecosystem, on the other hand, tends to encourage more usage of system packages, and fixes stuff quick. Usually waiting a day or a few days + a pacman -Syyuu fixes what was wrong.
If your Dad is a software engineer, it’s possible he might fall into that trap with Bazzite. It kinda just depends on his habits/personality, though from what you describe this may not be a huge danger.
Isn’t there still some antisemitism in MAGA? And the ‘religious voter’ bloc is shrinking almost as fast as Israel’s reputation.
I feel like being this cozy with Netanyahu is going to backfire for Trump.