[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Twins can be very close, especially as a kid with no concept of twins or sense to pick out distinctive details.

My father has a twin brother who lives far away, with the most obvious difference between them that my father generally keeps a beard. One night, when my Dad shaved and came to tuck me into bed, he was met with an "Uncle so and so, when did you get here?".

Of course now as an adult, I'd be able to tell them apart no problem, even if they did dress and style the same. I've observed their mannerisms and minor cosmetic marks with a keener eye as an adult. But as a young kid who couldn't even clearly tell his own father from his twin, I find a kid being unable to recognize a chance encounter he wasn't expecting very believable.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

My issue is more with the math of it. Since it requires holding your frames until you've got one in reserve (can't generate an in-between until you know what's next), it fundamentally makes the game less responsive.

That said, if you understand that, and like the visual smoothness of motion with more frames, then it's super cool tech. Not every game has to be treated like it's competitive Counter Strike, and I think it's really cool if you like it, but it frustrates me how poorly marketed and understood the actual technology and its compromises are.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Eh, FSR3 upscaling and FSR3 frame generation are different things. I'm personally a fan of upscaling, it's great for a sharper picture on my large 4k TV (I use a living room gaming PC), but not at all a fan of frame generation, as it introduces more input lag for the illusion of more frames. Not a tradeoff I'm ever willing to make when VRR already does an incredible job of creating the illusion (and a degree of reality) of good performance when my framerate drops.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 53 points 4 weeks ago

Honestly, makes sense, the active voice version is just... more efficient and easier to parse quickly.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 36 points 3 months ago

Storytime! Earlier this year, I had an Amazon package stolen. We had reason to be suspicious, so we immediately contacted the landlord and within six hours we had video footage of a woman biking up to the building, taking our packages, and hurriedly leaving.

So of course, I go to Amazon and try to report my package as stolen.... which traps me for a whole hour in a loop with Amazon's "chat support" AI, repeatedly insisting that I wait 48 hours "in case my package shows up". I cannot explain to this thing clearly enough that, no, it's not showing up, I literally have video evidence of it being stolen that I'm willing to send you. It literally cuts off the conversation once it gives its final "solution" and I have to restart the convo over and over.

Takes me hours to wrench a damn phone number out of the thing, and a human being actually understands me and sends me a refund within 5 minutes.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 75 points 4 months ago

For sure, valid to fear the enshittification of steam. But they aren't killing proton. Maybe ignoring proton at worst. But Steam has profit motivations for not being reliant on Windows, which has actively been trying to supplant them with the Windows Store for years.

As another separate, profit-motivated company, with a gaming division and a lot to gain from eating Steam's lunch, Microsoft is not Steam's friend. Proton is a critical bargaining tool for them, and not having to include windows licenses for devices like the Steam Deck helps their costs too.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 37 points 10 months ago

Eh, that is kinda the appeal of Reddit, and its alternatives. Finding smaller communities of likeminded individuals that you can group into a tailored feed.

I always say the magic of this model is that it's not just a firehose of every possible interest, it's more like a shower of dozens of tiny handpicked jets. It just happens that on Lemmy, the "All" feed is still reasonably tailored to the main demographic here. That being tech nerds who dislike Reddit's recent decisions enough to make a change.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Hazzard@lemm.ee to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

Never built a PC before, but I've got some tech awareness, LTT videos, Digital Foundry, that kind of thing. I've also helped friends build PCs, but I've never actually pulled the trigger and built my own PC, so I'm hoping to get some experienced eyes on this thing to help out! I based this build off PcPartPickers default "AMD build", and replaced many of the parts one by one.

Budget is about 1500$ CAD, and I'm hoping to use this thing as a living room gaming PC. I've also got a Series X, so I'm mostly looking to run emulators at high settings, mod some games, play some of the Sony exclusives that hit PC, some non-crossplay multiplayer, that kind of thing.

Looking to get something upgradable, that I can build onto in the future as well. Thus my paying a little more for AM5, for example.

Please let me know if I'm buying anything dumb, or making any missteps like not getting enough VRAM for modern system emulators or something. Incredibly nervous and excited about finally doing this! Thanks so much for any help you can give!

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think maybe you're out of the loop here. This is part of a trend to screw over bots that automatically steal art and sell it on random sites. That's why others are commenting stuff like "I'd buy this on a t-shirt!".

The tactic has already been proven to work several times, when people post stuff like this, and then report the shops that steal it to Disney's legal team. It's a clever way to leverage Disney's lawyers to protect regular artists who couldn't afford to sue all these random websites.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed. The upload schedule has been a holy grail within LTT for a long time, and I truly believe it's the root of all of this, yes, even the sexual harassment. Or at least how that harassment was handled so poorly. When do you have time to make good HR policies? Pull people into HR for reprimanding? Have opportunities for others to second guess decisions? Do training? Or heck, even just have less tired and irritable people making in-the-moment stupid decisions?

This uncompromising maximum velocity hurts everyone, and I hope they keep never bring it back to this pace, even after the process improvements they have planned.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago

Exactly the mistake threads just made, trying to capitalize on twitter's rate limiting fiasco. The "general public" is extremely fickle, and Reddit will give us more opportunities.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 131 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, tbh, I don't think that's a feature I'd want. Every now and again you see "that guy" furious that he's getting downvotes, doubling down and trying to start an argument or something. I don't need that guy showing up in my DMs.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 81 points 1 year ago

This is very intriguing.... I actually work in CBC (nowhere near content or with the social media people who'd make these kinds of decisions), but as a developer I get 20% time to dabble with anything I think might be useful. I haven't used it in a while, but a CBC ActivityPub instance may be just the right project, especially if it can auto-publish our content from the same feeds that power our site.

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