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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • Thanks for the reply.

    I’m definitely keeping Arch on my PC, I was just wondering what is the best way to use it for both desktop and couch gaming. I do have an old steam link I could potentially use, but I don’t know how that would really work. (I think I’d need to keep my PC running 24/7 for a seamless experience), but otherwise I was thinking I’d probably use the compute stick or Pi as the HTPC and stream games from the PC, but again that sounds a bit clunky to me, although I could at least watch stuff without the main PC on. Thoughts?

    My other takeaways from your reply are that:

    • It’s a good idea to separate out home assistant from everything else

    • Network stuff doesn’t have to be separate

    I’ll also research using cloud DNS instead.



  • Okay, so I’m getting rid of my mattress, most of my furniture, most of my electronics, etc.

    I think the idea behind this idea is good: If you’re trying to get rid of stuff, only keep things that you would expend a bit of effort for.

    However, I think they’re wildly underestimating how many items will be destroyed or irreversably ruined in some way by poop.









  • I think it depends a lot on the style and size of pants, and it’s just a personal preference.

    While I prefer smaller phones for how they feel in the hand, all of my pants could easily fit a phone 7" or larger. But if normal phones don’t fit in your pockets, then a folding phone makes sense.

    Also personally I’m the sort of person who dislikes how bulky traditional wallets are, and I’m bothered by my earbuds case. But point taken that a folding phone still isn’t very thick generally.







  • It’s using information from multiple frames, as well as motion vectors, so it’s not just blind guesses.

    And no, it’s not as good as a ‘ground truth’ image, but that’s not what it’s competing against. FXAA and SMAA don’t look great, and MSAA has a big performance penalty while still not eliminating aliasing. And I think DLSS quality looks pretty damn good. If you want something closer to perfect, there’s DLAA, which is comparable to SSAA, without nuking your framerate. DLSS can match or exceed visual fidelity at every level, while offering much better performance.

    Frame gen seems like much more of a mixed bag, but I think it’s still good to have the option. I haven’t tried it personally, but I could see it being nice in single player games to go from 60 -> 240 fps, even if there’s some artifacting. I think latency would become an issue at lower framerates, but I don’t really consider 30 fps to be playable anyway, at least for first person games.

    And yes, it has been used to excuse poor optimization, but so have general hardware improvements. That’s an entirely separate issue, and doesn’t mean that upscaling is bad.

    Also I think Nvidia is a pretty anti-consumer company, but that mostly has to do with business stuff like pricing. Their tech is quite good.