I felt Stadia had potential but I also thought they should have tried a game subscription model rather than the one they went with.

I very recently tried Expedition 33 with GFN and I tried turning the graphics all the way down and the lag seemed unbearable. It very well could be me, but I have a fibre optic connection with typically low ping. It could just be where I’m situated or maybe there’s more configuration I didn’t figure out. I know others still like and use the service.

*fewer 😈

I tried it to play a few games. I’ve had some controller issues and then the quality and frame rate seems really bad for me. I know it was great for others, but I don’t know what settings I needed to get a smooth game going.

I was actually interested in this service because I felt like building a gaming PC for just a few games I play once in a while outside of my Steam Deck could be worth it.

I think they’re stupid too. Going into an interview is already stressful enough and these types of questions don’t put me into “problem solving” mode. They put me into “brain teaser” mode which is a different type of thinking for me. You know how we nailed these questions when I was in uni? We traded them after our interviews between each other and you just had to pretend you’ve never heard it before. So the main thing people were testing was whether or not the question had made it to them.

For programming, there are so many better ways to test out of the box thinking to me … I think the “what happens when you press a letter into a web browser address bar” or something is better and at least relevant. One that I like is, “there’s an outage in production, how would you go about diagnosing it?” Then as an interviewer I’d reshape the scenario and see where they put their focus and where they give up.

I want to be a maintainer and help out but I just know it’ll be exhausting. I swap languages/projects all the time. I was on the DB (OLAP), architecture, GenAI and DevOps teams just this year alone. The context switching is really bad. I still would like to contribute but I’d want to pick a project that I used semi-regularly and it’s hard to identify when I’m so scatter-brained :/

I usually just assume people around me are left leaning and progressive.

I went to London to visit the satellite office and one of the top guys there was having a rant against vegans. I chimed in a bit and said, “well, you can say what you want but vegans are at least doing good for the environment”.

The guy was like, “I don’t believe that”

I thought he was joking, so I said, “haha what, you don’t believe in climate change?”

I should have never said that. Ten minutes of him furiously ranting about nonsense.

I got great quotes such as: “you know what climate change is? it’s when seasons change” and also “we should be eating more animals because it increases the carbon in the world and is good for us”.

Fucking hell. When I got back to the Canadian office and told my coworkers about him, the others were telling me how much of a prick he was – and they didn’t know anything about the climate change denial shit he was into either.

“vow” … right … sounds very ironclad …

Obviously this varies but I found myself walking far more in Europe than in the US.

Also, some of the obesity I saw in the States I didn’t see anywhere else. It was wild.

Once again, all anecdotal.

I think it’s mostly done at this point but no harm in waiting.

The only harm in waiting is just seeing spoilers for anything inside your feeds.

Shows you the type of people that are on Lemmy.

“stop defending corporations”

It’s like we hate the corporation too but they’re correct in this instance.

Some people say you can buy the tokens instead of a monthly subscription. They’re not as openly offered as they get more cash from monthly obviously.

The full LTT video outside of the WAN show is a lot better. In it he said that a company can just buy a lot of Steam Machines as their office computers giving no Steam sales to Valve and making them take the hit. He also gave a few more justifications as well as tariffs and others I think.

That’s great info, I had to read up on it

FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) is an open-source technology from AMD that improves gaming performance by rendering games at a lower resolution and then upscaling the image to a higher resolution, with versions also including frame generation to increase frame rates.

I remember playing a game, I think it was either Spiderman or Control with Ray Tracing on and I was like “wow, these are amazing!” Then I realized I didn’t actually turn it on. My dumb ass can’t tell the difference.

I think the goal was 4K at 60 fps, but likely varying level of “detail” like you can probably do it with lower detailed settings rather than ultra or epic or what-have-you.

Me too. I bought the first quest before Facebook acquired it. Now that Facebook/Meta own quest and stuff … I’ve been staying away from VR for now.

I’ll definitely be doing my best to get one as soon as it’s available. Everything about it sounds hype.

“you get a sense of pride and accomplishment”

I’m partially joking but it it can be satisfying to figuring out and executing the series of patterns in good timing.

The thing is thinking that you’re so cool for it :P … I never see an issue with someone enjoying the game for the story or whatever else.

Some say you don’t need it, but I personally use this plugin: https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode

but I also use this: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting for syntax highlighting and it makes it more readable too.

I’ve always liked vim but one thing that I really loved about it was when I started using vim mode in zsh.

Being able to just navigate through commands in my terminal and easily highlight and edit and all that … it’s so good.

I’m scared to hell of fixing it, but you’re probably right. It’s better to lose my phone to repairs than lose my data to a random individual!