vithigar

@vithigar@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner was subscribed to Crave for ages. A little while back she was in the middle of a rewatch of Sons of Anarchy when the app started to act up and wouldn’t work, so I grabbed a copy and put it on Jellyfin.

  She was floored by his much immediately better the video quality was and cancelled Crave the next day. Shocked at how much worse the experience was with the paid service was compared to free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Beta adds many more Game Recording improvements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a suspicion that was omitted purposefully to prevent people from just sharing their raw saved replays. Since to have to clip you’ll never end up with people sharing full minute videos where the interesting bit was the last five seconds.

  This is of course just my own supposition from assuming they had a reason for the omission and thinking about what that reason might be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows on a handheld is just bad. It’s that simple. A Steam Deck competitor needs a handheld friendly controller focused interface that is at least as good as Valve’s. Our just straight up so with Steam OS and use Valve’s.

  SteamOS still has many instances of awkward UX and some frankly broken behavior, especially while trying to use community features, it’s just that every other offering has been worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's surprisingly difficult for AI to create just a plain white image⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t asking for nothing though. It’s asking for a very specific uniform thing. A better analogy to text generation would be asking for an uninterrupted string of nothing but repeated uppercase A’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you see where I am going with this?

  Kind of? I agree that leaving those games and their communities behind isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but they make up an enormous portion of the gaming market. I can’t speak for you, but I’m not going to write off literally millions of people as unsalvageable losses just because they play a game or participate in a community I don’t like. I’m sure lots of them don’t really like their communities either.

  or say that nobody plays on linux so who cares.

  And there’s the problem. They’re right. Even now after all the progress Valve has made it just doesn’t make economic sense to invest the time to fix these things. Opening the doors for the players of these toxic and addicting games to at least have the option of using linux is another step in alleviating that.

  A rising tide raises all ships, whether you like the source of that tide or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gaming has been literally the only thing keeping me on windows for at least a decade now, and with SteamOS/Proton reaching their current levels of compatibility I finally feel like I can make the switch with my next PC and not have to worry about it.

  I could put linux on my current gaming tower, but I’ll fully admit that it’s just easier not to. It’s a comfortable shoe at this point that I can’t be bothered to change while I already have it. Though if my hand was forced and I had some kind of catastrophic drive failure and lost my OS volume linux is probably what would go there in its place.

  There are two other “PCs” in my home that I own, my Steam Deck and a NUC that I use as a home server. Both run linux.

  I’m fortunate in that basically nothing I play uses invasive anti-cheat garbage, which is still a huge compatibility problem. It has skeeved me out on windows for a long time, and I’ve avoided games that use many of them. I had many friends disappointed that I wouldn’t join them in Star Wars: The Old Republic back when that first came out precisely because I wouldn’t tolerate how invasive the anti-cheat was.

  But there are lots of gamers for whom Proton still isn’t enough. A single game they want to play that won’t run is a dealbreaker. Or the only game they want to play won’t run. An OS that won’t run the game(s) they want to play isn’t fit for purpose for them, and those people are a huge proportion of gamers.