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- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 2 weeks ago:
So, there’s a pretty big leap going from Strix Point (mid tier) to Strix Halo (high-end)
Holy shit, no kidding! I guess maybe that’s the reason Valve didn’t go that way: they wanted to put their product right in the middle of that graphics gap. Also, even that first one apparently has 12 CPU cores, so the whole balance between CPU and GPU performance is just off.
Still though, if we’re talking custom, it would’ve been cool if Valve could’ve had them build something equivalent to a “Ryzen AI 7” or “Ryzen AI 5”, but still with Radeon 8050S or 8060S graphics.
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 2 weeks ago:
larger chip, lower yields
Oh right, I forgot about that part.
Not sure what kind of area one could expect for the CPU alone (without the integrated GPU) for this kind of process
I guess you could look up specs for a desktop Ryzen CPU that doesn’t have integrated graphics. Not sure which is the right one to pick, but I checked a few AM5 chips and they were all about 71 mm^2^ @ either 5 or 4 nm.
BTW, what actually is “Strix Halo” anyway? I’m confused about whether it’s what they’re calling all the latest-generation APUs, or just the high-end ones, or Asus co-branding, or what.
Are there not any lesser APUs (with smaller die size and higher yields) that aren’t “Strix Halo” but still have a similar architecture and decent gaming performance?
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 2 weeks ago:
Unified still requires a significant amount of chip area per die
Even compared to having two entirely separate memory controllers, one for the CPU and one for the GPU?
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 2 weeks ago:
They say it’s a custom design, so surely they could’ve custom-designed it to be unified rather than discrete if they wanted. I guess maybe they were trying to make sure it would only be bought by gamers by deliberately making it less versatile for AI?
- Comment on Alleged Steam Machine specs according to Chris Mizo 2 weeks ago:
Anybody else mildly surprised it isn’t based on an APU with unified memory, like a cheaper/slower Framework Desktop?
- Comment on Subnautica 2's first update will add a sprint button, because players are building their bases too big: "they might want to go a little bit faster" 2 weeks ago:
IIRC it would start to break if you made it too big in the previous game (and I’m not talking about the strength reinforcement at depth mechanic; I’m talking about Youtubers like Let’s Game It Out building a tube halfway across the map).
I myself had a base that reached from the surface biome down into the jellyshroom cave, and another on the island with a ladder from the beach to the summit.
- Comment on Valve Engineering 2 weeks ago:
No, the problem is that people believe “[concept] on a computer” is somehow magically different from “[concept] IRL” when it’s not.
When you buy a game from Steam, you buy a game, not a license, and the First Sale Doctrine applies just as much as it does if you buy a board game from Walmart. Any claims to the contrary are simply lies, and any government support for such lies is simply tyranny.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Indefinitely.
- Comment on Playnix launch their own Steam Machine-like Linux gaming console 1 month ago:
That’s an off-the-shelf case? Which one is it?
- Comment on Only 2 years after release Star Trek: Resurgence is being delisted 1 month ago:
And with zero advance notice, too! What the fuck?
- Comment on Microsoft admits its recent server-side "update" broke vital Windows 11 Start menu function 1 month ago:
Like I said, fucked up. Especially the “feed you ads” part, but even just the “take you out to the Internet” part is wrongheaded when you’re purposefully searching on the start menu instead of in a web browser.
- Comment on Microsoft admits its recent server-side "update" broke vital Windows 11 Start menu function 1 month ago:
It’s fucked up that search on the start menu even requires anything ‘server-side’ to begin with.
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 1 month ago:
Some companies self insure.
I would especially expect that of a company like Amazon, that’s bigger than the insurers (and re-insurers) themselves.
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 1 month ago:
Why would you not close the ticket as “WONTFIX” or something in that situation?
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 month ago:
Beats me; I wasn’t trying to talk about that. I was just pointing out that StarCraft and TA, despite both being RTSs, are different enough from each other that it doesn’t necessarily make sense to try to share a codebase between them.
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 month ago:
I mean, if the game engine is the issue you’re worried about, people had already been working on Free Software WarCraft/StarCraft clones almost a decade before the Spring Engine existed. stratagus.com/stargus.html
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 month ago:
I think the reason nobody has is Starcraft is so much more limited of an RTS design it feels weird to start from a Total Annihilation inspired rts game engine and take a whole bunch away (shift clicking, build cues, actually 3d trajectories of cannons, complex unit interactions rather than simplistic rock-paper-scissors relationships, actually flying aircraft, organic terrain variation instead of simplistic stepped levels…the list goes on and on)
Exactly. Those “limitations” (I would use a less biased word, BTW) make it a different game. Not necessarily worse or even more simplistic, but definitely different, kinda like how Chess and Go are different even though they’re broadly in a similar genre.
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 month ago:
I haven’t played Beyond All Reason or this “StarCraft-inspired” game, but I have played Total Annihilation and StarCraft and I wouldn’t consider them to be substitutes for each other.
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 month ago:
WTF are you talking about? Every multiplayer PC game had that when I was growing up; it was just the normal way multiplayer worked. One player hosts a game and the other players type in their IP address and join it. Server browsers using external infrastructure (whether third-party, like GameSpy, or first-party, like Battle.net) didn’t come until later, and even then, they were just matchmaking services and the game server itself was still run by you.
Restricting multiplayer to only servers run by the publisher is the abnormal, fucked-up thing!
- Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson) 1 month ago:
This sort of shit is why we shouldn’t have accepted it when games stopped coming with the ability to run your own server.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 2 months ago:
Nvidia slop on an AMD GPU?
- Comment on New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit 2 months ago:
👆Why are you booing him? He’s right!
I mean, good for Valve for finally making progress on 64-bit, but it really is kinda absurd that it’s taken this long.
- Comment on US governor boosts US-Iran 'combat footage' that is actually from War Thunder, featuring WW2-era weapons 2 months ago:
This is some North Korea-level shit.
- Comment on Call of Duty co-founder claims Activision put "very awkward pressure" on Infinity Ward to make a game about Iran invading Israel 2 months ago:
LOL, yeah right. Next you’re gonna tell me America’s Army was a recruiting tool.
- Comment on Timberborn devs announce automation is coming to the city-builder in the 1.0 release 2 months ago:
The removed sluices
Damn, just when RCE finally figured them out!
- Comment on Timberborn devs announce automation is coming to the city-builder in the 1.0 release 2 months ago:
Perfect secondary function for foresters in their little towers.
Also, this suddenly gave me the idea of having wildfires during droughts.
- Comment on Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age 2 months ago:
Even aside from the obvious (or at least, should-be-obvious) tyranny, there are so many problems with this as a concept. For example, WTF is supposed to happen when the OS is in a VM spun up by an automated system and has no human user to begin with?
- Comment on The 'No ICE in Minnesota' charity bundle is live on itch.io 3 months ago:
Jeez, that’s a lot of stuff. I tried to copy it into a spoiler tag (so the post wouldn’t display too long), but it won’t even all fit in the Lemmy comment length limit. Apparently it’s 1439 items.
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 3 months ago:
The phrase “XY problem” was not in and of itself, but the paragraph below it where you explained what you wanted in more detail definitely helped.
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 3 months ago:
What I want is to set the default filter to “All Files” for every application that uses the file picker. I don’t want to do it per application. If there’s a setting for the file picker itself, I want to use that.
It’s not just the save dialog, I mentioned the file selection dialog (for uploading) in the post. The Librewolf “save page as” is just one singular example, not the entire problem!
Oh! In that case, KFileDialog might actually be (roughly) the part you want to patch.
(That was just what I found in a couple of minutes of looking, BTW. I’ve never programmed anything related to KDE – not even applications, let alone the library itself – so do your own research. I’m just going by generic software engineering principles, not anything specific to how KDE works, either technically or administratively.)
What would the effects be?
Depends on exactly which bits you change. The “save” dialog probably inherits from an abstract dialog or something. If you change the base class everything will be affected; if you change the derived class only the derived class will be affected. The trick is to find the right layer in the hierarchy that changes everything you want while leaving everything else alone.
How would I go about this? Would I need to alter the source code and recompile? What would happen when I update the software?
Yes, you’d have to alter the source and recompile. At that point, you’re basically maintaining your own small private fork of the software, so you’d have to merge your changes back in on each update.
Alternatively, you could try to get the KDE project to accept the changes, but I have no idea how receptive they would be.
“Saving HTML files with their file extension” can still be accomplished if I can see all the files at once. I’m not changing the extension, I just want to see where I’m putting them. There is no reason why viewing all files would prevent me from saving the same file types together.
If you’re saying that you’d like to decouple the filter of what file types you can see from the filter of what file types you can save as, that’s interesting. It might have merit in terms of user experience, but I suspect it might be a slightly more invasive change to code – and an even more invasive change to the public-facing API, which developers of applications that use KDE might have something to say about.