Laser
@Laser@feddit.org
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
Right? It’s like their not even trying. Everyone knows you need at least a hundred machines
- Comment on Paradox think there's no point competing with XCOM after their Lamplighters flop - it's "winner takes all" in the "tactical gaming space" 5 weeks ago:
Maybe 100 DLCs will fix it
- Comment on Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum 5 weeks ago:
Even earlier with Pokemon Stadium’s Gameboy emulator.
- Comment on NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader 5 weeks ago:
so much for the tolerant left
- Comment on Valve bans keyboard automation in Counter-Strike 2 update 2 months ago:
True commitment to the craft
- Comment on Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck 2 months ago:
play flash games,
I don’t think there’s currently any supported software running flash files that’s Windows exclusive, is there? Adobe ended support and the most mature solution is ruffle, which is open source and runs on Linux as well.
Games without launchers or not on steam
??? When has this not been possible?
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 3 months ago:
Av1 means your tv’s 1st external input?
No, AV1 being the video codec. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
My box is actually certified and should play 4k Netflix. Am not subscribed though, bit it does for Amazon Prime Video.
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 3 months ago:
This is both on the TV itself and on an added Android TV box that I have; neither allow removing the ads fully or changing the default launcher. Same problem but different ecosystem with the fire sticks.
If there was no other way, I’d attach a shield to it and forget about the “smart” of my tv
I bought the Android TV box for AV1 support, does the shield feature that?
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 3 months ago:
I don’t know what you consider an ad. The Android (or Google?) TV launcher looks like this:
Discover tab is an ad. IIRC, “Apps” also contains ads for applications to spend money on one way or another. The whole area below is an ad. Under your application-specific entries, there’s more ads (something called “popular movies” or so). And no, you can’t change the launcher to start by default as you can with phones. This is on a device sold in the EU.
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 3 months ago:
All my Android TV devices boot into the Android TV home screen which does have ads. How do you avoid this?
- Comment on Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones 3 months ago:
I don’t really have MP3-only use cases anymore, but back when I did, it was mostly where transparency was achieved rather easily, like listening to music on the go with… non-perfect headphones, and on those cases, I went with lame’s -V5 IIRC which is closer to 130 kbit/s or so. For higher quality, but not lossless (storage was still expensive back then) I used Musepack. But high bitrate MP3 was almost never needed.
- Comment on Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones 3 months ago:
Then again why would it need to be at 320 kbit for this kind of use case
- Comment on Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones 3 months ago:
wav is uncompressed PCM usually, flac is compressed and as such smaller (difference in size depending on the kind of music), but they’re both lossless with the resulting signal being bit for bit identical to the data on the CD.
320 kbps MP3 makes little sense nowadays except for when you need maximum quality for a device supporting nothing else. For long term storage, use flac.
- Comment on Complaints about crashing 13th, 14th Gen Intel CPUs now have data to back them up 4 months ago:
No customer deserves this but if you’re buying Intel at this point, you can’t be surprised. It always seemed that their only way to keep up with AMD is to pull some tricks like insane power draw and other shenanigans to beat them in some specific benchmarks and then use these as the definitive measurement for performance. I don’t remember any innovation from them in the last 10 years (and frankly, before AMD released their Ryzens, it wasn’t actually needed).
- Comment on Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app 4 months ago:
Which is exactly what I’d use this for, were it not for the fact that I switched to the windows version of SV anyways. It wants an old system OpenSSL lib that’s insecure and I don’t have it. So wine with Windows version it is.
- Comment on True actual sailing games are underrated and a criminally underexplored genre of video game simulation... which is why Pancake Sailor is the next free game you should try! 4 months ago:
The base game is free, the price is for DLC.
