[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Very interesting. I changed my IO scheduler to kyber for unrelated issues... Maybe between that and the processing power (7950X + 7900 XTX)... my hangs were just sub second.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 5 hours ago

Hmm, I wonder if that was it. It didn't really seem to have anything to do with menus though.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 5 hours ago

Crazy Justice.

I think I loaded it one time once it was "released into early access" and it was a completely empty game that was clearly unfinished then it never got updated. The developers disappeared entirely a while after that.

On top of that, it caused a bug in my steam inventory for years where there was this glitched tab or something like that until I finally found out I could have the game removed from my account and removed it.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

While technically true, bridge is ultimately an IMAP server you run yourself ... and they do have good reasons for this design.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 15 hours ago

The latest expansion genuinely did shake up the enemies. They still need to ... change something. It seems like maybe they will with the next expansion changing how they present the story. We shall see.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 15 hours ago

Possibly keep an eye on Diabotical Rogue... Definitely not what you want right now, but it has potential.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah, I have issues with random really poor frame times. I'll be sitting at 144 FPS then get some frames that take 45ms to render each/severe stuttering.

I "fixed" it using the proton version of the game though I've heard some people say that doesn't work with match making... Haven't tried that yet.

I was thinking about trying the -vulkan launch option to see if that does anything if my proton install doesn't work.

EDIT: They were right ... VAC doesn't work via Proton. I retried playing the native version and it seemed to run fine this time with or without -vulkan ... so I'm not really sure what's going on anymore.

Maybe some things have been fixed either on the Linux/Mesa or on the Valve side.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 35 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I have 0 interest in this guy's takes.

He pushed an awful battle royale game that just took people's money (including mine) and never actually launched.

He also once got into a ~~Twitter~~ (edit: it was actually mastodon) argument with me when he posted about an open source developer being "selfish" or something like that for telling him "if you don't like the readme, open a pull request with the changes you want made to it." Long story short, I told him it wasn't cool to make a post bullying an open source developer to donate more of their free time to something they didn't want to do, and that they have every right to tell him "go do it yourself." He blocked me.

Yeah, he runs a Linux gaming website, yeah he talks about games that run on Linux which is cool, but ... make no mistake he doesn't have some deeper journalistic insight. If Microsoft does forbid kernel level anticheat, that will indeed be a game changer.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was going to defend "well ray tracing is definitely a time saver for game developers because they don't have to manually fake lighting anymore." Then I remembered ray tracing really isn't AI at all... So yeah, maybe for artists that don't need to use as detailed of textures because the AI models can "figure out" what it presumably should look like with more detail.

I've been using FSR as a user on Hunt Showdown and I've been very impressed with that as a 2k -> 4k upscale... It really helps me get the most out of my monitors and it's approximately as convincing as the native 4k render (lower resolutions it's not nearly as convincing for ... but that's kind of how these things go). I see the AI upscalers as a good way to fill in "fine detail" in a convincing enough way and do a bit better than traditional anti aliasing.

I really don't see this as being a developer time saver though, unless you just permit yourself to write less performant code ... and then you're just going to get complaints in the gaming space. Writing the "electron" of gaming just doesn't fly like it does with desktop apps.

Yes? I mean... No? I mean... Help are they being sarcastic?

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 2 days ago

That's definitely not "first person"

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@lemmy.world

So, I'm trying to clone an SSD to an NVME drive and I'm bumping into this "dev-disk-by" error when I boot from the NVME (the SSD is unplugged).

I can't find anyone talking about this in this context. It seems like what I've done here should be fine and should work, but there's clearly something I and the arch wiki are missing.

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Hi folks, what sorts of things have you been doing on destiny lately? What are you finding fun?

I thought the new campaign was good, but I'm increasingly finding it difficult to put time into Destiny post campaign. The gunplay is still great but ... the game has felt repetitive and little frustrations like ambiguity about how you get the new exotic class items just really are getting on my nerves. I spent probably 4 hours today redoing the same overthrow and feeling to get the wizards to spawn.

I don't mean for this to be a negative post, but yeah; what do you enjoy about Destiny the most in 2024? Anyone here having similar feelings about the game?

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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/usnews@beehaw.org

The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/news@lemmy.world

The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@programming.dev

Hi all,

I'm visiting a relative that has a Google WiFi system with multiple access points. There's an access point literally right next to me that I can see in the KDE BSSID list with 100% connection strength.

For some reason, it's instead picking a BSSID with only 60% strength. Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's choosing this access point instead of one of the others? Is this something the Google WiFi controls/suggests to the laptop, is something bugged, or is there a good reason Linux might be choosing this particular access point?

EDIT: It turns out the access point placement was actually just really bad, and the access point in question was not even making it to the rest of the LAN... The speed difference between my phone and laptop seems to be just that, something to do with a difference between the framework and the Pixel's wireless cards (or drivers). Even with everything corrected, the Pixel is significantly out performing the framework.

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State of Font Rendering on Linux (social.packetloss.gg)

Hi folks,

I was wondering what people's thoughts are on the state of font rendering on Linux and if there are any important settings/packages I might not be aware of.

I've never been particularly font sensitive. So despite being a long time user at this point... I'm still a Linux fonts noob. However, I know a lot of people are big into fonts.

I recently installed Debian KDE as a desktop for my father. He likes it, but he wasn't crazy about the fonts. We turned the normal subpixel rendering on in KDE Font settings, but some pages definitely had blocky looking fonts (e.g. the Yahoo home page my dad still uses 🙃).

Any tips? The documentation in this area seems to be lacking... and maybe it's just the resolution of the mintors and things (my dad had gotten used to his high resolution phone so jumping back to a 28" 1080p monitor is going to look blocky no matter what). Regardless, if there are any tips or things I might have missed, they'd be much appreciated!

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