narc0tic_bird

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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

The 7950X3D or 9800X3D are both faster (besides the 7800X3D you mentioned).

GPU-wise this is obvious the best AMD has to offer, but an RTX 4090 is obviously faster still. With the typical caveats for NVIDIA on Linux.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I'd rather have properly working accessories that connect using Thread (not Wi-Fi) to one another and work without requiring a separate app. Currently almost every manufacturer requires their own proprietary bridge or they want to connect directly to Wi-Fi.

Give me a button/switch, climate sensors (Eve Room comes to mind as it has Thread but it's a PitA in some other ways), thermostats that can adjust based on an external climate sensor, lightbulbs etc.

Apple TVs and HomePods already work fine as a "Home hub", I don't need a separate, central display.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I have several components in my network that are at least 6 years old. Is that a problem..?

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

Zumal du dir bei iFixit auch ziemlich sicher sein kannst, dass es den Shop nach deinem Kauf noch jahrelang gibt, während der Verkäufer auf eBay gerne mal nach ein paar Wochen verschwindet und potentielle Reklamationen so quasi unmöglich macht.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago

Does the CLI still work? If so, you could download and play all the Windows 7 compatible, DRM-free games in your library just fine. Alternatively, if you already had these games installed, they'll work fine without launching Steam first.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

full mirrors of YT

Yeah...not going to happen.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds cool, I just fail to understand how this takes Cinnamon "out to the real world".

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

The feature itself is great. It records the last two hours by default and lets you easily create clips from that. The editor is right there in the Steam overlay, it's pretty great.

I only used it under Linux, and that's where I'd say it is still very much a beta experience. I have an AMD Radeon 7800 XT. Most of the time, Steam picks up on its hardware acceleration - sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, it falls back to CPU encoding (obviously) which occupies around 3-4 cores on my 7950X3D to record 3440x1440 at the highest quality setting. GPU encodes are H.264 even though the GPU is perfectly capable of encoding AV1. Performance impact ranges from almost zero to as much as 30%, which seems a bit excessive. On some games that have a splash screen (Sea of Thieves for example), all it will record is said splash screen, even when it's not shown anymore: you get gameplay sounds, but the video is just a static image with mouse cursor artifacts. It didn't record sound from one of the microphones I tried. After swapping it out for a different one, my voice is being recorded. At least one session the shortcut for saving a clip just resulted in an error sound instead of a clip being saved.

So it's a bit disappointing so far. Yeah, Linux shenanigans and relatively small user base, but Valve out of all companies should treat Linux as a first-class platform. Yes, they do a lot for Linux, with Proton and whatnot. But ironically Steam itself is only in an "okay, it kind of works" state. No official packages for anything but apt-based distributions and Wayland (scaling) support is meh at best.

It did seem to work a lot better on the Steam Deck with very little performance impact in my short testing, so there's that.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not sure if you still encounter the issue, but I finally did some trial and error.

It doesn't seem to be related to the AMD GPU, as I briefly swapped it out for an Intel Arc A750 and had the same issue. I then went ahead and tried disabling most onboard devices of my mainboard (ASUS ROG Strix B650E-E) and sure enough: that fixed it. I then re-enabled them one by one, trying waking the PC from sleep each time and narrowed it down to the on-board Bluetooth.

Do you happen to have a mainboard that has the "MediaTek MT7922A" (or AMD rebranded variant "AMD RZ616") Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card? If so, try disabling the Bluetooth portion of it in the BIOS.

 

Would it be possible to update the TestFlight build whenever a new build is pushed to the App Store? This way, TestFlight users won't have to switch to the App Store version because the TestFlight version would always be at least as new.

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