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  • cmhe@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldDevelopers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5
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    “Better” is in the eye of the beholder. DLSS 5 is optional, as are the shader and texture mods that are available for many games for ages. They both change the look of the game in ways the people creating them didn’t intend. I don’t really care about what the creators of games intended, I want to have fun playing it, and I’m okay with changing/modding the game until I have more fun. That is “better” to me.

    DLSS5 probably doesn’t matter to me anyway, since the Nvidia together with their AI business centipedes actually don’t want to sell GPUs to consumers anymore.

    (If you downvote, I would be really interested in hearing your argument. From my POV you either dislike people modding their game, or are a hypocrite. If it is about hating Nvidia and the current AI bubble, I’m with you there.)






  • Hmm… I always thought that the goal of consoles is to provide fewer options. You don’t need to choose which components you want, you just buy the one and only box offered by the company.

    And then there are the exclusives, where you also, as someone buying a different box, didn’t get the choice to buy the game released for another box. And generally have fewer games to play.

    Then there are the (online) shops, where, as a console player, you either have no choices or fewer.

    Then there is multiplayer, where with a console you cannot use other services, and even have to pay for it.

    And modding, which is also pretty limited on console, and you generally don’t have the tools to create mods yourself to customize your gaming experience.

    So… All in all, I thought the main ‘advantage’ of consoles is that you don’t need to make so many choices, because making decisions is hard. But that comes at a cost, lower entry cost (hardware), but higher operating cost (games, online play).





  • cmhe@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldPipeline
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    I’ve been using Linux since IDK over 25 years. But I have multiple devices and frequently distro hop. Currently, Bazzite on SteamDeck, a CachyOS upgraded from an Archlinux on Laptop, Fedora Kinolite on a different one and a tablet, QubesOS on a third, OpenSuse MicroOS on a container host, Debian on a Server and another container host, Archlinux on another server, bunch of OpenWrts on routers and switches, NixOS on some RaspberryPies and a build server, some Debian based Proxmox PVE systems…

    So… I guess I’m just confused on my identity on that pipeline.








  • Issue is that haggling is actually legal in many countries.

    So at the cashier they will make you an offer, which, if you pay, accept.

    Now with technical support making individual offers becomes pretty easy and effordless on their end, but if you are in a hurry you don’t have that technical support to make a counter offer that effordless… So the shopper is at an disadvantage. Either way, your reaction, wherever you buy or not will train the AI of the store to extract the maximum amount of money of the broad customer base. If some people are priced out of living, they probably don’t care.


  • In Germany the price is actually set at the cashier, not the tag. I found that out the hard way once, where the price tag was wrong and I had to pay more.

    So dynamic pricing wouldn’t even require deploying these smart tags, the cashier or the ‘smart’ self-checkout could just do it on their own. They could just use their cameras, analyze your face to figure out if you are in a hurry or not, or in any other way willing to accept a higher price and then offer you the ware to something you are probably going to accept.

    The future is realtime individualized price gouging.